“If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.” IfsMenShouldWarEndsCountryWould BeEnemyHe ManRevolutionIndiaChinaEsteemBeatenEnglishmen Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.” HumansSocialResultsCommonProgressMaterialsRevolutionDrinkIndiaEnglandFoundationWesternMissionsCeaseDestructiveIdolsAsiaPaganSkullsBourgeoisHideousAnnihilationEpochHuman ProgressNectarSocial RevolutionWestern Society Author:Karl Marx
“India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber optic cables to speed up digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles.” LightNightHouseCenturyRevolutionIndiaLaysSpeedDigitalCandleEvery NightGangCablesDiggingFiberTrenchesLaborersDigital Revolution Author:Arundhati Roy
“A teacher says "I am sowing the seeds of revolution." At that time we cannot imagine how powerful the teacher is, but he certainly derives joy by fulfilling his duty.” JoyPowerfulEducationTeacherImagineDutyRevolutionIndiaSeedsFulfillingSowing Author:Narendra Modi
“If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.” IfsCompassionEventsRevolutionEmpowermentIndiaSeeds Author:Narendra Modi
“Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.” WorldMayLongCountryStuffMillionsGrowingRevolutionIndiaEnglandBlueChinaJapanSubstitutesArticlesMexicoOther CountriesCoalFossilsAnnualsCrimsonIndigo Author:August Wilhelm von Hofmann
“I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India.” MayCountryRevolutionSucceedIndiaBeing TrueOther CountriesBloody Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“The entire Nation has joined hands to make the dream of a Digital India into a reality. Youngsters are enthusiastic, industry is supportive and the government is proactive. India is yearning for a digital revolution.” DreamHandsRealityGovernmentNationsTechnologyRevolutionIndustryIndiaDigitalYearningSupportiveEnthusiasticInformation TechnologyYoungstersProactiveDigital RevolutionDigital India Author:Narendra Modi
“We heard of White & Green Revolution but now we need a Blue Revolution & harness the potential in fisheries sector.” NeedsWhiteHeardRevolutionIndiaInnovationBlueGreenHarnessFisheriesGreen Revolution Author:Narendra Modi
“Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.” IdeasIndividualRevolutionIndiaViolentBunchGood IdeasTransformedNon ViolentViolent Revolution Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.” IfsWorldYearsLongHas BeensAmericaTermHalfEconomicRevolutionPerspectiveEuropeIndiaChinaGoldenLong TermExceptionDominanceNorth AmericaOutputIndustrial RevolutionChina And IndiaGolden Years Author:Paul Achleitner
“When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.” TechnologyRevolutionUnderstoodIndiaChinaDominantNew TechnologyIndustrial Revolution Author:Juan Enriquez
“India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were now experiencing the Western life, if you will. Drugs and sex and a lot of those influences came in as the economy stabilized, and we were growing up and experiencing that. The Indian writing market was very small at that time. Our literature was very attuned to what Western audiences were interested in, so everybody was writing about the slums in India and magic realism or stories about Hindus and Muslims and partition.” IfsWritingFirstsStoriesLiteratureSexAudienceEconomyGrowing UpGrowingMagicInfluenceRevolutionDrugFirst TimeIndiaWesternOpeningIndianDramaticRealismOpening UpSlumsPartitionMagic Realism Author:Karan Bajaj
“Outsourcing, information technology revolution, the access to India's human resources, India's pool of scientists. It will help American companies to become leaner, meaner, more efficient, and they become more competitive, both in the United States and in dealing with the rest of the world.” WorldHumansStatesHelpingUnitedCompanyTechnologyUnited StatesInformationRevolutionResourcesScientistIndiaAccessPoolEfficientHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologyOutsourcing Author:Manmohan Singh
“The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMeanSpiritSocialPovertyCreativityMillionsEconomicIgnoranceRevolutionDiseaseIndiaLifetimeEdgesExtremesHarshEntrepreneurialLatentSocial RevolutionExtreme PovertyEntrepreneurial Spirit Author:Manmohan Singh
“A revolution is already taking place in India. Things are changing here already - peacefully and democratically. There's no danger of communism. There would be if we had a rightist government instead of mine.” IfsGovernmentWould BeDangerMinesRevolutionIndiaCommunism Author:Indira Gandhi
“In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.” PeopleIfsWorldRealCountryActionHumanityNationsPeaceCenturyFiguresMovementRevolutionMajorsExpectationsIndiaIndependenceAddSouthTeethTouchedReal WorldNonviolenceSouth AfricaAssertionThirteenUbuntuPhilippinesStaggering Author:Walter Wink
“India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.” PlayerCenturyRevolutionIndiaBoundsChinaChessLeapImprovingChess PlayersLeaps And Bounds Author:Judit Polgar
“We led the industrial revolution, the White revolution, now its time for a cultural revolution.” WhiteRevolutionIndiaTourismIndustrial Revolution Author:Narendra Modi