“The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.” MomentsStoriesOrderCultureMoralCivilizationIndiaComplexesTalesIslamicDelicateEvidentConquestDiscouragingBarbariansInvadingMultiplying Author:Will Durant
“I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.” WritingStoriesCultureAudienceFocusIndiaSacredLike MeSymbolsChineseRitual Author:Devdutt Pattanaik
“I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.” HumansStoriesInspirationReadingInterestModernIndiaEmergingDoseModern India Author:Vikas Swarup
“In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: 'Give.' Give freely of your time, your talent, your resources; give without asking for anything in return. This is the secret of living in joy and security.” WorldGivingStoriesSpiritualJoySecretLordTalentSecurityReturnResourcesEarsIndiaAskingOne Word Book:Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II Source: Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II
“In 1991, the government unleashed the power of India and created a partnership between itself and industry. As a result, India has emerged as an economic success story, and that is a matter of pride for all of us.” MatterStoriesGovernmentResultsEconomicPrideIndustryIndiaPartnershipUnleashedSuccess StoriesEconomic Success Author:Kumar Mangalam Birla
“Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.” KnowsWorldBelievePersonsRealStoriesCommunityImaginationAliveIndiaIndianGreekObsessedBeing RealObjectivityNobody KnowsSubjectivity Author:Devdutt Pattanaik
“I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.” IfsThinkingKindChildrenStoriesFallWonderGrowing UpGrowingGrewGrew UpIndiaFalling In LoveEastTalesChildren Growing UpGrowing Children Author:Salman Rushdie
“India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.” StoriesImaginationForgetAnd LoveIndiaContemplating Author:Yann Martel
“There are highly innovative companies in the U.S., Germany, and India. And there are many stories of companies that failed to innovate in all those countries. This is good news because it means, regardless of your cultural background or where your company is based, it can become innovative.” MeanCountryStoriesCompanyNewsIndiaBackgroundsGermanyGood NewsInnovative Author:David Livermore
“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
“The story of James Delaney is also someone who very deliberately presents himself as an individual and plays nations against each other, plays the East India against the Crown, all of those sort of overwhelming concepts that ran the world at the time.” WorldPlayStoriesIndividualNationsConceptsIndiaEastRanOverwhelmingCrowns Author:Steven Knight
“Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related in the Mahâbhârata, starved themselves to death and gave their last meal to a beggar. This is not an exaggeration, for such things still happen.” StillsWholeStoriesHappensLastsBeautifulRememberLiteratureIndiaCharityExtremesRelatedMealsBeggarExaggerationWhole Family Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.” FeelsShouldStoriesDreamLightDeathJoyGriefLandDyingCryYouthSorrowDiseaseEternalAnd LoveIndiaHearingBonesBreatheHeartacheInsultCriedSoarShatteringEvermoreLight And LoveEternal Light Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.” StoriesNationsMediaAchievementNegativeIndiaRefuseAcknowledgeEmbarrassedRecogniseGreat NationsSuccess Stories Author:Abdul Kalam
“In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or another the entire panorama of modern India....Energetic and eventful.” StoriesHandsLevelsWiseMagicModernIndiaTransformedEnergeticIngeniousIrreverentMahabharataPanoramaModern India Author:M. G. Vassanji