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“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.”

Writing Stories Culture Audience Focus India Sacred Like Me Symbols Chinese Ritual

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.”

Has Beens Past Ocean Flow India Symbols Memorable

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga.”

People Long Has Beens Age Song Culture Memories Victory Civilization Rivers India Rounds Defeat Symbols Triumph Beloved Intertwined Hopes And Fears

Book:Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology

“Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.”

Mind Huge India Wave Symbols Temples Nationalism Flags Wet Secular Cement Dams

Author:Arundhati Roy

“Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.”

Real School House Views Education Progress Percent India Symbols Hospitals Village Electricity Adequate Parameters Good School

Author:Narendra Modi

“The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.”

Knows Language Millions India British Symbols Village Revenue English Language Policemen Englishmen Collectors British Rule

Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion

“Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.”

Humanity Economic Expression India Unity Symbols Indian Poetic Economic Freedom Freedom And Equality Nehru

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“The spread of yoga is the symbol of a changing world. It represents a world where knowledge flows, without restriction of country, creed or class. It represents a world where people come together across boundaries, for causes and concerns that unite the planet.”

People World Country Together Causes Class Planets Yoga Concern Flow India Spread Boundaries Symbols Creeds Restriction

Author:Narendra Modi

“Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.”

Forget India Symbols Goddess Shakti

Author:Indira Gandhi

“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.”

“Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.”

Country Language Movement India Importance Symbols

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda