“The ’60s was the last time when large groups of people in the West searched for alternative modes of being. In a society like India’s, which is still not fully modern or totally organized, and has a great deal of tolerance for otherness in general, they find the cultural license to try other things, to be whatever they want to be.” PeopleWantTryingLastsDealsGroupsModernIndiaWestToleranceAlternativesOrganizedLast TimeLicenseOthernessLarge Groups Author:Pankaj Mishra
“If our goal in legislating against carbon releases is not simply punishing the West and its power companies but truly trying to reduce the accumulation of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, the main event will be in the developing world. We must use the smartest possible economics, and that means investing in China and India.” IfsWorldTryingMeanUseGoalCompanyEventsEconomicsIndiaWestInvestingChinaReleaseDevelopingAtmosphereCarbonAccumulationGreenhousesChina And India Author:Gregg Easterbrook
“Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas made in India with music are practically operas. They're not sung but they have a very big appeal. I don't know why American television people are so stupid but at the moment, they just seem to have some sort of a block. They just do what they do and they do it for a certain number of years. Then it wears out and they try something else. It's just a matter of time I think.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingYearsMadeImportantMatterMomentsBigsSeemsCertainNumbersStupidTelevisionDramaEuropeIndiaBlockAppealsOperaMatter Of TimeAmerican Television Author:Robert Ashley
“My first intellectual challenge was to try to understand this incredible city of Banaras (also called Varanasi) in India and its meaning for Hindus. That was the place I lived for the first year I was in India and I've been back many times. It's a kind of home to me.” TryingYearsFirstsKindHomeChallengesCitiesIntellectualIndiaIncrediblesVaranasi Author:Diana L. Eck
“Nowhere else you will find a country of India's diversity, of India's complexity, one billion people trying to seek their social and economic salvation in the framework of democracy, in the framework of an open economy.” PeopleTryingCountrySocialEconomyDemocracyEconomicDiversityIndiaSalvationBillionsComplexityFramework Author:Manmohan Singh
“I think in theory, the United States finds it much easier to deal with situations where there is a leading country. You can go to the leaders of that country and say, for example, to India, "There are all these problems in Bangladesh, we really have to do something about it, what do you suggest we can do to work out a common policy?" But when you don't have the equivalent of India, you have to go capital to capital trying to put together a coalition, which is extraordinarily difficult, especially in the Arab world, because of the historic rivalries and branches of Islam.” ThinkingWorldTryingCountryStatesProblemTogetherDifficultCan DoUnitedDealsCommonSituationLeaderUnited StatesPolicyExampleTheoryEasierIndiaIslamWork OutBranchesHistoricCoalitionsRivalryBangladeshArab World Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and to lift up the Indian people. And we're hopeful that that's going to create positive momentum.” PeopleTryingDemocracyHugeTaxesAmbitionIndiaIndianLiftsMinistersHopefulPrimePrime MinisterInfrastructureMomentum Author:Jamie Dimon
“I would especially like to appeal to my country's media that we should stop looking at everything in India from the prism of Pakistan. India is an independent country. It is a country of 125 crore people. Whenever it approaches any country, it will only be concerned about its own interests. It has been our biggest shortcoming and mistake that we have been tagging ourselves with another country and trying to do things.” PeopleShouldTryingHas BeensCountryInterestMistakeMediaApproachConcernedIndiaIndependentAppealsPakistanShortcomingsPrismsIndependent Country Author:Narendra Modi
“The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as you can. Extract every drop of hydrocarbons off the ground and destroy the environment. At the opposite extreme are countries like Bolivia and Ecuador, indigenous people around the world, and first nations in Canada and tribal people in India, campesinos in Colombia... They're trying to save the commons.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingFirstsCountryNationsPowerfulRichEnvironmentOppositesIndiaExtremesAround The WorldCanadaIndigenousCliffsWrecksColombiaIndigenous PeopleBoliviaEcuadorHydrocarbonsPowerful Countries Author:Noam Chomsky
“I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.” PeopleWorldTryingCountryWholeUsedUnderstandingPoorGainsIndiaRangeKoreaOrganisationPhilippinesBangladeshPoor CountriesWorld Health Author:Robert Winston
“I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.” WantTryingJokesIndiaIraqAfghanistanTanzania Author:Bill Bryson
“Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?” TryingBookKidsLawGirlHolyIndiaCompetitionPostsPakistanBlasphemyMorbidHoly BooksTry Me Author:Kabir Bedi
“The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to the capacities of the people at large, Buddhism has brought ruin upon India.” PeopleTryingVirtueBuddhismCapacityIndiaKillingVery GoodSupremeRuinsBuddhistLegislationHeedAhimsa Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Cosmetic companies are trying to turn India into a nation of Albinos. No dark area on any part of the body. Except maybe our hearts. Got a cream for that?” TryingHeartBodyTurnsNationsDarkCompanyAreasIndiaCreamCosmeticsParts Of The Body Author:Shekhar Kapur