Our population of 121 crore is not a limitation – it is the reason we will grow.

Some foolish men declare that creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill advised and should be rejected. If God created the world, where was he before the creation? If...

Life is one percent what happens to you, and ninety-nine percent how you respond to it.

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

Honesty is not a virtue, it is a luxury. Most, who struggle to put bread on the table, face this question every day. And hunger wins this game almost every time, beta (son).

We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.

Those who have never seen a leopard under favourable conditions in his natural surroundings can have no conception of the grace of movement, and beauty of colouring, of this the most gracefuL and the most...

…every harsh word spoken, every such act or even thought doesn’t just disappear – it hangs around somewhere in totality and some day it boomerangs to haunt us.

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it’s very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.

I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.

India had a very long independence movement. It started in 1886, [with] the first generation of Western-educated Indians. They were all liberals. They followed the Liberal Party in Britain, and they were very proud of...

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.

With me and India it’s all about leaving and returning. Madras is home. It’s a very complicated relationship. When you are away too long you get homesick, and when you are there too long you...

Praise to our Indian brothers, and the dark face have his due!Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few,Fought with the bravest among us, and drove them, and smote them,...

Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with...

It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air, never stopping to analyse; the name of the poet, Hafiz, Hali, Iqbal, was sufficient guarantee. India—a hundred Indias—whispered outside...

The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India’s transformation in the new millennium.

Now let me ask my countrymen, Have you ever granted a moment’s thought to this very vital problem in the building of our nation ? Have you devised any practical remedies to combat this evil...

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

Where are the coconut trees bowing allegiance to the wind, the wide open spaces, the verdant green fields?

I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation. And I know, because my body remembers without benefit of words, that men...

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to...

She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.

Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.

We hear all this talk about integrating the world economically, but there is an argument to be made for not integrating the world economically. Because what is corporate globalization? It isn’t as if the entire...

India will not bow to such barbaric acts and won’t be afraid

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!

This is the kind of corruption we understand, the corruption of the petty clerk writ large, and so this is the kind of corruption we look for. This is the kind of guilt we expect...

We do not have any spies in India and all the 587 prisoners released on Monday by both the countries at the Wagah border were civilians and not security prisoners,

The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people’s hope. For whom should the government be? For educated people or few others. Government should be for the poor. If...

The ones who do not believe, Dr.Mukherjee, think like me; just because we don’t know about it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also.

Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law.Nothing could be more absurd. Long before these commandments were given there were codes of...

Ohh,’ said the girl with a sad tilt of her head.It was a response Sejal would hear a lot in the following weeks and which she would eventully come to understand meant, ‘Ohh, India, that...

I listen to the sound of India’s voices for the last time . Laughter ripples like water . A prayer is a single note held long . There is so much life here . And...

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

As they left the pier and walked into the park, Chahda looked around appreciatively. “Nice place, this. Capital of New Caledonia. Big island, has 8,548 square mile, also has 53,245 peoples. Eleven thousand in Noumea....

I like to see you in a sari, with your long hair dressed in a single plait. Don’t forget that I married a girl from India because I like my wife to be conservative and...

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.

None of it made any sense to her – the deceit, the betrayal, the sheer chutzpah of it. Like something from a movie. Who in real life acted this way? But then she remembered this...

Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks.

Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India’s golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.The problem’s name is God.

Based on our badly borrowed misunderstanding of the words ‘secular’ and ‘spiritual’ we seemto have become blinded by the dominant intellectual ideology of our times, according to which schools as secular organizations are supposed to...

Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene,...

And Aziz in an awful rage danced this way and that, not knowing what to do, and cried: “Down with the English anyhow. That’s certain. Clear out, you fellows, double quick, I say. We may...

Kashayam [was] a drink the vanaras had morning, noon and night, and a few times in between. It was a kind of brew with all kinds of herbs thrown in: the thick, sharp-tasting furry karpuravalli,...