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...

I’d been surprised by the depth of emotion that was invested in that curiously archaic phrase ‘great power’. What would it mean, I’d asked myself, to the lives of working journalists, salaried technocrats and so...

India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.

When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we...

Few of us could speak the other’s language, but all of us had by now discovered the lodge’s unique ‘outside toilet’…which transcended all national barriers. The lodge owner wouldn’t let you use it unless you...

Dying is not a solution.. I want to live with You..!

For, to be woken up at five in the morning by the devotional treacle of Anup Jalota, Hari Om Sharan and other confectioners, all of them simultaneously droning out from several different cassette players; to...

In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

Until she went with him to India the first time after they were married. Then it all made sense, and she realized that the hospitality he displayed to all guests was larger than he was...

I felt the kind of peace you feel when you come in from a hot afternoon and pour cold water over your feet.

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

our spiritual home. Even before we get here there was that feeling.

I have no sense of what War is like; It may be like disaster Hollywood movies. But i wish india and Pakistan fight a War and devour all ; instead of decapitating one-by-one

Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed to complete our schooling. Open our skulls, look in with a penlight, and you’ll find an odd museum...

How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who...

The true history of the world must always be the history of the few; and as we measure the Himalaya by the height of Mount Everest, we must take the true measure of India from...

I have devoted my whole life to Physical Culture. I shall devote the rest too for the same. I have seen the degradation in which we are at present. I have travelled extensively and all...

To write about him is to write about Greatness. To discuss him is todiscuss Intellectual Brilliance. To think of him is to think of Modesty,Simplicity and Lucidity. To remember him is to remember Nationalism atits...

What wouldn’t my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is...

I went to India, lived, and studied.

She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he knew it would be more than friendship. He was too young to name that feeling...

In India everything has a use and a value.

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

Suddenly Ammu hoped that it had been him that Rahel saw him in the march. She hoped it had been him that raised his flag and knotted arm in anger. She hoped that under his...

They are running their camps. Groups of militants are being sent into India, … They are killing the innocents, women and children are being targeted. How can a meaningful dialogue take place in this atmosphere?

Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.

Love is a forest fire ignited by a firefly

The more we prepare for war, the more we make it a reality. Yet, it would seem, to prepare for war may also be the best and possibly the only way to avoid it.’ –...

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

No, I can’t.” That was the end of their chat.

The power of uncovering India’s biggest concealment is in your hands.

The basis of my politics lies in the proposition that the Untouchables are not a sub-division or sub-section of Hindus, and that they are a separate and distinct element in the national life of India.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

Whoso meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, more minute than the atom, yet the Ruler and Upholder of all, Unimaginable, Brilliant like the Sun, beyond the reach of darkness.

Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club...

I am honoured to be invited by our respected Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi to join the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.’ I dedicate myself to this movement and will invite nine other leading Indians to join...