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.

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 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.

All India radio was worldwide.

Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the...

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

Why do we want to know history? Why does history form a recognized part of our liberal education? Simply because all of us, and every one of us, ought to know how we have come...

Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!

I as a Judge of the Supreme Court of America should not be emotional”, said Chief Justice Earl Warren, “but I must confess that though I have travelled all over the globe but never was...

What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?’‘You are saving your family.

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

Over the years the Indian leadership, and the educated Indian, have deliberately projected and embellished an image about Indians that they know to be untrue, and have wilfully encouraged the well-meaning but credulous foreign observer...

Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience. (…) I was to discover that making tasty soup with one carrot, ten...

Ammu’s tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.

We mourn with you in this moment of grief. Our hearts go out to the bright young men and women who were on that spacecraft. For us in India, we felt that since one of...

Sambit Bal may be right that this is a scandal the IPL needed. It certainly brings fans face-to-face with the tangled reality of their amusement, based as it is on a self-seeking, self-perpetuating commercial oligarchy...

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

So long as there are forces of other countries in a place where they have no right to be, irrespective of our rights.” (said this to the countries supporting Pakistan’s aggression on Kashmir)

Women’s Please Stop Wearing Skinny/Short Dresses.Because Some people do not want you to live in freedom.NOCOUNTRYFORWOMEN

Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million spermatozoa could be lifted on...

Not every murderer is known, not every death is recorded, not every human being in the history of mankind is remembered and not every God’s name is memorised by me. That doesn’t mean they don’t...

Why is it that we are happy to see change of system happening in movies but, when it comes to real life, we are afraid of it. Are we a Box Office Democracy?

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi

The trouble is Indians aren’t used to being prosperous. We are more comfortable dealing with poverty- after all, poverty has been the staple here, and has been for many centuries.

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...