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.

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.

…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.

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...

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

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 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...

If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters – the Adivasis and the Dalits. And...

Terrorism and dialogue cannot go together. Pakistan is not prepared to listen. The overwhelming sentiment in India is that no meaningful dialogue can be held until Pakistan abandons the use of terrorism,

Those English always say, “Look before thou leap”. But, as is customary with the English, that is looking the wrong way. I say, Ranga, to look before thou look. Then, when thou actually looks before...

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose for nonfreedom. Can America and England save India from communism, if they vote communist themselves.

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.

What could be better in al-Qaeda’s mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

The ‘Renaissance’ West Butchered the Rest.If I had to choose between an erudite Aristotle and an unknown ‘soulless’ black slave I would choose the latter. The ascendancy of the West was on a heap of...

Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world

Cleanliness is a freedom movement for an aspiring Nation. Culture of cleanliness will influence the heygine, health, asthetics and natural setting of the nation, which is a new age currency of a country.

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Last year, our revenue grew by 30% in India and we hope it continues.

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep...

What is it?” she asked. “I’m looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren’t you?” “I’m afraid not,” she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. “There’s too much of the devil in...

India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.

for in the absence of a magistrate (dandadharabhave), the strong will swallow the weak; but under his protection, the weak resist the strong.

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

There’s no greater joy in life than enjoying power without responsibility. – Mukta Prajapati

Travolti dal torrente dell’incertezza, i nostri sogni hanno teso le bracciaPer afferrare la terra.In mattoni e pietra si irrigidisconoi loro sogni e così sono state costruitele città dell’uomo.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

Before I was married, I thought the sound of bangles jangling on my forearms would be delightful. I looked forward to being able to wear bells around my ankles and silver necklaces around my neck,...

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Failure is success in abeyance; but only for those who persevere.

The Indians around here tell a cautionary fable about a great saint who was always surrounded in his Ashram by loyal devotees. For hours a day, the saint and his followers would meditate on God....

In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is...

There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of...

She removed the shining black disk from its sleeve, holding it by the edges. After she placed it on the turntable and set the arm into motion, she adjusted the volume on the amplifier, flooding...

You are a girl, Shirin. Girls don’t run around naked.’‘Why?’‘They just don’t.

[Taken from a BBC documentary]Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long atheism, which he shared with his...

Considering the fact that the Harappan script may have been proto-Brahmi, the underlying language to be expected should be Sanskrit, or proto-Sanskrit, or derivatives of Sanskrit. Many of the rules of evolution that apply to...

He(Rahul Dravid) is the intelligent man’s guide to what a sportsman ought to be – modest, dependable, well-educated, with the gift of grace under pressure and a perspective that is adult. He is the comfort...

Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one’s head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this....

Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can’t afford monopolies.

In India we’re fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it’s gone. Every person that’s walking down the street is a walking bar code. You can tell where their clothes...

Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he...