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My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.
I am proud to say that I was launched in Tamil through 'Poi' by Balachander sir, who was the one who launched the legends like Rajni sir, Kamal sir & Prakash Raj sir.
The true India resides in its villages
Ahmedabad is a cultured city with a rich heritage of craft and theatre.
At the Konya bus station,
See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty talks! While the moment you will go to Calcutta, you will be thinking of nasty stuff.
Though I am an MP from Maharashtra, my heart beats for Katihar.
Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.
There was an agitation against Mumbai Express: because part of it is an English word. There is no Tamil word for Mumbai Express. I am sure all those who were against it, even they wouldn't say 'I love you' to their lovers in Tamil. Many don't even thank in Tamil,
I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.
Ashurbanipal." Oh, baby, keep talking dirty to me.
Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.
The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.
here you are in Bath, andBath-- Jane Austen
Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form - hiraeth, the Welsh call it - wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.
Ubi amo, ibi patria. Where I love. there is my home.
The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.
I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay
Most people who go to Rajasthan go to Udaipur, Jodhpur or Jaipur.
Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.
We are seeing a changed Mumbai, but having showcased Dharavi in 'Slum Dog Millionaire' brought shame and disgrace to our city. Whenever the firangs visit Mumbai, they must visit Dharavi; it has become a sightseeing spot. However, I feel saddened about it.
We lived in Bombay and we lived in Mumbai and sometimes, I lived in both of them at the same time.
For true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it!
Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.
The incredible length of Bombay sped by, those endless sprawls of buildings, huts and shacks, children squatting and shitting by the tracks, refuse, the crowded grey roads twisting and winding between, all of it blurred but fearsome in its strength, in its very life that grew it unstoppably.
Mumbai is different! It's busy, it's dusty, it's posh, it's different from everything I've ever known. You can barely see the sky, hidden behind the tall buildings, the moon seems so detached, the trees look indifferent and distant.
This for me was home, and for the visitors, Kashmir".
Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges ... ?
I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.
Living in a small town [in India] was like living in a glass house!
I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.
But of no country is it so true as of India that the nearer one gets to the capital the further one gets from the realities.
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.
I love Indian food. London also has great Indian food.
South Delhi is such a rich area in Delhi, you could call it the heart of Delhi or a slice of heaven for the rarest sight of Delhiites served with cherry.
I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.
Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer.
The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.
Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world reaches it only in the faintest echoes; its sleep is almost dreamless. Its sensations seem to come out of books read in childhood.
Hello - what hotel is this - ?
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.
I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.
Calcutta is like another world. People there are very special and grateful.
Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest ...
I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.
Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier.
I like doing business with people in India.
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'
In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.
City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!
I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
Mumbai is not a city, it's a way of life
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Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
In all the cities of this year
I have longed for the other city.
Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.
Thriving metropolis. Home to dozens.
Delhi was once a paradise, Where Love held sway and reigned; But its charm lies ravished now And only ruins remain. No
These trifles will lead to serious mischief.
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In mala.]
I still love Delhi but get scared of the madness sometime. I know that my fans love me. But it gets a bit tough to handle when, in their excitement, they start touching and poking you to see if you're for real.
We had heard that the people of Delhi loved their city as bees love flowers. But we could not believe that the child of a courtesan would prefer to live in a Delhi brothel rather than in our palace in Iran!
There were many influences on me while growing up. In the late Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in Hyderabad, it was a bit more laid-back, and that gave you time to think about things differently without perhaps being caught up in the narrow approach to one's journey through life.
I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.
Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.
The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.
Following 'Urumi,' I did get a lot of offers from Malayalam, but frankly, managing films in several industries can become a little hectic. So I decided not to take them up.
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Kolkata is special. I have been privileged to spend time in the city and make some great friends there. I like to go there whenever I can.
IT companies in Bangalore are a reliable engine of development for India.
Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.
I was born in 1957 as the second son of the late Sat Paul and Lalita Mittal. My father was a politician and, at one point of time, an MP. A gap of two years separates me from both my elder brother Rakesh and younger sibling Rajan.
Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke
We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus.
The future of India lies in its villages
Indians, schmindians!
My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.
We all know you went to India,India-- E. Lockhart
As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.
How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?
Few people know that I love local dhaba food. It is the best!
The Aravaipa village near Camp Grant. Although Camp
The city is recruited from the country.
The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India's poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not always about curing a child of diarrhea.
Amritsar is the place where my work and action speaks for itself. Since, I started contesting elections from this holy place, I have
promised myself never to abandon this place. Either, I will contest from Amritsar, or else I won't contest elections
The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.
Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.
There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.
Will make Delhi a corruption-free , world class city.
London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.
nihari, a rich beef curry,
Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.
Ah, sahib. I know you just come to comfort a old man left to live by hisself. Soomintra say I too old-fashion. And Leela, she always by you. Why you don't sit down, sahib? It ain't dirty. Is just how it does look.'
Ganesh didn't sit down. 'Ramlogan, I come to buy over your taxis.
I like Indian takeaway.
I've been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I've also heard Bollywood town's a lot of fun!
My ambition is to unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.
Most gay, conversational, careless, lovely city ... where one drinks golden Tokay until one feels most beautiful, and warm and loved - oh, Budapesth!
India is my kid sister.