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Well, India is a country of nonsense. M. K. Gandhi
If I would be given a chance to rewrite the dictionary, I would flip through the pages so quick and would replace India with, the land where beauty is redefined in itself, kindness has been touched, warmth has been spread and emotions has been felt.
India was ... a country filled for the most part with people who live so close to the necessities of existence that only important things are important to them.
India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.
India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth.
The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.
Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which
We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.
India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.
Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.
India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
India is now changing and regaining its lustre, and it is coming of age.
I've been to India a lot, ever since when my mum was in 'Jewel In The Crown.'
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).
That's how we keep this crazy place together - with the heart. Two hundred fuckin' languages, and a billion people. India is the heart. It's the heart that keeps us together. There's no place with people like my people, Lin. There's no heart like the Indian heart.
India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.
Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Where Old India and New India collide making New India
India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.
India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.
To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.
The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, you heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.
Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world
There can be no better place than India to manufacture, expand, and grow.
India was a sensation. It was remarkable to see all those parrots flying about, the brilliant foliage and the brilliant sky. It was a tremendous pageant. I never noticed the poverty.
At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
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 that all will be different.
I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.
At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.
The best thing about India is the freedom that one enjoys here, which is also the worst thing about it.
I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.
Toronto Sydney New Delhi
The film 'Slumdog Millionaire' portrays the spirit you feel in India. For those who haven't been there, the film says it all.
India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal.
If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.
India's a fascinating country. It's constantly changing, but there's still a lot of superstition and backwards thinking.
A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.
India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.
Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.
Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.
India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion
and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age
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.
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.
If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali
a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different, and does not necessarily mix with the next but they belong together on the same plate, and they complement each other in making the meal a satisfying repast.
I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her.
I love India. I love the people, food and the environment. Yes, I am from London, but right from when I was a toddler, I've always lived between Mumbai and London.
The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.
I've always been fascinated by India and its color and vibrancy. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in the Kanha National Game reserve before university, and it is probably the most intoxicating country I have ever visited.
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.
India is beyond statement, for anything you say, the opposite is also true. It's rich and poor, spiritual and material, cruel and kind, angry but peaceful, ugly and beautiful, and smart but stupid. It's all the extremes.
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.
I am an Indian to the core.
Growing up in the States, there's this part of me that's like, man, I'm Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon as I got to India, and I had to go to the bathroom in some places, I was, like, 'Man - I am American.'
If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
So vast is India, and so uniquely resilient and deeply rooted are her intertwined social and religious institutions, that all foreign intruders are sooner or later either shaken off or absorbed.
India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.
The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.
India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things.
India offers demographic dividend, democracy and demand ... 3D. I have added a new D. De-regulation.
In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York.
India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country.
In India everything has a use and a value.India-- Tahir Shah
Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.
India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.
India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love.
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)
India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century.
India is at one with the most puritan faiths of the world in her declaration that progress is from seen to unseen, from the many to the One, from the low to the high, from the form to the formless, and never in the reverse direction. She differs only in having a word of sympathy
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.
India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.
I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.
I adore India, its culture, and all the beauty of the nation. My father is from Jammu, and he's had a profound influence on my mindset and way of being.
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.
You will see India as a country of opportunities, unmatched across the world. India can be a role model of growth and cohesiveness for the rest of the world.
From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.
There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.
On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
."The Swiss are uptight and happy. The Thais are laid-back and happy. Icelanders find joy in their binge drinking, Moldovans only misery. Maybe an Indian mind can digest these contradictions, but mine can't.
My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.
India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber optic cables to speed up digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles.
The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability!
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.
You wonder why, after all this, Hashim stays in India. 'There's no country freer than India and people don't realise it,' Hashim said. 'You can pee anywhere you like and nothing will happen to you.