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I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.
She knew Indians were obsessed with authenticity. Colonized, genocided, exiled, Indians formed their identities by questioning the identities of other Indians. Self-hating,
In the last analysis, we must all, Indian and no-Indian, come together. This earth is our mother, this land is our shared heritage.
Our histories and fates are intertwined, no matter where our ancestors were born and how they interacted with each other.
It's not about Indians, it's about people... the overall philosophy is to reconnect all people to nature and inevitably themselves. - Larry Stillday
The only good Indian is a dead Indian
The country taken as a whole is only fit for the Indian and they had ought ... to possess it, they and their children, forever.
It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!
Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
Unity in diversity is India's strength. There is simplicity in every Indian. There is unity in every corner of India. This is our strength.
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.
Above all, India is the land of religion.
I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.
This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden our identity because we needed to resist, we wanted to protect what governments have wanted to take away from us.
To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the government, to somehow come in and fix things. But now, they seem to realize that they're the only ones who can save themselves.
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.
In India: A Wounded Civilization, Naipaul writes that 'the Indian way of experiencing' means that 'the outer world matters only in so far as it affects the inner'.
I'm very attracted to Indians.
Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding ... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.
Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to be an Indian.
You can take an Indian out of India, but you can never take India out of an Indian
Entire world comes to us, but Indians live in entire world.
Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.
The Indian ... stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.
What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.
Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.
Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.
It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.
Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian sensibility, which demands infinite versions of Indian food, and is unmoved by difference.
Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.
Where did all these damn indians come from?
For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.
Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct.
The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.
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.
Once upon a time there was a beautiful Indian maiden, of course.
For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it
Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
I look more Indian when I'm serious.
See, there is a tendency to look at India as a country.
India is there to unite all human races. Because of that reason in India we have not been given the unity of races.
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.
My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India.
The Indian must not lose pride in what he does, in his handicraft, for if he loses pride he will no longer build, his art will fail him, and he will completely be dependent upon others.
The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.
India is the one place in the world where a man can do as he pleases and nobody asks why;
Modern India is a product of Hindu tradition, the religion of Islam, and Western civilization.
If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.
I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with when I lived with my parents and was a kid because they would take me to the Diwali festivals. They would take me to the temple, and they would teach me about all the different holidays.
The chief if not the sole cause of the enslavement of the Indian peoples by the English lies in this very absence of a religious consciousness and of the guidance for conduct which should flow from it - a lack common in our day to all nations East and West, from Japan to England and America alike.
Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India
The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen
he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.
Eventually, the British came to overrule India because there was too much diversity in our unity. They were great expotents and impotents. They started by expoting salt from India and then impoting cloth.' One of the more difficult questions related to Chanakya,
The music, and the banquet, and the wine
The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments
The white arms and the raven hair
the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not.
White [...] "Indian wannabees" or as those who mine indiginous traditions the way multinationals mine their land.
West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.
After four hundred years of betrayals and excuses, Indians recognize the new fashion in racism, which is to pretend that the real Indians are all gone.
Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness.
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
The true India resides in its villages
India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.
We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.
To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.
India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
What India expected of its artists was craft skill, not creativity; conformity to tradition, not originality
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.
Indian believes they ain't but two sins ... bein a coward ... and turnin agin yer own kind.
Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.
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.
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.
The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know.
There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.
There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
India is my kid sister.
She was right. After all, if she herself had wondered whether she was Indian enough
she, who had always been to me a sort of epitome of Indian
then who could be? Who could claim the sole right or way to an identity?
The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.
I'm not just saying this, but I love everything about India.
Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.
The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.
When I first came to Harvard, I thought to myself, 'What kind of an Indian am I?' because I did not grow up on a reservation. But being an Indian is a combination of things. It's your blood. It's your spirituality. And it's fighting for the Indian people.
The close proximity in which people lived in India was in stark contrast to my independent existence in America.
All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us.
Ultimately, my connection to my Indian-ness comes back to my mom and dad. They would all tell me and my siblings stories about their life in India, so it was very close to my two brothers and my sister and I.
The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits.
In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of 'The Office,' called 'Diwali,' which seemed like an organic way of using it.
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.
Some travellers tell us that an Indian had no name given him at first, but earned it, and his name was his fame; and among some tribes he acquired a new name with every new exploit. It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame
Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.
This proves Indians do nothing else but surf the Web.
The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.
In India, you're taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine human being.
No one can question the talent of India's youth after the success of the Mars Mission. Everything indigenous!
Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.
respect to the Indians, because the very idea of America belongs to immigrants.