Quotes About India

Compare with a country like China, India has very few cinema screens, as we have real estate problems.

With us, the people of India, rests the real power to decide our collective future.

For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets.

I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?

Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.

We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

India is one of the biggest consumers of Chinese goods and if we boycott their products, it will definitely impact their economy.

India was going though a difficult time in 1997. We had revolving door governments.

Going to India to do a film is not an everyday affair. I thought I would do that one movie to show my grandchildren when I am 60.

My grandfather passed away in 1946, too early to see his dream of an independent India being realized.

My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

My parents are proud of my achievements. They send articles to my grandparents in India. Everyone's happy I'm doing something I want to do.

Playing for FC Goa was a great experience for me.

The Khelo India University Games is a great way to unearth talent in this country.

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.

It takes guts to take up doubles in India.

In India, we don't have a culture of sports. We don't have a culture of an active lifestyle or exercise. If we want to change this mindset, women are the key. That's why we started the Pinkathon.

In India, women are still the primary caregivers. Whether it be for children, whether it be for old people or sick people, you are the primary caregiver. No matter what position you are in.

The song 'Bolo Naa' from the film 'Chittagong,' which got me the National Award, wasn't even promoted in India, whereas the film won laurels all over the world.

When I watched Michel Hazanavicius' 2011 French film 'The Artist', I was spellbound and wondered if such an attempt would ever be made in India. Dialogues and songs being such an important part of our movie making culture.

I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

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.

If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.