Quotes About India

Once the region's apex predator, the Asiatic lion almost went extinct during the British empire's colonization of India, when no viceroy could visit a maharaja's palace without a hunt in the local forest. Even today, the Asiatic lion still ranks among the rarest of the large feline predators, rarer even than its neighbor to the north, the snow leopard, which is so scarce that a glimpse of one padding down a jagged Himalayan crag is said to consummate a spiritual pilgrimage.

I'm not just saying this, but I love everything about India.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

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.

Every institution of India - politicians, journalists and corporate chieftains - comes within the purview of the judiciary but when it comes to auditing their own conscience, judges want everyone else to stay out.

I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

Kashmir is an integral part of India, and nobody can take it away from us.

In 2011, I started a program, India First, and started a yatra from Kolkata to Kashmir, stand with Indian Army and begin process to fight for Kashmir.

I believe that India's long-term growth story is strong, and foreign investors are keen to be a part of it.

It's not that there has never been a keen following for women's cricket in India.

I've never had a major professional project in India, and that's something I'm keen to explore now.

I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.

My friends at PeTA India and I encourage everyone to treat animals with kindness and respect, just as we all want to be treated every day.

I love all kinds of Indian music, and Indian food as well. If the chance arises for me to play in India, I'm there.

La India's voice is so powerful. It will give you life.

India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

My Blood flows towards India ,bcoz India is in my Heart.

Although European thinkers see the Greeks as their intellectual forebears, the Greeks themselves looked toward the East for the sources of true wisdom-to Egypt, Persia, and, during the early centuries of the common era, India.

To say that a sentient being is not harmed by death denies that the being has the very interest that sentience serves to perpetuate. It would be analogous to saying that a being with eyes does not have an interest in continuing to see or is not harmed by being made blind. The Jains of India expressed it well long ago: "All beings are fond of life, like pleasure, hate pain, shun destruction, like life, long to live. To all life is dear.

But if the doctrine of Fast-Fish be pretty generally applicable, the kindred doctrine of Loose-Fish is still more widely so. That is internationally and universally applicable. What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish, in which Columbus struck the Spanish standard by way of waifing it for his royal master and mistress? What was Poland to the Czar? What Greece to the Turk? What India to England? What at last will Mexico be to the United States? All Loose-Fish.

If Jinnah—a Western educated and, by all accounts, nonpracticing Muslim—could inspire India's Muslims to create a state by appealing to their religious sentiment, Maulana Maududi reasoned there was scope for a body of practicing Islamists to take over that state.

One-third of the Indian subcontinent's Muslims remained behind as a minority in Hindu dominated India even after partition in 1947. The other two-thirds now lives in two separate countries, Pakistan and Bangladesh, confirming the doubts expressed before independence about the practicality of the two nation theory.

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'.

In India, at the community level, young men are playing an absolutely essential role in changing the cultural norms and deeply held practices concerning women. They are doing this in a way that not only empowers women and girls, but really empowers the young men as well.