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Quotes About India

In China, you just don't have the space for civil society and independent discourse and free media that you do in India. That's why India's success is so important as the world's largest democracy.
~ Ben Rhodes
We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.
~ Hans Rosling
Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
It will be very foolhardy and suicidal for a country like India to forgo food security.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
Certain product lines are more suited to be manufactured in proximity with the customer, while others are more suitable to be manufactured in India.
~ Azim Premji
In 1992, India launched the India-Asian partnership and by 2005 we were members of the East Asia Summit.
~ Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
I love and respect all languages of India. I have sung songs in different languages.
~ Kumar Sanu
God is so kind, he has given so much sunshine to India.
~ Masayoshi Son
I think we need a superhero in India that needs a great amount of writing and character behind it. if someone manages to crack it and approaches me, I would love to play a superhero which has a number of series behind it.
~ Sidharth Malhotra
India's global footprint is expanding, but inside India, interaction between Hindus and Muslims seems to be contracting and polarization sharpening
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Greed, we know, is at play in today's India. The 'me first' outlook is rampant.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Soon both O'Dwyer and Dyer were obliged to return to Britain, but they remained unrepentant, and the honours they received from supporters at home—including Rudyard Kipling, a major contributor to a purse presented to Dyer—added to Indian revulsion.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Congress charged that the Empire was practising divide-and-rule, its Indian and British opponents countered that the INC did not represent all of India.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
It is race, is it not? that puts the hundred millions of India under the dominion of a remote island in the north of Europe. Race avails much, if that be true, which is alleged, that all Celts are Catholics, and all Saxons are Protestants; that Celts love unity of power, and Saxons the representative principle.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism broadly prevails, so long as citizens can speak and write in the language of their choosing, so long as there is an integrated market and a moderately efficient civil service and army, and — lest I forget — so long as Hindi films are watched and their songs sung, India will survive
~ Ramachandra Guha
in India, Bhakti or what may be called the path of devotion or hero-worship, plays a part in its politics unequalled in magnitude by the part it plays in the politics of any other country in the world. Bhakti in religion may be the road to the salvation of a soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship.
~ Ramachandra Guha
India is no longer a constitutional democracy but a populist one.
~ Ramachandra Guha
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom
~ Ramachandra Guha
In India the choice could never be between chaos and stability, but between manageable and unmanageable chaos, between humane and inhuman anarchy, and between tolerable and intolerable disorder. ASHIS NANDY, sociologist, 1990.
~ Ramachandra Guha
a mere five years after the last maharaja had signed away his land, Indians had 'come to take integrated India so much for granted that it requires amental effort today even to imagine that it could be different'.
~ Ramachandra Guha
My own view – speaking as a historian rather than citizen – is that as long as Pakistan exists there will be Hindu fundamentalists in India. In times of stability, or when the political leadership is firm, they will be marginal or on the defensive. In times of change, or when the political leadership is irresolute, they will be influential and assertive.
~ Ramachandra Guha
La pectina aislada de la tuna del nopal (Opuntia sp.) modifica el metabolismo de la lipoproteína de baja densidad en conejillos de la India alimentados con colesterol]. The Journal of Nutrition [Revista de la nutrición], vol. 120 (1990).
~ Ran Knishinsky
Contrary to what is popularly believed, deep in the heart of India, especially with the Nambudiris, society is quite matriarchal. Her step of faith in Christ, therefore, was a bigger blow to the family than one
~ Ravi Zacharias