Vrndavana is one of the holiest cities in India. Everyone, everywhere, chants Hare Krishna. It was my most fantastic experience.
Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.
In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, "Who am I? Who am I?"
The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.
The most interesting part of IIFA is that I get to meet filmmakers from India. I just attended a symposium on Satyajit Ray with Rituparno Ghosh and others. It was just so satisfying
I assumed the leadership within the Commonwealth for the fight against apartheid. I was very much assisted by Brian Mulroney, the Prime Minister of Canada, [and] Rajiv Gandhi, when he became the Prime Minister of India. And there were trade sanctions.
The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are.
An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.
It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that's not true at all any more. It's one of the world's fastest growing and most vibrant markets for books, especially in English.
What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What keeps India safe is just the courage of poor Indians, not the actions of its government.
India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.
Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or 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.
I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.
If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.
I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.
In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.
The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
Being Indian-American, I have tremendous potential to grow facial hair.
India has lot of talent. What I am happy with is that the talent keeps on coming. Certainly it could be nice, though I am not terribly keen on seeing my successor yet.
Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world
In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)
…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi
When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it.
