India Quotes - Page 6

I will win a Grammy for India.

I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

There can be no better place than India to manufacture, expand, and grow.

Now that economic realism has finally arrived in India, the future lies in becoming a strong economic power. Dominance in the world will come only from how well a nation can cope with economic realism and towards that India must work, must find its own place under the sun.

In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes.

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.

Secularism for the Congress is merely a slogan while for the BJP it is an article of faith. Secularism is about votebank politics for the Congress, while it is about 'India first' for the BJP.

If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

I said it before and I will say it again, MS Dhoni has been simply exceptional. His captaincy has been India's biggest strength in high pressure matches. He has always been 'THE RIGHT MAN' to take India forward.

If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

I dream of a Digital India where Government services are easily and efficiently available to citizens on Mobile devices.

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the headscarf. But what happened when I came here to the U.S. and the emergence of the Saudi and Iranian theologies in the world is that the headscarf became the hijab and the hijab is now the idea that is synonymous with headscarf.

Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving mystery meat in India, they're in the business of serving their neighbors. They're not targeted toward a transient crowd of tourists that won't be around tomorrow. They're not in the business of poisoning their neighbors.

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

Good governance needs self-discipline. Only discipline within can ensure discipline without.