India Quotes
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.
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I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
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There are still some places I'd love to visit - Africa, China, Brazil, India. I want to travel the world and experience other cultures and peoples.
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If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
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There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
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I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.
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India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.
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When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
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India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
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India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
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Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.
