India Quotes
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Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like Calcutta, they just simply won't be able to afford that kind of protection.
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But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
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When we started in 1947, I think 18% or something was the literacy rate in India. Now it is 52%. It is not a disastrous performance but it is not sufficient, certainly. But some parts of India have done better, my own State of Kerala has done remarkably well. Tamil Nadu is achieving greater success in literacy, so is Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The State of Himachal, is more or less reaching 100% literacy. Some of the states of the North-East have full literacy today. So, the movement of literacy has been uneven, but progressive.
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I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.
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India has the capability to create a fairly extensive defence manufacturing capability in many areas, and as a country and as an industry, we have matured in terms of technology and capability to make this happen.
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One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.
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India is my kid sister.
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Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.
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Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in India.
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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In India, we say one thing, and we do something else.
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'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
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I come from a culture where we wear white for weddings. In India, it's different. But I really feel that there should be no set notions, and a bride should only wear something when she's comfortable in it.
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The urgency of this thing will compel India and Pakistan to come closer, if they are sincere. Otherwise, they are playing politics at our cost.
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India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.
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I'm not too interested in books about India.
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I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.
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The single biggest resource India has is people and skill.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world.
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India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.
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I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments.
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South India has beautiful villages.
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I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.
