India Quotes
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If anybody was to look towards a big source of demand in future, it would be hard for them to miss India.
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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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For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets.
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There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.
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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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In India, we say one thing, and we do 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 will come back to India - so deal with it.
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If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon.
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The single biggest resource India has is people and skill.
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Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.
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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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Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in 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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In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.
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I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.
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India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth.
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Because everything in India is civilian controlled. They have no history of trying to send nuclear weapons or technology to third parties.
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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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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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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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 less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.
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Western films don't do very well in India.
