India Quotes
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It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.
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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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I visit India at least once a year, though surrounding the making of 'Midnight's Children' I was there a lot more.
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I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.
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To make a very specific car only for India - where you don't know where the segments are tomorrow or will it shift - is tough.
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I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.
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I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can say we definitely don't. So people will sometimes come in contact with something strange and think, "Oh, it must be like this" and have a lot of fantasies about it, and somebody who sort of looks like our fantasy version of what enlightenment is can be very convincing in seeming like they've got something and then play that role.
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India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.
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The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.
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The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
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India just went 3 years with no cases of polio. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities.
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer. I'm a writer who's been strongly influenced by European precedents. I'm a writer who feels very close to literary practice in India - which I go to quite often - and to writers over there.
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Newspaper readership is still growing in India.
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India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.
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I think if a Swiss watch can come to the country and have their own corporate stores, a Pakistani actor should come here and do a film here in India.
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Enhanced transparency has helped to reinforce the stability of India's financial system.
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One thing that is great about India is the freedom to speak and the spaces available in our democracy to protest which doesn't exist in many places in the world.
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It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.
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Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.
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In India, thousands of people want to be in the movies because Bollywood plays such a huge role in our lives.
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There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.
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In India the human being is a symphonic theme. 'The people' is not a compact, close-knit concept, but a sprawling one, flowing not only into different walks of life, but into the intricately woven multi-layers of privilege, wealth, and education. 'The people' created by Gandhi is a young concept.
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Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.
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Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
