Quotes About India

#1. Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.

Simon Dring

#2. I don't think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

Amartya Sen

#3. I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.

Jairam Ramesh

#4. Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.

Shashi Tharoor

#5. If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with children in India, China or Korea, they better get them a far better education.

Eli Broad

#7. On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access.

Ethan Zuckerman

#8. The best thing about India is the freedom that one enjoys here, which is also the worst thing about it.

Deepak Rana

#9. My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so that's my background.

Annet Mahendru

#10. My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It's a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization.

Dambisa Moyo

#11. We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.

Kallam Anji Reddy

#12. I dream of a Digital India where 1.2 billion Connected Indians drive Innovation.

Narendra Modi

#13. You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

Noam Chomsky

#14. We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.

Georgina Chapman

#15. Some of India's most stellar appointments include H.D. Deve Gowda as prime minister, A.K. Antony as defence minister and Sharad Pawar as anything at all.

Sidin Vadukut

#16. The combination of a brand like Cartier and the immense heritage that India holds can go places.

Mark Shand

#17. Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#18. Societies that value excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship and integrity do well. If we want India to be rich, we have to value excellence and honesty first. This is where a reset, a re-prioritization of something very core to society is required. This core is our values.

Chetan Bhagat

#19. 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.

Amartya Sen

#20. He went to India to "find himself" last year, but evidently he wasn't there, and he came back empty-handed.

Craig McLay

#21. Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.

Hanya Yanagihara

#22. Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to explore India. I will keep coming back. This is the closest I can get to home.

M.I.A.

#23. My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#24. Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

Salman Khurshid

#25. Yes, many people in rural parts of India are very orthodox and have arranged marriages. But I won't - I want to fall madly in love with someone and be whisked off my feet.

Shilpa Shetty

#26. Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

Virat Kohli

#27. India is a musical country, so it would appear obvious to use our collective passion for music to promote a book.

Amish Tripathi

#28. We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.

Mahela Jayawardene

#29. The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

Annie Besant

#30. I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#31. What we have to be careful is that if we drop interest rates where the rate of interest is lower than inflation, then savers will not put money in financial savings and move it to gold and real estate, which is bad for India.

Uday Kotak

#32. A lot of people in India are not that into non-Indian films or Western films.

Lillete Dubey

#33. There is also the fact that, unlike China, India is a democracy. Thus, Mumbai's robust activism functions as a brake on the drive to impose from above the fantasy of a global city.

Gyan Prakash

#34. As India will complete 75 years of Independence in the year 2022, let's work towards Surajya & a nation where every section of society is developed.

Narendra Modi

#35. George Burns, what a man. He read in the paper that it takes ten dollars a year to support a kid in India. So he sent his kids there.

Red Buttons

#36. India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#37. We dream of an India that is self-sufficient in producing defence equipment using the latest technology.

Narendra Modi

#38. It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.

Mahatma Gandhi

#39. When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

Nandan Nilekani

#40. Google will make us more informed. The smartest person in the world could well be behind a plow in China or India. Providing universal access to information will allow such people to realize their full potential, providing benefits to the entire world.

Hal Varian

#41. Major heat wave in India - 122 degrees today. It was so hot people in India were sweating like Americans waiting to hear if their job is being outsourced to India.

Jay Leno

#42. The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Narendra Modi

#43. India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Manmohan Singh

#44. Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.

Baba Kalyani

#45. I had a teacher's degree and a degree in Oriental Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. I thought I was going to India to study but all of a sudden, I had a career in music. It really surprised me.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#46. In India, a land of few safe assumptions, chronic uncertainty was said to have helped produce a nation of quick-witted, creative problem-solvers. Among

Katherine Boo

#47. foreign investors plowed $124 billion into China in 2013, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, but only $28 billion into India.

Anonymous

#48. In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

Larry Gatlin

#49. Lokmanya Tilak said "Swaraj is my birthright" but now the people of India must say, "Surajya is my birthright".

Narendra Modi

#50. The film 'Slumdog Millionaire' portrays the spirit you feel in India. For those who haven't been there, the film says it all.

Lynda Resnick

#51. Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting.

Sonu Nigam

#52. The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them out of their difficulties.

Winston Churchill

#53. Amitav Ghosh's multigenerational saga The Glass Palace, set in colonial Burma, India, and Malaya, tells the story of Rajkumar, once a poor Indian boy, who becomes a wealthy teak trader in Burma, and lovely Dolly, former child-maid to the queen and second princess of Burma.

Nancy Pearl

#54. Sourav is a very positive captain. Whatever his personal form, whatever the media writes about him, he has always been strong, focused and aggressive. Perhaps these are the qualities that make him India's most successful captain.

Virender Sehwag

#55. In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

Mark Twain

#56. Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.

John W. Snow

#57. India has the most technically ambitious and innovative nuclear energy program in the world,

Siegfried Hecker

#58. I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

Virat Kohli

#59. I was the last person to get high-speed Internet, I was the last person to get an iPod, the last person to get an iPhone ... I travel to India for one month out of the year and I don't have a phone there, so I can go without, which is beautiful, too.

Lindsey McKeon

#60. Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

George Bernard Shaw

#61. George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.

Will Rogers

#62. The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

Naoto Kan

#63. 'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?

Dev Patel

#64. World talks GDP but in Bhutan its about National Happiness. Am sure having India as a neighbour would be 1 of the reasons for the happiness.

Narendra Modi

#65. Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.

Michael Steger

#66. If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

Sachin Tendulkar

#67. We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

Uday Kotak

#68. So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.

Ian Anthony Dale

#69. Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

Umberto Eco

#70. The 2014 elections are not about winning or losing, but of ensuring a bright future for India. It is about sowing the seeds for a 'Bhavya' and a 'Divya Bharat'.

Narendra Modi

#71. India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

Mark Twain

#72. Praise to our Indian brothers, and the dark face have his due!
Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few,
Fought with the bravest among us, and drove them, and smote them, and slew.
That ever upon the topment roof our banner in India blew.

Alfred Tennyson

#73. The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India.

Jean Dreze

#74. I dream of India becoming a great economic superpower.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#75. The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

Aldous Huxley

#76. India has seen a dream of Digital India. From latest science to latest technology, everything should be available at the tip of one's finger.

Narendra Modi

#77. If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.

Kiran Desai

#78. The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.

Lord Randolph Churchill

#79. We [India in 70s] certainly were capable of producing eight to ten bombs, at a cost of about $250,000 each; and we had Boeing 707s to deliver them if we needed it, so I think we had a crude capability already at that time.

Subramanian Swamy

#80. I observed all the students at IIT. They came from all parts of India, toppers in their respective schools. Few had come there to research science or learn about technology. Most had come to achieve their middle-class dream - a better life. And that is what the IITs promised them.

Chetan Bhagat

#81. Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)

Jean Dreze

#82. I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful business.

Douglas Leone

#83. I think being a woman celebrity is the hardest thing in India ... People will ask many things, what you wear, how you speak, when you will have a baby and other things.

Sania Mirza

#84. India and Fiji have many shared values, and it is the responsibility of both the countries to strengthen those values.

Narendra Modi

#85. For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.

Paul Achleitner

#86. China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

Malcolm Turnbull

#87. China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.

Li Peng

#88. I personally believe every country has the same amount of spectrum. It is not that India has less ... It needs to be vacated from other places; that is what other countries have also done.

Sunil Mittal

#89. I like doing business with people in India.

Henrik Fisker

#90. We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.

Anna Lindh

#91. We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.

Baba Kalyani

#92. If more girls are educated, all of India stands to gain. The Girl Rising campaign aims to address that through various innovative initiatives that will not only help create awareness but also create a tangible platform to effect change.

Priyanka Chopra

#93. I think people will walk into the Starbucks store and overnight recognize the significant difference between what Starbucks represents day-in and day-out and all the other coffee companies that have been serving coffee in India for so many years.

Howard Schultz

#94. China and India are friendly neighbours. We are also natural partners. Both of our countries stand for amicable and peaceful relations between countries and a multipolar world. The peaceful and friendly relations between our two countries is a blessing not just to Asia, but to also the whole world.

Li Keqiang

#95. I'm not just saying this, but I love everything about India.

Russell Peters

#96. What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook.

James G. Stavridis

#97. It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#98. Tacky T-shirts that said things like "My crazy Grandma traveled to India and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." They

Chris Colfer

#99. There is a disconnect between policies and real picture of primary education in India

Shaheen Mistri

#100. Only about 10 percent of India's population uses the web, making it unlikely that Internet freedom will be a decisive ballot-box issue anytime soon.

Rebecca MacKinnon