Ramachandra Guha Quotes

#1. A disaster recovery solution that has never been tested will not work.

Martin Landry

#2. ... our generation hasn't made any meaningful contribution to the field. We have promoted atheism, displayed agnosticism (which amounts to an ambiguous shoulder shrug), or, in most cases, been eerily silent.

Gudjon Bergmann

#3. As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

Norman Spinrad

#4. If you are a man of prayer, existence appears as God, as personal. If you are a man of meditation, existence is impersonal, just a wholeness, a divineness. For the man of prayer there is God; for the man of awareness there is godliness but no God.

Rajneesh

#5. But the history of independent India has remained a field mostly untilled. If history is 'formally constituted knowledge of the past', then for the period since 1947 this knowledge practically does not exist.

Ramachandra Guha

#6. Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.

Owen Marshall

#7. The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.

Vy Higginsen

#8. In India the choice could never be between chaos and stability, but between manageable and unmanageable chaos, between humane and inhuman anarchy, and between tolerable and intolerable disorder. ASHIS NANDY, sociologist, 1990.

Ramachandra Guha

#9. In 1962 one Naga faction had made its peace with the government of India, as had another faction in 1975. But there remained a group stubbornly committed to the idea of an independent and sovereign Nagaland. This was the National Socialist Council of Nagaland, led by Isaak Swu and

Ramachandra Guha

#10. In India, the sapling was planted by the nation's founders, who lived long enough (and worked hard enough) to nurture it to adulthood. Those who came afterwards could disturb and degrade the tree of democracy but, try as they might, could not uproot or destroy it.

Ramachandra Guha

#11. The greatest polution problem we face today is negativity.

Mary Kay Ash

#12. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom,

Ramachandra Guha

#13. At no other time or place in human history have social conflicts been so richly diverse, so vigorously articulated, so eloquently manifest in art and literature or adressed with such directness by the political system and the media.

Ramachandra Guha

#14. Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

Mark Twain

#15. It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

Ramachandra Guha

#16. Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have.

Roger Moore