India Quotes

On the wall of Amshad's office there was a poster that made me laugh: DO NOT GIVE ME A BANGLE, GIVE ME A PEN. Well-meaning charities often train illiterate slum women to make cheap trinkets.

... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?

India is a country for all but not a country for sale. Greedy politicians and greedy businessmen should aware of it.

So long as there are forces of other countries in a place where they have no right to be, irrespective of our rights." (said this to the countries supporting Pakistan's aggression on Kashmir)

The power of uncovering India’s biggest concealment is in your hands.

We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.

I like to see you in a sari, with your long hair dressed in a single plait. Don't forget that I married a girl from India because I like my wife to be conservative and feminine.

Most people around here prefer undead drivers, so I never get a chance to make any money on steady contracts.

She is too intelligent to be a good daughter-in-law

I thought about my [Punjabi] family. The only nakshatram we think about is the division of petrol pumps when we have to see the girl.

a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller

He was the first prime minister in a long time who did not have a son or a son-in-law in business or real estate

He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of people like him, I'll tell you that. And we entrust our glourious parliamentary democracy

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

Whoso meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, more minute than the atom, yet the Ruler and Upholder of all, Unimaginable, Brilliant like the Sun, beyond the reach of darkness.

Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!

In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world is supposed to work. It can disappear almost as instantaneously.

The battle of Panipat was fought for more than what is usually imagined. It was fought by a people in the far south of India, on behalf of the Mughal Emperor, for the defence of India.

There's no greater joy in life than enjoying power without responsibility. - Mukta Prajapati

I never aspired to be the PM...Why should I quit over a silly issue like corruption? - Devender Singh

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

I have squandered away my father's political legacy...My personal life is in a mess...Can I turn the tables? - Rhea Malviya

It’s a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti Ranjan

I know I have a strong India connect. Is it Subhash Chandra Bose or my father who left my Austrian mother when I was one? - Catherine Khan

Ideology is dead..Politics is about barter..you give some, take back a lot more. Its business at the end of the day. - Ravi Nehra

Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ever forget that.

Kavaata Valves is manufacturers and Exporters of Forge Ball Valve, Forged Ball Valves, Forged Steel Ball Valve in Belgaum, India.

Where are the coconut trees bowing allegiance to the wind, the wide open spaces, the verdant green fields?

But he’s an untouchable, Shirin.’ ‘He’s my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him.

There’s a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And here, people are complaining about the rain...

What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?’‘You are saving your family.

Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.

GIVE IF YOU CAN. TAKE IF YOU HAVE TO

What wouldn’t my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?

Every family has secrets, Reena, and they’re there for a reason.

The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also.

I wash the clothes, rinse them and then scrub them again. Will that square little box do that? I am not using any fancy machines when my hands will do.

You put cow dung on my face?’ ‘Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear?

Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.

What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!

Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250, 000 in Britain.

Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.

I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India.

What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.

The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

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

India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination.

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.