1113 India Quotes for You to Enjoy

If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power. P. Chidambaram

History You Power Country Congress Back India Take Had Taken Period Go Were Any Decisions Hard

I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other. Padma Lakshmi

Mom Single Young Other Kid Those Immigrant India City New Single Mom Came Cultures Up Very America York New York New York City Influenced Grew Against Really Who Each

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. Pankaj Mishra

Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled. Pankaj Mishra

Nationalism India Minorities Some Ethnic Many Rebelled Pakistan

I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle. Pankaj Mishra

Thought Would Would-Be India Rise Tackle Small Small Towns Like Towns Subject Provincial Up Grew Places Interesting

After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century. Pankaj Mishra

India Emerge Indonesia New After Biggest China Century

Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians. Pankaj Mishra

Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries. Pankaj Mishra

Cynical Negligence Rule India Above Directed More Divide Rivalries Policies Were Than Any Exploiting Desire British

It feels amazing to know that the whole country thought my role in 'Newton' was one of my best, and to win the Special Mention Award at the highest film award in India is just exhilarating. Pankaj Tripathi

Best Win Amazing Thought Country India Mention Highest Feels Know Exhilarating Role Just Newton Special Whole Award Film

I know how difficult it is to learn languages, since I am working in three regional industries in South India, and unless the director wants my voice to be dubbed, I do my own dubbing. Parvathy

Director Three Own Difficult Unless India My Own Voice Since Know Industries Learn How Am South Wants Regional Working Languages

Bollywood is there; the film industry is thriving, and it's huge, and it's everywhere. Anytime I travel abroad and I say I'm an actor from India, they're like, 'Oh, Bollywood!' And I say, 'Umm, not yet!' Parvathy

Travel Everywhere Say India Abroad Thriving Like Industry Huge Oh Anytime Bollywood Film Actor Film Industry

It was in 1967, and I was on a spiritual pilgrimage to India to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That was before the Beatles saw him, by the way, when not too many people knew of him. Anyway, I visited the Taj and noticed its wonderful sound. Paul Horn

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world. Paul Theroux

Me Culture Book World India Seem Netherlands Struck Writers Most Readers Robust Germany Literary Japan Serious Buyers

Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy. Peter Blair Henry

Fear Result Country Party Ownership India Indian Push Partial Economy Within Foreign Led Domination Stagnant Companies Coca-Cola Multinational Spectacular

I've been to India, and I never thought I'd go there. Peter Uihlein

Thought India Never Go Been

People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects. Pico Iyer

Life Day Me People Speak Word My Life Say Ancestry One Day India One Word Percent Insofar More Except Absolutely Never Come Does Always Dialects Blood Than Expecting Where Asking Even Lived Right

If inflation is brought down, interest rates will fall. Once rates fall, we have the opportunity to maybe achieve the goal of 'housing for all' faster; take roads, infrastructure to India's interiors. Piyush Goyal

The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India. Piyush Goyal

Government People Pay India Which Capitalist Believes Assets Belong

India doesn't take responsibility for the problems that the world is facing because of thermal coal. Piyush Goyal

World Problems Responsibility India Facing Take Because Coal Thermal

I can't tell my people that you will get power only from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., and after that, we live in darkness. You need 24-hour power; you need a baseload, and that baseload for India is coal. We are looking at clean coal technologies to reduce the impact of pollution. Piyush Goyal

You People Darkness Will Power Looking Live Tell India Impact Only Clean Reduce Get After Pollution Coal Technologies Need

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