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My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

Nation is one. We will not work for Hindus or Muslims, we will work for the people of India.

Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.

NDA not only stands for National Democratic Alliance but is also the National Development Alliance.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like Calcutta, they just simply won't be able to afford that kind of protection.

No form, no manifestation of knowledge, is senseless.

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.

Nothing bad can happen to us if we were on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

Now that economic realism has finally arrived in India, the future lies in becoming a strong economic power. Dominance in the world will come only from how well a nation can cope with economic realism and towards that India must work, must find its own place under the sun.

Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there are in this country. We even had a woman head of state, and that's something the United States has yet to catch up with.

No one can question the talent of India's youth after the success of the Mars Mission. Everything indigenous!

Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.

Now it's time for India to steer ourselves, ride the waves and decide on our direction, destination and speed.

Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.

Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India

On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

Only If there is devotion to knowledge, the 21st century will become India's century and the foundation of that will be laid by the 'Vanche Gujarat' movement.

On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.

On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.

On my first trip to India, my guru took me to an ashram in Allahabad. I felt like I was walking into a place I had been before. It felt like it was my spiritual home.

Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.

Our demographic dividend is our strength. The youth have what it takes to engage with the latest technology.

Our demographic dividend must get the digital strength.

Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious.

Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development.

Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development.

Our identity in the world must change from Scam India to Skill India.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

Our nations are so close yet such a visit took 17 years. This will change & we will strengthen India-Nepal ties.

Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

Our nation is filled with tremendous energy of the youth. Whatever future we desire of, we must keep the youth at the centre. If we do this, we can surge ahead at an unmatchable pace!

Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.

Our supreme objective is peace. Our supreme objective is to protect India's interests. We keep making effort toward that objective and sometimes our efforts are successful.

Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.

Outsourcing, information technology revolution, the access to India's human resources, India's pool of scientists. It will help American companies to become leaner, meaner, more efficient, and they become more competitive, both in the United States and in dealing with the rest of the world.

Over an extended period of time, if a culture does not entail any traditions...if there are no values or if there is no awareness or social consciousness...a heritage tradition can never be developed.