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Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

M-governance is empowered governance. It has the potential to make development a truly inclusive and comprehensive mass movement. It puts governance into everyone's reach. It puts governance in your hands 24/7.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.

Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . .

Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.

Most jobs are outsourced to the past, they aren't outsourced to India or Mexico or Pakistan or anywhere else.

Mother India has 250 crore arms, majority of which are of the youth, who have the capacity to fulfil India's dreams!

My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

My fiancé, you see, belonged to another religion. He was a Parsi. And this was something nobody could stand - all of India was against us. They wrote to Gandhi, to my fther, to me. Insults, death threats. Every day the postman arrived with an enormous sack and dumped the letters on the floor. We even stopped reading them; we let a couple of friends read them and tell us what was in them.

My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

My 'Idea of India' calls not just for tolerance, but a celebration of all points of view. Where the sensibilities of every individual are respected

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

My life hasn't been static - I spent a lot of time in Europe, a lot of time in India. So I traveled around a lot, and I kept moving.

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

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.

No form, no manifestation of knowledge, is senseless.

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

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.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.