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The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.

The eyes of India only see in color.

The film 'Slumdog Millionaire' portrays the spirit you feel in India. For those who haven't been there, the film says it all.

The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working.

The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India.

The future of India lies in its villages

The government of India regulates nearly everything, so there's very little progress; whereas in Hong Kong the government keeps its hands off... and the standard of living has multiplied.

The importance of a journey is not measured by the distance covered, but by the destination reached.

The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil.

The 'Idea of India' is an India of opportunity and aspiration. An India where: all are prosperous and happy, all are free from illness.

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

The India-Nepal border should not be a barrier but a bridge which helps bring prosperity to both sides.

The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside the United States, including China, India, Brazil, and Australia, and AlwaysOn events are on top of these trends.

The Jain religion in India teaches that because all life is essentially interrelated and interconnected, all living beings should be considered sacred and be respected. This belief forms the basis of the doctrine of ahimsa, which has been translated into English variously as "reverence for life," "nonviolence," and "dynamic compassion.

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.

The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

The more we give importance to skill development, the more competent will be our youth.

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

The most interesting part of IIFA is that I get to meet filmmakers from India. I just attended a symposium on Satyajit Ray with Rituparno Ghosh and others. It was just so satisfying

The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.

The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.

The partition of India in 1947 legitimized the forces of masculinist nationalism and enabled hatred for the "other" to irreparably mutilate a shared anti-colonial legacy and cultural heritage so systematically that the wounds inflicted by the partition are yet to heal.

The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.

The Prime Minister and the Chief Ministers are one team. The Cabinet Ministers and the State Ministers are another team. The Civil Servants at the Centre and the States are yet another team. This is the only way we can successfully develop India.

The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India they use the word “karma” for lack of any better term. But it’s a concept that’s rarely given a proper explanation. It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

There are still some places I'd love to visit - Africa, China, Brazil, India. I want to travel the world and experience other cultures and peoples.

There are highly innovative companies in the U.S., Germany, and India. And there are many stories of companies that failed to innovate in all those countries. This is good news because it means, regardless of your cultural background or where your company is based, it can become innovative.

There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you're going to have - that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home.

There are 18,500 villages in the country where electricity is yet to reach. We want to ensure these villages are electrified within the next 1000 days.

There can be no better place than India to manufacture, expand, and grow.

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. I’m uneasily somewhere in the middle.

There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.

[There is] a great book from Ravi Zacharis, a scholar from India, and its called Jesus Among Other Gods. I havent read that one, but I know Ravi really well, and I know its a good book.

There is a massive disconnect between requirements of our education system and the framed policies. Education policies in our country [India] are not thought through enough.