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I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the headscarf. But what happened when I came here to the U.S. and the emergence of the Saudi and Iranian theologies in the world is that the headscarf became the hijab and the hijab is now the idea that is synonymous with headscarf.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

I was so overwhelmed by India when I first came - it still inspires me because I still go for the culture, I still go for the colors.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.

I will win a Grammy for India.

I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.

I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.

I would love to go to India. And also someday, I want to have a family. That's my bucket-list.

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur.

I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

Jack Welch is someone who I have always admired. In India, Narayana Murthy is someone who I have great respect for.

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

Jan Dhan Yojana is at the core of our philosophy of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas' & we will work towards its success.

Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'.

Kids are the biggest brand ambassadors of Swachh Bharat initiative.

Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.

Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

Keeping technology at the forefront, we need to further speed up our defence programme & keep pace with the world.

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

Ladakh's Prakash, Paryavaran, Paryatan are a strength for both J&K and India.

Lab to land - how to get what is done in the lab to the land, to the farmer.

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

Less land, less time, more crop.

Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.

Let us buy atleast one product of Khadi fabric and help light a lamp of Diwali in the homes of the poor.

Let us come together and think of ways India does not have to import but we export to the world.

Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.

Let us build a SAARC satellite which we can dedicate to our neighbourhood, as a gift from India.

Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.

Mahatma Gandhi never compromised on cleanliness. He gave us freedom. We should give him a clean India.

Lokmanya Tilak said "Swaraj is my birthright" but now the people of India must say, "Surajya is my birthright".

Many celebrations are set to take place in Swarnim Gujarat. However, if one asks me, "As the Chief Minister, which is your favourite programme?" Then friends, I would like to say that 'Vanche Gujarat' is the closest to my heart.

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.

Many enlightened persons are never very well known. Many are reclusive. They live in little villages in India or up in the high Himalayas in Tibet. Some have no students at all. Some have a few.

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

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.

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. . .

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.

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