#india

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#chained #england #english #evade #fate

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#arrivals #being #community #disadvantaged #enabled

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all. ↗

— Ryan Murphy

#glamorous #growing #growing up #i #indiana

Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#children #culture #decisions #entire #indian

All India radio was worldwide. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#radio #worldwide

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. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#business #foolish #grandeur #guerrilla #had

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world. ↗

— Mira Nair

#dreamed #even #grew #i #i always

Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks. ↗

— Lou Thesz

#atlanta #bucks #buy #by the time #dollars

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#bear #become #carved #dim #eyes

I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#feel #foot #i #i feel #i feel like