#india

At the last moment, the fish and I exchange a troubled glance. The murrel seems to be demanding an explanation. Alas, I am in no position to start justifying the unusual treatment. What comes next is a new experience for both the fish and me. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#india #experience

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure. ↗

— Sarojini Naidu

#any #avail #complete #gifts #i

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease. ↗

— Sarojini Naidu

#breed #cleansed #disease #her #india

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis. ↗

— Khushwant Singh

#freedom #india #education

In India everything has a use and a value. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#life #use #value #life

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best. ↗

— George Sand

#indiana #men

I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Hindu, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth and it is the currency of heaven. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#commercialization #currency #earth #exchange #gold

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#india #religion #rushdie #salman #religion

The 'Renaissance' West Butchered the Rest. If I had to choose between an erudite Aristotle and an unknown ‘soulless’ black slave I would choose the latter. The ascendancy of the West was on a heap of bodies of slaves and trampled humanity through colonization ↗

— Viktor Vijay Kumar

#europe #india #renaissance #west #art

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay. ↗

— Shashi Tharoor

#india #culture