749 Quotes About India





  • Author Shashi Tharoor
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    Who knows whence this creation had its origin?He, whether He fashioned it or whether He did not,He, who surveys it all from the highest heaven,He knows—or maybe even He does not know.— Rig Veda, X.129 1‘Maybe even He does not know!’ I love a faith that raises such a fundamentalquestion about no less a Supreme Being than the Creator of the UniverseHimself. Maybe He does not know, indeed. Who are we mere mortals to claim aknowledge of which even He cannot be certain?

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  • Author Jean Dreze
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    What is remarkable is not the media's interest in growth rates, but its near-silence about the fact that the growth process is so biased, making the country look more and more like islands of California in a sea of sub-Saharan Africa.

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  • Author Amitav Ghosh
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    in Bengal it was so easy to know who was who; more often than not, just to hear someone's name would reveal their religion, their caste, their village. Foreigners were, by comparison, so opaque: it was impossible to speculate about them.

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  • Author Danny Kennedy
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    On the subcontinent, Pakistan has passed the point where solar power is cheaper than a lot of electricity that comes from diesel generators,and India is upping its target from 20 to 33 gigawatts to be installed by 2020

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