749 Quotes About India



  • Author Jim Corbett
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    In India, where there are no passports or identity discs, and where religion counts for so much - except among those few who have crossed the 'black water' - i believe that a man wearing a saffron robe, or carrying a beggar's bowl, or with silver crosses on his headgear and chest, could walk from Khyber Pass to Cape Comorin without once being questioned about his destination, or the object of his journey.

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  • Author الصافي سعيد
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    في بلد مثل الهند ينزل ألي الأرض حوالي 30 مليون نسمة كل سنة بينما لا يمكن أن ينتهي أي احصاء جماعي قبل 3 سنوات . و ما قاله ماوتسي تونغ لينكسون حين سأله عن عدد سكان الصين و هو يجيبه :"هل تريدني أن أجيبك في أول الجلسة أو في أخيرها ؟" هو نكتة تعطي انطباعا أن بلد مثل الصين غير قابل للإحصاء الدقيق .

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  • Author Jawaharlal Nehru
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    She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed , and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously.

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  • Author Milan Vaishnav
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    The failure of India's public institutions to keep pace with the dramatic political, economic and social transformations under way has led to severe gaps in governance. The end result of this disjuncture has been a proliferation of grand corruption - a malaise made up of a diverse array of regulatory, extractive, and political rent-seeking activities.

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