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“As one unusually self-critical textile factory owner observed to me, reflecting on the system in which she played a nodal role, "There used to be a time when you could be a capitalist with personality. You could make your own decisions about what kind of ethos you wanted to create. Now it does not matter if you are a 'nice' person. It is completely irrelevant. We live in an age hen we all know what we do is disgusting but we still carry on doing it. The system we are part of feeds on desperation. And any system that demands such levels of desperation will produce more and more disorder, and the only way to keep everything in check will be the increasing militarisation of the world.”
― Rana Dasgupta, Capital: The Eruption of Delhi by Rana Dasgupta (6-Mar-2014) Hardcover

“ONE of the evil results of the political subjection of one people by another is that it tends to make the subject nation unnecessarily and excessively conscious of its past. Its achievements in the old great days of freedom are remembered, counted over and exaggerated by a generation of slaves, anxious to convince the world and themselves that they are as good as their masters. Slaves cannot talk of their present greatness, because it does not exist; and prophetic visions of the future are necessarily vague and unsatisfying. There remains the past. Out of the scattered and isolated facts of history it is possible to build up Utopias and Cloud Cuckoo Lands as variously fantastic as the New Jerusalems of prophecy. It is to the past â€� the gorgeous imaginary past of those whose present is inglorious, sordid, and humiliating â€� it is to the delightful founded-on-fact romances of history that subject peoples invariably turn. Thus, the savage and hairy chieftains of Ireland became in due course “the Great Kings of Leinster,â€� “the mighty Emperors of Meath.â€� Through centuries of slavery the Serbs remembered and idealised the heroes of Kossovo. And for the oppressed Poles, the mediaeval Polish empire was much more powerful, splendid, and polite than the Roman. The English have never been an oppressed nationality; they are in consequence most healthily unaware of their history. They live wholly in the much more interesting worlds of the present â€� in the worlds of politics and science, of business and industry. So fully, indeed, do they live in the present, that they have compelled the Indians, like the Irish at the other end of the world, to turn to the past. In the course of the last thirty or forty years a huge pseudo-historical literature has sprung up in India, the melancholy product of a subject people’s inferiority complex. Industrious and intelligent men have wasted their time and their abilities in trying to prove that the ancient Hindus were superior to every other people in every activity of life. Thus, each time the West has announced a new scientific discovery, misguided scholars have ransacked Sanskrit literature to find a phrase that might be interpreted as a Hindu anticipation of it. A sentence of a dozen words, obscure even to the most accomplished Sanskrit scholars, is triumphantly quoted to prove that the ancient Hindus were familiar with the chemical constitution of water. Another, no less brief, is held up as the proof that they anticipated Pasteur in the discovery of the microbic origin of disease. A passage from the mythological poem of the Mahabharata proves that they had invented the Zeppelin. Remarkable people, these old Hindus. They knew everything that we know or, indeed, are likely to discover, at any rate until India is a free country; but they were unfortunately too modest to state the fact baldly and in so many words. A little more clarity on their part, a little less reticence, and India would now be centuries ahead of her Western rivals. But they preferred to be oracular and telegraphically brief. It is only after the upstart West has repeated their discoveries that the modern Indian commentator upon their works can interpret their dark sayings as anticipations. On contemporary Indian scholars the pastime of discovering and creating these anticipations never seems to pall. Such are the melancholy and futile occupations of intelligent men who have the misfortune to belong to a subject race. Free men would never dream of wasting their time and wit upon such vanities. From those who have not shall be taken away even that which they have.”
― Aldous Huxley, Jesting Pilate

“It is a fact, whether we wish to accept it or not, that India is the Mother of all of us. She has given us everything: religion, philosophy, science, art. All that has been truly great, noble, and generous, throughout the ages has come from India. At this moment when a hurricane of violence and hate is raging across the world, and will rage still more through the world of the future, making the very frame-work of our civilization crack, at this moment when intellectual and moral values are being trampled upon by the hordes of egotism, brutality, and lying, let us go together, towards India from whom we can learn so much.”
― LOUIS REVEL.

“He had often thought of Bombay as the museum of failures, an exhibit hall filled with thwarted dreams and broken promises.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

“India-fascist Modi
Along with setting the mosque on fire, the Imam of the mosque was also martyred there. In the era of Modi fascist, neither the minorities nor their religious places are safe in India, yet the nations of the world are playing the role of silent spectators to Modi's fascist activities.”
― India- Modi

“India is much of a strange land; it is perhaps the only place in the world that exists in so many differing yet synchronous forms. First, there is India of your imagination—the one cultivated by the stories you’ve heard, the books you have read, the dreams your inner eye has seen. Second, there is India you will actually witness, the perpetual kiss of opposites—India the magnificent and the lamentable, India the intimate and the daunting, India the modern and the chaotic. And then, there is India at its rough core; the one so paradoxical and complex, so raw and self-standing, that it has inevitably slipped the grip of the hearts and the minds of innumerable poets, hermits, philosophers, historians, warriors, and of course, politicians.

I have heard, many times, that this land is like a mirror, one that reflects, or rather throws back at you—with such a stern congruity—your current state of mind. But make no mistake—even if you brace yourself with all the psychological, philosophical and spiritual tools at your disposal, you can never be prepared for what awaits you. India is a manifold of beauty and of ugliness, and of million shades in-between, all of which exist in a continuum. India is like its gods and goddesses endowed with multitude of faces and plentitude of limbs, gorgeous and terrible, but absolutely complete.”
― Lidija Stankovikj, Alexander's Infinity

“I wrote this poem , true feelings as I celebrated and attended the flag hoisting today!”
― Radhika Vijay

“I wrote this poem , true feelings as I celebrated and attended the flag hoisting today!”
― Dr Radhika Vijay

“We are being taught that "Akhand Bhart" was established before Adam A.S.?”
― India-Akhand Bhart

“You have seen the world and read many books, but take it from me that a snake can cast its slough but not its poison”
― Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan

“The last to learn gossip are the parties concerned.”
― Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan

“Chandrayaan-3's gentle touch on the lunar surface echoes the spirit of human ingenuity and the limitless horizon of discovery. It's a reminder that every step towards the stars is a step towards unraveling the mysteries of the cosmos.”
― Salman Alfarisi, Faithful Footsteps: Discover the Pilgrimage Pathways with Ziyara Network

“While the Indian media is proud of reaching the moon, it ignores hateful acts that bring India's reputation to the bottom, such as this rude teacher who insults a student in front of his colleagues in a way that is rejected by any religion, custom, morality & law.”
― Islam in India

“How many people do you know who have hitchhiked across all Russia, Asia and even India?”
― Martins Ate, Destination: Me: 108 Ascetic Days Across Eurasia

“The occupying countries, the three nuclear forces, have put everything not on the people of Jammu and Kashmir, but on the beauty of this land of Jammu and Kashmir. They want to occupy this land, not human beings!
The day when the three occupiers, Pakistan, India and China, any one of the occupiers tried to conquer the people here, then positive results can be obtained, hatred can be erased, but it is not possible for the three occupiers to have anything to do with the people here. No, but it should be green land”
― Jammu and Kashmir dispute

“Women leaders, like those of Pinjra Tod—who remain poised and determined in their resistance against the Hindu patriarchy—upset and undermined the wretched masculinity that has otherwise been a mainstay of the Indian newsfeed”
― Skye Arundhati Thomas, Remember the Details

“Gautama Buddha incarnated in India when the message of mercy was sorely needed. It has been said of him that he restored the heart to the religion of India, which had degraded into priestly practices of rituals and mechanical ceremonies. He emphasized the law of righteous action as the way to escape the ever-rotating karmic wheel of birth and death, as also the necessity of developing compassion for all creatures by feeling the presence of Divinity in all life. Through Buddha's influence many animal sacrificial rites were stopped.
Five centuries after Buddha, Jesus Christ appeared to bring the message of faith and devotion for attaining the kingdom of heaven. By his performance of miraculous healings of the bodies, minds, and souls of so many, he demonstrated the ever-present divine love and forgiveness of God to be had by all who make themselves receptive.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You

“Let’s laugh a little too. It can have a powerful effect, as proved in a very effective demonstration in Karnataka, India, in 1994, where the people simply stood outside the parliament building until they laughed the parliament right out of office.”
― Gordon Roddick

“in old times, whole communities used the method of passive resistance to redress a grievance. The technique was to sit motionless in a public place, without food and exposed to the weather, until the ruler agreed to the people’s demands. Sometimes, when he was particularly tyrannical, his subjects would desert the land, leaving the ruler to live in loneliness and mend his ways. In ancient India it was considered the duty of a wise man to abandon the kingdom when all methods of weaning a king from bad ways had failed.”
― Elizabeth Harrower, The Watch Tower

“That's the thing about folklore. However dreamy or far-fetched it may seem, it fuels hope and ultimately becomes a lighthouse for the children of Jahangirpuri to aspire towards.”
― Sandeep Rai, Grey Sunshine: Stories from Teach For India

“The day India stops being secular, she'll stop being India.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Subhas Chandra Bose not died in a plane crash at the front, had Bhagat Singh not been hanged by the British, and had Gandhi not been killed by a Hindu extremist moron, Bharat, Pakistan and Bangladesh together would be shining as the brightest beacon of multiculturalism on the face of earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“There is no such thing as Hinduism - the actual phrase is Sanatana Dharma, which is not a religion, but an everyday sense of oneness or advaita - which is the very backbone of the Indian society. Only in India people celebrate Eid with as much enthusiasm as they celebrate Diwali - they celebrate Christmas with as much enthusiasm as they celebrate Nanak Jayanti - and that's Sanatana Dharma for you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“The differences in the life chances of the rich and the poor, men and women, Brahmins and Doms and, for that matter, Keralites and Biharis, Hindus and Muslims across India are so sharp that, until these inequalities are bridged, it is impossible for the nation as a whole to prosper, let alone be a world leader.”
― Swati Narayan, UNEQUAL: Why India Lags Behind Its Neighbours

“The surge in road traffic fatalities in India is not just a statistical anomaly but a reflection of the intricate interplay of factors contributing to the nation’s road safety challenges. Urban planning that prioritizes pedestrian safety, well-designed roads, and efficient traffic management systems are essential components of the solution. Equally critical is the need for robust law enforcement to ensure compliance with traffic regulations, deterring reckless driving and holding violators accountable.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“The objectives of IP law to advance creative and inventive pursuits will only be effectively served when the IP Office facilitates full accessibility for all, including persons with disabilities.”
― Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

“I was a Nepali in my last birth. Nepal and India are both dear to me. Thank you for your good wishes for my Dad ”
― Avijeet Das

“Nepal and India are both dear to me. Thank you for your good wishes for my Dad.”
― Avijeet Das

“The Dark Cloud
Is the moving target of death that scares all of us
Is the danger of an Indian woman in New Delhi getting raped and executed on a bus
Is the expiration date you are dealt with when you speak the truth
Is the manner you have when you get straight to the root”
― Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud

“The ear plugs allow me to observe my environment, while absolving me of the need to respond to it.”
― Vikas Swarup, Six Suspects