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“Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.”
“India a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India at least in the circles I moved in it's natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you ...”
“India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.”
“I believe there are two ways of concealing a secret: 1. Leave no trace of it. 2. Replace it with a lie.So which option did you choose, Mr.President?”
“.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.”
“Patent Law cannot afford to sit and watch while technology advancement changes its dynamics”
“In India everything has a use and a value.”
“Not every murderer is known, not every death is recorded, not every human being in the history of mankind is remembered and not every Gods name is memorised by me. That doesnt mean they dont exist,...”
“It is not our religion, still less the colour of our skin, that produces virtue; virtue must be practised. Therefore, let no one do to others what he would not have done to himself.”
“We are not killing, we are saving.......a billion dreams.”
“Nation has to be proud of itself to move forward.It should be clear that as long as India does not stand-up, there will be no peace in Asia.”
“Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.”
“India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”
“As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.”
“The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.”
“Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.”
“India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination.”
“The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.”
“I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I see certain arts of oiling slowly fading away.”
“I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to...”
