175 quotes found
“Inventors do not invent for financial gain, they invent simply because they love to invent”
“Inventions cannot be judged on patent parameters, but patents have the ability to take inventions very far”
“India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.”
“A homeland is not gotten as a gift; it is not acquired by privilege or political contracts, it is not bought with gold or held by force. No, it is made with the sweat of the brow; it is the histori...”
“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.”
“Migration is often accompanied by a feeling of unavoidable disorientation, and the circumstances of 1947 would have pronounced this feeling. In most cases, it would have created an involuntary dist...”
“I'm sorry that I hurt you.""You didn't hurt me." There was a long pause on the phone. Then she said,"You are going to hurt from this longer than I ever will. It's true that I didn't know what kind ...”
“Now let us look to the ancient inhabitants of India. With them, first of all, religion was not only one interest by the side of many. It was the all-absorbing interest; it embraced not only worship...”
“An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us. This would be a second Partition: and a partition in the Indian soul would be as bad as a partition in the Indian s...”
“Religion is trust, and that trust arose in the beginning from the impressions made on the mind and heart of man by the order and wisdom of nature, and more particularly, by those regularly recurrin...”
“His youth carried his words and lit the room with an optimism. India is like our home, he said, our spiritual home. Even before we get here there was that feeling.”
“The lounge of the private terminal in Delhi. A place of beige leather sofas and cappuccinos, set deep in that world where a seeling modernity has yet to close over the land, and where in the empty ...”
“Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously - the mid-day sun always excepted. Too much work and too much energy kill a man as effectively as too much assort...”
“To the traditional Indians, terms such as intercourse, penis, vagina, clitoris, semen, masturbation, breasts, etc. are exclusive possessions of the night. The traditional Indians perceive these ter...”
“And then, of course, there was the sari itself. What a garment, Randy! There isnt another outfit in the world that balances better the twin feminine urges to conceal and reveal. It outlines the wom...”
“minorityhood is a state of mind, Mr. Diggs. It is a sense of powerlessness, of being out of the mainstream, of being here on sufferance. I refuse to let others define me that way. I tell my fellow ...”
“13 million Indians will join the workforce every year from now till 2030. They know their prospects arent good. Heres why: in the years from 1972 to 1983not celebrated as a time of overwhelming pro...”
“India is the mother of science; many centuries ago, the first stream of science was flow out from here to flushed the entire world.”
“None of it made any sense to her - the deceit, the betrayal, the sheer chutzpah of it. Like something from a movie. Who in real life acted this way? But then she remembered this had happened in Ind...”
“India has been directionless due to lack of leadership.”
