Quotes on India

India's sex ratio is 1000 boys for 940 girls. Who creates this disparity? It isn't God. Don't fill your coffers by sacrificing the mother's womb. People feel that sons will take care of them when they are old. But I have seen aged parents in old-age homes. I have seen families where one daughter serves parents more than five sons.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related in the Mahâbhârata, starved themselves to death and gave their last meal to a beggar. This is not an exaggeration, for such things still happen.

Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.

India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.