6 Quotes For The Republic Day Of India 2016
“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
“India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.”
~ Shashi Tharoor
“India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.”
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. … India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.”
~ Shashi Tharoor
“Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.”
~ Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.”
~ William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India