India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!"
-- Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
-- Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali)
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.
-- Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali)
If I were asked under what sky the human
mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most
deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found
solutions, I should point to India.
-- Max Mueller (German scholar)
-- Max Mueller (German scholar)
Long years ago, we made a tryst with
destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the
stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to
life and freedom.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable
works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also
facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics,
airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.
-- Wheeler Wilcox (American poet)
-- Wheeler Wilcox (American poet)
Even if I died in the service of the
nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute
to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
-- Indira Gandhi
-- Indira Gandhi
How can one be compelled to accept slavery?
I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my
bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my
obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he,
for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
-- Mahatma Gandhi
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!
-- Albert Einstein
-- Albert Einstein
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
-- Mark Twain
-- Mark Twain
For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
-- Rajiv Gandhi
-- Rajiv Gandhi
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 astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in
India only!
-- Mark Twain
-- Mark Twain
If there is one place on the face of earth
where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very
earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
-- Romain Rolland (Roman Scholar)
-- Romain Rolland (Roman Scholar)
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