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India Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
- We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to…
- I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel…
- In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the…
- I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There…
- In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I…
- Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing…
More India Quotes
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding… — Amitabh Bachchan
- What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of… — Michele Bachmann
- India is a country in which every great religion finds a home. — Annie Besant
- My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one… — Annie Besant
- The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. — Annie Besant
- Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and… — Annie Besant
- A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of… — Annie Besant
- Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest,… — Annie Besant
- Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as… — Annie Besant