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Indian Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
- One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the…
- There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of…
- I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father,…
- If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland.…
- In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both…
- In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part.…
- Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state,…
- The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by…
- I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally…
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- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and… — Henry Adams
- Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a… — Standing Bear
- Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and… — Annie Besant
- In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts… — Joe Biden
- Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. — Buffalo Bill
- In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the… — H. Rap Brown
- God made me an Indian. — Sitting Bull
- What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian. — Sitting Bull
- The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance… — Martin Van Buren
- We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to… — Sherman Alexie