Borders Quote by Hu Shih

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

— Hu Shih

“India had a very long independence movement. It started in 1886, [with] the first generation of Western-educated Indians. They were all liberals. They followed…

— Meghnad Desai

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

— Mahatma Gandhi

“You can take an Indian out of India, but you can never take India out of an Indian”

— An Indian

To the nameless and unsung heroes of our freedom struggle, we offer our humble tribute. Their life-blood nourishes the body of independent India.

— Rajiv Gandhi

“An Indian Revolution? No Sir. It won't happen. People in this country are still waiting for the war of their freedom from somewhere else…

— Aravind Adiga

Though every Independence Day is memorable, I can't forget the day when Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru, raised the flag of independent India in Delhi.

— Manoj Kumar

“And yet here there was tranquility, efficiency, a certain new-world courtesy and civility all their own. There were amazing facilities to study, unimaginable in…

— Anurag Mathur

“The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides…

— Gregory David Roberts

“It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology, palm reading,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“India all too easily forgets its own history under British rule, and the declaration of its freedom fighters that the oppressor does not have…

— Angana P. Chatterji

“When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.”

— Prem Kishore