Quote by Katherine Boo Download Open image ““Where Old India and New India collide making New India”” — Katherine Boo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“the most powerful enemy of the idea of India now is the Indian state.” — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
“Going by current developments, India is sure to catch up - not in 50, but in another 20 years - with America... of the… — Dr Deepak Hiwale, aka 'Dr Dee Copy Share Image
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
India is now changing and regaining its lustre, and it is coming of age. — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
“In India, the past refuses to die, undisturbed by new realities.” — Paul William Roberts Copy Share Image
For in Asia and around the world, India is not simply emerging; India has already emerged. And it is my firm belief that the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
It is astounding how evolved and progressed India has become. It is holding on to its extraordinary rich culture and becoming global and Western… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
“When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.” — Prem Kishore Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The world has changed. India cannot sit isolated in one corner and determine its future. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“For years, Asha had hoped that her daughter wouldn’t guess about the men. Now she wished she had raised Manju to be worldly enough… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“What was unfolding in Mumbai was unfolding elsewhere, too. In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“Besides, this was the gentle-going hour in which he hated Annawadi least. The pale sun lent the sewage lake a sparkling silver cast, and… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“No onlooker asked, Why fix a house when the airport authority might demolish it? Almost everyone here improved his hut when he was able,… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity,… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“Like most scavengers, Sunil knew how he appeared to the people who frequented the airport: shoeless, unclean, pathetic. By winter’s end, he had defended… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
