English language Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

English is an Indian language. It reaches a wider audience across the country.

— Shobana

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really…

— Aarti Sequeira

In India, we are forced to choose our specialisation very early, whereas in some other countries, this can be done much later in life.…

— Anand Mahindra

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

— Vikram Seth

We cannot just ape the west. What may be good in an alien country may be unpalatable in India.

— Suman Ranganathan

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There's a cultural difference between India and the rest of the world.

— Sharmila Tagore

That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this…

— Syama Prasad Mukherjee

No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would not…

— Vallabhbhai Patel

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Much of the conventional analysis of India's stature in the world relies on the all-too-familiar economic assumptions. But we are famously a land of…

— Shashi Tharoor