Writing Quote by Roger D. Woodard

“Sometimes, in the ancient writing samples found in the Indian subcontinent, we find that a mixture of Harappan and Brahmi features has been used.…

— Subhajit Ganguly

“Akbar took Brahmins to task for misrepresenting Hindu texts to lower castes and hoped that translating Sanskrit texts into Persian would prompt these (in…

— Audrey Truschke

“Considering the fact that the Harappan script may have been proto-Brahmi, the underlying language to be expected should be Sanskrit, or proto-Sanskrit, or derivatives…

— Subhajit Ganguly

I was born a Brahmin, but I'm not a Brahmin

— Rudrangshu Mukherjee

I was brought up in a very traditional way by my grandparents in an orthodox Tamil-Brahmin family.

— J. Jayalalithaa

I am a Brahmin.

— Ravi Kishan

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

— Anonymous

“I realized that I belonged neither to the Hindus nor to the Mussalmans. How could I explain to my wife that while the Brahmins…

— Khushwant Singh

As a great devotee, I consider a Brahmin who wears the sacred thread as God.

— Suresh Gopi

“Don't place me in the lineage of your tribal white giants, they were cute little smart kids, but that's all, my peers of heart…

— Abhijit Naskar

“According to J. Naveh, the Semitic alphabets originated with Proto-Canaanite (eighteenth to seventeenth centuries BCE), from which there was derived around 1300 BCE the…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Throughout history, he adds, the dominant castes that were ‘most successful in their attempt at conquering power managed to be recognized as Kshatriyas by…

— Namit Arora