India Quote by Shobhaa De

“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

“The tragedy of India is that we frequently have no respect for Indians, for Indian efforts and for Indian successes.”

— Verghese Kurien

“I feel everyone who has a chance should step out of India for a while to really see what it is like out there.”

— Chetan Bhagat

“What the hell does this say about India? Appearances are more important than truths. Gossip is more potent than facts. Loyalty is all one…

— Shashi Tharoor

“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

“came to India with a whole lifetime of expectations and assumptions about the way the world should work, the way life was supposed to…

— Jenny Feldon

“Unfortunately, we forgot that the biggest asset of India is its people. Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people…

— Verghese Kurien

“It involves considerable change, and change is risky. But as India develops, not changing is even riskier. We have to keep what is good…

— Raghuram G. Rajan

“Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate…

— Simon Dring

There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal…

— Salman Rushdie

“The best thing about India is the freedom that one enjoys here, which is also the worst thing about it.”

— Deepak Rana

“the most powerful enemy of the idea of India now is the Indian state.”

— Ramachandra Guha