India Quote by Shobhaa De

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

— Sherman Alexie

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.

— Vijay Mallya

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they…

— Mark Twain

Today the situation in India is such that we should make the poor strong so that they become partners in defeating poverty.

— Narendra Modi

“Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such…

— Katherine Boo

“...the [Hawthorn] report revealed the logical fallacy that has haunted Indian history and policy in North America since contact - to wit, that all…

— Thomas King

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

— Manmohan Singh

“Most Indians' deliberate, cultivated, amoral innocence about what is happening there, what is being done in their name, becomes hard to bear.”

— Arundhati Roy

Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among…

— Indira Gandhi

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their…

— Vijay Mallya

We must remember that self-reliance and eradication of poverty demands - indeed, compel - the present generation to bear hardship and make sacrifices. Those…

— Rajiv Gandhi

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

— Verghese Kurien