Quote by Vaibhav Purandare Download Open image ““To him (Bal Thackeray) all southerners were Madrasis and all northerners, Bhaiyyas… He”” — Vaibhav Purandare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“As the Moslems advanced into India native culture receded farther and farther south; and towards the end of these Middle Ages the finest achievements… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The energetic Thomas soon had William and Ram Ram Basu with him as he began itinerant preaching. They traveled by boat and by foot to the small villages in the riverine countryside. Watery rice paddies seemed to glimmer everywhere. Most villagers were Hindus, but a few were Muslims. William learned to distinguish which of the two religions an Indian claimed.… — Sam Wellman Copy Share
“Here he sensed there was nothing in the landscape but itself. He was delighted at this liberation from history. The trees, the meadows, the houses were just themselves; attractive, healthy, often beautiful, civil in their lack of extremes, open in what they had to offer. There were no poisonous snakes crawling here. How curiously like Americans themselves, he thought. Obviously… — Anurag Mathur Copy Share
“For years, since the eighteenth century, and in each century since, we have said at home, in England, in Whitehall, that the day would… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Mevlana had his Shams, MLK had his Gandhi, Gandhi had his Tolstoy and I have my Gadadhar.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The Mahatma’s singular insight was that self-government would never be achieved by the resolutions passed by a self-regarding and unelected elite pursuing the politics of the drawing room. To him, self-government had to involve the empowerment of the masses, the toiling multitudes of India in whose name the upper classes were clamouring for Home Rule. This position did not go… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
“We can see the process of deification taking place in the Indians’ perception of Mahatma Gandhi. Here we had as great a man as… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that the Indians… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The British ruled nineteenth-century India with unshakeable self-confidence, buttressed by protocol, alcohol and a lot of gall.” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“The Bengali tends to run to brains rather than brawn and does not take kindly to the discipline and order of a hard life;… — Manoshi Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
“Thackeray aggressively put forward his theory of Thokshahi and called it ‘constructive violence’,” — Vaibhav Purandare Copy Share Image
“What is Supreme in this nation? The Court, Parliament, or the Muslims of Bhendi Bazaar?114” — Vaibhav Purandare Copy Share Image
