Quote by Will Durant

“In India, the past refuses to die, undisturbed by new realities.”

— Paul William Roberts

“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

“This is the secret of the political history of modern India. Weakened by division, it succumbed to invaders; impoverished by invaders, it lost all…

— Will Durant

“sardonic, seriocomic saga of the plight of India's poor.”

— Aravind Adiga

“Everywhere you looked in India there was evidence of a past that had attained mythical heights. From philosophy to architecture, few civilisations have left…

— Paul William Roberts

“India’s villages were not self-reliant republics that lived in blissful isolation. They were networked and connected, and it was the destruction of Indian industry…

— Shashi Tharoor

At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is…

— Aravind Adiga

“In my view the imposing tower of misery which today rests on the heart of India has its sole foundation in the absence of…

— Amartya Sen

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary…

— Mark Twain

“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate…

— Anonymous

“Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.”

— Tahir Shah

At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her…

— Jawaharlal Nehru