We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
India Quotes
Your Hindus certainly sound delightful. But what do they deny? That’s always been my trouble with Indians – to find any proposition they would pronounce false. But truth must surely involve exclusions?
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.
Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.
The people of India, even the “ignorant masses” are by centuries of training nearer to the inner realities, than even the cultured elite anywhere else
The ant-heap behavior of modern human society, with its soul-destroying mechanical routine and organized aggression and violence, is only one of the negative aspects of the present crisis. Thorough discontentment with the inherited Western – Christian – tradition, especially with the ‘God out there’ dogma, has kindled a large-scale authentic search for truth in the […]
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the […]
The story of India’s journey to independence and division remains a contentious and hugely sensitive area of history. In Britain it is viewed as an embarrassment, in Bangladesh as a betrayal, in India as a mixed blessing, and in Pakistan as a matter too tender even to be seriously discussed.
One of the elements of India that is most difficult for the Western mind to grapple with is the depth and power of Hindu spirituality. It’s both troubling and inspiring that so many people who are so poor have time and energy for very, very thorough-going, intense and profound spiritual searches.
India’s huge software and information technology industry, which has emerged over the last decade and made India the back-room and research hub of many of the world’s largest corporations, essentially told the nationalist Indian government to cool it. And the government here got the message and has sought to de-escalate ever since. That’s right – […]
