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 […]
India Quotes
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 – […]
This is the India of which I speak – the India which, as I said, is to me the Holy Land. For those who, though born for this life in a Western land and clad in a Western body, can yet look back to earlier incarnations in which they drank the milk of spiritual wisdom […]
India is to me the dearest country in the world, because I have discovered goodness in it. It has been subject to foreign rule, it is true. But the status of a slave is preferable to that of a slave holder.
Famine is the horizon of the Indian villager. Insufficient food is the foreground.
Well, India is a country of nonsense.
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
I should be sorely tempted, if I were ten years younger, to make a journey to India – not for the purpose of discovering something new but in order to view in my way what has been discovered.
