The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India. — Mahatma Gandhi
There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa. — Hans Rosling
Becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens. — Katherine Boo
When you have no choice, you have no discontent either. — Vivek Shanbhag
I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it. — Tahir Shah
I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were - how much industry and energy described their lives. — Gregory David Roberts
It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America. — Mother Teresa
Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply. — Terry Wogan
The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists. — Gunter Grass
