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The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

but as an Indian, I find it far easier to forgive than to forget.

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

(Indeed there were outstanding examples of good governance in India at the time, notably the Travancore kingdom, which in 1819 became the

there is nothing restrictive or self-limiting about the Indian identity it reasserts: it is large, eclectic and flexible, containing multitudes. I

Gangaji's truth required activism, not passivity.

Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.

We have no word for "Nation" in our language.

The joke is that one Bengali is a poet, two Bengalis is an argument, three Bengalis is a political party,

I returned to India after long years of international service, because I had always cherished the desire to make a difference in my own country.

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal.

history is neither for excuses nor for revenge 1.

Bengalis say when offered cod, we still have other fish to fry.

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.

Human beings, to me, are rather like electrical appliances that need to be charged regularly, and prayer is a way of plugging into that charge.

I'm not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

While he was alive, he was impossible to ignore; once he had gone, he was impossible to imitate.

The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.

In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.

but it does not want

The naval expansionism of the southern Chola and Pallava empires took Indian influences directly to Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia and Cambodia. Later,

It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.

Europe's history of trading relations with India is borne out in the writings of the ancient historians Herodotus, Pliny, Petronius and Ptolemy, and

The Mahabharata declares, 'What is here is nowhere else; what is not here, is nowhere.

Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.

The ISI may well be Pakistan's answer to the Holy Roman Empire, which was neither holy, Roman nor an empire: it

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

national television broadcast a fifty-two-episode serialization of the Mahabharata, the script was written by a Muslim poet, Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy
and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

The principles he stood for and the way in which he asserted them were always easier to admire than to follow.

I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.

My China Diary and Walking With Lions, were memoirs of his diplomatic and political experiences. The

Hinduism as a faith might espouse tolerance, this does not necessarily mean that all Hindus behave tolerantly.

On Gandhi: Don't ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.

They say every dog has its day, Ganapathi, but for this terrier twilight came before tea-time.

A highly developed country of the past, in an advanced state of decay).

Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.