India Quotes - Page 37

• Today the situation in India is such that we should make the poor strong so that they become partners in defeating poverty.

  Narendra Modi

  Strong, Today, Poverty

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• If we provide employment to people, if we ensure there's food on their plates, if we provide them with facilities and give them education, all the tension will end. And this is why, all those who want good for the nation, I request them to compete towards development and for development. This atmosphere should be created in India and I think such an environment is being created nowadays.

  Narendra Modi

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• I believe that India is such a big country that one must do as much work as possible. So I keep doing that.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Believe, Bigs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• India has been at the greatest loss because governments were run only for elections.

  Narendra Modi

  Running, Loss, Government

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• We would have to give out something for the poor in India. It is my responsibility to give the people an account of every rupee. I will use it at right places. I won't let it get stolen.

  Narendra Modi

  Responsibility, People, Giving

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• I think that the world that was behind us has gone ahead. We need to run a lot to match that level. So we do not need to calculate. We just need to give it all in. And I have given myself in completely. I've been successful is pulling my entire government in. I believe that India is also committed to moving forward.

  Narendra Modi

  Running, Believe, Moving

  "PM Modi's exclusive interview with Times Now: Full transcript". Interview with Arnab Goswami, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I can't leave India helpless. This responsibility must be taken and I will continue to do so. For all good and bad things, it is my responsibility. I do not regret anything. I believe, people of the country have given me the responsibility and I must fulfill it.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Regret, Believe

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• When I see the poor in India, it reminds me of the work that I have to do for them.

  Narendra Modi

  Poor

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• People of India who work day and night, they are my inspiration. I look at them and I work even harder.

  Narendra Modi

  Inspiration, Night, People

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• There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and how it bounces across the skin. The way that blues and purples come into play. In India and Sri Lanka, it was no different. It became a moment in which I had an opportunity to learn as a painter how to create the body in full form, and that's a very material and aesthetic thing. This is not conceptual. It's all an abstraction.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Opportunity, Reality, Light

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• India to someone who lives in Lahore is like Queens to someone who lives in Lower Manhattan - it's not far away, and yet it doesn't exist.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Queens, Manhattan, Lahore

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• The animosity between India and Pakistan is deeply unfortunate and dangerous, and it's something I've long campaigned to reduce. But right now, when there's artillery being exchanged in Kashmir - which is not for from here, either - and there are 100-ish nuclear weapons on each side of the border, there's never really been a case like this where two nuclear armed countries are happily shelling each other.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Country, Two, India And Pakistan

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in India, etc. When I would go and talk to villagers about something like vaccines, if I stayed long enough, the women would bring the conversation around and say: "What about this family planning tool? We can't keep having the number of children we're having."

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Years, Vaccines

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's kids running around in bare feet. The white working class has been disenfranchised as well. It's been disenfranchised by the liberal-left as well as the conservative-right. You really have to get people right across America and Britain and Europe and the world as a whole concentrating on the economic issues that affect them, because when you don't have that, you have all these phony, racist and cultural wars, and sexist wars.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, War, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• One of the great parts about my job is I travel the world. I was in India right before the [Narenda] Modi election, and I don't think he was the frontrunner until the end.

  Ken Moelis

  Jobs, Thinking, World

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• It was phenomenal to see what was going on there. I came away from there so energized about India, and I was pretty sure that [Narenda] Modi was going to win an election that wasn't easy to see.

  Ken Moelis

  Winning, Election, Easy

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• I actually did a quick survey of how caste plays out in contemporary India. The idea that democracy and development have in some ways eroded caste turned out not to be the case, that it has in fact been entrenched and modernised.

  Arundhati Roy

  Play, Ideas, Democracy

  Interview with Rumnique Nannar, www.pakistantoday.com.pk. April 5, 2014.

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• In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is most terrifying!

  Arundhati Roy

  Writing, People, Understanding

  Source: www.pakistantoday.com.pk

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• I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me, when I see a bride, it gives me a rash. I find them ghoulish, almost.

  Arundhati Roy

  Girl, Mother, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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• The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China or Turkey or Indonesia, India doesn't mow down its people. It doesn't kill people who are refusing to move. It just waits it out. It continues to do what it has to do and ignores the consequences.

  Arundhati Roy

  Moving, Government, Turkeys

  Source: progressive.org

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• Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and those who suffer the decisions, the Indian government just goes ahead and does what it wants. The people also assume that this is their lot, their karma, what was written. It's quite an efficient way of doing things. Therefore, India has a very good reputation in the world as a democracy, as a government that cares, that has just got too much on its hands, whereas, in fact, it's actually creating the problems.

  Arundhati Roy

  Karma, Creating, Government

  Source: progressive.org

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• Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water can have it.

  Arundhati Roy

  Water, Three, Economy

  Source: progressive.org

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• When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

  Arundhati Roy

  Optimistic, Cities, Feels

  Source: progressive.org

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• I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan and America do to oppress others and to deceive their own people is a dangerous world.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, India And Pakistan, America

  Source: progressive.org

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• India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity.

  Arundhati Roy

  Identity, Insult, Stills

  Source: progressive.org

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