I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF in India.
India is a country that has no direct interests in some areas of global conflict. It has very good relations with countries in conflict or countries facing difficult security situations, and I believe Indian diplomacy is very well received. India is a bridge-builder, an honest broker, and a messenger of peace.
I always pick out my own clothes, ‘cos I love hitting the stores, be it in India or abroad.
I have always been bullish about India’s potential. I still am, and I feel India is a country that really has an enormous amount of potential and has the human capital to succeed.
So much of what happened to India late last year and early into 2011 is the same story we’ve seen with other big emerging markets, and that is that investors started to realize that the growth trajectory in India would have to get moderated by tightening policy.
Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don’t fit the business paradigm.
I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the ‘Hindustan Times.’
Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
In the Constitution of India the Supreme Court and the High Courts were seen as watchdog bodies, independent of the executive, and entrusted with the task of seeing that all institutions function in accordance with the Constitution, and the Rule of Law.
Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India’s baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Being vice captain of India is a really proud moment.
Whenever I go out to bat, my only responsibility is to look at the scoreboard and think what India needs from me at this moment.
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
I don’t think that the fundamental issue between India and Pakistan is Kashmir, OK.
For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
India has a natural brownness to it, a natural yellowness, a sepia tone to it, with the dust in the air.
As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.
The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
To deal with COVID-19, countries like India, Brazil, Jordan and Thailand are cutting press freedom and freedom of expression. In nations like Israel, South Korea and the U.S., intrusive surveillance has been imposed to track the movement of citizens, at the expense of human rights.
I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
Our manufacturing in India has grown with a lot of indigenous strength.
It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.
The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.
Democratic self-government has manifestly brought benefits to India, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, South Korea, and scores of nations all making their way in the world.
Since my childhood I always knew that India was a land of scarcity but this has changed ever since the BJP started ruling our country.
Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection.
I was always focussed on the modelling and succeeding in that, but now I’m completely focused on making it over in India in the movies.
The trend in the world right now is – not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India – there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
I said that we stand for strong relations with India, we stand for peaceful resolution of all our problems with India, including Kashmir.
India is one of the biggest consumers of Chinese goods and if we boycott their products, it will definitely impact their economy.
India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
Relative to other economies in the world, India has a good feel to it.
As a foreign minister, I have to respect the authority to look after the best interest of the child is, as always, in my country like in India, with the parents and the family. But in extreme cases, the situation is open for the child protection authority to intervene.
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.
I participated in Grasim’s Mr. India contest in 2006. That’s how it all started for me.
India is a good example of a country that has embarked into wind and solar energy production and creating jobs in it. Other countries can learn from India’s experience.
The government of India is consistently very advanced. When the world was hesitant on UNIX, we were the first to move in; the RBI said that all banks will implement on UNIX. It worked!
My 70 days of torture began in Camp India. The camps in Gitmo are named by letters. A is for Alpha, B for Beta, C for Charlie and so on. I is for India. It is a torture block.
I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
I feel that, in India, we have films that have tackled various issues over the years, but perhaps one of the issues that we’ve tackled less is the issue of caste-ism. That’s an issue we’ve more or less stayed away from… although we touched on it briefly in some films like ‘Lagaan.’
When I am in my India jersey, I don’t want to be looking glamorous.
We’ve always been influenced by some of India’s greatest minds.
Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn’t talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.
No, I am not looking at being a part of television in India, but I may consider movies, if I get to play a strong character.
I have never moved away from my mainstay – trying to address all the environmental issues that come to me. I consult with law firms in the U.S., Australia, the U.K., Italy, Greece, and India to begin to address environmental disasters. I do motivational speaking.
China is not a country, it’s a continent. India is not a country, it’s a continent.
All the credit of development in India goes to PM Modi.
Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can’t escape it.
It is important for India to stay the course on fiscal consolidation.
It’s not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.
India needs a change – it cannot be ruled by 80-year-olds and by people who have done nothing for it.
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.
My roots are from Iran and so, I cook Iranian dishes that have been passed down the generations in our family. I was born and raised in India and enjoy cooking Indian food, too.
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India… has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
You can fix your body, your heart, your diabetes. In Korea, China, and India, there are people who do yoga. They go to the mountains and do breath-in, breath-out meditation. They can live 500 years and not get sick. Keeping their bodies for a long time is possible; even flying in the sky is possible.
