Delhi Quotes - Page 2

• We have picked up people full of worms from the streets, cared for them and let them die in peace and love. When they are brought to our home, they feel they are in their own homes, with their own families. Now, I am trying to open a house for AIDS victims here (in Delhi). The people are dying because of it.

  Mother Teresa

  Home, People, House

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Brother, Lying

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• In Delhi the cars are getting bigger and sleeker, the hotels are getting posher, the gates are getting higher, and the guards are no longer the old chowkidars, the watchmen, but they are fellows with guns. And yet the poor are packed into every crevice like lice in the city. People don't see that anymore. It's as if you shine a light very brightly in one place, the darkness deepens around.

  Arundhati Roy

  Gun, Light, Cities

  Source: progressive.org

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• With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dark, Hands, Eggs

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.

  Narendra Modi

  Identity, India, Generations

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• I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Office, India, Roger

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• The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol worship stones were considered god. But Hindus pray to god through that idol, which is a reflection of god. In Vedas god is nirguna and nirankara, that is, he has no attributes and no shape, that is the real belief of Hindus. As Muslims visit graves, so Hindus worship idols.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Real, Islamic, Reflection

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.

  Sugata Mitra

  Children, Wall, Connections

  "Slumdog professor". Interview with Lucy Tobin, www.theguardian.com. March 02, 2009.

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• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  Vikas Swarup

  Boys, Bad Boy, Bengali

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• On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!

  Peter Roebuck

  Usual, India, Genius

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• I have come from outside Delhi, but I give you an assurance that the people in the Government are very capable. I want to awaken and unite that power for the welfare of nation.

  Narendra Modi

  Government, People, Giving

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• Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Moving, Mean

  "4D Timelock". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1928.

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• We want a good government that works. Let us rise above caste divisions and nepotism and pledge to elect a government that is development oriented. Delhi needs a stable government and a strong government

  Narendra Modi

  Strong, Government, India

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• The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.

  Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford

  Military, Hero, Fog

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• Whatever we say here today is not against any party or person. We are not here to do politics. I have not stood up here to save a government... we want swaraaj, the people's rule, in Delhi.

  Arvind Kejriwal

  Party, Government, People

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• I love the food, the girls, the sky and everything that is Delhi. I have very fond memories of the Moolchand flyover.

  Vir Das

  Girl, Memories, Sky

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• I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

  Vikram Seth

  Dream, Drinking, California

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• The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it.

  Tahir Shah

  Fire, Ghouls, Skeletons

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.'

  Joseph Lelyveld

  Sight, Firsts, April

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• If I had campaigned for it, Arvind Kejriwal would have become the chief minister of Delhi.

  Kisan Baburao Hazare

  Election, Ministers, Chiefs

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• MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi'

  Satyajit Ray

  Film, Outstanding Performance, Performances

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• When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Country, Lonely, Moving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Journey, Lamps, Village

  "EXCLUSIVE: India's President talks to New Era". Interview with Chrispin Inambao, weekend.newera.com.na. June 16, 2016.

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• Naxal flag will soon fly in delhi

  George Fernandes

  Flags

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• One thing I fail to understand in Delhi is how the same parties which as State Governments seek amendments to the Land Acquisition law, suddenly become opponents of the amendments when they are sitting in Delhi.

  Narendra Modi

  Party, Law, Land

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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