India Quotes - Page 39

• Our supreme objective is peace. Our supreme objective is to protect India's interests. We keep making effort toward that objective and sometimes our efforts are successful.

  Narendra Modi

  Successful, Effort, Sometimes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• India seeks friendly relations but without compromising on its interests.

  Narendra Modi

  Friendly, Compromise, Relation

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• Today the world has to accept what India has been saying about terrorism. India's dialogue on terrorism, the losses India has suffered due to terrorism, the losses suffered by humanity, the world is now acknowledging that.

  Narendra Modi

  Loss, Humanity, World

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• 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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The religious rightwingism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. When India is talking about selling its entire power sector to foreign multinationals, when the political climate gets too hot and uncomfortable, the government will immediately start saying, should we build a Hindu temple on the site of the Babri mosque? Everyone will go baying off in that direction. It's a game.

  Arundhati Roy

  Religious, Government, Talking

  Source: progressive.org

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• Because of who I am and what place I have now in India, I'm petitioned all the time to get involved. It's exhausting and very difficult to have to say, 'Look, I'm only one person. I can't do everything.' I know that I don't want to be worn to the bone where I lose my sense of humor.

  Arundhati Roy

  Who I Am, Looks, Want

  Source: progressive.org

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• Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad rebellion? The one that produces haunting music and exquisite textiles? The one that invented the caste system and celebrates the genocide of Muslims and Sikhs and the lynching of Dalits? The country of dollar billionaires? Or the one in which 800 million live on less than half-a-dollar a day? Which India?"

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Lynching, Land

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In India the new government - the members of the radical Hindu Right who want India to be a 'Hindu Nation' - they're bigots. Butchers. Massacres are their unofficial election campaigns - orchestrated to polarise communities and bring in the vote.

  Arundhati Roy

  Government, Community, Want

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.

  Arundhati Roy

  Interesting, Formal, Genuine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the ones on low-lying islands off the coast of India are being swept away, you know, it's already happening to some people. We happen to be very lucky so far.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Islands, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I hope that that the people in the Occupy movement are politically aware enough to know that their being excluded from the obscene amassing of wealth of US corporations is part of the same system of the exclusion and war that is being waged by these corporations in places like India, Africa and the Middle East.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, People, Middle East

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once you've actually seen, let's say, what's happening in India and the United States - that this model of US economics packaged in a carton that says "democracy" is being forced on countries all over the world, militarily if necessary, has in the United States itself resulted in 400 of the richest people owning wealth equivalent [to that] of half of the population.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Ideas, People

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• India has millions of internally displaced people. And now, they are putting their bodies on the line and fighting back. They are being killed and imprisoned in their thousands. Theirs is a battle of the imagination, a battle for the redefinition of the meaning of civilisation, of the meaning of happiness, of the meaning of fulfilment.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fighting, People, Imagination

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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