Quotes about India

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Sri Lanka is a beautiful little island nation parked perilously close to India; a little too hot, a little too humid, an — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Numbercaste
Kabhi tere shehar se guzarein toh parr lena inney,Maine hawaon pe apne kuch safarname likhe hain.. — Jasz Gill
Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself. — Reymond Page, The Great Year - India Edition
Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first. — Hong Mei
Few of us could speak the other's language, but all of us had by now discovered the lodge's unique 'outside toilet'…whic — Frank Kusy, Kevin and I in India
As a romantic ideal, turbulent, impoverished India could still weave its spell, and the key to it all - the colours, the — Alexander Frater, Chasing the Monsoon
Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in — Tahir Shah, Beyond The Devil's Teeth
Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. — Tahir Shah, Beyond The Devil's Teeth
I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would n — Tahir Shah, Beyond The Devil's Teeth
The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep — Tahir Shah, Beyond The Devil's Teeth
Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it f — Simon Dring, On The Road Again: Thirty Years on the Traveller's Trail to India
India – a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India – at least in the circles I moved — Erin Reese
India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified. — Erin Reese
Many crores of rupees are squandered in this country by way offering gratitude to God and bribing Him to gain greater an — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who ar — Mark Twain
Sometimes the rainfallsjust for you and meto be the violinplaying in the backgroundof our loneliness's song. — Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest
The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit. — Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
So all you desi boys and girls, dark skin or not, you are beautiful just the way you are. No need to change your skin to — Simi Sunny
I want to have a romance so grand,it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words. — Sanober Khan
In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we s — Virchand Gandhi