quotations about India
We have decided that this false bewitched India is the truth. That is why a mass of twenty-five millions are madly running day and night after false prestige, false work, in a state of complete confusion--shall we ever come out of this spell, this pursuit of mirage!
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Gora
The history of India is a myriad mosaic of incidents which are woven into a large continuous carpet interesting in its contours, its variety, its colours, sometimes depressing, sometimes bright but always interesting and at the same times having a unity seldom perceived in the history of other countries or regions of the world. Unfortunately in the huge archives of written word available in India from the ancient Vedas to modern times we find everything on any topic except history.
GYAN SWARUP GUPTA
India: From Indus Valley Civilization to Mauryas
Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinite is native to it. India saw from the beginning -- and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight -- that life cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
SRI AUROBINDO
The Renaissance in India
This is indeed India! the land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendor and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country of a hundred nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million gods, cradle of the human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of tradition, whose yesterdays bear date with the mouldering antiquities of the rest of the nations -- the one sole country under the sun that is endowed with an imperishable interest for alien prince and alien peasant, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor, bond and free, the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.
MARK TWAIN
Following the Equator
For India is a Civilization predicated upon faith, built on belief. It has flourished on philosophy, and its most adept devotees can climb from the deepest troughs of despair to the highest peaks of pleasure with dispassion and equanimity achieved by their command of its oldest religious philosophy, Yoga.
STANLEY A. WOLPERT
India