Shashi Tharoor quote: "India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India."

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
ZUBIN MEHTA

Some people asked me that how can you love India because you are a Muslim ! I tell them ….. My hea...
MAKBUL RAJ

My grandparents were from India only. My relations are all in India, my mother belongs to India but ...
JAVED MIANDAD

For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the...
RAHUL GANDHI

India means everything to me. It is my homeland. India is my country. It is here that I have gotten ...
DILIP KUMAR

I seem to be known as much by the moniker 'Mrs Funnybones' as my own name these days. The bo...
TWINKLE KHANNA

It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me,...
LAKSHMI MITTAL

I am satisfied after my performance in India-Sri Lanka series and expecting to repeat same in Pakist...
HARBHAJAN SINGH

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are st...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN

My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
EDWARD GIBBON

India is my motherland.
M. F. HUSAIN

You go to Macy's and everything is from India. India has really influenced the fashion industry in t...
HINA SANGHVI

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. App...
NARENDRA MODI

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what...
IMTIAZ ALI

for me, it went beyond being a beauty queen. For me, it was about being the 20-year-old girl from In...
AISHWARYA RAI

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
EDWARD GIBBON

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
TASLIMA NASRIN

On behalf of the Government and people of India and on my own behalf, I would like to convey to you ...
ABDUL KALAM

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
BEATRICE WOOD

When I die India will be found engraved on my heart.
MARY OF TECK

When I die India will be found engraved on my heart.
QUEEN MARY (CONSORT OF GEORGE V)

I just want to impress coach Chappell with my bowling and get a chance to play for India soon. That'...
ABID NABI

We have made it known to (India) that we would very much like India's support because India has arri...
AMBASSADOR DAVID MULFORD

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.
FAROOQ ABDULLAH

When training in India, I have to fill my car with equipment and even a portable massage table.
ANJU GEORGE

When training in India, I have to fill my car with equipment and even a portable massage table.
ANJU BOBBY GEORGE

India always inspires me.
NAEEM KHAN

I am always fascinated by India.
GARY ACKERMAN

I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE

I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.
ALEXANDER DUFF

I enjoy playing against India. It has always been good doing battle against India, it brings the bes...
SHAHID AFRIDI

I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dism...
VIKRAM PATEL

There is no disillusionment about India as far as I am concerned. There could never come a time when...
DILIP KUMAR

If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon ...
PADMASREE WARRIOR

Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I coul...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY

I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
GAUTAM GAMBHIR

All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is...
NAEEM KHAN

It is my dream to play for Team India and along with some great names.
ABID NABI

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up c...
VIRAT KOHLI

Looks is a matter of perception. At Cannes, Europeans think I am good looking, while in India, I am ...
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI

After doing Paris, Milan, New York and London, we had a budget for India...But I am going back with ...
ALBERT MORRIS

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and ...
VIKAS SWARUP

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not ...
TASLIMA NASRIN

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrif...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH

The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got...
DAVID GOWER

I have always been bullish about India's potential. I still am, and I feel India is a country th...
RATAN TATA

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my iden...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE

I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someo...
YUVRAJ SINGH

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
ANITA DESAI

If India agrees, we would like to work out the formalities.
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF

I pay my tributes to my dearest friend and the greatest musician of India Ravi Shanker. It has been ...
ZUBIN MEHTA

We do consumer products for India, white-good products for India and medical products for India and ...
BILL MUIR

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f...
KATE DICAMILLO

India did not innovate with the ATMs. But when we brought ATMs into India and made the machines talk...
CHANDA KOCHHAR

My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparen...
NANDAN NILEKANI

I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Brita...
NARENDRA MODI

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken u...
ARIANA GRANDE

I believe India has multi-talented people, so I have also embarked on my journey as an actor. I don&...
LEANDER PAES

Every chance I get I'm running to India - that's essentially my home. I don't live anywhere really, ...
BEN LEE

If India is not secular, then India is not India at all.
ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE

India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian cu...
JOE PERRY

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and pract...
AMARTYA SEN

It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less g...
ALEX TABARROK

If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest liv...
NAPOLEON

I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my peop...
INDIRA GANDHI

India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't a...
YUSUF HAMIED

So I got my Cowboy stuff on... I'm doing this stuff all over India. I went to Pakistan, Sri Lanka, B...
BOB LIVINGSTON

Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if...
VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN

I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sug...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY

In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity ...
RAVI SHANKAR

My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields.
SAINA NEHWAL

If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.
RAHUL GANDHI

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ...
TREVOR MCDONALD

My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
MANOJ BHARGAVA

We have not yet received any list from India and our list has not gone to India.
TASNIM ASLAM

My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to rea...
SANJEEV BHASKAR

A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of
JANE AUSTEN

Make in India, Make FOR India
RAJ SHAILESH MEHTA

I made up my mind that I wanted everything, and nothing would stop me.
SUGE KNIGHT

There were a few things that I wasn't at all happy with during my association with SLC and I just wa...
ARJUNA RANATUNGA

I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitch...
GEORGINA CHAPMAN

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
GARY WRIGHT

I'm dying to go to India.
DYLAN PENN

Our policy is not to discourage the private sector, but to see that Air India plays the role of flag...
VAYALAR RAVI

Members of India's diaspora, living in distant lands of the world, my good wishes to all of you....
ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE

I am my father and my mother. I am my grandparents. I am my friends. I am everyone I have ever spoke...
LLOYD HOBBARD-MITCHELL

I went to L.A., and I was on two different studio movies at Fox and Sony, but they were never made i...
GURINDER CHADHA

I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go...
W. H. DAVIES

India needs to cooperate with China more than China needs India, because it is difficult for India t...
GIDEON LO

One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a lot. I t...
AUDRA MCDONALD

The most important thing is not just to Nokia but to India. I understand this is the first mobile ma...
MATTI VANHANEN

I feel like India and Pakistan have played a joke on us.
ABDUL AZIZ

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle...
JULIE CHRISTIE

'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager i...
DEV PATEL

I’m not made for city streets. My brogans drop soil from the field behind me, each grain of dirt l...
BRENDA SUTTON ROSE

China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in ...
WESLEY CLARK

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN

When I first came to India from Sri Lanka, people were surprised to see my toned arms. I had come ri...
JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ

Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like...
BIG SEAN

In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil r...
BILL DRAYTON

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.

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