Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free."
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India
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Indira Gandhi
Politician
"I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people ... I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it."
Indira Gandhi
Politician
"Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"The soul of India lives in its villages."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous"
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"Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers."
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"Citizenship consists in the service of the country."
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"Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India."
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"The future of India lies in its villages"
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"Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper."
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"Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels."
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"The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence"
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"India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities."
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"The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests."
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"Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being."
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"Congress is responsible for every major change in India"
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"Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result."
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"I am the last Englishman to rule in India."
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"Theres a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and womens literacy and empowerment, including womens gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are womens literacy and gainful economic employment."
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"Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India."
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"If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative."
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"When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh."
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"Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving mystery meat in India, they're in the business of serving their neighbors. They're not targeted toward a transient crowd of tourists that won't be around tomorrow. They're not in the business of poisoning their neighbors."
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"If India is computer, Congress is its default program."
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"For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty."
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