Soundbytes

Even my own sister never believed me when I said I wasIndian... It was only after Rajiv Gandhi died that she finally understood me.
Sonia Gandhi

Every morning somebody comes to check I’m not dead inbed and returns in the evening to check I’m not dead elsewhere in the house.
Nirad C.Chaudhuri

The litmus test of a society’s attitude towardssexuality is the way it looks at the participation of women in erotic life.
SudhirKakar

I feel very uncomfortable with journalists who feel glad athaving nailed somebody. We are not and should not be prosecutors.
John F. Burns

The pre-1953 level of autonomy will restore the honour ofthe people. They will feel that honour has been restored, what has been stolen from themhas been returned.
FarooqAbdullah

Farooq Abdullah doesn't represent Kashmir in Delhi, herepresents Delhi in Kashmir
Umer Farooq

The problem is not really in the Valley but with Pakistan.It has to come to terms with its own history and geography.
JaswantSingh

All talk of a "soft state" is a pathetic bid toabsolve leaders and transfer guilt to the nation at large.
K.P.S.Gill

That gentleman from Pakistan, L.K. Advani, he may not havean idea of Hindutva.
V.R.Krishna Iyer

As in India, I got calls from mothers and daughters. Eventhe flirtations are the same in India and Pakistan.
DevAnand

We have a saying at Templeton, that if you can see a lightat the end of the tunnel, you may have missed the bus.
MarkMobius

I go through my handbags and, in each, I find littlebundles of notes. I, who used to hunt London down for the cheaper loaf of bread.
ZohraSehgal

The problem with the NDA government's defence minister,George Fernandes, is premature articulation.
K.Natwar Singh

In a country ridden with beggars, it's rare to see a Sikhstretch out his hand for alms. This is no short of a miracle.
KhushwantSingh

Will the essentials of Indian politics change by breakfasttomorrow if the Constitution is amended today? If not, the case for amending is lessstrong.
GranvilleAustin

I don't think the N-tests have brought India any closer toa place in the sun. They don't resolve its basic problems, which are economic.
SirDavid Gore-Booth

There was a time when people were embarrassed to displayreligious zeal, now we've made culture a political problem.
QurratulainHyder

You can argue theories with serious historians, but how doyou argue with tabalchis ?
IrfanHabib

Missionaries in India have given a sense of dignity to thepeople. This cannot generate anti-national feelings.
GeorgeFernandes

India was right to go nuclear. You have to show strength totry to get the world to pay attention.
A.R.Rosenthal.

I always wanted to feel humbled. No man could humble me.Allah could. I feel like a harem girl before her master
KamalaDas

The credit for Bal Thackeray being such a political forcetoday lies not with him but with his adversaries.
VijayTendulkar

India's economists do not have a policy sense and havefailed to create growth because of rigid ideology.
Jagadish Bhagwati

Indians abroad instinctively feel they are lower in theworld's racial, cultural, ethnic hierarchy than most peoples, except blacks.
TunkuVaradarajan

Our historians are obsessed with colonial India almost asif the wheels of Indian society started to turn with colonialism.
SanjaySubrahmanyan

There are more anti-American Indians in the United Statesof America than there are anti-Indian Americans.
S.S.Ray

The histories of India and Pakistan began to diverge veryearly on. The story might have been different if Jinnah had lived longer.
AkbarAhmed

The US doesn't need any proof from us of Pak sponsoringterrorism in India. They are fully aware of what is going on.
BrajeshMishra

We must get over the pathology of treating Pakistan aseternal foe and develop a new attitude towards those with whom we share so much.
Bhabani Sen Gupta

You cannot set strategy and vision through e-mail. You havegot to sit with your people, with your clients and talk to them.
CharlesB. Wang

We've accepted models of male behaviour and one sign ofmasculinity is that successful men should've affairs outside marriage.
Mahesh Dattani

The problem with the BJP is that it has no sense of humour.I don't like their language.
Krishna Sobti

My formula for 100 per cent peace of mind is 25 per centmoney, 25 per cent health, 25 per cent social life and 25 per cent family life.
Johnny Walker

Creativity is like breathing. Just as I've never countedhow many times I've breathed, the same goes for painting or anything else.
SatishGujral