At the stroke of the midnight hour, whenthe world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we stepout from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still largercause of humanity.-Jawaharlal Nehru, Independence Day Speech (1947)I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.-Mahatma GandhiIndia is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the motherof history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.-Mark TwainIndia has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them. -William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century IndiaIn the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.-Ralph Waldo EmersonDue to its rich culture and tradition we admire India as a teacher and we are its follower.-Dalai LamaIf there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, itis India. -Romain Rolland, French Nobel LaureateWe owe a lot to the Indians, who taughtus how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. -Albert EinsteinIt will no longer remain to be doubted that the priests of Egypt and the sages of Greece have drawn directly from the original well of India, that it is to the banks of the Ganges and the Indus that our hearts feel drawn as by some hidden urge. -Friedrich Mejer, English statesmanIndia — The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas. -Ella Wheeler WilcoxWhenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that Iam under the spangled heavens of a summer night.-Henry David ThoreauIf I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered over the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant, I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks andRomans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India. -Max Müller, India, What Can It Teach Us (1882)India has two million gods, and worshipsthem all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.-Mark TwainThere has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.-Lancelot Hogben.... Happiee Independence Day.. Proud to b an Indian...
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