Indian Wisdom

“We need IMG-Reliance in Indian football as they are an important sponsor.”

“Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language.”

“I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face for a special occasion. As I get older, I see less of the fantasy 'Indian' self I inherited from my father, and I see my mother looking back at me.”

“Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.”

“We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.”

“I have always admired the Russian cinema, their incisive storytelling, sharp camera work and brilliant acting in them. Indian filmmakers can learn a lot from it.”

“I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.”

“Since the day I was born as a low-caste Indian, I've had to fight.”

“I don't think there's any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness' that was kind of like that. That was an illusion. I was playing that on a thumbtack piano, and Jim Gordon was playing tablas. He's an amazing player. That was as close to India as I ever got.”

“The quality of players at the domestic level is very low when they come to the Indian camp. From that level to reach the international level, they will have to do lot of hard work at the Indian camp.”

“Owing to our Indian beliefs, not many believe in organ donation. But I think it's an amazing thing to pledge the donation of organs and is not something people should look down upon.”

“I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.”

“I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old...drunk on wine and candle fumes.Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air so as to entertain moths before they go off to die.I used to be a poet and my words were gold.”

“If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.”

“You have to laugh at yourself. I do a lot of humor about all ethnicities that are at the show - Latinos, Asians, Indians... What I say is, 'We're laughing together. I'm laughing with you, not at you.' Never say, 'Oh, I'm better than you.'”

“I don't know what stops Indian athletes from expressing their thoughts freely, maybe it is the fear of repercussions.”

“When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.”

“My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.”

“As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!”

“I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends.”