Nice thoughts on the Republic Day of India……….

In Praise of India – 10 Famous Quotations about India …Every Indian should be proud to be an Indian citizen !!!
source ::::input from a friend of mine….

Natarajan

1. Will Durant, American historian: “India was the motherland of
our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she was the
mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our
mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in
Christianity; mother, through the village community, of
self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother
of us all”.

2. Mark Twain, American author: “India is, the cradle of the human
race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the
grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our
most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are
treasured up in India only.”

3. Albert Einstein, American scientist: “We owe a lot to the
Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile
scientific discovery could have been made.”

4. Max Mueller, German scholar: If I were asked under what sky the
human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has
most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found
solutions, I should point to India.

5. Romain Rolland, French scholar : “If 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, it
is India.”

6. Henry David Thoreau, American Thinker & Author: Whenever 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 I am under the spangled heavens
of a summer night.

7. R.W. Emerson, American Author: In 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.

8. Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA: “India conquered
and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to
send a single soldier across her border.”

9. Keith Bellows, National Geographic Society : “There are some
parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t
go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned
by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic
architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure,
concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds… I
had been seeing the world in black & white and, when brought
face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in
brilliant technicolor.”

10. A Rough Guide to India: “It is impossible not to be astonished
by India. Nowhere on Earth does humanity present itself in such a
dizzying, creative burst of cultures and religions, races and tongues.
Enriched by successive waves of migration and marauders from distant
lands, every one of them left an indelible imprint which was absorbed
into the Indian way of life. Every aspect of the country presents
itself on a massive, exaggerated scale, worthy in comparison only to
the superlative mountains that overshadow it. It is this variety which
provides a breathtaking ensemble for experiences that is uniquely
Indian. Perhaps the only thing more difficult than to be indifferent
to India would be to describe or understand India completely. There
are perhaps very few nations in the world with the enormous variety
that India has to offer. Modern day India represents the largest
democracy in the world with a seamless picture of unity in diversity
unparalleled anywhere else.