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As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.

Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

If the elections are a mere fraud, why are terrorists being trained and infiltrated into India at the command of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency of Pakistan to kill election candidates and to intimidate voters?

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.

Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious freedom than any other earthly possession. Give them food or not, it doesn__ matter to them, as long as they are allowed to practice their religion. But, take away their religion, they will fight till the last breath of their life.

The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.

In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.

In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world is supposed to work. It can disappear almost as instantaneously.