Bilkul Theek....
Just to put things in perspective. Below are some of the quotations from well known people about India. We are our biggest enemies... Though this may seem irrelevant here, but at least people would read it because V Day ke chakkar mein abhi to bahut kuchh kahna sun na baki hai...
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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. - Will Durant (American Historian, 1885-1981)
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. - Thoreau (American Thinker)
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. - Max Muller (German Scholar, 1823-1900)
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either. - Sir William Jones (British Orientalist, 1746-1794)
The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to Rhinoplasty or operations for improving deformed ears, noses and forming new ones, which European surgeons have now borrowed. - Sir W. Hunter (British Surgeon, 1718-1783)
After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. - W. Heisenberg (German Physicist, 1901-1976)
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. - R.W Emerson (American Essayist, 1803-1882)
In religion, India is the only millionaire......the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined. - Mark Twain (American Author, 1835-1910)
It is already becoming clear that a chapter that had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in the self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in history, the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian Way. - Dr Arnold Toynbee (British Historian, 1889-1975)
If there is one place on the face of this Earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest day when man began the dream of existence, it is India. - Romain Rolland (French Philosopher, 1886-1994)
In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing. - Apollonius Tyanaeus (Greek Traveller, 1st Century CE)
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