Happy Independence day to All!

Some great quotes about our great Nation IndiaWhere the mind is without fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by domesticwalls;Where words come out from the depth of truth;Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the drearydesert sand of dead habit;Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought andaction--Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comeswhen we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour,when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

Jawaharlal NehruOn the eve of independence, August 15 1947.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without whichno worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!Albert EinsteinIf there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams ofliving men have found a home from the very earliest days when manbegan the dream of existence, it is India!Romaine Rolland, French scholarIndia is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech,the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materialsin the history of man are treasured up in India only!

Mark Twain

She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the humanrace in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has theright to reclaim ... her place amongst the great nations summarizingand symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese
sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo,India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization!Sylvia LeviIndia conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centurieswithout ever having to send a single soldier across her border!

Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either byman or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that thesun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten,nothing overlooked.Mark TwainIf I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developedsome of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatestproblems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.

Max Mueller, German scholar

This is indeed India! The land of dreams and romance, of fabulouswealth and fabulous poverty, of splendour and rags, of palaces andhovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants and Aladdinlamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the countryof hundred nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions andtwo million gods, cradle of the human race, birthplace of humanspeech, mother of history, grandmother of legend, great-grandmother oftraditions, whose yesterday's bear date with the modering antiquitiesfor the rest of nations-the one sole country under the sun that isendowed with an imperishable interest for alien prince and alienpeasant, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor, bondand free, the one land that all men desire to see, and having seenonce, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows ofall the rest of the world combined.

Mark Twain

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created thisuniverse everything else seems so superfluous.
Albert EinsteinIndia

The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not onlyreligious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science hasproved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were knownto the seers who founded the Vedas.Wheeler Wilcox, American poetIndia was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother ofEurope's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother,through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through theBuddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through thevillage community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India isin many ways the mother of us all.Will Durant, American historianSo far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either byman or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that thesun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten,nothing overlooked.Mark TwainThere are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into yourheart and won't go. For me, India is such a place. When I firstvisited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beautyand exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses withthe pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, andsounds... I had been seeing the world in black & white and, whenbrought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered inbrilliant technicolor.Keith Bellows, VP - National Geographic SocietyIndia has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion allother countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Mark Twain