India

🇮🇳Mahatma Gandhi

Politics

nonviolence

1869–1948

"If all the Punjabis were to die to the last man without killing, Punjab will be immortal. ... Offer yourselves as non-violent, willing sacrifices."

🇮🇳Guru Nanak

Education

1469–1539

"Max Arthur MacAuliff, The Sikh Religion, Vol 1, , Oxford University Press, 1909."

🇮🇳Mukesh Ambani

Entertainment

b. 1957

"I have turned into a big nature fan as well....I can afford it more today. These childhood influences have shaped me into what I am today."

🇮🇳Amartya Sen

Economics

b. 1933

"No less importantly, intellectual probing is needed to identify deeds that are not intended to be injurious, but which have that effect..."

🇮🇳Ram Swarup

Literature

1920–1998

"In Western thought, the body holds the soul; in Indian thought, the soul holds the body."

"Svargadvāra temple is called Rāma-darbar by many Muslim writers and it is reported that it was demolished by Fedai Khan, the Governor of Aurangzeb."

🇮🇳Sri Chinmoy

Literature

1931–2007

"Alas, why does my mind have to walk through the dust of the past every day?"

🇮🇳Gopi Krishna (yogi)

Education

1903–1984

"It is a fallacy to hold That Life’s patrician is the prime, And outcast tribe the sterile old, Who live for death to bide their time."

🇮🇳B. R. Ambedkar

Politics

social movement

1891–1956

"If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it."

"Of quite a few casualties of the standards of academic integrity at the hands of self-styled 'secular' academics, those in the field of medieval Indian historiography happen to be the worst."

🇮🇳Ravi Gomatam

Science

1993–2015

"R.Gomatam at the symposium Indo-US Workshop on Systems Engineering, October 26-28, 2009 ."

🇮🇳Zakir Hussain (politician)

Politics

1934–2019

"Your victory stands as the victory of principles of tolerance and love"

🇮🇳Vivek Agnihotri

Entertainment

b. 1973

"Both the worlds are so polarized. So different and contradictory. Yet, they have some things in common. Complexity, chaos, and conflict. And there is no place for any other narrative."

"Stirum sukham asanam. Meaning: Seated posture should be steady and comfortable."

🇮🇳Chetan Bhagat

Literature

b. 1974

"But that is what life is like, uncertain, screwed at times but still fun."

🇮🇳Anish Kapoor

Art

contemporary art

b. 1954

"In the UK, while the arts are the second biggest sector after banking, they probably form less than one tenth of 1% of government spending. It's completely scuzzy."

🇮🇳M. S. Swaminathan

Science

1925–2023

"Developing countries can leapfrog several stages in the development process through the application of bio-technology in agriculture"

🇮🇳Dinesh D'Souza

Literature

b. 1961

"The American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well."

🇮🇳Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (A.S.)

Religion

601–661

"A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind."

🇮🇳Manmohan Singh

Politics

1932–2024

"I am delighted to hear the popularity of Odori Maharaja among young people here. Our children were delighted to see Odori Asimo - the dancing robot!"

🇮🇳Narendra Modi

Politics

Ram Rath Yatra

b. 1950

"PM Modi said it's not the government's business to run a business. "Our job is that of a facilitator to create new opportunities," he added."

🇮🇳Rohit Sharma

Technology

b. 1987

"You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas."

🇮🇳Irfan Habib

Literature

b. 1931

"“…the population during the Mughal period did not remain stable though the compound rate of growth, 0.14% per annum, was hardly spectacular and was much lower than the rate attained during the nineteenth century"

"The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did."

🇮🇳Govinda Bhagavatpada

Philosophy

"Be fearless, let fearlessness radiate from you and dispel fear in the hearts of others."

🇮🇳Prem Rawat

Psychology

b. 1957

"Knowledge is not spiritual, nor is it a religion. Knowledge belongs in neither of those two categories. Knowledge says there is a consciousness inside of you, that you are complete."

🇮🇳Ramanuja

Philosophy

1017–1137

"What an individual pursues as a desirable end depends upon what he conceives himself to be."

🇮🇳Kamala Surayya

Literature

1934–2009

"You didn't ever love him, but you were sentimental about him."

"You live it forward, but understand it backward."

"The Muslims, in my opinion, should show magnanimity and a noble gesture of gifting away the mosque."

"You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover. What Rissa's death did to the boy I was? You have the ability to do a thousand times worse to the man I've become."

🇮🇳Amit Ray

Literature

b. 1960

"Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you."

🇮🇳Satish Chandra

Politics

1922–2017

"Thus, Buddhism did not so much decline, as it assumed forms which made it indistinguishable from Hinduism."

🇮🇳Arundhati Roy

Literature

b. 1961

"The story of the Narmada valley is nothing less than the story of Modern India. Like the tiger in the Belgrade zoo during the NATO bombing, we've begun to eat our own limbs."

🇮🇳Virat Kohli

b. 1988

"Yeah, absolutely because I said on-air that he'll become the next Sachin Tendulkar of Indian team because when I was growing up I watched Tendulkar. Similarly Tendulkar watched Sunil Gavaskar."

🇮🇳Surendra Pratap Singh

Journalism

1948–1997

"Like any other day, Kausani with every passing minute emerged out of the darkness, tree by tree, house by house, street by street."