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Delhi. The ruins of an old city, markets, monuments, broken mansions, the zigzag of roads, the still
sad times of music past. And rising up from it, her mother, wind in her hair, laughing like a witch.
The city is full of terrible actors. That is what historians never say about Madras, it is filled with hams.
Ahmedabad is a cultured city with a rich heritage of craft and theatre.
Ah, sahib. I know you just come to comfort a old man left to live by hisself. Soomintra say I too old-fashion. And Leela, she always by you. Why you don't sit down, sahib? It ain't dirty. Is just how it does look.'
Ganesh didn't sit down. 'Ramlogan, I come to buy over your taxis.
Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds.
See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty talks! While the moment you will go to Calcutta, you will be thinking of nasty stuff.
Goldsboro, North Carolina.
Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.
The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
Geography is not just about the physical terrain, but also about the meaning that we attribute to it. Thus, the Saraswati flows, invisibly, at Allahabad.
I'm dying to go to India.
Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.
The incredible length of Bombay sped by, those endless sprawls of buildings, huts and shacks, children squatting and shitting by the tracks, refuse, the crowded grey roads twisting and winding between, all of it blurred but fearsome in its strength, in its very life that grew it unstoppably.
Assamese life has more meaning than the violence, than its relationship with Delhi. Assam may not be sovereign politically, or economically, but the Assamese imagination has to remain sovereign.
For true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it!
Hello - what hotel is this - ?
In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.
So in the streets of Calcutta I sometimes imagine myself a foreigner, and only then do I discover how much is to be seen, which is lost so long as its full value in attention is not paid. It is the hunger to really see which drives people to travel to strange places.
I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.
I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay
You Gujarati people are so cute but why is your food so dangerous dhokla, fafda, handva, thepla it sounds like they are missiles
The Aravaipa village near Camp Grant. Although Camp
Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world reaches it only in the faintest echoes; its sleep is almost dreamless. Its sensations seem to come out of books read in childhood.
Delhi is definitely a foodie's paradise.
See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place for a Math. (in Belur, West Bengal).
Delhi was once a paradise, Where Love held sway and reigned; But its charm lies ravished now And only ruins remain. No
Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat.
I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.
I am proud to represent the capital of Kerala, a state that in so many ways is a trailblazer for India's progress, though in other respects it seems to have been left behind in the race for 21st century development.
The moment the rickshaw stopped, your abba said, 'This is Vanity Bagh, where we will build our home and make it heaven-like.
I love Indian food. London also has great Indian food.
God has blessed the vale of Kashmir with grace and grandeur. It is a land of lush green meadows, crystal clear springs and lakes, the majestic rivers and streams, the snow white and roaring cataracts, sweet waters, high snow-covered peaks make it a perfect archetype of the promised land of God.
We had heard that the people of Delhi loved their city as bees love flowers. But we could not believe that the child of a courtesan would prefer to live in a Delhi brothel rather than in our palace in Iran!
Most people who go to Rajasthan go to Udaipur, Jodhpur or Jaipur.
I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.
If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.
Here, in impoverished northern India state of Bihar, near the Nepalese border, there's not much else available commercially-- except sex.
This is Golgotha: people tend to end up dead in these here parts; it's kind of a town tradition.
Mumbai is not a city, it's life...
Bodh Gaya is a land of enlightenment. Years ago, what Bodh Gaya got was Siddhartha but what Bodh Gaya gave to the world was Lord Buddha, the epitome of knowledge, peace and compassion.
Nostalgia washes over me with tons of memors and lifetime rolled on this land. Every oblivious memory from the childhood wraps open in the fragrance of these busy roads and familiar land, long signals, irritating traffic,honking cars,rushing people,excessive pollution defining Delhi at its best.
Mumbai is different! It's busy, it's dusty, it's posh, it's different from everything I've ever known. You can barely see the sky, hidden behind the tall buildings, the moon seems so detached, the trees look indifferent and distant.
I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Growing up in Delhi, one gets addicted to pollution.
Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.
Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.
The future of India lies in its villages
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
VARANASI TRAFFIC is shambolic. It's a humbling reminder that the British drive on the left side of the road and we (Indians) drive on what's left of the road. "The traffic is not terrible at all," wrote novelist Geoff Dyer. "It is beyond any idea of terribleness. It is beyond any idea of traffic.
Delhi women - they're the most beautiful women! But the fact remains that they know they are gorgeous.
This country has attained 'Swarajya', but unfortunately the dream of 'Surajya' is left unfulfilled. Today, if there is any major challenge before this country, it is that of a 'Surajya' and since the last decade, Gujarat is working in the direction of attaining Surajya.
While Mumbai is a melting pot of cultures, Delhi is made of community, and we can see these lines quite clearly. An aunty from Punjabi Bagh will be different from a Faridabad aunty or an aunty from Vasant Kunj.
Don't we all seek Guarida, safe haven?
( ... )where tourists and people from the city came in search of sand, sun and expensive forms of boredome.
My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.
This is trash state U.S.A.
Few people know that I love local dhaba food. It is the best!
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.
The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.
But of no country is it so true as of India that the nearer one gets to the capital the further one gets from the realities.
Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.
I am always fascinated by India.
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
I'm committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.
Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.
The fun of sitting around Pangong Lake with 40 guys around a fireplace, having a glass of wine ... staying in one camp together ... that's an experience. Waking up at 5 in the morning, watching the sun come up. You don't do these things in Bombay.
I love the food, the girls, the sky and everything that is Delhi. I have very fond memories of the Moolchand flyover.
Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.
In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.
India is my motherland.
Well, got any relish?" "No, ma'am." "Tomato ketchup?" "No, ma'am." "And they call this a gormay paradise,
Many celebrations are set to take place in Swarnim Gujarat. However, if one asks me, "As the Chief Minister, which is your favourite programme?" Then friends, I would like to say that 'Vanche Gujarat' is the closest to my heart.
I live between Jamaica and Paris.
Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.
Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'
The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.
I will always be a Hyderabadi.
Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.
Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.
I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at a different phase in our civilization.
The Indian Territory Mission,
To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
I've been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I've also heard Bollywood town's a lot of fun!
Indians, schmindians!
You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.
[Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]
Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western
on a map: There itMap-- Amor Towles
All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.
Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.
Gehenna is lovely these days.
When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
Hung Island, Georgia,
My father's family hails from Banaras. My grandfather taught mathematics at Banaras Hindu University. Banaras is also dedicated to Lord Shiva, home to one of the great jyotirlings, the Kashi Vishwanath temple.