Bharat Quotes

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“It is my Bharatvarsha in all its glory, replete with wealth, knowledge, spiritual faith.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Gora

“The word Bharat means engaged with light or radiance—the light of love, compassion, creativity, intelligence, unity, diversity, and human values.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

“And to those who now call this nation a Hindu Rashtra, run by religious zealots and fascists, to those I ask: In which theocratic state would religious zealots wait for half a millennium and even then, 1 billion strong, leave it to 5 people to decide the fate of their demand, their yearning, the consecration of their soul itself?”
― Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra: Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid

“यह खेद की स्थिति है। ज्ञान और धन का भारतीय खजाना बेकार पड़ा हुआ है। और हम एक गरीब और विकासशील राष्ट्र की तरह व्यवहार करते हैं। भारत में दवाओं के भारतीय सिस्टम के क्षेत्र में एक बड़े पैमाने पर अनुसंधान प्रारंभ होना चाहिए।”
― Ravi Ranjan Goswami, एक अपूर्व समस्या

“The creed of Hindutva that shapes Modi’s worldview says
nothing original or new regarding modern government, if it says
anything about this at all. It expresses a burning desire to make
Bharat Mata great but articulates no pathway of leading her there.
Modi wanted to shake up the system but didn’t know what to
add to or remove from it. He was not conservative in the sense that
he respected and continued with and built on the traditions of
government. He was radical, intent on fundamental change. But his
radicalism came without a central thesis and with no guiding text. It
was introduction of chaos to no particular end. The result,
unsurprisingly, was more chaos. His ‘disruptions’, a word beloved of
the tech set but loaded with grave consequences for the weak and
the poor, were unattached to any core ideology.
Disruption to what end? Disruption of whose lives? This was not
important.”
― Aakar Patel, Price of the Modi Years

“There is a real Bharatvarsha—a complete India. Unless we establish ourselves there, we can’t absorb its true living essence into our minds and hearts. Therefore I say, forgetting all else, discarding book-learning, the lure of prestige, and the temptation of odd profits, we must set sail for that very port, whether we drown or perish. No wonder I can never forget the true, complete image of Bharatvarsha.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Gora

“Making India stronger is what everyone will envision; making Bharat a world power, is what only Modi Ji could visualise.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Modified Leadership

“The best thing the Modi Government introduced to kick start Bharat to new horizons of innovation was startup schemes.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Modified Leadership

“The dream of Bharat becoming a global guru can be achieved under the leadership of people like Modi Ji.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Modified Leadership

“Ayodhya is the heart of Hindus, while Bharat is the body.”
― Vinita Kinra

“May I roaming around the world, but India is a permanent residence of my soul”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“Neeraj Chopra is a Legend. He is one reason for all Indians to feel proud of being an Indian.”
― Avijeet Das

“The concept of justice is like memory. It keeps getting passed on until it is realised.”
― Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra: Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid

“To me, the mark of civilisation is this unquenchable thirst of man to demand justice for his ancestors; to correct a historical wrong. For that exemplifies a continuity; an idea, a memory that can never be erased; that worth fighting for and preserving.”
― Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra: Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid

“Many cultures beat together within the Indian heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“The whole world's future depends on Bharat's spirituality.”
― Sathya Sai Baba

“In the annals of Bharat's resurgence, Narendra Modi would be extolled as the one who laid the political steps for the hesitant Hindus to ascend into the social sphere of hearty Sanatanis to resurrect their glory of yore.”
― B.S. Murthy

“India’s first AI-generated short film, The Lioness of Bharat, proves that technology can breathe life into legends, rewriting history through the lens of innovation.”
― Suresh Rao Design Studio

“A legend reborn through the power of AI—The Lioness of Bharat brings history and innovation together, redefining storytelling for a new era.”
― The Lioness of Bharat

“Jawaharlal Nehru had a well-intentioned but romantic view of Indian history, which he presented with considerable literary verve in his book, The Discovery of India. He saw India as ‘an ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been subscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously’. Khilnani interprets this to argue that in Nehru’s imagination, ‘India appeared as a space of cultural mixing, its history a celebration of the soiling effects of cultural miscegenation and accretion’.”
― Pavan K. Varma, The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward

“One can have local fealties, and also a sense of being part of a larger loyalty. But, the dichotomy was created deliberately, so as to debunk any claim to civilisational consciousness. An ancient civilisational footprint would lead to the verifiably factual claim that it was dominantly Hindu, and that would jeopardise the present-day need to downplay this in the interest of ‘preserving secularism’. Hence, historical objectivity must be sacrificed on the altar of a perceived sense of political correctness.
Objective historians are today willing to accept this reality. Dr Upinder Singh writes: ‘One of several explanations of the name Bharatvarsha connects it with the Bharata people, descendants of the legendary king Bharata, son of Dushyanta and Shakuntala. Cosmography blends with geography in the Puranas. Bharatvarsha is said to consist of nine divisions (khandas), separated from one another by seas. But the mention of its mountains, rivers and places—some of which can be identified—suggests that the composers of such texts were familiar with various areas of the sub-continent, and perceived them as part of a larger cultural whole [emphasis mine]’.23 Surprisingly, for all his protestations, Khilnani also accepts this. He says: ‘Equally significant was India’s archive of images of political community, which related culture to polity. In the Brahminic traditions, for instance, the Puranic literature expresses a sense of the sub-continent’s natural geographic frontiers, reflected in a sacred geography mapped out by tirthas, pilgrimage points scattered across the land, and encompassed by the idea of mythic realms like Aryavarta or Bharatvarsha.’ Moreover, he contradicts himself when he seeks to confine this cultural polity only to ‘Brahminic traditions’.”
― Pavan K. Varma, The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward

“Arun Shourie argues that although ‘the Mahabharata and the Ramayana describe warring states they are the epics of one people [emphasis mine]’,33 and, indeed, in the Ramayana, Rama goes across the subcontinent, from Ayodhya in the north to Sri Lanka at the very southern tip. Shourie bolsters his reasoning by a fascinating study of many Hindu rituals which clearly indicate this pan-Indian consciousness. ‘Only Namboodiris from Kerala are to be priests at Badrinath, those in the Pashupatinath temple at Kathmandu are always from South Kanara in Karnataka, those at Rameshwaram in the deep south are from Maharashtra. … Every Diwali the sari for the idol of Amba at Kolhapur comes from the Lord at Tirupati. The Sankalpa Mantra with which every puja commends the prayers in the deities, situates the yajyaman (the person organizing the puja) with reference to the salients and sacred rivers of the entire land.’34 Commenting on this, Dr Koenraad Elst says: ‘From hoary antiquity, the Sankalpa locates the Hindu worshipper in time and space, notably in Bharatvarsha, in a decreasing scale of geographical regions down to the city or region where the ritual is performed.’35
The truth is that, although it may be expedient for some people to deny an ancient Hindu civilisation, such a civilisational awareness was millennia old, and has had a lasting and verifiable impact on the evolution and, indeed, the very character of India. To admit this is not to invite ‘xenophobia’ or ‘cultural paranoia’. Nor is it the febrile imagination of Hindu enthusiasts. It is, simply, borne out by the facts of history, and cannot be controverted by superimposing the political attitudes of today on the cultural integrations of the past. Sudhir Kakar, one of India’s most respected psychologists—and certainly no Hindutva-vadi—writes: ‘Indian-ness is about similarities produced by an overarching Indic, pre-eminently Hindu civilization, that has contributed the lion’s share to what we would call the “cultural gene-pool” of India’s peoples.’36 The fact, or memory or acceptance, of such a civilisation can be devalued, marginalised, forgotten or ignored, but it cannot be erased.”
― Pavan K. Varma, The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward