Bindigana Ramaprasad

“India is for me a difficult country. It isn’t my home and cannot be my home; and yet I cannot reject it or be indifferent to it; I cannot travel only for the sights. I am at once too close and too far.”
― V.S. Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilization

“I was always looking out in airport gift shops for stickers or little toys and knickknacks to include with the envelopes. We ended up with quite a collection of dolls in national dress—from Finland, from Japan, from Brazil. These notes and keepsakes were an ongoing, private little project for me as I carried on with my other duties. It kept me closer to”
― Indra Nooyi, My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future

“In the Trump vision of the world, allies have disappointed America and competitors have cheated it. India is fortunate in being neither.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“The great sages of my Indian heritage had cultivated equanimity and detachment in the face of life’s challenges, and I strove to emulate them by accepting what had happened to me with as much grace as I could muster.”
― Rajat Gupta, Mind Without Fear: The Extraordinary Story of the Rise and Fall of a Global Business Icon