{"id":3240,"date":"2010-12-09T10:58:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T05:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2010-12-09T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T05:58:31","slug":"great-comments-by-great-people-on-a-great-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/sweet-bharat\/great-comments-by-great-people-on-a-great-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Great comments by great people on a great country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radhe Radhe ! <\/span><\/p>\n

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Throughout the centuries, Mother India and her people have received the greatest tributes from prominent members of other nations – people who mattered then and whose words still matter to the world. They are thinkers who have helped shape the world. So what do they say about India ? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIndia is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 American Writer and Humorist Mark Twain \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn India I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth. but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything but possessed by nothing.\u201d<\/em>– Apollonius Tyanaeus, Greek Thinker and Traveller 1st Century AD <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago.\u201d <\/em>– Grant Duff, British Historian<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIndia was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe\u2019s languages. India was the mother of our philosophy, of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in Christianity\u2026 of self-government and democracy. In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Will Durant, American Historian<\/span><\/p>\n

And Finally, <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

At the close of this century, the world would be dominated by the West, but that in the 21st century \u201cIndia will conquer her conquerors.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Dr. Arnold J. Toynbee \u2013 British Historian<\/span><\/p>\n


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