"In India today,
we have a lady born a Catholic (Sonia Gandhi)
stepping aside so a Sikh (Manmohan Singh)
could be sworn in by a Muslim
(president Abdul Kalam)
to lead a nation that's 82% Hindu.
I defy anyone to cite another country with such diversity and tolerance to its political leadership."
India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous nation by 2050.
India’s population is expected to grow from 1.08bn to 1.63bn people, overtaking
China, which is forecast to reach 1.44bn from 1.3bn currently.
India, will also have the highest working population in the World — 700 million
people out of 1.1 billion people are young; the young population will continue
till 2050.
“Temporal notions in Europe were overturned by an India rooted in eternity.
The Bible had been the yardstick for measuring time,
but the infinitely vast time cycles of India
suggested that the world was much older than anything the Bible spoke of.
It seem as if the Indian mind was better prepared for the
chronological mutations of
Darwinian evolution and astrophysics.”
Man must have an original cradle land whence the peopling of the earth was brought about by migration.
As to man’s cradle land, there have been many theories but the weight of evidence is in favour of Indo-Malaysia.”
"If there is a country on earth which can justly claim the honour of having been the cradle of the Human race or at least the scene of primitive civilization, the successive developments of which carried into all parts of the ancient world and even beyond, the blessings of knowledge which is the second life of man, that country is assuredly India.“"
