The Times of India of March 31st had a column on opinions about Indians from both Indians and non-Indians. I thought it was interesting and am repeating the quotes in italics.
Mumbai High Court
"Spitting is an inherit character of our people"
In six months in 2011 Mumbaikars had paid the equivalent of Dollars Four Hundred and Fifty thousand in fines. I am surprised that the High Court did not say that urinating by the road side is also an inherit character of the Indian male. Imagine the revenue which the cities in India would generate if it imposed fines on this activity. However it would also be another source of revenue for the enforcers.
Markandey Katju
Chairman -Press Council of India
According the Times , Katju has been coming out with gems since he was appointed to this post. His latest "90% of people in India are fools. Their minds are full of superstitions, communalism,and casteism." .. "people say that the media must provide the customer what it wants. Unfortunately most people in India are of a very low intellectual level,steeped in casteism, communalism,superstitions, and all kinds of feudal and backward ideas"
Ah - the arrogance of self confidence at the extreme. Must have something to do from being from Nehru's hometown of Allahabad !!
Greg Chappell
Australian Cricketer and former Indian coach
"The (Indian) culture is very different. They lack leaders because they are not trained to be leaders. From an early age, their parents make all the decisions. They learn not to take any responsibility"
In effect they are all Mama's boys. No wonder we have more than our proportionate share of women leaders such as Indira Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Mamta Banerjee, Mayawati, Sheila Dixit, Jayalalitha and so on. The real successful war which we won hands down was the war for Bangladesh under Indra Gandhi. Perhaps we should have an all women's cricket team against the Australian men. Could teach them a lesson or two.
Gulam Nabi Azad
Union Health Minister and Senior Congress Leader
" If there is electricity in every village, people will watch TV till late night and then fall asleep. They won't get a chance to produce children. When there is no electricity, there is nothing else to do to produce babies" .
Of course people in cities do not produce children. Perhaps the next list of freebies for the Indian politicians should include I phones and I pads which do not require electricity ( except for charging where they can now use solar lights with phone charging extensions). However there is some truth to Azad's comments. A couple of decades ago when New York had a black out for a day or two, the birth rate that year actually shot up.
Shahid Afridi
Pakistani Cricketer
"Indians will never have hearts like Muslims and Pakistanis. I don't think they have the large and clean hearts that Allah has given us. It is a very difficult thing for us to live with them or to have a long term relationship with them"
Unless being born in Pakistan gives Afridi or the Pakistani a special heart cleansing gene, he is perhaps not aware that India has the second largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia. So on a numerical basis we beat Afridi's country men in terms of the number of people with cleaner hearts . In terms of long term relationships , perhaps the Americans might have some thing to say about that.
President Nixon
Indians are "a slippery treacherous people"
Henry Kissinger
"Indians are bastards anyway.They're the most aggressive goddam people around "
This coming from tricky Dick and his key lieutenant was a bit rich. No wonder many of his aides ended up on the wrong side of the law, defending their patron. If you haven't I suggest you read Philip Roth's " Our Gang" about President Nixon and his team.
Maureen Chao
US Vice Consul while talking to students in Chennai
" I was on a 24 hour train trip from Delhi to Orrisa.But after 72 hours, the train still did not reach its destination ... and my skin became dark and dirty like the Tamilians"
I believe that Hillary Clinton chose her for " The diplomat of the year " award and she is now being considered as a possible candidate to become the next Dean of The Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts University. I think she boned up on India by reading the matrimonial advertisements where all males are looking for wives with wheatish or fair complexion.Also by watching the television advertisements where every second advertisement is for a fairness cream for making not just women " fair and lovely" but also men " fair and handsome" . One even goes to the extreme of assuring you that it will make your under arms fair. I can see Biphasa Basu doing a item number from a Bollywood version of Maria from the West Side Story with her arms raised and the spotlight shining on her arm pits and singing "I feel pretty, white and witty "
The Dalai Lama
"I feel sometimes people in India are lazy .... look at the Chinese,they work hard. ..Wherever they go, they make China towns.However, nowhere in the world there are any India towns. "
Having seen and read many of his interviews, it is obvious that he has a sense of humor and his remarks are tongue in cheek. But nevertheless maybe his Holiness should ask his minders to take him to "Little India"in Singapore, Southall in London, Canal Street in New York and similar such places in Chicago, Toronto and other major cities around the world.
Pratyush Sinha
India's Outgoing Chief Vigilance Commissioner
"One third of Indians are corrupt, half are borderline, and that is job was a thankless one".
Reading the newspapers and watching the television , where there is a new corruption or a scam story every day, all one can say to his comment is "Amen".
Mumbai High Court
"Spitting is an inherit character of our people"
In six months in 2011 Mumbaikars had paid the equivalent of Dollars Four Hundred and Fifty thousand in fines. I am surprised that the High Court did not say that urinating by the road side is also an inherit character of the Indian male. Imagine the revenue which the cities in India would generate if it imposed fines on this activity. However it would also be another source of revenue for the enforcers.
Markandey Katju
Chairman -Press Council of India
According the Times , Katju has been coming out with gems since he was appointed to this post. His latest "90% of people in India are fools. Their minds are full of superstitions, communalism,and casteism." .. "people say that the media must provide the customer what it wants. Unfortunately most people in India are of a very low intellectual level,steeped in casteism, communalism,superstitions, and all kinds of feudal and backward ideas"
Ah - the arrogance of self confidence at the extreme. Must have something to do from being from Nehru's hometown of Allahabad !!
Greg Chappell
Australian Cricketer and former Indian coach
"The (Indian) culture is very different. They lack leaders because they are not trained to be leaders. From an early age, their parents make all the decisions. They learn not to take any responsibility"
In effect they are all Mama's boys. No wonder we have more than our proportionate share of women leaders such as Indira Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Mamta Banerjee, Mayawati, Sheila Dixit, Jayalalitha and so on. The real successful war which we won hands down was the war for Bangladesh under Indra Gandhi. Perhaps we should have an all women's cricket team against the Australian men. Could teach them a lesson or two.
Gulam Nabi Azad
Union Health Minister and Senior Congress Leader
" If there is electricity in every village, people will watch TV till late night and then fall asleep. They won't get a chance to produce children. When there is no electricity, there is nothing else to do to produce babies" .
Of course people in cities do not produce children. Perhaps the next list of freebies for the Indian politicians should include I phones and I pads which do not require electricity ( except for charging where they can now use solar lights with phone charging extensions). However there is some truth to Azad's comments. A couple of decades ago when New York had a black out for a day or two, the birth rate that year actually shot up.
Shahid Afridi
Pakistani Cricketer
"Indians will never have hearts like Muslims and Pakistanis. I don't think they have the large and clean hearts that Allah has given us. It is a very difficult thing for us to live with them or to have a long term relationship with them"
Unless being born in Pakistan gives Afridi or the Pakistani a special heart cleansing gene, he is perhaps not aware that India has the second largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia. So on a numerical basis we beat Afridi's country men in terms of the number of people with cleaner hearts . In terms of long term relationships , perhaps the Americans might have some thing to say about that.
President Nixon
Indians are "a slippery treacherous people"
Henry Kissinger
"Indians are bastards anyway.They're the most aggressive goddam people around "
This coming from tricky Dick and his key lieutenant was a bit rich. No wonder many of his aides ended up on the wrong side of the law, defending their patron. If you haven't I suggest you read Philip Roth's " Our Gang" about President Nixon and his team.
Maureen Chao
US Vice Consul while talking to students in Chennai
" I was on a 24 hour train trip from Delhi to Orrisa.But after 72 hours, the train still did not reach its destination ... and my skin became dark and dirty like the Tamilians"
I believe that Hillary Clinton chose her for " The diplomat of the year " award and she is now being considered as a possible candidate to become the next Dean of The Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts University. I think she boned up on India by reading the matrimonial advertisements where all males are looking for wives with wheatish or fair complexion.Also by watching the television advertisements where every second advertisement is for a fairness cream for making not just women " fair and lovely" but also men " fair and handsome" . One even goes to the extreme of assuring you that it will make your under arms fair. I can see Biphasa Basu doing a item number from a Bollywood version of Maria from the West Side Story with her arms raised and the spotlight shining on her arm pits and singing "I feel pretty, white and witty "
The Dalai Lama
"I feel sometimes people in India are lazy .... look at the Chinese,they work hard. ..Wherever they go, they make China towns.However, nowhere in the world there are any India towns. "
Having seen and read many of his interviews, it is obvious that he has a sense of humor and his remarks are tongue in cheek. But nevertheless maybe his Holiness should ask his minders to take him to "Little India"in Singapore, Southall in London, Canal Street in New York and similar such places in Chicago, Toronto and other major cities around the world.
Pratyush Sinha
India's Outgoing Chief Vigilance Commissioner
"One third of Indians are corrupt, half are borderline, and that is job was a thankless one".
Reading the newspapers and watching the television , where there is a new corruption or a scam story every day, all one can say to his comment is "Amen".
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