What Wise men Say About My Motherland And Its People.

T S Eliot wrote in 1933:

"Their (Indian philosophers') subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys."




Yaqubi the 9th century Muslim historian has written:

"The Hindus are superior to all other nations in intelligence and thoughtfulness. They are more exact in astronomy and astrology than any other people"




Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren (1760-1842) an Egyptologist has observed:

"India is the source from which not only the rest of Asia but the whole Western World derived their knowledge and their religion."



Flavius Arrian (2nd century) Greek historian of the campaigns of Alexander, wrote of the Hindus:

"They are remarkably brave, and superior in war to all Asiatics; they are remarkable for integrity; they are so reasonable as seldom to have recourse to law suits, and so honest as to require neither locks to their doors nor writings to bind their agreements. They are in the highest degree truthful."



(source: Redefining India - By Francois Gautier - dailypioneer.com December 11 '02)
"O members of the Indian intelligentsia! You think that reading the latest New York Times bestseller, speaking polished English, and putting down your own countrymen, specially anybody who has a Hindu connection, makes you an intellectual. But in the process you have not only lost your roots, you have turned your back on a culture and civilisation that is thousands of years old and has given so much to the world. Your are forgetting what a privilege it is to be born an Indian -- and a Hindu at that -- inheritors of a spirituality that accepts that God manifests Himself under different names, at different times, when today the world's two biggest monotheistic religions still think their God is the only true one and it is their duty to convert everybody by guile or force. "