Welcome to Inside Indian by me, Indra Raj Pathak.
‘Inside Indian’ is a publication and a community for everyone who shares an interest in Indian people, society, culture and philosophy. It publishes with no pride and prejudices about Indian mindset, heart set, and soul set in the remote past, recent past and the present by observing, feeling, and expressing through an impartial lens. I’m launching Inside Indian because the Indians have registered their global presence noticeably in almost every country in the world. Media and other information sources serve plenty of news cooked, uncooked, biased or “-ism” oriented about Indians. My intention is to show the real picture of everything about Indian through this exclusive newsletter.
Friedrich Max Müller a German-born philologist and Orientalist
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India”.
Beginning on August 10, I’ll bring you Inside Indian with intelligence and an original description based on available facts to help you better understand Indians.
Mark Twain, an American writer, adventurer and wily social critic.
Known for his novels 'Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.’
"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most artistic materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!"
Albert Einstein (German Physicist)
“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made”.
Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan- Second President of Free India, a great scholar & philosopher
“It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organization that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.”
Will Durant (American Historian, 1885-1981)
“It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier, India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.”
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Swami Vivekanand (Indian Saint Philosopher)
"Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark you, my friends, it has always been with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught, but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live....!"
Keith Bellows (Vice-President, National Geographic Society)
“There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant Technicolor.”
Inside Indian is a Weekly Newsletter for people interested in thinking deeply about one of the world’s oldest countries that had passed through seven hundred and forty-six years of foreign invaders’ regimes. It’s about the interaction between cultural assimilation and transformations that had evolved into new versions after each transition.
Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of Free India