In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families … science and mathematics were held in awe. Aravind Adiga
An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project. Aravind Adiga
At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society. Aravind Adiga
If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn’t notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like. Aravind Adiga, interview The Guardian 2008
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country. Aravind Adiga
In India genetic diversity is much much lower than it should be. [Dr Stephen] Oppenheimer believes some kind of disaster must have struck India’s early settlers. Tony Robinson, Catastrophe V: Survival Earth, Channel 4 2008
By 1,000 B.C. steel is being made in India. Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man 4/13: The Hidden Structure, BBC 1973
Could the strange ruins found in the Indus Valley really contain evidence of an ancient atomic explosion? Ancient Aliens s1e4: Close Encounters, History 2010
Such similarities are not limited to the Greek and Norse myths. In India the ancient epic of the Mahabharata describes visitations from God who possesses the advanced technology of space travel. Ancient Aliens s2e2: Gods & Aliens
But technology was not the only characteristic these ancient deities had in common. According to legends the gods enjoyed intimate relations with humans. If aliens chose human women as their sexual partners, what was their motivations? And what was the outcome of these very close encounters? ibid.
Some of the oldest accounts of gods and humans interbreeding can be found in ancient Hindu texts. ibid.
Off the coast of India – In 2001 researchers from India’s Oceanic Institute detected anomalies on the Gulf of Khambhat. The images revealed an enormous network of stone buildings now shrouded in mud and sand, and covering an area of five square miles. Ancient Aliens s2e3: Underwater World
Some believe a link between the submerged ruins and extraterrestrials can be found in another set of texts known as India’s Sangam literature. ibid.
According to the early Sanskrit texts discovered in India aircraft called Vimana used a similar propulsion system thousands of years ago. Ancient Aliens s2e5: Aliens & the Third Reich
Carved into the wall of sacred Indian temples … Vijayanagara … Vadic literature contain multiple references to flying objects of various shapes and sizes. Ancient Aliens s3e6: Aliens & the Ancient Engineers
8Kerala, India 2001: a cosmic bang, a massive explosion in the atmosphere, and then a downpour of red rain. Ancient Aliens s3e7: Aliens, Plagues & Epidemics
Here in Kashmir there is a totally different story – one that claims that Jesus did not die on the cross but escaped to India. Where he continued his teaching, got married, had a son and lived to a ripe old age. And even that he was buried here. Dr Robert Beckford, The Hidden Story of Jesus, Channel 4 2006
Gandhi’s Jesus was the original charismatic teacher. ibid.
Could the Church in India be older than the one in Rome? Dr Robert Beckford, The Secrets of the Twelve Disciples, 2008
In the year 1887 a book was published in Russia which rocked the Christian world. It was vilified and condemned. It was called The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ. The writer, Nicolas Notovich, was a respected journalist. Notovich claimed his book was a factual report of a trip he made to the Himalayan mountains in remote northern India ... He was shown ancient scrolls which tell the story of a scholar and prophet named Esa. In these secret records Esa is described as a foreigner from a small Mediterranean country. Ring of Power, 2008
I’ve become absolutely convinced that at the age of thirteen Jesus travelled to India ... Jesus survived the crucifixion and moved back to India. Beyond Belief: Jesus in India, Fox 1997
The case for Jesus doing his training in India during the block of eighteen years unaccounted for in the Bible is substantial. ibid.
Jesus was known as Esa. ibid.
There is other evidence of Jesus doing his training in India such as inscriptions with their sayings carved into temple walls and customs and traditions Jesus brought back from India to Palestine. ibid.
There are some thirty manuscripts ... that mention Jesus travelling through those [Eastern] regions. ibid.
The Roman Church burnt and destroyed hundreds of other manuscripts. ibid.
Could Jesus have travelled to India and encountered the teachings of Buddha? Mysteries of the Bible s3e10: The Lost Years of Jesus, National Geographic 2010
Some scholars find striking similarities between Jesus and Buddha. ibid.
In 1887 Notovitch, a Russian journalist, travelled to Hemis, an isolated Buddhist monastery high in the Himalayan mountains of northern India. In his book The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ Notovitch claims that there he was shown secret manuscripts which detailed the life of a wandering prophet named Esa. ibid.
Did Jesus travel to England? And does the cup from the last supper – the Holy Grail – hold the key which could unlock the secrets of his missing years? ibid.
Could this be the tomb of Jesus? Jesus in the Himalayas, Discovery 2001
According to ancient Tibetan scrolls there is a controversial legend that places Jesus’s influence in India much earlier. The legend claims Jesus survived the crucifixion and travelled to India. ibid.
There is another legend that concerns the so-called lost years of Jesus. ibid.
There is a large basis of legendary evidence that talks about Jesus in the Himalayas. ibid.
The authenticated ancient scrolls found at the Hemis monastery near Leh in Kashmir document the life of Saint Esa, leaving home at the age of thirteen, joining a merchant caravan, travelling the silk route, and arriving in India at the age of fourteen ... Esa continued his travels through India and Tibet and the holy cities ... He began teaching, performing miracles, and explaining the holy scriptures in monasteries and market bazaars. As an adult Esa finally left India and Tibet and travelled to Alexandra, Egypt ... That’s where he last saw his mother Cleopatra alive. The Bloodlines of the Illuminati, Who’s Who
One apocryphal text doesn’t stop at Jesus’ childhood; it actually attempts to fill in the blanks of his life between the ages of twelve and thirty. This unusual modern account tells a truly incredible tale: a tale of Jesus’ journey out of Galilee and into the Himalayas. Jesus: The Secret Life
There have even been people convinced that Jesus survived and travelled to mountain kingdoms of Kashmir. Did Jesus Die? commentary Bernard Hill, BBC
Could Jesus have been taken to India as a child and taught to be a priest? ibid.
In his book The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ Notovitch translated this manuscript and it tells of a divine child called Esa, born in the first century to a poor family in Israel. Esa came to India at the age of fourteen where he learned the laws of Buddhism before returning to Israel at the age of 29. ibid.
The later teachings and miracles of Jesus have uncanny parallels with the teachings and miracles of the Buddha. ibid.
India provided Britain with one-and-three-quarter million men in the War. The First World War: Global War 1914-1916, Channel 4 2003
Let’s learn from the English. Who with two hundred and fifty thousand men in all including fifty thousand soldiers governed four hundred million Indians. What India was for England, territories of Russia will be for us. Adolf Hitler, 1941
A great army of servants who catered to the needs of the British in India. Empires: Queen Victoria’s Empire II: Passage to India, PBS 2000
The Great Mutiny had begun. At first it was confined to one area in the north. ibid.
The beleaguered British garrisons held out week after week under constant bombardment. ibid.
India was decisive: it gave Britain the resources, the markets, the manpower and the prestige to build a worldwide empire. Jeremy Paxman, Empire I, BBC 2012
They paid local soldiers to fight for them. ibid.
This protection racket would be repeated all over India. ibid.