Indian Customs Quotes

My best friend, who I grew up with in Paris, is Indian. So, I've grown up listening to a lot of Bollywood songs and watching a lot of Bollywood movies, old and new.

Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.

Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.

Ultimately, my connection to my Indian-ness comes back to my mom and dad. They would all tell me and my siblings stories about their life in India, so it was very close to my two brothers and my sister and I.

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

The thing about India is that even if the economic backgrounds are different, the cultural background is the same. Somebody who is working as a tailor will also tie a black thread around his kid's wrist; so will somebody in Bollywood. That's the fun of being Indian.

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually.

Learning Indian mannerisms, how to wear saris, and the language were a challenge.

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

I'm really into reading books right now about India. You reach a certain age where you start missing your home history.

I am very much of an Indian by heart.

Calcutta is like another world. People there are very special and grateful.

I don't have much knowledge about Indian culture, but I try to keep a tab of what's happening down here.

I went to India, lived, and studied.

I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.

I'm Indian and proudly so.

India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

One important thing I recall about India was that it was quiet. It was never noisy in the way that life was noisy in London.

As my parents are from India, I am told a lot of positive things about the country, the culture and traditions of Muslims in India. I don't remember anything nasty told to me by my parents.

I have an Indian father, and when you grow up in a house with an Indian father, culturally, that's what becomes dominant in the house. So that's the tradition we grew up with.

I'm Punjabi and speak Punjabi fluently and know all the Indian customs and everything.