India stands as an eloquent refutation of all those who argue that democratic institutions are not equal to the task of dealing with today's problems or are irrelevant to the needs of today's developing world. -President Ronald Reagan (welcome remarks in honor of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her state visit), Washington, D.C., 1982.
Every encounter between the peoples of the United States and India is an essay in understanding. -Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Washington, D.C., 1985. During his visit, Rajiv Gandhi, here seen with President Reagan, formally inaugurated the Festival of India in America.
While we are in the process of building up a nation-state in India, you have already built up one that towers over the world today. It is, therefore, just and proper that we should carryon a constant dialogue on the nature and the deeper purposes of the nation-state and where it is going. -President Zakir Husain, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1967.
Whenever I have come here I have been deeply impressed not only by the magnificent achievements of this great country but, if I may say so, even more so by the good will and friendship which I met everywhere here. -Jawaharlal Nehru (with President John F. Kennedy, top), Washington, D.C., 1961.
Dr. Har Gobind Khorana became the first Indian American to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1968. Later, the feat was repeated by Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983.
When I was young, and writing from India, I embraced the gift of each day. Each day was filled with sound and movement, with thought and action, with a delighted awareness of the present, hope for the future and the sense of the rolling of history. I did not go to India in search of my soul, but just to be a foreign correspondent. But somehow from the beginning, I understood in India, as never before, that virtue lies in rushing toward each day with its joys and ...even its pain, and that the only real sin is demeaning God's gift of each day by turning away. How India taught me this I cannot entirely say. But when I think of my four reporting years there, I see myself surrounded by people and motion arid color and joys and horrors and kindly friends, by heat, rain, the scent of dung and of the marigold ... elegance, decay .... I thought, well, if back someday .. .it it won't be so full and I will be older
I ever come will be different, of zest; India and drier.
But I did go back, a half-dozen journeys, after I had lost, for long periods, the virtue of joy in the day, and each time I found that India and I were both young again, together. -A.M. Rosenthal
In the world of Western classical music, Zubin Mehta (right below) has won international fame, first as conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and now of the New York Philharmonic. During his 1974 India visit, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger signed an agreement with External Affairs Minister YB. Chavan, setting up the Indo-U.S. Joint Commission that has played a vital role in furthering bilateral cooperation in many areas.
Rosenthal,
former managing editor of
The New York Times, was the newspaper's correspondent in India during 1'954-58.