If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Golden Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. read more

• Thought Ugly Unhappy World Richest Man Purchase Nothing Ugliness Unhappiness

Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner. read more

• Thought Some Folks They Grow Older Wise Most Simply Stubborner

There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. read more

• Thought World Two Opinions Alike More Hairs Grains Most Universal Quality Diversity

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes. read more

• Thought Poetry Life Got Work Done Pure Product Free Labor Man Performed Put World Under Feet Conquered Last Foes

A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards! read more

• Thought Country Which Prefers Guns Flowers Live Beauty Its Graveyards

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I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India. read more

• Times About Up Life Lead Sometimes They Go by Day Way Help Grow India Quite Naturally Possibly Lands Amazed Beard Controversy

The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back. read more

• Things Body How Something Ways Which Been Happening Amount Became Remarkable Wonder Reacted Religious

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round. read more

• Up Round Believe from Way Ideas Society Picks

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood. read more

• Say Dance Many Do Good Ways Our Need Bit Perform Able Demands Action Forms Emotional Stories Indian Greater Singing Film Comedy

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant. read more

• What Our Art Forgotten Used Great Had Seem Silence Using Films Emotions Advantage Brilliant Mastered Film Convey