We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.
I don't like this romanticization of Indian people in which Indian people are looked at as spiritual saviors, as people who have always taken care of the land. We're human beings. But I think different cultures have developed different aspects of humanness.
In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
I am a Hindu, brought up mostly in India.
It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived.
I am an Indian to the core.
My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
The Indian is a human being.
I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.