The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products but as a technology aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.
Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.
Well first of all we now have everybody with the exception of India Pakistan and Israel and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive in terms of technology.
I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports I wasn't good at anything artsy ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.
Then I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So then I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us the way we moved next door to the American Indians.
In my family as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up science and mathematics were held in awe.
I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians they can act out Will and the Robot.
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
I mean the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.
My great-grandfather was in the army in India and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense broad and enduring relationship.
Sexy in India is not considered positive. But with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena being sexy is an asset.
First take the government of the Indians out of politics second let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third give the Indian the ballot.
To balance China the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy youthful population and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
Like Indiana Jones I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
The greatest problem all around the world today whether in America Japan China Russia India or anywhere else in the world is that people are not in peace. People want peace.
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
If terror groups are to be defeated it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.
Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.