Thinking of heading to India? Or maybe you are already in the middle of a trip. The country is paradise for people who love to click photographs. Obviously these need to find their way to Instagram.
After living my entire life in the country, I’ve collected some pretty amazing India captions and quotes for Instagram.
Yes! Trust me! From the short catchy India captions and quotes to the funny India captions, quotes and puns. I’ve read them, jotted them down and compiled them into one long post so that you have all that you need in one place.
In fact, I’ve even got some incredible India captions and quotes in the mix.
Oh and since it is often super hard to find the perfect quote, I’ve divided them up into sections so you can head right to the India captions and quotes that you need.
So don’t forget to bookmark, pin and save this post because you will need it along your journey.
Oh and incase you aren’t on a trip to India or going to embark on one, this list of India Captions and Quotes for Instagram is going to cause a lot of wanderlust! So consider yourself forewarned.
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India Captions And Quotes For Instagram: Table Of Content
- Short India Captions And Quotes
- Long India Captions And Quotes
- Funny India Captions, Quotes And Puns
- Incredible India Quotes
- Travel India Captions And Quotes
- India Quotes And Captions On Culture
- Indian Food Quotes And Captions
Short India Captions And Quotes
One of the my favorite parts of this post is the Short India Captions and Quotes. This is because though brief they pack a real punch.
Trust me, to get some of these you have to have been in the country. To have walked the crowded miles.
India is India and it is an experience for everyone. Even as a local, I find myself learning new things about it.
Anyways… Here are some epic short India captions and quotes for Instagram.
1. Brb India is calling me.
2. Live your India dream.
3. India made me do it.
4. India is the place for me.
5. Sunsets are better in India.
6. Missing the Mumbai vibe.
7. Mumbai is a special place.
8. India lives in several centuries at the same time. – Arundhati Roy
9. I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country. –J.R.D. Tata
10. Mumbai is the city that never sleeps.
11. The heart of India beats in Mumbai
12. But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else. – E. M. Forster
13. Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself. –Reymond Page
14. Mumbai is like Manhattan. There’s a certain pace, social life, and thrill of a professional life. – Madhuri Dixit
15. Mumbai hides all its blemishes in the night. – Alok Karkera
16. India is not a country, but a home. – Khalid Masood
17. More dreams are realized and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India – Gregory David Roberts
18. India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified. – Erin Reese
19. Everything is recycled in India, even dreams. – Shashi Tharoor
20. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. – Anita Desai
21. India is a place where color is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in. – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
22. The world is the body and India is its life. – Khalid Masood
Long India Captions And Quotes
Sometimes, you can’t really describe the true length and breadth of the country without being verbose. A lot of people have tried.
This is a compilation of Long India Captions and Quotes that bring out the color, the pizzazz and the character of the country.
I’m sure that I have missed out on a few so I would highly appreciate it if you can drop the ones I missed in the comments below.
23. India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay. – Shashi Tharoor
24. Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner.
For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart.
‘Amore’ or ‘Pyar’ makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets. – Gregory David Roberts
25. There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won’t go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colours, smells, tastes, and sounds.
It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolour. – Keith Bellows
26. [India is] the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined. – Mark Twain
27. Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night. – Thoreau
28. I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on Lord Krishna and the cost of living. – James Cameron
29. India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. – Mark Twain
30. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India. – Max Muller
31. If I would be given a chance to rewrite the dictionary, I would flip through the pages so quick and would replace India with the land where beauty is redefined in itself, kindness has been touched, warmth has been spread and emotions have been felt. – Magith Noohukhan
Funny India Captions, Quotes And Puns
These funny India captions and quotes are meant to bring a smile to your face. For many, they often evoke a sense of nostalgia too!
This is because most of the puns center around well loved objects, food and sights that we see when we travel through India or for that matter if you live here.
How many of these funny India captions and quotes that you can resonate with.
32. On a misal.
33. It’s rice to meet you.
34. India is rice.
35. Goan state of mind.
36. Goan to the beach.
37. Long time no sea.
38. Tis the season.
39. Let’s Goa to the seaside.
40. Bangalore idli-ve here.
41. India is the only country wherein the total number of engineers exceeds the number of vehicles on the road. –Nipun Varma
Incredible India Quotes
Have you ever heard the quote ‘Incredible India’. It was a slogan that came up a couple of years ago.
42. In India God is full of gods. –Khalid Masood
43. India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
44. In the countryside, he heard horns and drums and followed the sound to a temple of granite and marble set in a compound that included shrines and incense stalls, people squatting against the walls, beggars, touts, flower-sellers, those who watch over your shoes for a couple of weightless coins. –Don DeLillo
45. We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. – Albert Einstein
46. If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. – Romain Rolland
47. In India, even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different. – Eric Newby
48. When the land of snake charmers begins charming the world, the credit goes to its People, its Youth. – Vivek Narayan Sharma
49. After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. – W. Heisenberg
50. It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. – Will Durant
51. In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood. – Shashi Tharoor
52. India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings. – Will Durant
Travel India Captions And Quotes
Travel India captions and quotes for Instagram are probably the ones that I really use a lot. Of course there are the captions and quotes on individual locations that really come in handy.
Take for example the Goa captions and quotes list that I use every time I head home.
Here are some of my top picks when it comes to Travel India captions and quotes.
53. India is so diverse that the language changes from state to state.
54. You gotta love the colors in every Indian city.
55. From the mountains to the coast, India has so much to explore.
56. Words fail to describe India.
57. India is a land that you just have to keep coming back to explore.
58. You could spend years and yet not cover the whole of India.
59. India is magical!
60. You can’t explore India in a week.
61. Life in India is magical.
62. Falling hard for India.
63. India will get you hooked.
64. Activate your India mode.
65. Good morning India.
66. India makes me uber happy.
67. The country may not be perfect, but India is certainly intriguing.
68. In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world is supposed to work. It can disappear almost as instantaneously. –Jerry Pinto
69. With me and India it’s all about leaving and returning. Madras is home. It’s a very complicated relationship. When you are away too long you get homesick, and when you are there too long you are sick of home. –Tishani Doshi
70. I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realize my good fortune and would never again forget it. –Tahir Shah
71. To me, India’s always represented ‘everything’; it represents ‘all.’ Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you’ll never feel like you’ve missed out on life. – Chris Martin
72. Time spent in India has an extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal. – Tahir Shah
73. To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
74. There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home. – Erin Reese
75. Calcutta’s the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat. – Tahir Shah
76. Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself. – Reymond Page
77. The train system in India is chaotic and fun – it’s the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you’ll never forget. – Natalie Dormer
78. Don’t we each have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for a while? –Elizabeth Gilbert
79. In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough. – Tahir Shah
80. India – a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India – at least in the circles I moved in – it’s natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you move through the world. – Erin Reese
81. The World is my home and India is my living room. I’m independent in my living room to explore, hoping someday I will also be able to explore my own home. – Bikram Mahata
82. In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing. – Apollonius Tyanaeus
83. I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy. – Goldie Hawn
India Captions And Quotes On Culture
If you have traveled through India, you will know that there are numerous cultures that mingle together. This is especially true in the big cities like Mumbai and Delhi.
It is one of the most fascinating things about the country and one that I love about it. That is why I just had to include a section about India Captions And Quotes on culture.
84. India is a cultural melting pot.
85. So many cultures, so many religions. This is India.
86. India is a world in itself.
87. India teaches me again and again, that the categories into which I try to divide things don’t hold up. – Dena Moes
88. You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian. – Amit Kalantri
89. India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country. – Hanadi Falki
90. I am an Indian and we celebrate all festivals in every region of every religion. That is why it is called Incredible India! – Vinayak Muraleedharan
91. It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organization that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history. – Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
Indian Food Quotes And Captions
Food is a big part of our daily lives. In fact, you will find Indian food is popular all across the world. Honestly, these Indian food quotes and captions can be used no matter where you stay!
Gotta love that butter chicken and biryani, right?
I know that I do!
Anyways. Here are some epic Indian food quotes and captions for every instance.
92. Taste the food in India
93. Relish the Indian spice.
94. Once you taste Indian food, you can never go back.
95. Indian food is exotic.
96. Indian cuisine is popular the world over.
97. Indian food is soul food.
98. My new indulgence is Indian food.
99. Indian food is packed with flavor.
100. Indian food may be hot but damn it is good!
101. Even the spices have a story here.
102. Biryani is food for the soul.
103. You haven’t truly tasted food till you’ve spiced it up.
104. Serving up the best curry in the world.
105. The freshest ingredients are the best ingredients.
106. Indian food is comfort food.
107. Indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo. – Shobhaa De
108. If America is a melting-pot, then to me India is a thali, a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different and does not necessarily mix with the next, but they belong together on the same plate, and they complement each other in making the meal a satisfying repast. –Shashi Tharoor
And there you have it! These India captions and quotes are bound to inspire you to travel to India. The only problem is that India is so big, you are bound to need multiple trips actually experience this amazing country!