Quotes
So they say
“Nations do not make their names and their reputations only on their annual growth rates. To make a truly global presence, you have to be seen, to stand for culture and human values.”
Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American literature and language and the director of the Humanities Centre at Harvard University, DNA, January 31, 2011
“He (Dalai Lama) was all praise for the Parsi community, one of whom, Nowrojee, had settled in (Dharamsala) since 1857 and his shop has been a landmark. His regret is that so far he had not visited a Zoroastrian fire temple.”
Soli Sorabjee, former attorney general of India,
The Sunday Express, June 5, 2011
“The Hindus don’t have a single book and certainly not one that sanctions attacks on painters for depicting one or the other goddess and using an imaginary or live model’s form and features to do it. Those who hounded M. F. (Husain) were barking up the wrong walking stick.”
Farrukh Dhondy, author, screenplay writer and columnist based in London, Hindustan Times, June 13, 2011
“We’ve had cases of people who have been stuck (in the Middle East) not just for four and five years, but 18, 20 years. We ask them why they stayed so long and they say they didn’t know what else to do. They tried to leave and found that they could not.”
Mehru Vesuvala, Migrant Workers Protection Society in Bahrain,
Mint, May 19, 2011
“We fought a war with old Chiang (Kai-shek). We fought a war with Japan, and with America. With none of these did we fear. And in each case we won. Now the Indians want to fight a war with us. Naturally, we don’t have fear... Since Nehru sticks his head out and insists on us fighting him, for us not to fight with him would not be friendly enough. Courtesy emphasizes reciprocity.”
Mao Zedong, quoted by Henry Kissinger in his book On China, excerpts reprinted in Hindustan Times, June 4, 2011
“Quiet walks in natural surroundings are the best therapy for our unquiet lives. It is amazing how efficaciously Mother Nature lays her soft caress upon our stressed brows through her wondrous sights
and sounds, and banishes those fretful worries and aches that plague our mundane lives.”
Pervez Cama, trainer with WIPRO, volunteer with the Bombay Natural History Society, Hornbill, January-March, 2011
Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American literature and language and the director of the Humanities Centre at Harvard University, DNA, January 31, 2011
“He (Dalai Lama) was all praise for the Parsi community, one of whom, Nowrojee, had settled in (Dharamsala) since 1857 and his shop has been a landmark. His regret is that so far he had not visited a Zoroastrian fire temple.”
Soli Sorabjee, former attorney general of India,
The Sunday Express, June 5, 2011
“The Hindus don’t have a single book and certainly not one that sanctions attacks on painters for depicting one or the other goddess and using an imaginary or live model’s form and features to do it. Those who hounded M. F. (Husain) were barking up the wrong walking stick.”
Farrukh Dhondy, author, screenplay writer and columnist based in London, Hindustan Times, June 13, 2011
“We’ve had cases of people who have been stuck (in the Middle East) not just for four and five years, but 18, 20 years. We ask them why they stayed so long and they say they didn’t know what else to do. They tried to leave and found that they could not.”
Mehru Vesuvala, Migrant Workers Protection Society in Bahrain,
Mint, May 19, 2011
“We fought a war with old Chiang (Kai-shek). We fought a war with Japan, and with America. With none of these did we fear. And in each case we won. Now the Indians want to fight a war with us. Naturally, we don’t have fear... Since Nehru sticks his head out and insists on us fighting him, for us not to fight with him would not be friendly enough. Courtesy emphasizes reciprocity.”
Mao Zedong, quoted by Henry Kissinger in his book On China, excerpts reprinted in Hindustan Times, June 4, 2011
“Quiet walks in natural surroundings are the best therapy for our unquiet lives. It is amazing how efficaciously Mother Nature lays her soft caress upon our stressed brows through her wondrous sights
and sounds, and banishes those fretful worries and aches that plague our mundane lives.”
Pervez Cama, trainer with WIPRO, volunteer with the Bombay Natural History Society, Hornbill, January-March, 2011
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