"Stupidity isn’t a crime. In fact, it’s a defence. Evil intent is necessary
in criminal law. If you’re stupid,
how did you have intent?”
Lloyd Blankfein, former chief
executive, Goldman Sachs,
FTWeekend, February 22-23, 2020
"Some of the drugs in current
use are likely to end up doing more harm than good. Now, more than ever, let us not abandon the
primary Hippocratic injunction of Medicine: ‘primum non nocere’
— first, do no harm.”
Dr Zarir F. Udwadia, consultant chest physician, P. D. Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Bombay and Dr Satchit Balsari, assistant professor in Emergency Medicine and in Global Health at Harvard University’s medical and public health schools, The Indian Express, July 11, 2020
"If you’re formally employed,
you have complete protection... that covers maybe 10-15%
of the total workforce. And if
you’re in the 85% that’s
informally employed, you have pretty well no protection.”
Naushad Forbes, chairman, Forbes Marshall, past president, Confederation of Indian Industry, chairman of Centre for Technology Innovation and Economic Research and Ananta Aspen Centre, on functioning during the pandemic, Business Standard, May 21, 2020
"My learning from this global
crisis is to never take our freedom for granted. Also, we should
respect the resources we have more. Today, we are feeling
grateful even for basic supplies, things we had taken for granted
till now. The pandemic has changed our perspective towards everything — life, relationships
and the value of money.”
Boman Irani, actor, The Times of India, June 3, 2020
"If anyone believes that attempts to browbeat the few courageous retired judges, the innumerable lawyers, the press and others
(who took up the cause of the
migrants) so that they forsake
their right to comment, criticize
and protest, whether it be over
the government’s mismanage-
ment and callous disregard for millions of poor migrants or the Supreme Court’s inaction, or
the conduct of BCI (Bar Council
of India) itself, they are sadly
mistaken. These people are
not going to be deterred
by press releases!”
Navroz Seervai, senior advocate,
The Indian Express, June 5, 2020
"The three-language formula
in the NEP (National Education Policy) also says any three as
long as two are Indian. The
implication is that English is
foreign... In India, we have
variants from north to south,
east to west, from King’s
English to Singh’s English.”
Shekhar Gupta, columnist, Business
Standard with arrangement with
ThePrint, August 1, 2020