"As the current administration in Washington deliberately discards decades of moral leadership, we should remind ourselves that
Americans have not changed. The American government has.”
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman,
Forbes Marshall; past president,
Confederation of Indian Industry;
chairman, Centre for Technology
Innovation and Economic Research
and Ananta Aspen Centre, Business
Standard, April 17, 2025
"The freedom ‘to think
the unthinkable, discuss the
unmentionable, and challenge
the unchallengeable’ was
crucial to intellectual inquiry.”
From the 1974 Yale University Woodward commission to conduct a formal inquiry
into ‘the condition of free expression,
peaceful dissent, mutual respect and
tolerance’ on campus, Yale Alumni
Magazine, July/August 2022
"US universities are the envy of
the world. I don’t know a single country, including the UK, Germany, France, that wouldn’t give anything to have a Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley — all the great universities, public and private. And right now, we have a government committed to destroying these
institutions. That’s tragic.”
Daniel Schrag, Harvard scientist,
Sunday Times of India, March 23, 2025
"According to The New England Journal of Medicine, a staggering 88% of physicians in America are likely to be sued by the age of
45, and a jaw-dropping 99%
of them by the age of 65.”
Dr Mazda Turel, practicing neurosurgeon, Wock-
hardt Hospitals, quoting Lok Sabha member
Shashi Tharoor, mid-day, April 13, 2025
"Why build an artificial garden when you are blessed with natural and pristine beauty at the Dahanu beach? Constructions of artificial parks harm the local ecology and also reduce the life of the Casuarina trees as they had exposed their roots while digging a pit to lay a base made of stones and then sealing it with concrete. These decades old trees won’t be able to handle a storm if their roots are exposed. The local creeper plants hold the sand
together better than the concrete.”
Phiroza Tafti, Intach Convenor Dahanu
Chapter, mid-day, April 6, 2025
"Radical reform is ultimately about the courage to strip away the
accrued layers of distraction to recover what has been lost.”
Austen Ivereigh, journalist, on Pope Francis quoted in the Pope’s biography The Great Reformer, The Washington Post, April 21, 2025
"Sticking to a balanced diet with a moderate amount of healthy animal proteins, in fact, outperformed following a more plant-based diet, in terms of healthy aging. The researchers also found that eating more ultra-processed food was linked to worse physical and cognitive health in older age.”
Alex Janin, personal health reporter, citing results of a study that analyzed the health data of more than 1,00,000 people over 30 years, The Wall Street Journal