"India has ignored American
and European entreaties not
to buy Russian oil, framing its
purchases of discounted Russian crude as a necessity at a time
of rising food and fuel prices — even as Ukraine’s top diplomat said ‘the discount has to be
paid by Ukrainian blood.’”
nyt.com, September 16, 2022
"The development of safe,
effective vaccines for a novel
virus like SarsCoV2 in less than a year will go down as one of the most impressive feats in the
history of modern science.”
Adar Poonawalla, chief executive
officer, Serum Institute of India, Financial Express, September 17, 2022
"The reason India grew more
rapidly in the 1990s and 2000s
is because we misallocated
resources less badly.”
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo,
Nobel Prize winners in economics
cited by Naushad Forbes in his
book, The Struggle And The Promise,
Harper Business, 2022
"Will 10 Browning Street ever
happen, Sunak or later?”
Bachi Karkaria, columnist, The Times
of India, September 8, 2022
"The whole world is in revolt. Soon
there will be only five Kings left — the Kind of England, the King of Spades, the King of Clubs, the King of Hearts and the King
of Diamonds.”
King Farouk, Egyptian monarch,
Farouk — Oxford Reference,
oxfordreference.com
"India has no laws prohibiting
minorities from holding political
office, but it is not needed. We have no Muslim chief minister, union cabinet minister, ruling
party MP (Member of Parliament) or BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) MLA (Member of Legislative
Assembly). Whether the exclusion is through law, as in Pakistan, or in practice, as it is in India under
BJP, the exclusion is real.”
Aakar Patel, chair, Amnesty
International India, Business Standard, September 9, 2022
"Alcohol is not good for your health and for those who consume
alcohol, drinking less is better.”
Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction proposed guideline on alcohol consumption, nyt.com, September 3, 2022
"Imagine how nervous someone may be appearing in a U.S.
courtroom where English is not their first language. Now imagine that appearance is in a case where the person’s liberty is at stake
in terms of a criminal case, or
their being able to be with
their children in a family law or dependency case.”
Firdaus F. Dordi, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, Valley Lawyer, July 2022