"The beef ban, ‘love jihad’ laws and the degrading of protestors mark a new and sinister trend of state policy of de-fraternization. The politics of majoritarianism is built on de-fraternization of minority sections of society — Muslim, Dalit, liberated women, activists,
socialists and intellectuals.”
Darius J. Khambata, senior lawyer,
Bombay High Court, former additional
solicitor-general of India and former
advocate-general, Maharashtra, The
Indian Express, January 26, 2021
"First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered...”
Irish statesman Edmund Burke quoted by Dushyant Dave, senior advocate, Supreme Court of India, former president, Supreme Court Bar Association, The Indian Express,
February 4. 2021
"I don’t want to do comedy just to be a filler somewhere. I don’t want to be the space between two powerful scenes, I want to do those powerful scenes. I want to
explore more as an actor.”
Delnaaz Irani, actor, The Times of
India, February 1, 2021
"There were strict protocols in place for everybody, and the support staff made sure we followed these. But once we were at the circuit, it was just like any other racing weekend, except for the fact that there were no spectators.”
Jehan Daruvala, the first Indian to
win an F2 race, on racing during the
pandemic, The Economic Times,
January 8, 2021
"(Mohammad Ali) Jinnah once ridiculed (Mahatma) Gandhi and (Jawaharlal) Nehru’s populist antics of going to jail, and thereby finding the time to write autobiographies to justify and glorify their own selves, which both of them had done... History missed Jinnah’s own version of his life story.”
Quoted from Ruttie Jinnah, The Woman who
Stood Defiant by Saad S. Khan with Sara S.
Khan, Penguin Random House, 2020
"A single Chinese firm, Huawei, invests twice as much in R&D (research and development) ($15 billion) as every firm together in Indian industry ($7 billion).
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, December 1, 2020
"You cannot use force against the Sikhs. To put it more rudely, you can’t treat them like Muslims. And you can’t question their patriotism.”
Shekhar Gupta, columnist, on the government
action against the agitating farmers from
Punjab, Business Standard with arrangement
with ThePrint, January 23, 2021