"Over the last two decades,
countries like Turkey, Hungary,
Venezuela and India have given the world a lesson on how democracy can erode into ‘competitive
authoritarianism’ — a system in which elections are still meaningful, but leaders manipulate the rules to their own benefit while systematically violating civil liberties.”
Amanda Taub, former human rights lawyer, The New York Times, March 29, 2025
"US President Donald Trump
appears to have forgotten that Americans fought the Revolutionary War to secure their independence from the British monarchy and establish a government of laws, not of men, so that Americans would never again be subject to the whims of a tyrannical king. As Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense in 1776,
‘In America the law is king. For as
in absolute governments the king
is law, so in free countries the
law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.’”
J. Michael Luttig, former judge, The New
York Times, March 23, 2025
"The United States had never
in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely
even made a point of
condemning it as it occurred.”
A Problem From Hell: America And The
Age Of Genocide, Samantha Power,
(William Collins, 2021)
"People do have frailties or
failings which are shown in the
book (Murder at the Racecourse). About the negative aspects of racing, I say there are honest and not so honest people in all professions.”
Berjis Desai, lawyer and author, Murder at
the Racecourse, mid-day, March 18, 2025
"With all these global conflicts and racial tensions, The International Psychoanalytic Association is
focusing on couple and family
therapy as a unit now rather
than just individual therapy.”
Minnie Dastur, senior training analyst,
Indian Psychoanalytical Society, The
Times of India, September 22, 2024
"Despite the sharp rise in
gender-based violence cases,
only a small percentage of women officers are at ranks qualified
to take statements — 80% of
women police personnel are
in the constabulary.”
Maja Daruwala, chief editor, India Justice Report and senior advisor, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, The Indian
Express, September 20, 2024
"Autocratic governments direct government resources to a narrow circle of supporters to remain in power. The practice rewards loyalty, but the broader population bristles at favoritism and corruption.”
Marcel Dirsus, political scientist and author, How Tyrants Fall, Mint, December 27, 2024