"If the question is, do we have a chance of eradicting this virus from humans? The answer is, no. The current tools are not good enough.”
Bill Gates, co-chair, Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, The Economic
Times, May 2, 2022
"A scientist aims at generating new ideas or knowledge. Utility may
result from a scientific discovery, but that’s not the purpose of
science. Similarly, research aims
at generating new knowledge.
Development aims at developing
a new product or service.”
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, May 31, 2022
"Vegans do not eat or use any thing derived from any living
creature. Therefore no flesh,
eggs, milk, honey, varakh,
chuna, shellac, etc. Rest assured
it is not about limiting our food choices but increasing the
varieties of fruits, nuts, vegetables and grains we eat, and about
making healthy choices.”
Khurshid Bhathena, trustee and honorary secretary, Beauty Without Cruelty-India,
Compassionate Friend, Summer 2022
"In about a month’s time, the
BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party),
the self-proclaimed ‘largest
political party in the world,’ will cease to have a single Muslim Member of Parliament (MP) in either the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha. And that’s not all — the party has zero Muslim MLAs (Members of the Legislative
Assembly) in all 31 states
and Union Territories.”
Mahua Moitra, Trinamool Congress MP, The Indian Express, June 10, 2022
"Labor shortages are not just
for conventional reasons like
workmen falling ill, leaving for
vacations never to return, (etc). When it is about a crematorium,
it is also about superstition.
The laborers used to simply
run away from the crematorium
as there is that mentality that
one should be brought to this
place only when dead.”
Dr Ramnik and Dr Bharat
Parekh, who have initiated the
Rs 40 crore Antim Prasthan
project to revamp the Worli
crematorium, mid-day, May 27, 2022
"I come from a showbiz family.
My mum (Uma Pocha) is a
singer, so is my aunt (Usha
Uthup). As a rebel, I studied
physics so that I could get as far away from that world. Eventually my dreams dragged me back.”
Adi Pocha, writer-director-ad filmmaker, sunday mid-day, May 22, 2022