"The best way to predict the
future is to create it.”
Abraham Lincoln, former U.S. President, Inspirational Quote, October 2022
"Someone not looking you in
the eye while they are testifying, might be based on their
culture, as opposed to them
not telling the truth.”
Firdaus F. Dordi, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, Valley Lawyer, July 2022
"Some over-reaching government media advisers assume that it is the duty of journalists to reproduce whatever is fed to them by official sources... They interpret the term news ‘reporter’ very literally.
Someone who simply takes
notes from the information
provided by official channels.”
Coomi Kapoor, consulting editor,
The Indian Express, August 6, 2022
"In the West, almost nobody
has elective surgery in the last week of December. In India,
hospitals see a drop in routine surgical admissions around
Diwali — but injuries related to
the festival make up for those.”
Dr Mazda Turel, practicing
neurosurgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals
and Honorary Assistant Professor
of Neurosurgery, Grant Medical
College and Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals,
sunday mid-day, June 26, 2021
"As a mountaineer, I know
Matheran like the proverbial back of my hand. I have trekked through a myriad routes. Today as I go up the valley and to the hill, I see plates, bottles, garbage tossed over by visitors.”
Dr Rohinton Mehta, co-author,
Matheran: A Mountaineering Manual,
mid-day, July 29, 2022
"Between 2004 and 2014, under the Congress, the Enforcement
Directorate had carried out 112 raids. But between 2014 and 2022, there have been 3,010 raids
under the Bharatiya Janata
Party — a 27-fold increase.”
Scroll.in, July 28, 2022
"These two states (Uttar Pradesh and Bihar) which determine who rules India, might have more people in extreme poverty than all of sub-Saharan Africa together. And on most social indicators,
it is a lot of poor, and poorly
governed people.”
Shekhar Gupta, columnist, Business
Standard, by special arrangement with
ThePrint, June 5, 2021
"Their women, when young,
are really handsome; but after the age of 16 they become gross in appearance, and a few years
make them corpulent and
waddling in their gait.”
The Parsis Or Modern Zerdusthians:
A Sketch (1852) by Henry George
Briggs, reprinted by Kessinger Publishing Legacy Reprints (2009)