No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt in the essay The Indian Jugglers p.134 in Hazlitt: Selected Essays, edited by George Sampson (Cambridge University Press, 1963)
[Michael] Jackson is a great artist, and we must accept him as an artist. His movements are terrific. Not many people can dance that way. You will end up breaking your bones…And, well what is culture? He represents certain values in America, which India should not have any qualms in accepting. We would like to […]
Every entrepreneur is a Steve Jobs wannabe. I was as guilty of that as anybody. – Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on his abandoned attempts to build a hardware box to let subscribers watch movies online. (By the way, one of the conference rooms in Netflix’ headquarters is called Paheli, after the Shahrukh Khan-Rani Mukerji Bollywood […]
India is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Source: U.S. State Department Trafficking in Persons Report 2009.
Who would have thought that America’s largest state [California], a state whose economy is larger than that of all but a few nations, could so easily become a banana republic? – Nobel Laureate and Princeton University economist Paul Krugman, writing in the New York Times, May 25, 2009. The state of California stands on the […]
Women judge of books as they do of fashions or complexions, which are admired only ‘in their newest gloss.’ That is not my way. – William Hazlitt in the essay On Reading Old Books P.60 in Hazlitt: Selected Essays, edited by George Sampson (Cambridge University Press, 1963)