This is cowardly act of terrorist nature. We will deal with it. We will never succumb to the pressure of terrorism, – Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after the latest Terrorist Attack in India Just as night follows day, terrorists continue to strike in India with impunity. In the latest incident, terrorists struck at the […]
There is scarcely any man who would not rather accuse himself of great crimes and of dark and tempestuous passions than proclaim all his little vanities and wild fancies. It would be easier to find a person who would avow actions like those of Caesar Borgia, or Danton, than one who would publish a daydream […]
It is pleasant not to be despised in one’s own country. – French writer Voltaire after the success of his play Zaïre Source: Voltaire by Ian Davidson, p.85 But what is our country? India? America? Both? Neither? Who can tell where the loyalties of a wanderer’s heart lie? Not even the wanderer. Related Posts: Zaïre
What makes HP TouchPad a compelling alternative to competing products is webOS. – Jon Rubinstein, senior vice president and general manager, Palm Global Business Unit, HP (June 9, 2011 On August 18, HP killed the webOS-based TouchPad after a horrible market reception to the tablet. Related Stories: Non-iPad Tablets Should Roll Over & Die It’s […]
I have long enough been the whore of the nobility. From now on I shall be the whore of the rabble. – Griet Reyniers aka Grietje Reyniers, one of the first known hookers of modern America, some time in the 1630s. Griet Reyniers, one of the little birds of the night, is said to have […]
The horror of every agony is in its anticipation. – Anthony Trollope in The Way We Live Now, p.245 When you promise a lady you’re gonna marry her, shouldn’t you head for the altar even if ‘wild-cat’ she turns out to be?