For, after all, let a woman be ever so good, – and you to me are all that is good, – a man should not allow his love to dominate his intellect. Source: Anthony Trollope in The Way We Live Now, p.121 Ha , ha, ha. Easier said than done. Since times immemorial, men in […]
It’s indeed a pity that life is not cricket. If it were, we’d not have seen the festering wounds of an ignorant war. – Sri Lankan cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara, some 31-minutes into his 2011 MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture at Lord’s on July 4, 2011 We’ve always known, and indeed written on the […]
The disease of MSM (men having sex with men) is unnatural and not good for Indian society. – Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Source: Times of India Listen, Gandu Nabi Azad, what’s your problem, what’s society’s problem with what a man does with another man in private. Whether two men in the privacy of […]
Poor countries are poor not because they lack resources, but because they lack effective political institutions. – Francis Fukuyama in The Origins of Political Order p.14 It’s hard to dispute the above point, at least in the case of India. Despite the burgeoning population, India has plenty of resources. Certainly, enough to feed its 1.2 […]
Is there any way I can bribe the judge?…because in my country [India], you know, we normally do that. – Mahaveer Kankariya, a New York City diamond trader, speaking to a bail bondsman during his trial. When he was out on bail, Kankariya also asked about removing his electronic monitoring ankle bracelet. Kankariya along with […]
[H]owever different an ape may fancy he is, the glory of the ape is that as he is now so he always has been, unchangeable and unchanged. – Higher Apes in the upper branches in The Ape p.284 from V.S. Pritchett Complete Collected Stories We’ve read many short stories in a long life but The […]