They said it

They said it”It is true that India has the advantage in software and China has the advantage in hardware‚¦ Cooperation is like two pagodas (temples) ‚ one hardware and one software. Together we can become world leaders.”Chinese premier Wen Jiabao on a visit to Bangalore (April 10)”A person from Gujarat was not allowed to visit the US as he doesn‚t allow religious conversions in his state.”Narendra Modi, Gujarat chief minister (April 18)”Agra was different. Then there was hatred, acrimony, we were killing each other. Today, it‚s friendship and cooperation. I haven‚t come with the same heart. I‚d like to say I have come with a new heart.”President Pervez Musharraf in his interaction with Indian editors in Delhi on April 18 “India‚s present rate of population growth translates into 16 million more Indians every year, rising almost to 18 million a year by 2016. Failure to stabilise the population will have a significant implication for the future of India‚s economy.”N.R. Narayana Murthy, chief mentor of Infosys Technologies in Mumbai (April 18)”Creativity has to be built in the primary schooling of children in the age group of five to 11. That means our present syllabus has to be reduced and the learning process should concentrate on creative lessons and products in classrooms.”President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at the National Bal Shree Awards on April 21″When I joined, I found NCERT had become a director-centric, power-driven organisation. One could act according to one‚s whims. There were no institutional structures, no policy guidelines even for the constitution of the textbook writing teams. We have had to start from scratch and set these up.”Prof. Krishna Kumar, the new NCERT director in The Hindu (April 21)”In the past, Japan, through its colonial rule and aggression, caused tremendous damage and suffering to the people of many countries, particularly to those of Asian nations. Japan squarely faces these facts of history in a spirit of humility.”Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese prime minister, at the Asian-African summit in Jakarta (April 22)”My real programme of governance is not to do my own will, not to pursue my own ideas, but to listen, together with the whole Church to the word and will of the Lord.”Pope Benedict XVI in his inaugural mass in St. Peter‚s Square (April 24) Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp