“Second chances also pave the way for innovation and creativity. The history of human progress is punctuated by countless stories of visionaries who faced initial setbacks but later triumphed.”
Srinath Sridharan, author & Steve Correa, corporate advisor (Business World, September 23)
“In nearly six decades of general elections after independence, the ratio of women MPs never even touched 10 percent. We crossed that mark only in 2009. And gender parity is still a pipe dream in the states. Currently, women MLAs account for a mere 7 percent of the 4,000-plus assembly seats in India. For a representative democracy, this can only count as the deepest failure. This bill addresses that squarely.”
Aroon Purie, Editor on the passing of the Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament (India Today, October 2)
“Coal is likely to play a role for the next two decades, given the current project development pipelines and the cost of alternatives.”
Karthik Ganesan, fellow and director, research coordination, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (Mint, October 3)
“The issue that will be decided is whether Generative AI models have the right to scrape content on the internet without permission and then generate fresh content by training on content created by humans without obtaining their permission or paying them anything.”
Prosenjit Datta, founder of Prosaic View, an editorial consultancy (Business Standard, October 3)
“In his heart there was a farmer. The success of his works is not restricted to their academic excellence; it lies in the impact they have had outside the laboratories, in the farms and the fields. His work narrowed the gap between scientific knowledge and its practical application.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a tribute to M.S. Swaminathan, India’s pioneer agriculture scientist who died on September 28 (Times of India, October 7)
