They said it in October

They said it in October”The kind of corruption the ordinary person faces in India is something that is not even recognised in the developed countries.”R.H. Tahiliani, chairman of Transparency International India”You can‚t have both a big paycheck and reasonable hours. The laws of economics won‚t allow it.” Keith Hammonds, deputy editor of Fast Company, Denmark”Hitler lent dignity and prestige to the German government within a short time by establishing a strong administrative set up. He created the vast state of Germany‚¦ Hitler discarded the Treaty of Versailles by calling it ‚Ëœjust a piece of paper‚ and stopped paying the war penalty. This instilled the spirit of adventure in the common people.”A class VIII history textbook of the Gujarat State Board”Indians are deliberately not reminded of it in their history textbooks, but there is a most shameful episode in Communist history of India. These fellows have to explain why they sided with the British during the Quit India movement.”TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan in the Business Standard (October 16/17)”There are more speakers of English in India than there are in Britain and America combined.”Prof. David Crystal in an interview with The Hindu (October 17)”When I write I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature‚s side.”Elefriede Jelenik, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, 2004″There is now that awakening among the younger Muslim generation to really stand on their feet, to harness their own talents.”Dr. Rafiz Zarkaria, educationist, author and academic”In the late 1990s, when about two million north Koreans starved to death, their Dear Leader ‚ as Kim Jong Il is known ‚ sent his personal chef to Tokyo to buy fresh sushi, to Tehran to buy caviar, to Copenhagen for gourmet bacon and to Paris for the finest wines and cognac.”James Brooke in The New York Times (October 23)”When we walk out of our house and step into our car, roll up the windows and switch on the air conditioner, we see the world outside, the poverty and the slums. We go through the wretched roads and see the polluted environment of Bangalore and feel less of a human being than we are. Our confidence is taken away. We have truly low-class leaders.”N.R. Narayana Murthy, chairman of Infosys Technologies Ltd Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp