I could see that he enjoyed putting me in the know, because there is a freight of detail in Indian life – an ever-present cargo of dogma, of strictures, of lessons, of distinctions – that turns Indians into monologuers. Their motive seemed pedantic, not to convert you but to exaggerate how little you knew of […]
This is not a ‘Hand [Congress symbol].’ It is the power of the ‘Lotus [BJP symbol].’ It will cut the head of Muslims…Jai Shri Ram. – Hindu bigot and BJP MP Varun Gandhi, in a campaign speech at Pilibhit. Sources: YouTube Link Times of India
News is what somebody somewhere is trying to suppress. The rest is advertising. – Lord Northcliffe, cited in New Yorker, March 9, 2009 P.21 Sadly, the news business is in dire straits in America these days. Every other day, it seems like a newspaper is folding in the U.S. The 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News shut […]
Who loves not wine, woman, and song, Remains a fool his whole life long. – Martin Luther (German religious leader)
At times, I feel, we, the Indians, are bastard sons of God and Satan, acquiring the best of Satan and the worst of God… – Araj (a reader of the SearchIndia.com blog)
The systemic impediments include both the legacy of racism and dramatic economic changes that have fallen with disproportionate severity on poor blacks. ….Today many ghetto residents have almost no contact with mainstream American society or the normal job market. As a result, they have developed distinctive and often dysfunctional social norms. The work ethic, investment […]