“For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.” – A P J Abdul Kalam Arun Shouri (journalist, former minister in the NDA government and an economist with the World Bank), while participating in a recent book launch function attended among others by former Prime Minister Manmohan […]
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“Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another, they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential… Yet they need not remain in that state…They can each perform the greatest miracle in […]
“The idea that a country or a people could somehow be ordained by heaven to commit unspeakable acts in God’s name is insane. Unfortunately, history is full of inhuman acts by religious leaders in the name of their dogma or holy war.” – Zain Winter Introduction On September 11, 2001, nineteen Islamic terrorists boarded four […]
“Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.” – St. Cyprian (200 AD – 258 AD) Introduction Auschwitz, the death camp set up in Poland by the Nazis during World War-II (1939-1945), is considered the largest mass murder site in human history. Precise number […]
“People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky Introduction The Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Persians were among the greatest empires of the ancient world. […]
“I think it’s perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don’t know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it is because he is ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance […]
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” ― Benjamin Franklin Friday, May 22, 1987 had begun as an uneventful day for the residents of Hashimpura, then a sleepy hamlet on the outskirts of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. This village then had some 600 families, mostly Muslim, living […]
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” – Elie Wiesel Sunday, July 10, 2010. The tim e was around nine in the morning. The Professor was returning home in a car after attending an early morning service at a church […]
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt He had hailed from Dausa in Rajasthan. Some say he was a poor farmer. Others say that he was quite […]
“Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better”. Martin Luther King Jr. Controversy has erupted over the decision of the Hon Chief Justice of India (CJI) to […]
