QUOTA of QUOTES
“Our fight will continue and we will win, in court and in life. I am proud to be with a party that stands with women and against any injustice.” —Retired wrestler Vinesh Phogat, speaking to reporters in New Delhi after joining the opposition Congress Party, along with fellow wrestler Bajrang Punia. (Reuters)
“First it is normalized, second it is legitimized and third it is valorized. So it is not only normal to do it, but it is good to do it.”—Human rights and peace activist Harsh Mander, on the prevalence of violence against Muslims since Narendra Modi came to power in 2014. (New York Times)
“I realized that as migrants we are only ever our full selves behind closed doors. Either with our family or our close friends is when we bring the Western part of ourselves and the homeland part of ourselves together, and we operate as what we really are. And mostly in public life, we mask.”—Sri Lanka-born playwright S. Shakthidharan, on an insight he gained at the premiere of his play “Counting and Cracking,” a multigenerational saga about a Sri Lankan-Australian family. (New York Times)
“The upside of this is pretty high. Disabled people, including those with degrees from Oxford, struggle to get jobs in India. What our Paralympics triumph will do is that it will open the minds of employers about employing disabled people without any fear.”— Disability rights activist and social entrepreneur Nipun Malhotra, on India’s success at the Paralympic Games. (BBC News)
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Compiled and partly written by Indian humorist MELVIN DURAI, author of the novel Bala Takes the Plunge.
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