QUOTA of QUOTES
“I have a wife who reminds me with every gesture that the only impulses to trust are the ones that arise without thought.”
– Travel writer Pico Iyer, who lives in Tokyo with his Japanese wife, Hiroko. (New York Times).
“Books are a great place to start
conversations that tell stories of different
perspectives.”
– Author Veera Hiranandani, who recently received the 2018
Malka Penn Award for Human Rights
in Children’s Literature for her book
The Night Diary. (The Daily Campus)
“In the early 2000s, the goal was literally to have Indian-Americans as lawmakers, full stop. The fact of being Indian-American weighed heavily. Now, the fact of being Indian-American is important. However, it’s less and less the deciding factor.”
– Attorney and Democratic donor Anurag Varma, noting that Indian-American voters are more focused on presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ platform than her Indian background.
“It’s important, at a young age, to see a role model who looks like you, especially for kids who want to go into STEM. When people don’t see themselves represented, they think, ‘What’s the point of even trying?”
– Sahana Srinivasan, 22, host of Netflix’s STEM series Brainchild.
“Somebody has to take a stand whenever
something is not being done right, and put
it right. I was proud I did that.”
– Tarsem Singh Sandhu, who in the late 1960s
fought for two years to win the right to
wear a turban while driving city buses in
Wolverhampton, England, now home to
the UK’s second largest Sikh population. (BBC News)
“They (BJP) can use other agencies in order
to bring in virtually a Hindu state: education,
jobs, who is to be employed, control over
the media, for example. It is amazing how
much the middle class has bought this whole
idea of Hindu nationalism without really thinking about it.”
– Historian Romila Thapar, professor emerita at Jawaharlal
Nehru University in New Delhi, on the growing
influence of religion on citizenship rights in India. (NPR)
Compiled and partly written by Indian humorist MELVIN DURAI, author of the novel Bala Takes the Plunge.
[Comments? Contributions? Please email us at melvin@melvindurai.com. We welcome jokes, quotes, online clips, and more.]
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