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Blogging is not about me, and it’s not about you either. Blogging is about engaging with each other.
Jeremy David

“My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a ‘lone traveler’ and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; [...]

I can say with confidence that neither the Pakistan Army nor any of the past governments of Pakistan was ever involved or had any knowledge of A Q’s proliferation activities.’

Pervez Musharraf, in his book In the Line of Fire.

Maybe we need to move away from national loyalties, which can lead to ethnic chauvinism, and move towards urban and metropolitan loyalties, which put a premium on active tolerance and deliberate cosmopolitanism.
Dr Arjun Appadurai in an interview to Rediff.

The tragedy of the subcontinent is not that we sell ourselves. Everybody has a price, and it’s not always money.
The tragedy is that we sell ourselves to the lowest bidder.

Ayaz Amir, a noted Pakistani columnist, while speaking to Ramananda Sengupta

Israel is acting with tremendous restraint, were they targeting civilian populations there would be thousands upon thousands dead — Steve Gross, US
BBC
380 Lebanese killed in two weeks is after all a meager number ain’t it?

If you value your comfort and security more than you value your freedom, then you will surely lose both.
Benjamin Franklin

When we set up our call centers, we drop the subtlety entirely and start accent classes to teach our young people to abandon the speech patterns of our own society and to migrate to a virtual, linguistic middle America, where they become impersonators of people they will never meet and never know.
But within India, we [...]

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
Mahatma Gandhi