"If there is no timely international
intervention, then Nawaz Sharif might end up the way Zulfikar Ali Bhutto did."
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, prime minister, at the CHOGM meet in Durban
"We must have a judicial commission for
disciplining judges."
Soli J Sorabjee, attorney-general of India, in an interview to a private news
channel
"If I cannot keep my people happy and pull
them out of the sad situation, I have no right to stay."
Farooq Abdullah, J & K chief minister, threatening to resign if the
Centre did not help the state
"We are not fire-fighting any more. This
really is the time for action."
Bimal Jalan, RBI governor, saying the country's economic situation was ripe
for carrying out fundamental reforms
"It is likely that the vast population of
India and other developing countries harbours more than a few geniuses, possibility future
Faradays and Newtons."
C N R Rao, eminent scientist, in an editorial in Science magazine |