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Sunday, February 05, 2012

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Sharp Quotes
By D-Sector Editorial Team

Interesting, profound or out of the box comments on various issues.

"The night shelters in Delhi are male and adult oriented. Elders bully children and ask them to do their work."

- Sanjay Gupta, Convenor, Bal Adhikar Abhiyan, an NGO working for welfare of the homeless children

"Many people in India, particularly the elitist classes, still think 'Grow now, clean later.' We cannot repeat the mistakes of other countries."

- Jairam Ramesh, Environment Minister of India

"The grand bargain at Copenhagen was President Obama telling the four heads of state: do you agree on transparency in return for money which can start flowing to vulnerable countries? The question is: has the money started flowing? and the answer is clearly no."

- Jairam Ramesh, Environment Minister of India

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Recession-free industry!

From halwai to broker and from politician to banker, everyone is investing in up-market schools, coaching institutions and hi-tech universities. Not for any innate desire to educate the masses but more because it offers a business opportunity in the only recession-free industry of its kind. From what was considered a pious philanthropic initiative, education has been reduced to an unethical profitable business. Watch out, foreign direct investment in education is round the corner!

Attractive infrastructure, overseas affiliations and assured placements are robbing the parents of their hard-earned money and the wards of their creative instincts. Lifelong savings are being invested on ‘degrees’ that can ensure quick-return-on-investment. Far from places for attaining knowledge and enlightenment, educational institutions have turned into assembly-lines for producing human clones. Can business of education really 'educate' society?

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Choice or 'sperm racism'?

By seeking sperm for artificial insemination 'preferably from an IIT student', a Chennai couple has not only put Darwin's 'evolutionary ideas' to test but has demonstrated the impact of free-market economy on 'procreation' as well. The couple has apparently weighed the inbuilt architecture of sperm over other aspects of human evolution. Culture as a form of evolution, for instance, has been compromised for 'the choice of sperm'.

Charles Darwin was against ranking any species or sub-species superior to others, opposing his fellow biologist Ernst Haeckel's flatly incorrect racist ideas of human development. To the father of evolution, any such ranking smelled of 'slavery'. Humans have triumphed over centuries for not being born to a specific sperm but for the rich interactions it has had with other species, Darwin had argued. Sperm racism is clearly uncalled for!

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Lead View
Leave the adivasi alone!
By Narendra Bastar
30 Jan 2012

The poor adivasi is suffering more in Independent India than ever. But the government, civil society, corporates or Maoists, every group has its own agenda and vested interests to fulfil at ..