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Interesting, out of the box comments on issues concerning development by renowned persons and domain experts.
 
"Now they (Maoists) can bring many sectors of Indian economy to their knees. But they don't want to do it today. They know that if they do that now, the state will come very hard. They are not fully prepared to face the onslaught of the state machinery. So, they would rather go very slowly."
- G K Pillai, Home Secretary, Government of India
 
 

"We've gotten to the point where food products have more rights than we do as individuals. Corporations are getting too much power. Their only interest is profit. That profit is leading our society to a bad place. The similarities to what happened in the financial meltdown are all too frighteningly similar. "
- Robert Kenner on the American food industry. Kenner is the director of Oscar-nominated Food Inc.
 
 

"After all, it is the public who has to consume it, not the government. The risks and benefits should be carefully evaluated."
- Agriculture scientist and Rajya Sabha member M.S. Swaminathan on Bt Brinjal
 
 

"For those promoting GM food, science is God and scientists the priests that negotiate with God on behalf of mankind."
- Claude Alvares, renowned Development Philosophy Critic and writer
 
 

"Nearly 1000 U.S. soldiers have died (in Afghanistan). And for what? Hundreds of billions spent. And for what? To make Afghanistan safe for crooks, drug dealers and crony capitalism? "
- Dennis Kucinich, US Congressman (D-OH)
 
 

"Swapping genes between organisms can produce unknown toxic effects and allergies that are most likely to affect children."
- Vyvyan Howard, expert in infant toxico-pathology at Liverpool University Hospital, United Kingdom.
 
 

"In Bollywood, people rise only when they're in trouble. ShahRukh stood up for himself. Why didn't the body of film producers that he is part of, stand up for him too? "
- Sudhir Mishra, Indian Film Director
 
 

 
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