“I am not sorry that we notice the barbarous horror of such acts, but I am heartily sorry that, judging their faults rightly, we should be so blind to our own. I think there is more barbarity in eating a man alive than in eating him dead; and in tearing by tortures and the rack a body still full of feeling, in roasting a man bit by bit, in having him bitten and mangled by dogs and swine (as we have not only read but seen within fresh memory, not among ancient enemies, but among neighbors and fellow citizens, and what is worse, on the pretext of piety and religion), than in roasting and eating him after he is dead.”
Nandan Nilekani (2008):"...leaving apart his (Narendra Modi's) Hindutva and all that triumphalism and Gujarat riots and all that, I think, in terms of what he's done on governance, it's remarkable. And I think there's a tendency to ignore that. You know, either you are for him or you are against him... Bush kind of argument. It's not that. I mean, the reforms he has done are exceptional. That's all I'm saying...."
Artist: Paul Noth, The New Yorker, February 9 2009, Cartoon Caption Contest 180
My caption:
“It was Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi who taught me that for collective prosperity of our country an entrepreneur like me should learn to concentrate on the fruit and ignore the skeleton. Therefore, I am for both- the fruit and the skeleton.”