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“I got fed up of listening to bollocks”

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Jeremy Paxman is a renowned British journalist and television presenter, born on May 11, 1950. Known for his sharp questioning and in-depth investigative reporting, he has hosted several high-profile news programs. more

“You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement.”

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Author:Amitav Ghosh

“If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.”

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Author:Amitav Ghosh

“Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.”

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Author:Arundhati Roy

“Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.”

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Author:Arundhati Roy

“The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.”

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Author:Arundhati Roy

“So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which can be interpreted to mean that we will not honour international obligations. I want to say for the purpose of the record that there is nothing that has been said on behalf of the Government of India which in the slightest degree indicates that the Government of India or the Union of India will dishonour any international obligations it has undertaken.”

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Author:Arundhati Roy

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