Priyanka Anand

“Nature is the one thing for which there is no substitute!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“The combination of internal controls and international protectionism gave India a distorted economy, underproductive and grossly inefficient, making too few goods, of too low a quality, at too high a price. The resultant stagnation led to snide comments about what Indian economist Raj Krishna called the “Hindu rate of growth,” which averaged some 3.5 percent in the first three decades after independence (or, to be more exact, between 1950 and 1980) when other countries in Southeast Asia were growing at 8 to 15 percent or even more.”
― Shashi Tharoor, India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond

“According to Abdul Kalam Azad, ‘It is one of the greatest frauds on the people to suggest that religious affinity can unite areas which are geographically, economically, linguistically and culturally different.”
― Taslima Nasrin, Lajja

“How easily men could make things much better than they are – if they only all tried together!’ Winston Churchill, 1909”
― Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens