“With three workdays a week, we would have more time to relax, to improve quality of life.”
Carlos Slim, Mexican billionaire, proposing a radical change in the way people work (Time, August 4)
“I still tremble when I am reminded of the third-degree torture inflicted upon me by the police while taking my confessional statement.”
Hussein Ghadiali, businessman and farmer acquitted in the Surat bomb blasts case of 2008 (Outlook, August 4)
“From my own experience in the US, I can say that the private sector in early childhood education programmes can help respond to cultural, social and parental religious values.”
Nobel laureate James Heckman on private schooling (Forbes, August 8)
“While a Batra wants to alter history books, a Muthalik is also determined to tackle the pub-goers. Both want to impose their own version of the Hindu culture on the rest of the country, to redefine the contours and the detailing of Indian nationhood in the shape of the hindutva mould.”
Siddharth Bhatia, well-known columnist, on the BJP’s plan to restructure India (Outlook, August 11)
“The man whom Modi would really want to give the Bharat Ratna to is Golwalkar.”
Aakar Patel, columnist, on M.S. Golwalkar, the founder of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (Mint, August 16)
“The vast majority of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims reject IS’s claim to speak for them, but it is increasingly popular among global jihadists.”
The Economist on the Islamic State’s atrocities in Iraq (August 23)
“But economics and statistics — the most crucial way for students to become good and informed citizens in increasingly data-heavy societies — are rarely given the same emphasis. This needs to change.”
Editorial on the need to teach finance and economics in schools (Business Standard, August 31)