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They said it in October
"The minute you develop a new business model, it’s extinct because somebody is going to copy it." -- Pepsico chief Indra Nooyi (October 8)"The exercise of Right to Information Act cannot be the privilege of the few. We must guard against the growth of professional middlemen in the use of this Act. We need to evolve a consensus to facilitate the effective exercise of RTI by the needy, by those who are directly affected by the information." -- Prime minister Manmohan Singh (October 16) "You have the dichotomy of Muslims blossoming in areas where ‘simply merit’ counts, be it the sensational Khan clique in Bollywood or Pathan and Patel in cricket — but not in khaki-uniform clad roles, or as civil servants." -- Seema Chisti in The Indian Express (October 23) "In conventional banks the more you have, the more you can get, whereas in micro credit the less you have the more priority you get." -- Nobel peace prize winner and Grameen Bank founder Mohammad Yunus in Beijing (October 25) "Reservation in educational institutions will only help some high-grade institutions to sink without a trace. Even the ban on child labour is ridiculous in a country where poor children would die of starvation if they were not allowed to work." -- Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University professor, in Business Standard (October 27) "Industrialists’ high profits are made at the expense of people whose daily wage is less than the cost of pissing in a London pay-toilet." -- Gautam Bhatia in The Times of India (October 28) "If there were three beautiful, naked women standing in front of you, which one would you pick? Does this have any relevance to economics?" -- Question posed during admission interview at Oxford University, according to a firm that coaches aspiring scholars (Time, October 23) "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside... and the cats come and eat it... whose fault is it, the cats’ or the uncovered meat?" -- Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali, Australian Muslim cleric on women who don’t wear the head scarf (October 26)
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