Quotes by Kapil Sibal - Page 2

The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.
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Catalyst
Education Great Growth
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Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.
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Cleanliness
Embrace
Good Thing
Implement
Nor
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How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
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Prime Minister
Minister
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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Terrorism
Tolerated
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Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.
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Empowerment
Practice
Issue
Remain
Unfairly
Unless
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
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Good World Believe
Good Thing
Happily
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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Believers
Varies
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Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.
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Crime
Tension
Violence
Communal
Incite
Involves
Unless
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By limiting access to surrogacy based on flimsy and exclusionary criteria, the government may just give rise to a mushrooming black market.
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Criteria
Rise
Limiting
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The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.
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Domain
Higher
Judiciary
Members
Sole
Turf
Appointment
Judges
Shared
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It would be a matter of concern for government if intrusive data capture has been deployed against Indian citizens or government infrastructure.
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Capture
Concern
Data
Infrastructure
Deployed
Intrusive
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To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
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Embrace
Ideology
Backward
Divisive
Seeks
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There's a difference between those who breed terrorism and those who fight terrorism. This difference should be recognised by the people of India.
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Terrorism
Breed
By The People
Recognised
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If two people cannot live together, both should have the right to opt out of the marriage. In an ideal world, that would be an acceptable solution.
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Acceptable
Ideal World
Ideal
Solution
Two People
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Given an opportunity, Modi has violated the freedom of press both in letter and spirit. He destroys freedom of the press whenever he gets a chance.
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Destroys
Letter
Violated
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Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.
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Irrelevant
Larger
Marginalised
Mechanisms
Underserved
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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Knowledge
Quality
Technology
Developers
Graduates
Research
Visible
Technology Great World
Creators
Universities
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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Exploitation
Framework
Natural Resources
Optimal
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The government must understand that it cannot substitute the health, nutrition, and overall development outcomes of Indian citizens with 'efficiency gains.'
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Gains
Nutrition
Outcomes
Substitute
Overall
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If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.
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Cleaning
Mess
Organisations
Solution
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Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.
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Prime Minister
Tension
Communal
Minister
Rein
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We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'
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Ethos
Afford
Discriminating
We Cannot
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The mindset of a terrorist and the mindset of intolerance know no territorial boundaries when individuals are targeted either for their eating habits or for any other reason.
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Boundaries
Eating
Intolerance
Mindset
Territorial
Habits
Individuals
Targeted
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You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.
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Dislike
Perfectly
Valid
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Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.
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Competence
Impeccable
Judiciary
Persons
Transparent
Appointed
Ensure
Positions
Processes
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A single element in transactional mode can never be analysed to calculate either loss or presumptive loss. The losses or gains of all elements in the transaction need to be analysed.
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Gains
Loss
Calculate
Element
Mode
Transaction
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The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.
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Access
Genesis
Giving
Interest
Listening
Poor
Public Interest
Unique
Voice
Voiceless
Weak
Public
Experiment
Marginalised
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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Justify
People More Why
Badly
Resource
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When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' is empty rhetoric.
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Accused
Cases
Criminals
Empty
Machinery
Rhetoric
Defends
Prosecutors
Victims
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Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.
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Mortals
Rendering
Superhuman
Unintended Consequences
Exceptionally
Judges
Swayed
Unintended
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If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?
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Country
Planning
Poverty
Said
Above
Anybody
Month
Commission
Definition
Wrong
Line
Obviously
Poverty Line
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The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
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Access
Approach
Adopt
Altruistic
Aspirations
Individuals
Mothers
Services
Speaks
Surrogate
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Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
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Discourse
Target
Life Police People
Arrest
Move On
Universities
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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By The Time
Master
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The BJP, undoubtedly, is a party with a mission. Spreading hatred and religious discord, indulging in state-sponsored violence and fake encounter killings, and resorting to divisive politics have been integral to this mission.
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Discord
Fake
Hatred
Religious
Violence
Divisive
Encounter
Indulging
Integral
Mission
Spreading
Undoubtedly
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If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
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Allegations
Executives
Impression
Time Government People
Discriminatory
From Time To Time
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To fix India's healthcare scenario, what is most needed is 'systems thinking.' For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.
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Healthcare
Programmes
Vertical
Fix
Followed
Scenario
Sector
Systems
Translated
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For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.
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Movie
Appropriate
Consistent
Given
Rhythm
Song
Track
Lyrics
Recording
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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Ambition
Great Reward
Regard
Great Opportunity People
Personal Ambitions
Reward
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
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Digital
Ministry
Rain
Science And Technology
Stations
Weather
Automatic
Believed
Mode
Systems
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The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government.
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Function
Inability
Judicial
Judiciary
Attributed
Deliver
Element
Executive
Issue
Second
Tendency
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Normally, the law of nature is such that one who rises falls, and one who rises quickly falls as quickly. I don't know how the law of nature will work as far as Modi is concerned. But some time or the other, all bubbles burst. This bubble will also burst.
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Time Nature Work
Bubble
Burst
Nature Time Work
Falls
Nature Work Time
Normally
Rises
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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Bread
Capacity
Educated
Inequality
Suicidal
Cultures
Winners
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
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Consultation
Enormous
Judiciary
Officers
Stakes
Appointment
Judges
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Judges decide upon copyright law. They decide upon trademark law. They decide upon scientific issues. They decide upon very complex technical issues on a daily basis. So you must have confidence in the Supreme Court, that they will apply their mind and they will come out with a decision consistent with the Constitution.
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Confidence
Consistent
Copyright
Court
Decision
Supreme
Supreme Court
Apply
Basis
Complex
Daily
Daily Basis
Judges
Scientific
Trademark
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Yes, the state must intervene to prevent the exploitation of poor Indian women who are enticed or coerced into surrogacy, as well as to protect the rights of surrogate children. However, it should also be empathetic to individuals with alternative lifestyles who are well within their legal and human rights to demand access to surrogacy services.
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Legal
Demand
Empathetic
Exploitation
Human Rights
Alternative
Intervene
Lifestyles
Prevent
Services
Surrogate
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