"India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'"

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Source : Jairam Ramesh (2015). “Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India”, p.139, Oxford University Press

Jairam Ramesh

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“If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.”
“If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.”
“For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.”
“Your best friend should bring out the best in you”
“I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work.”
“People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.”
“I really don't miss the trials and courtroom appearances.”
“The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.”

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