Crackdown on random speech
Prime Minister Narendra Modi; addressing BJP lawmakers
We make mistakes and give to the media… as if we are great social scientists and experts to analyse issues. The moment you see a camera you start speaking. So this halfbaked stuff is picked up. The microphone is not a machine that forces people to speak.”
... AND MYRIAD MUTTERINGS
“Darwin’s theory [of evolution of humans] is scientifically wrong. It needs to change in school and college curriculum. Since the man is seen on Earth he has always been a man. Nobody, including our ancestors, in written or oral, have said they saw an ape turning into a man.” “Such incidents [rape cases] are unfortunate. However, sometimes you can’t stop them… In a country as big as India, people shouldn’t make an issue out of one or two rape incidents.” “I am speaking from a psychological point of view; no one can rape a mother of three children [in Unnao]. It is not possible, this is a conspiracy against him [BJP lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar].” “Internet and satellite communication existed in the days of ‘Mahabharata’. How else could Sanjaya [charioteer of King Dhritarashtra] give a detailed account and description to the blind king about the battle of Kurukshetra? It means Internet was there, the satellites and that technology were there in this country at that time.”