While men curse, here’s a sample of insults by gentlemen with grace, wit and style!

 # To the Hon. Board of Directors of the East India Co. Gentlemen, “I have fine boys but not much cash to provide for them. I had intended my eldest son for the church, but I find he is more likely to kick a church down than support it. I sent him to the university, but he couldn’t submit himself to college rules, and being reproved by his tutors, he took it up in the light of an affair of honour, and threatened to call them to account for it. All my plans for his welfare being thus disconcerted… now gentlemen, he’s six feet high of an athletic make, if you like him to see him in India, I will equip him as a gentleman. A letter of recommendation!”

# Always forgive your enemies – but never forget their names – Robert F Kennedy

# I never forget a face – but in your case I’ll make an exception.

# I’ve had a wonderful evening, but this was not it.

# Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member – Groucho Marx

# Never complain. Never explain. Get even.

# Of course, America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up – Oscar Wilde

# Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary rocks.

# When I first saw the Falls I was disappointed. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments of American married life – Oscar Wilde.

# The American has no language. He has dialect, slang, accent and so forth – Rudyard Kipling

# It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities when they have their manners. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it – Mark Twain

# In the first place God made idiots; this was for practice; then he made school boards – Mark Twain, 1835-1910 (And this 3R’s Schooling is now a norm; NOT Character-building!)

# A Canadian is someone who drinks Brazilian Coffee from an English teacup and Munches a French pastry while sitting on his Danish furniture, having just come from an Italian movie in his German car. He picks up his Japanese pen and writes to his MP to complain about the American takeover of the Canadian publishing business – Campbell Hughes 1973

# Canada could have enjoyed, English government, French culture, and American know how. Instead, it ended up with English know-how, French government, and American culture.
# I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold – Henry D Thoreau
# I don’t even know what street Canada is on – Al Capone.

# The ordinary Britisher imagines that God is an English man – Bernard Shaw
# You are right in your impression that a number of persons are urging me to come to the United States. But why on earth do you call them my friends? – Bernard Shaw

# When a stupid man is doing something he’s ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty – Bernard Shaw

# Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can.
# It should probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress.
# How can one conceive of a One-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of Cheese – Charles De Gaulle
# The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
# Russia- a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma – Winston Churchill
# Democracy is a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.

# The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children – The Duke of Windsor.

2. Who do we need as our Administrators & Political Leaders: We need educated men of IQ and intellect; and we need to identify, select, recruit the few fit to be Our Mentors, as Teachers, administrators and political workers. We need those few as our Mentors who are inspired with the spirit of Selfless service.

IQ was adopted by Britishers for our education because they needed Babus and Munim – clerks, to rule over us and it was easier to teach and evaluate Marks and Degrees! But what about building, nurturing character?

Modern India is rediscovering its roots of Bharat – our Vedantic wisdom and our idea of education as a process of awakening viveka-buddhi and building powers of mind to walk-the-talk to attain our highest Goal.

Schooling and growing up must be a process focused on identifying the few with Viveka-buddhi and nurturing them to be gentleman of character, Mentors, Shrestha, of societies! Academia, Governance and as Society we must learn to distinguish between IQ and Viveka and Plan how to make, evaluate and recruit based on Righteousness.

Who is responsible to produce and recruit as our Leaders, Teachers, Preachers, the good, who are inspired and striving to Imbibe the spirit of Work as Worship; spirit of Selflessness; character-efficiency”?

Can modern Schooling and public Servants lead us towards the Global Vision of One-World/Family/Future and Karma Yogi as now envisioned by GOI to take India once again towards a Naitik Bharat?

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