“Talking to US president Trump at UN summit on global warming would have been a waste of time since he would not have paid any attention”. (Trump has questioned climate science and is pulling the US out of the 2015Paris Agreement on global warming). ”Honestly I don’t think I would have said anything because obviously he is not listening to scientists or experts, so why would he listen to me”.
From Sister Lucy Kalappura’s BookKarthavinte Namathil.
"Even when they claimed to be free, Nuns are still subordinate to priests. Many a time, sisters have no roll in taking policy decisions. Their only roll at convents attached with churches is to prepare the way for priests. The public do not see the tired faces of Nuns suffering in the kitchens of Seminaries and Bishop houses. Most people do not know that Nuns who undergo years of training and are supposed to dedicate their lives to God, are sentenced to live as slaves to priests. My first instance of abuse at convent was at the age of 24, at the hands of a Nun, lesbian encounter".
Deepika Padukone, Film actress
“More than 300 million people suffering with the illness, depression is the leading cause of ill health and disability in the world today and a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease. It is therefore increasingly clear that, now more than ever before, we need to aggressively address what is an invisible and overlooked health and social burden."
Leesa Gazi , Bangladesh Writer and Film maker.
"On my childhood, I grew up hearing stories of our liberation war from my father, who was a freedom fighter. My father told me that he witnessed hundreds of mute, faceless women standing back-to-back on a convoy of trucks. They were “birangona” (brave) women. I remember trying my best to picture their faces, but I couldn’t. Because their stories were not only forbidden and overshadowed by various regimes after the assassination of Shake Mujib Rehiman, Bangladesh’s founding leader in 1975, but they were also hidden, shunned, ostracized from their homes and from society".
