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# Sikhism and other religions

In the field of comparative religion, many scholars, academics, religious figures have looked at the relationships between Sikhism and other religions.

## Quotes

* V.S. Naipaul, in his recent book, India: A Million Mutinies Now, provides some intimate glimpses into the minds of some of the actors in the Punjab tragedy. He tells us of an interview which he heard on the British Radio and which Bhindranwale had given from the premises of the Golden Temple undergoing fortification just before the Blue Star Operation: in this interview, Bhindranwale had said that Sikhism “was a revealed religion; and the Sikhs were people of the Book.” Naipaul says that he was “struck then by the attempt to equate Sikhism with Christianity; to separate it from its speculative Hindu aspects, even from its guiding idea of salvation as union with God and freedom from transmigration.” But at that time, he thought that it was merely “an attempt, by a man intellectually far away, to make his cause more acceptable to his foreign interviewer.” He did not realize that the attempt to give a Semitic rendering to their religions is an old one and is not limited to Sikhism alone, nor to men “intellectually far away.” It has very much to do with the circumstances in which the world came to be dominated by people of Semitic religions. During this period, monolatry, prophetism, revelation - concepts of little spiritual validity or worth - acquired a great political clout and social prestige and these began to be adopted by many subject people. They wanted their religions to look like the Semitic ones with a single God, a Revelation, a Prophet or Saviour, and a single Church or Ummah.
** Talib, S. G. S. (1950). Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus inthe Punjab, 1947. Amritsar: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee.
* James Browne noted: ‘Of all instances of cruelty exercised on the propagators of new doctrines, this is the most barbarous and outrageous. Defenceless women and children have usually escaped even from religious fury. No wonder then, that the vengeance of the Sikhs was so severe.’
** James Browne, India Tract, Vol. 2, The History of the Origin and Progress of the Sikhs (London: Zogographic Press, 1788), p. 8. quoted in Sampath V. (2022). Bravehearts of bharat : vignettes from indian history. Penguin Random House India
# Meenakshi Temple, Madurai

Arulmigu Meenakshi Sundareshwarar Temple is a historic Hindu temple located on the southern bank of the Vaigai River in the temple city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is dedicated to the goddess Meenakshi, a form of Parvati, and her consort, Sundareshwar, a form of Shiva. The temple is at the center of the ancient temple city of Madurai mentioned in the Tamil Sangam literature, with the goddess temple mentioned in 6th-century-CE texts. This temple is one of the Paadal Petra Sthalam. The Paadal Petra sthalam are 275 temples of lord Shiva that are revered in the verses of Tamil Saiva Nayanars of 6th-9th century CE.

## Quotes

* The Madurai Sthanikar Varalaru stated, In the month of Ani of S. 1245 (1323 AD) the Padshah vasal mantri Adi Sultan and Malukka Nemiyar came from Delhi with 60,000 horses, destroyed Siva and Visnu temples and tanks, plundered temple treasuries (sribhandaram), mutilated images (bimbam) and reached Trichinopoly. There also the sthanikas were removed and temples were destroyed. Hearing these, king Valal Vilitturangum Parakrama Pandya was alarmed and left the fort of Kalaiyarkoyil. Unable to stay in the city without the king’s protection, the sthanikas of the temple of Madurai left the city after making certain provisions for the protection of the deity. They made a kilikkundu for the Svami in the garbhagriha, raised earth mounds, blocked the garbhagriha entrance with a stone wall and set up another Linga in the ardha mandapa. They did astabhandana for the Goddess (Mulappernacciyar) and set up the Goddess on the upper storey of the vimana. They did pupadanam (buried in the ground) for the utsav vigrahas, Ilaiya Nayinar and other vigrahas near Mucukundisvaramudaiyar shrine. The Soliya, Kulasekharapperumal, who was formerly doing puja in the Kariyamanikka Perumal Temple, was left in charge of the Madurai temple and the conduct of its worship. Then, taking the gold vigraha of the God and a few other gold vigrahas, the sthanikas left Madurai, and reached the Kilukiluppai forest in Nanjilnadu .
** (Devakunjari 1979: 166-167), in Jain, M. (2019). Flight of deities and rebirth of temples: Episodes from Indian history. 272ff
# Meet Dave

Meet Dave is a 2008 American family comedy film, directed by Brian Robbins and starring Eddie Murphy. The film was released by 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises on July 11, 2008.

## Dave Ming Chang

* [greeting various people inside the Old Navy store] Welcome to Old Navy!

## Dialogue

    [In an alley outside Gina's apartment sometime after she hits Dave with her car.]
    Gina: Hi, are you all right? Because you just ran off!
    Captain: Contact, everyone! Our first verbal encounter! [into microphone] Thank you for your concern.
    Dave: [speaks with extremely high pitch; bottles explode in background] Thank you for your concern.
    Captain: It's way too high! More bass!
    Dave: [speaks in extremely low pitch] Thank you for your concern.
    Captain: Level the frequency!
    Dave: [speaking perfectly] I'm all better now.
    Josh: [to Gina] How hard did you hit this guy?
    Gina: [Dave is looking at a picture of Gina's late husband] Captain?
    Dave: Yes?
    Gina: That's my husband. He was a captain with the Navy.
    Dave: I am a captain.
    Gina: Really? A captain of what?
    [Inside the ship, Number 3 looks something up.]
    Dave: I am a captain of crunch.
    Police Sergeant: Knox, Dooley. Got a report on some kind of fireball or something like that over on Liberty Island? Check it out.
    Dooley: A fireball? Ho, we'll get right on it.
    Knox: Sarge, can't you get somebody else to handle it? Come on, we just pulled an all-nighter.
    Police Sergeant: [sarcastically] Aw. I'm so sorry, Mr. Knox. Tell you what, lie down in my office and I'll come by with your blankie and you can get yourself a nice nap.
    Dooley: Come on, this is going to be great. A fireball? How often do we get a call like that?
    Knox: Do me a favor, okay? Act like a cop and stop caring.
    Captain: I am Dave Ming Chang.
    Cultural Officer #3: I am Dave Ming Chang.
    Various crew members: I am Dave Ming Chang.
    Security Officer #4: And I am Johnny Dazzles! And I am fabulous!
    [Everyone stares at him.]
    Security Officer #4: What? Not everyone has to be Dave Ming Chang.

## Taglines

* Eddie Murphy in Eddie Murphy in Meet Dave
* There's a Whole Other World Going on Inside of Him.
* He's A Spaceship... And Out of This World!

## Cast

* Eddie Murphy as Dave Ming Cheng / The Captain
* Elizabeth Banks as Gina Morrison
* Gabrielle Union as Number 3
* Ed Helms as Number 2
* Scott Caan as Officer Dooley
* Mike O'Malley as Officer Knox
* Austyn Lind Myers as Josh Morrison
* Kevin Hart as Number 17
* Pat Kilbane as Number 4 / Johnny Dazzle
* Tariq Bah as Marcus Grill
* Miguel A. Núñez, Jr. as Number 12
* Adam Tomei as Number 35
* Allisyn Ashley Arm as Nerdy Girl

## External links

* Meet Dave quotes at the Internet Movie Database
# Suki Kim

Suki Kim is a Korean American journalist and writer.

## Quotes

* During those months of living in their world, I often wondered if the truth would, in fact, improve their lives. I wanted so much to tell them the truth, of their country and of the outside world, where Arab youth were turning their rotten regime inside out, using the power of social media, where everyone except them was connected through the world wide web, which wasn't worldwide after all. But for them, the truth was dangerous. By encouraging them to run after it, I was putting them at risk -- of persecution, of heartbreak. When you're not allowed to express anything in the open, you become good at reading what is unspoken.
** This is what it's like to go undercover in North Korea (March 2015)

## External links

* Official website
# Suketu Mehta

Suketu Mehta (born 1963) is a writer based in New York City. He was born in Kolkata, India, and raised in Mumbai where he lived until his family moved to New York City in 1977.

## Quotes

* Essentially what I said was that people are coming to rich countries from poor countries not because they want to, but because rich countries had stolen the futures of poor countries.
** On the hypocrisy of the global debate about migration in “Suketu Mehta: ‘The migration debate is driven by populists – they can tell a false story well’” in The Guardian (2019 Aug 17)
* ...I’m always shocked by the lack of historical awareness on the part of the average American. Many of the people who have come here did so to forget history, to turn their backs on history.
** On the ignorance of Americans when it comes to history in “Suketu Mehta: ‘The migration debate is driven by populists – they can tell a false story well’” in The Guardian (2019 Aug 17)
* ...When people move, everyone benefits. The rich countries benefit. And the migrants themselves benefit. And the countries that they move from benefit because the rich countries aren't making enough babies. The migrants improve their standard of living by an average of fivefold...
** On the benefits of migration in “'This Land Is Our Land' Argues For Migration” in NPR (2019 Jun 2)
* ...I think the difference between alienated writers and sunnier writers—I don’t know if sunnier is a great term—is family. Every time I get alienated, my family comes and visits me. I don’t have the luxury of that French existentialist angst. I have a large extended family and we bicker and fight...
** On considering himself a sunnier writer in “An Interview with Suketu Mehta” in Believer Magazine (2008 Feb 1)

### Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (2004)

* A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is full of restless people. Those who have come here have not been at ease somewhere else. And unlike others who may have been equally uncomfortable wherever they came from, these people got up and moved. As I have discovered, having once moved, it is difficult to stop moving.
* At the age of fourteen I had experienced a miracle. I turned on a tap, and clean water came gushing out.
# Sujit Choudhry

Sujit Choudhry (born in 1970) is an educator and expert in comparative constitutional law. He is the Director of the Center for Constitutional Transitions.

## Quotes

* Be nimble, entrepreneurial, opportunistic, and highly cost-effective.
** "Sujit Choudhry – Founding Director of the Center for Constitutional Transitions", IdeaMensch (March 9, 2017)
* We may be facing the greatest global challenge to liberal democratic constitutionalism since WWII. For those of us who live and work in the United States, but study the world, the myth of American exceptionalism has been punctured, and comparative experience has never been more important to mainstream legal and political analysis.
** "Five Questions with Sujit Choudhry", I-CONnect (February 24, 2017)

## External links

* Sujit Choudhry's Channel on YouTube
* Sujit Choudhry on Medium
* Sujit Choudhry on Researchgate
# Sukhdev Thapar

Sukhdev Thapar (15 May 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian revolutionary who fought against the British government for the freedom of India. He was a member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA). He was executed along with Shivaram Rajguru and Bhagat Singh on 23 March 1931.

## Quotes

* March 23, 1931. Time: 7.30 pm. Place: Lahore Jail. It was a Monday. On this day, Bhagat Singh aged 24, Sukhdev 23 and Rajguru 23 were hanged to death by the British. This cruelty and heartlessness of the British Raj was directed towards instilling fear in the hearts of other freedom ﬁghters, but in vain. A thousand Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev sprang up from across the country.
** Rawal M. S. & Rawal Y. S. (2019). Saffron swords. Garuda Prakashan.
* Eventually, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged. Their bodies were secretly cremated early at dawn outside Ganda Singh Wala village; the ashes were thrown into the Sutlej River.
** Rawal M. S. & Rawal Y. S. (2019). Saffron swords. Garuda Prakashan.
# Sujatha Fernandes

Sujatha Fernandes is a Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Sydney, and a visiting scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center, CUNY in New York City.

## Quotes

* There are around 35,000 sanitation workers in Mumbai. Of these, some 28,000 are permanent employees and 7,000 are hired on contract. Permanent sanitation workers have their basic working conditions protected by law. They are provided with uniforms, payment slips, medical insurance, and paid leave. Contract workers have none of these benefits. As migrants, they do not have ration cards or permanent housing either. Most of them live in unauthorised shanties that are frequently demolished, which forces them to periodically search for a new spot to build their homes again. It is not uncommon for the work of permanent employees to also be subdivided among contract workers. After years of persistent ground-level organising, the movement has come closer to the abolition of the system of subcontracting, which has made sanitation work one of the most dangerous, precarious, and dehumanising jobs in India today.
** How Mumbai’s sanitation workers fought the municipal corporation – and won (March 04, 2019), Scroll.in
* All of the contract workers employed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation are Dalits, who are migrants. [...] Several sanitation workers [...] are forced to leave their homes in rural areas in search of work because of drought conditions, which are becoming worse each year. The two main areas they come from are Marathwada in Maharashtra, and Salem and Thiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu. They are often landless, or unable to make a living from the small plots of land they own. [...] The wages for contract workers are barely enough to survive on, and many of them are malnourished. They collect garbage with their bare hands, without hand gloves, facemasks, shoes, or a uniform. There are no facilities at the work stations for employees to wash their bodies. [...] The workers suffer from various illnesses because of the poor working conditions and often die at a young age. Tuberculosis and other lung diseases are common due to the kinds of gases they are exposed to and the conditions they work in. There are frequent accidents.
** How Mumbai’s sanitation workers fought the municipal corporation – and won (March 04, 2019), Scroll.in
* '[The media] promoted hoaxes that Hamas beheaded babies and carried out mass rape, in order to shore up support for Israel, and distorting events.'
(May 30, 2023), dailymail.co.uk

## External links

* Official website
* Sujatha Fernandes' profile at the University of Sydney
* Sujatha Fernandes' profile at the Graduate Center, CUNY
* Sujatha Fernandes at Academia.edu
* Sujatha Fernandes at Google Scholar
# Scott Galloway (professor)

Scott Galloway (born November 3, 1964) is an adjunct professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, and a public speaker, author, podcast host, and entrepreneur.

## Quotes

* "We need fewer ideologues and more pragmatists."
** "The War On The Young with professor Scott Galloway" on A Bit of Optimism, found on DeepCast (18 June 2024)
* "We have a tendency to credit our grit and our character for our successes and blame the markets for our failures. And the reality is, market dynamics trump individual performance."
** "Episode 303 - Scott Galloway: The Algebra of Wealth", on The Rational Reminder Podcast, found on DeepCast (2 May 2024)
* When we react faster than thought, we don’t react thoughtfully.
** SCOTT GALLOWAY: All new college graduates need to understand that balance is a myth Scott Galloway, Business Insider, June 11, 2021
# Scott Hahn

Scott W. Hahn (October 28, 1957–) is an American Christian theologian and apologist.

## Quotes

* How inordinate our fear of suffering and dying is. We’re so afraid of losing a life that is in a certain sense incapable. We’re not going to be able to keep our life on earth forever. That’s the reality. On the other hand, it confronts Catholic Christians with the sense that we are more afraid of physical suffering and physical death than we are of spiritual suffering and spiritual death through mortal sin and the divine life which is so precariously weakened through venial sins and those kinds of vices that we merely reduce to bad habits. And so to me, it’s a kind of a wake up call, not only for us as a society, but especially for us as a church to recognize the sacredness of human life, but to recognize the greater sacredness of a divine life that is obviously superior but much more vulnerable.
** Hope to Die (with Scott Hahn) (April 23, 2020)
* Catholics are accused of being obsessed with death, but we’re not. What we’re obsessed with is resurrection. So much so that when St. Paul preached in Athens, the philosophers thought he was preaching two new gods, Jesus and Resurrection. Our acceptance of death, our preparation for it, strikes people who have a disordered fear of death as obsession. But we recognize that life is not ended with death; it’s changed for the better. Death is the gateway to that something better. So, of course we want to help people prepare for their death as best as they can and celebrate the deaths of those we believe have entered into glory. That’s not obsession. That’s right priorities.
** Death, hope, and resurrection: A conversation with Dr. Scott Hahn (May 27, 2020)

## External links

* Official website
# Scott Kurtz

Scott R. Kurtz (born March 15, 1971) is an American cartoonist who began his career with his daily strip, Captain Amazing, which appeared for four semesters in the University of North Texas college paper. His first work to appear on the internet was Wedlock and Samwise, which he began in 1998. His latest and longest running project, PvP appeared daily from May 4th 1998 to roughly 2013 when updates became less frequent due to other commitments.

## Quotes
### PvP (1998)

* Despite the fact that my weapons and armor are in desperate need of repair, I blow the entire reward on ale and whores.
** PvP, Thursday, November 11, 1999
* Can't hear you. I'm inside my protective blanket of fear.
** PvP, Wednesday, September 6, 2000
* Men may control the free world, but women control the boobs.
** PvP, Tuesday, October 24, 2000
* Yeah, humans are pretty cool, but if you hang out with them too long, they start treating you like a mascot.
** PvP, [http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2000/12/13/wed-dec-13/ Wednesday, December 13, 2000
* You're a corporate whore. Merry Christmas.
** PvP, Friday, December 22, 2000
* I would, but I'm going to be busy all day converting beer into pee.
** PvP, Friday, October 11, 2002
* Cole, would it be okay if I crapped myself right now?
* My brain is hung like a horse!
** PvP, Tuesday, April 06, 2004
* It's like watching lemmings run off the cliff.

## External links

* PvPonline.com
# Scott Derrickson

Scott Derrickson (born July 16, 1966) is an American director, screenwriter and producer.

## Quotes

* I think it’s important for anyone who takes cinema seriously not to limit yourself to just optimistic or happy movies. I think that’s a problem. You’ve got to be willing to let the art of cinema take you into some darker places if you’re going to make full use of it. There are some people who shouldn’t watch horror films, and I’m all right with that. It’s not about putting something evil in the world. It’s about reckoning with evil. We don’t need any more evil in the world. We need a lot more reckoning with it.
** Interview: Filmmaker Scott Derrickson on Horror, Faith, Chesterton and His New Movie (July 1, 2014)
* If you’re doing it right, you’re not asking the audience to buy into your point of view at all. If you’re doing it right, you’re asking the audience to accept the character’s point of view as the character’s point of view. That can be anything. We’ve all watched hundreds of movies from characters’ points of view that are not our own. That’s part of the gift movies give us.
** Interview: Filmmaker Scott Derrickson on Horror, Faith, Chesterton and His New Movie (July 1, 2014)
# Scott Gilmore

Scott Gilmore is a Canadian social entrepreneur, former diplomat, and writer who is known for founding the charity Building Markets and as an advocate for reform in the international development and charity sectors.

## Quotes

* [F]acts tell us one thing: Canada has a race problem, too. How are we not choking on these numbers? For a country so self-satisfied with its image of progressive tolerance, how is this not a national crisis? Why are governments not falling on this issue? ... [C]ollectively, we don’t say it out loud: “Canada has a race problem.” ... If we want to fix this, the first step is to admit something is wrong. Start by saying it to yourself, but say it out loud: “Canada has a race problem.”
** "Canada's racism problem? It's even worse than America's" (22 January 2015), Macleans

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Scott Gilmore on Wikipedia
# Scott L. Montgomery

Scott L. Montgomery (born on 30 May 1951) is an American author, geoscientist and lecturer. He is known for his writings on intellectual history, language and translation, history of science and energy-related matters.

## Quotes

* Scientists are not known for the graces of courtesy and tact when commenting on the work of others.
** The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science, second edition, University of Chicago press, 2017, page 83 ISBN 978-0-226-14450-4.
* If speaking to nonscientific audiences is something that interests you or will likely be asked of you, keep in mind three overriding requirements: first, you must be a human being, an interesting one if at all possible; second, you must be accurate in what you say, that is, tell the truth (about what is known and what isn't; about issues, debates, controversies); and third, if your subject is scientific knowledge, you must remain a scientist and not slip into the role of advocate or activist.
** The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science, second edition, University of Chicago press, 2017, page 302 ISBN 978-0-226-14450-4.
* How many talks have you sat through where the researcher qua [as] person just didn't show up: no anecdotes, no personal details, no emotion or enthusiasm, no humor (intentional, that is), no real contact with the audience – in other words, no performance. [...] They may satisfy the second two requirements mentioned above – accuracy and nonadvocacy – but they fail in the first and, in some ways, the most important.
** The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science, second edition, University of Chicago press, 2017, page 302 ISBN 978-0-226-14450-4.
# Sonny Perdue

George Ervin "Sonny" Perdue III (December 20, 1946 –) is an American veterinarian, businessman and politician who served as the 31st United States Secretary of Agriculture from 2017 to 2021. He previously served as the 81st Governor of Georgia from 2003 to 2011; Perdue was the first Republican to hold the office since the Reconstruction era.

## Quotes

* I am proud and honored to be joining President-elect Trump’s administration as his Secretary of Agriculture,” Perdue said Thursday. “Beginning as a simple Georgia farm boy, making sure Americans who make their livelihood in the agriculture industry are thriving is near and dear to my heart, and I’m going to champion the concerns of American agriculture and work tirelessly to solve the issues facing our farm families in this new role.
** (January 2017)

## Quotes about Sonny Perdue

* Sonny Perdue is going to accomplish great things as Secretary of Agriculture, From growing up on a farm to being governor of a big agriculture state, he has spent his whole life understanding and solving the challenges our farmers face, and he is going to deliver big results for all Americans who earn their living off the land.
** Donald Trump, (January 2017)