"There will never be a real estate asset bubble in India because the (revenue from) taxes are so depressed to the real price."
Finance minister P. Chidambaram in The Hindu (November 1)
"America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there."
Barrack Obama, US president-elect, in his winner’s speech in Chicago (November 4)
"Why should people not know about what we are doing in the judiciary? Why can’t there be more transparency? Internal infirmities about judiciary and judges are far more dangerous than external infirmities. Administrative functions of judges should be as open as the judicial functions of judges."
Former chief justice of India J.S. Verma at a book release in Delhi (November 11)
"It was during Jawaharlal Nehru’s time that the nucleus for a space programme started. It is befitting that on Children’s Day, celebrated in his honour, India should plant its flag on the lunar surface."
G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, celebrating the successful landing of Chandrayaan-I, India’s first unmanned moon mission satellite vehicle (November 14)
"They attacked the luxury businessmen’s hotels. They attacked the open-air Cafe Leopold, where backpackers of the world refresh themselves with cheap beer out of three-foot-high towers before heading out into India. Their drunken revelry, their shameless flirting, must have offended the righteous believers in the jihad."
Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, on the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai in The New York Times (November 29)
"Where is Raj Thackeray and his brave Sena? Tell him that 200 NSG commandos from Delhi — no Marathi manoos, all south and north Indians — have been sent to Mumbai to fight the terrorists so that he can sleep peacefully. Please forward this so that it finally reaches the coward bully!"
Mass circulated SMS on November 29