Commentary by Michael Wade on Leadership, Ethics, Management, and Life

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Great Moments in Multiculturalism

''You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."

- General Sir Charles Napier on the British plan to abolish the practice of suttee in colonial India