So they say
"First, flatter the person (Russian president Vladimir Putin) with whom you are negotiating, calling him a ‘genius’, ‘savvy’ and ‘very smart.’
Disregard (former US President) Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1940 warning that ‘no man can tame a tiger
into a kitten by stroking it.’”
George F. Will, American columnist, in a tongue-in-cheek opinion piece titled,
"Behold, the artful dealmaker: Trump
working his magic on Putin,” referring
to US President Donald Trump’s approach
to resolving the Russian invasion
of Ukraine, The Washington Post,
May 7, 2025
"I didn’t get an education. The
school wouldn’t allow us to take
so much leave. My mother kept a
tutor but you don’t want to study after a day of shooting. I completed class five, my sister (child artiste
Daisy Irani) didn’t even do that.”
Honey Irani, screenwriter and erstwhile child artiste, The Indian Express, May 11, 2025
"A person who shows no regard for the law cannot be permitted to seek its protection after constructing two unauthorized floors. This touches the core of the rule of law. Unauthorized construction must be demolished. There is no way around it.”
Supreme Court Justices J. B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan on a plea seeking regularization of an unauthorized structure in Calcutta,
The Free Press Journal, May 2, 2025
"It (psychoanalytic therapy) is
in-depth treatment going deep
inside each person’s psyche, to reach pain that is attempted to be avoided through spurious means: addictions, confused and damaging
relationships, conflicts within
the self. Reach out and you
will find a hand to hold you .”
Minnie Dastur, senior training and
supervisory psychoanalyst , sunday
mid-day, May 11, 2025
"AI (artificial intelligence) will
become our co-founders. In the workplace, you need pragmatism. And that’s what AI offers — less emotion, more transparency.”
Ronnie Screwvala, co-founder, UpGrad,
The Economic Times, April 29, 2025
"A diet emphasizing vegetables, fruits, healthy fats and some
animal products like fish and dairy over the long term was the most likely to make a difference in
aging in good health.”
Alex Janin, personal health reporter, citing
results of a study that analyzed the health data of more than 1,00,000 people over 30 years, The Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2025
"The Delhi Power Station and the Indian Railways were the largest employers of the Parsis.”
Coomi Kapoor, contributing editor, The Indian Express, on reviewing At Home in the Capital: The Parsis of Delhi by Rukshana Shroff, The Indian Express, April 20, 2025
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