"It seems almost every debate, from public health to economics,
is reduced to pro or anti-India.”
Coomi Kapoor, consulting editor, The
Indian Express, May 31, 2021
"For heads of state to go to
China in light of a genocide really begs the question, what moral
authority do you have to speak again about human rights any place in the world?”
Nancy Pelosi, US House of
Representatives Speaker, on the 2022
Winter Olympics to be held in Beijing,
Reuters, Mint, May 20, 2021
"Those were truly mad days, and perhaps their maddest feature was the
supreme confidence of the public in
Tatas, and, incidentally, the over-
confidence of Tatas in themselves.”
Sir Nowroji Saklatvala, third Tata Group chairman, at the Rotary Club of Bombay meet on November 28, 1933, quoted in Good thoughts, Good words, Good
deeds: A book of Tata quotes
"Across the Indian subcontinent 40% of the world’s population lives within 100 km of the coast.”
Nyrika Holkar, executive director,
Godrej & Boyce Mfg Co Ltd, on the
importance of preserving mangroves,
The Economic Times, August 14, 2021
"Why is India one of the only countries
in the world not to have restored
normal air travel arrangements?”
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman, Forbes Marshall, past president, Confederation of Indian Industry, chairman, Centre for Technology Innovation and Economic Research and Ananta Aspen Centre, Business
Standard, August 19, 2021
Murderer "Charles Sobhraj couldn’t, not wouldn’t, understand why one would have qualms about being part of an operation selling arms or perhaps killing people.”
Farrukh Dhondy, author,
sunday mid-day, August 22, 2021
"When you are born middle-class, no matter how rich you get, you don’t forget the value of money.”
Sabyasachi Mukherjee, couturier and
designer, Mint, August 23, 2021
"Products with a typical Indian
design or aesthetic could have been made in Thailand or Sri Lanka for example. The emphasis on this being made or getting it only from an Indian karigar (skilled craftsman) is a limitation in these times. Yet, it was Vina (Mody’s) love for the craftsmen and women of the country that she always put people over profits.”
Feroza Mody, who runs Contemporary Arts and Crafts, mid-day, September 1, 2021
"Cyrus (the Great) describes
in Babylonian language and
cuneiform script, how he
captured the city with the help
of the god Marduk.”
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, British Museum curator of Middle Eastern coins, Kingship and
Religion in ancient Persia