"The idea is to encourage parents to come and surrender their babies in the cradles so that they don’t abandon them or kill them. It is a humane and yet anonymous way
to give up your child.”
Maneka Gandhi, women and child
development minister whose late
husband Sanjay was a Parsi, on placing
cradles outside buildings, hospitals
and orphanages, Free Press Journal,
June 29, 2017
"We will always keep the basics (the) same and will never change our core products, as that is our identity. We still represent the old-world charm and warmth that are synonymous with Irani cafés and our customers value that. Generations have been coming here and that is how we want it to be.”
Farokh Shokri, Kyani & Company,
The Hindu, June 30, 2017
"The amenities brought residents together. That’s not to imply that the goal was community prejudice, but to argue that the housing projects made it easier to build a life around community.”
Abigail McGowan, professor, South Asian visual and material culture and historiography at the University of Vermont, refering to amenities offered to Cusrow Baug residents in the late 1930s, The Hindu, June 18, 2017
"If you retire to spend more
time with your family, check
with your family first.”
David Letterman, former chat show
host, MumbaiMirror, August 10, 2017
"People do not want to leave
tragedy behind at home only to discover that it has stalked
them into the auditorium. When God’s in his heaven and all’s well with the world, people can, with
relieved detachment, watch
tragedy, not otherwise.”
Adi Marzban, playwright, quoted in
The Times of India, August 21, 2017
"As a producer, it’s my job to
have an eye on the box office.
As a director, I have to tell a
story as coherently and
universally as possible.
As an actor, it’s
my job to perform.”
Farhan Akhtar, writer, director,
producer, actor and singer, whose
mother Honey is a Parsi, The Times of India, September 11, 2017
"One cannot say, ‘You must be a vegetarian.’ People have lost their lives; how terrible is that! That’s why the courts afford protection. But sometimes, the courts fail. Judges are not infallible.”
Soli Sorabjee, former attorney general,
The Hindu, September 20, 2017
"Believe those who are
seeking the truth. Doubt
those who find it.”
André Gide, French author, Reader’s
Digest, September 2017