We "started shooting from May 31.
We worked in temperatures
ranging from 50-52 degrees and sometimes even 55 degrees and that too under lights. (Director) Abhishek (Sharma) and I
wanted to shoot in that
atmosphere and ecosystem.”
John Abraham, actor, whose mother
Pheroza is a Parsi, on his new film
Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran on how India conducted nuclear tests in 1998,
Hindustan Times, May 21, 2018
"‘The example of the Parsi
liquor-dealers was very
prominently before the country’ and that ‘if the Parsis did not
give up this traffic at once, they would injure their community
and their country.’”
Mahatma Gandhi quoted in "Beyond Hindu-
Muslim unity: Gandhi, the Parsis and
the Prince of Wales Riots of 1921” by
Dinyar Patel, Department of History,
University of South Carolina
"There was a time when we presumed that only the journalist or the editor will be the last word on a news item. Today, because of digital intervention, the end consumer can also ask questions on the efficacy or source of the information.”
Smriti Irani, then Information and Broadcasting Minister, The Hindu, April 28, 2018
"We will use more digital outreach and marketing to grow retail. We have only 100 branches in India, which is very less compared to the vastness of the market.”
Zarin Daruwala, chief executive officer, Standard Chartered Bank, The Economic Times, April 24, 2018
"My parents split up when we
were very young, so we didn’t actually grow up with dad (actor Vinod Khanna) around. However, I occasionally visited him on his film sets and I did have a reasonable notion that he was a big star. When you’re a kid, you don’t know any different and you just accept that as your reality.”
Rahul Khanna, actor, whose mother
Geetanjali is a Parsi, Bombay Times,
April 24, 2018
"A law that doesn’t give married and unmarried women equal
protection creates conditions that lead to marital rape. It allows the men and women to believe
that wife rape is acceptable.”
Justice J. B. Pardiwala, Ahmedabad High Court, The Indian Express, April 3, 2018
"We are not competitive in the
international market. This is
because our logistics costs
are very high.”
Piruz Khambatta, chairman and managing director, Rasna International Private
Limited and chairman, western region, Confederation of Indian Industry,
commenting on India’s exports,
The Hindu, April 11, 2018