"I tried to promote my game — flat-
tening the ground, planting grass, installing lights to make day and night
cricket possible at Rustom baug.”
Mehli Irani, left-handed batsman
and wicket keeper, Kanga League,
mid-day, April 28, 2019
"Most kids and adults don’t know how to make proper eye contact because they are constantly staring at their screens and phones. Eye contact captivates an audience member and makes your poem or dialogue sound genuine.”
Meherzad Patel, theater director, Silly Point Productions, MumbaiMirror, April 18, 2019
"I think you should always give a fair shot to your dreams.”
Boman Irani, actor and filmmaker,
Bombay Times, February 22, 2019
"For me, the biggest tragedy is
the hatred that has been widely spread. India is now unrecognizable from what it was during the
Independence struggle.”
Anand Patwardhan, filmmaker, referring
to the 2019 parliamentary elections,
mid-day, April 28, 2019
"I want to make a period film, I want to make a film set in another country. I want to make a foreign film. I want to make everything eventually. I am a storyteller. I
have many stories to tell.”
Zoya Akhtar, film director, whose mother Honey is a Parsi, The Hindu, February 11, 2019
"It makes me sick to hear a man rave about this thing or that 10,000 miles away, when a much better, perhaps the original thing, is lying unnoticed in his own land.”
Behram MaIabari, poet and social reformer, quoted in I am the Widow. An Intellectual Biography of Behramji Malabari by
Harmony Siganporia
"Naresh Goyal, who built
(Jet) airline from nothing, left
behind a lesson for entrepreneurs — no founder is bigger than
the company he runs.”
Anirban Chowdhury and Mihir Mishra,
The Economic Times, April 18, 2019
"The efficiency (of health
insurance) is still low and
patient benefits are unsatisfactory in the sense that patients do not have complete confidence that they will get what cover they have been promised, plus the process
is often a challenge.”
Bomi Bhote, chief executive officer,
Ruby Hall Clinic, The Free Press
Journal, February 4, 2019
"I have fond memories of coming
to the café as a child. We used
to eat ice cream, or whatever
else we could hog on. It felt
nice to come to your own café;
I would run all around the
place. Nostalgia brings
back old customers.”
Ardeshir Mazkoori, third generation owner, Café Excelsior, mid-day, February 2, 2019