"The fact that you can fill out a 1,000-seater stadium without batting an eyelid is proof that Queen and Freddie are just timeless.”
Meherzad Patel, theater personality,
Hindustan Times, November 28, 2018
"I feel that you have to come with your best game, no matter who your co-star is. I understand that they are huge stars, but part of the fun of acting is that we are all there for our respective characters.”
Jim Sarbh, actor, DNA,
November 20, 2018
"I always loved partner dancing. In Salsa, the footwork is constant and the dancer takes to the music and turn patterns quite easily.”
Avan Mehta, Salsa instructor, The Indian
Express, November 21, 2018
"Dentists say we should replace a toothbrush every three months. So that’s 300 toothbrushes in a lifetime. Each (plastic) toothbrush takes 400 years to decompose.”
Anamika Sengupta, eco-warrior, writing
on bamboo toothbrushes, Civil
Society, December 2018
"Only eat things that your grandma would recognize. Or, saying it differently, only eat things that can rot (no preservatives).”
Dr Rasi Wickramsinghe, cardiologist,
Hamazor, Issue 4, 2018
"Storage is a big problem and
particularly in Indian weather where paintings deteriorate faster.”
Jehangir Nicholson, late art collector, Bombay, August 22-September 6, 1983, submitted by reader Rashid Khosravi
"At that time, I didn’t consider that this high income would not continue forever. Looking back, I now realize that I could have been a
bit smarter with my money.”
Shirene Muncherjee D’Lima who put away
around 20% of her earnings when she could
have easily afforded much higher savings, The
Economic Times Wealth, October 22-28, 2018
"In Afghanistan, we were marooned in the desert for three successive days and nights without either food or water and traversed on camel and donkey tracks; we were snow-bound in northern Iran; and were suspected as British spies in eastern Turkey.”
Pedalling Through the Afghan Wilds (1935) by cyclists Keki J. Kharas, Rustam D. Ghandhi and Rutton D. Shroff, The Hindu November 27, 2018, clipping submitted
by reader Astad Parakh
"Supply me a few law reports containing judgments in connection with freedom of expression and freedom of the Press. If the judgments are full of praise for the government and hardly give relief to persons who complain of violation of their fundamental rights, it is apparent that the claim of democracy is a myth, not a reality.”
Soli Sorabjee, former attorney general of India, The Times of India, October 28, 2018