"There is an old saying that
money cannot buy elections:
no matter how much cash you spend, you cannot purchase
voters seeking change. But
money can buy legislators.”
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar,
columnist, Sunday Times of India,
March 6, 2022
"Even if I’m trying to read
some things that I subscribe
to online, there are these
maddening pop-ups and
advertisements all the time.
I’m not used to that. I think
when you are reading
something, it deserves
your full respect.”
Adil Jussawalla, poet, The Times
of India, March 21, 2022
English philosopher "John
Stuart Mill thinks that you don’t really know your own point of
view until you know your
opponent’s point of view. It
takes an intellectually active
people to have a free discussion.”
Richard Sorabjee, professor emeritus of philosophy at King’s College, London
delivering the India International Centre Diamond Jubilee Lecture in honor
of late jurist Soli Sorabjee, The
Indian Express, March 9, 2022
"The morals of the very best
of the Parsis are not of the highest possible standard. This arises
from education, and their own
peculiar habits and manners,
and which only time and
discipline can correct.”
The Parsis Or Modern Zerdusthians:
A Sketch (1852) by Henry George
Briggs, reprinted by Kessinger Publishing Legacy Reprints (2009)
"Does it make any sense? To
sit inside all day in front of a
machine, making money I
don’t need so I can give it to
someone I don’t know?”
Leon Cooperman, billionaire investor,
The Washington Post, quoted by Bloomberg, reprinted in The Economic Times, February 10, 2022
"Diagnoses are made even without touching the patient, with needles drawing blood for a number of tests, MRIs, CAT scans and other sophisticated gadgetry.”
Dr Roshan Chinoy, cancer specialist in diagnostic pathology, Jam-e-Jamshed
Weekly, February 6, 2022
"They consider smoking as
improper for the dasturs only;
and the dastur himself offered
me a kalian (a hookah) in his
own house, when I did him
the honor to call on him
the first time.”
Letter from Danish oriental scholar Nils Ludvig Westergaard who visited Kerman and Yazd in 1843, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, quoted in Iran, the Mark of Paradise or the Lands of Ruin? Historical Approaches to Reading Two Parsi Zoroastrian Travelogues by Daniel Sheffield, assistant professor, department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University