"That’s the thing about
unhappiness. All it takes is
for something worse to come
along and you realize it was
actually happiness after all.”
Queen Elizabeth II’s character in "The Crown” quoted by Dr Mazda Turel,
neurosurgeon, mid-day, July 25, 2021
"I am disposed to take the sanguine view of the Kaiser-E-Hind, that it may not be impossible to find the whole capital in India — particularly as a Parsi gentleman has, unsolicited, asked me to put him down for a (lakh rupees).
But I will not conceal from you
my belief that in order to accomplish what both you and I hold desirable — namely starting iron works with as far as possible
Indian capital wholly, I shall
need powerful support.”
Jamsetji Tata’s letter to Dadabhai
Naoroji, February 20, 1903, Good
thoughts, Good words, Good deeds,
A book of Tata quotes
"If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain, American author and humorist, Inspirational Quote, November 2021
"The rule of law and the primacy
of personal liberty set out in the Constitution as a guide for courts
to discharge their functions has been all but replaced with
subservience to state action.”
Justin M. Bharucha and Sonam Gupta, managing partner and partner, Bharucha and Partners, Mint, November 10, 2021
(The Babri Masjid judgment)
"was an incident that debased our
Constitution, that defied the
Supreme Court and created,
what appeared to be at that time, an unbridgeable chasm between two communities. It was wrong, terribly wrong, and I would say
100 times that it will always
be a terrible wrong.”
P. Chidambaram, Congress leader, referring to the judgment alloting the Masjid land to the Hindu groups, The Indian
Express, November 11, 2021
"The Grand Old Party (Congress) was not founded by the Gandhis’
ancestors as most of our younger generation assume, but by stalwarts of the freedom movement such as Allan Octavian Hume
and Dadabhai Naoroji.”
Coomi Kapoor, consulting editor,
The Indian Express, November 11, 2021
"I come from an India where
we worship women during
the day and gangrape them
during the night.”
Vir Das, comedian, The Free Press
Journal, November 18, 2021
"Six of the seven judges who
upheld a cow slaughter ban
were vegetarians.”
Cited by Justice Rohinton F. Nariman,
(retd) Supreme Court in Discordant Notes: The Voice of Dissent in The Last Court of Resort, Mint, November 20, 2021