"Puppets, I feel, are capable of rejuvenating the human heart.”
Meher Contractor, pioneering Indian
puppeteer who set up the Indian chapter
of the International Puppetry Association,
The Times of India, March 21, 2023
"The 26th largest investor in
industrial R&D (research
and development) worldwide (Bosch) invests more in
R&D than all of Indian
industry combined.”
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman,
Forbes Marshall, past president,
Confederation of Indian Industry,
chairman of Centre for Technology
Innovation and Economic Research
and Ananta Aspen Centre, Business
Standard, March 23, 2023
"India has 1.4 billion people.
Let’s assume, across the world, one in 100 is a genuinely entrepreneurial person. That’s 14 million genuinely entrepreneurial Indians. There are only 2,50,000 genuinely entrepreneurial Australians and three-and-a-half million genuinely
entrepreneurial Americans.”
Tony Abbott, former Australian
Prime Minister, The Indian Express,
March 20, 2023
"I think in the last 50 years,
we have realized we are behind
on infrastructure in every way
— physical infra as well as for social, schools and hospitals;
and so, behind the curve
with lots of catching up to do.”
Jamshyd N. Godrej, chairman and
managing director, Godrej & Boyce,
Business Standard, March 25, 2023
"Burying eight pigs alive,
sleeping naked on a banana
leaf on Amavasya (no moon)
night, sacrificing a donkey and consuming its meat. These
are some of the rituals and
incantations that politicians
observe to win elections
in Karnataka.”
Shankar Raj, author, The Free Press
Journal, July 20, 2021
"At his residence in Ratnagiri, (Vinayak) Savarkar spent most
of his time with his loyal disciples, explaining the scope of his doctrine of Hindutva and discussing ways
to unite Hindus not against the
British but against a section of fellow Indians, the Muslims.”
Dhirendra K. Jha, author, Gandhi’s
Assassin, The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India (Vintage Books, 2022)
"I didn’t envision the Contemporary Arts and Crafts (shop); it was a crying need. We (Mody and Colgan, the firm this American architect set up with her husband Piloo Mody) were doing interiors of flats and restaurants, demanding handloom textiles, ceramics and accessories. Nothing was available after
the Brits pulled out.”
Vina Mody, architect and entrepreneur sunday mid-day, March 12, 2023