"I actually don’t see very many
young people on the board
(of companies)... And I don’t
see very many women
on the boards.”
Zia Mody, managing partner, AZB & Partners, The Economic Times, December 13, 2024
"A fool with a tool is still a fool.”
Dr Mazda Turel, practicing neurosurgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals and honorary
assistant professor of neurosurgery,
Grant Medical College and Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals, on surgeons using robots to assist them, sunday mid-day, December 15, 2024
"I have no hesitation in saying that this is Hindustan; this country would function as per the wishes of the
‘bahusankhyak’ (majority) living in Hindustan. This is the law. You can’t say that you are saying this being a High Court Judge. The law, in fact, works according to the majority. Look at it in the context of family or society... Only what benefits the
welfare and happiness of the
majority will be accepted.”
Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadavon,
Allahabad High Court, The Free Press
Journal, December 10, 2024
"When your children are mature, have them read your will before you sign it. It is better for children to be able to ask questions when a parent is still able to respond.”
Warren Buffett, chairman, Berkshire
Hathaway Inc., reprinted from The Wall
Street Journal in Mint, November 27, 2024
"If a truck maker like Volvo says all the parts that go into my manufacturing will be green, the supply chain would also reimagine its business.”
Jamshyd Godrej, chairman, Confederation of Indian Industry — Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre and Godrej Enterprises Group,
Business Standard, October 17, 2024
"He (Justice D. Y. Chandrachud)
was a judge for the Age of Modi
because he personified the style of this age. This is an age that converts civil and political rights into an
act of personal beneficence.”
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, contributing editor,
The Indian Express, November 12, 2024
"Would we be surprised /
After the clapping is done /
If they decide to change /
Black gowns to saffron?”
Raju Moray, practicing advocate,
Bombay High Court, theleaflet.in
"The anglophile community originally picked up the game (cricket) as a way to ‘get into the good books of the British,’ but as they started to do well, it became a way of ‘striking back’ against the Empire.”
Fredun De Vitre, former commentator and Doordarshan broadcaster, quoted in a documentary Four on Eleven: The Fading Glory of Parsi Cricket by Shrikaran Beecharaju, sunday
mid-day, August 25, 2024