"Firoz Irani, father of Paradise proprietor Jimmy, ran the soda fountains at the Modi theaters. Firoz’s second wife, Tachiko, was Japanese. That’s how he started The Sizzler at Excelsior.”
Maxie Cooper, artist, mid-day,
August 26, 2018
"If you want authentic Parsi food, you have to ask your friends’
parents or grandparents to
cook it for you.”
Amyra Dastur, actor, mid-day, August 22, 2018
"Education and health is always a priority. And that is correct. But at the same time, if we don’t have conservation, there won’t be balanced growth. Industry has very much been a part of the problem. But it can also be a part of the solution by focusing on energy
and water conservation.”
Jamshyd Godrej, chairman and
managing director, Godrej and Boyce,
The Economic Times, August 16, 2018
"Today, if the country has access
to non-Indian art and antiquities,
it is largely thanks to Sir
Ratan Tata and his wife.”
Sabyasachi Mukherjee, director, CSMVS (Prince of Wales Museum of Western
India), mid-day, September 2, 2018
"Dance has languished for lack
of a center, a home, dedicated funding and diligent daily pursual... Today, ballet is being diluted
with poor teaching.”
Tushna Dallas, ballet teacher,
DNA, May 13, 2018
"It has long been time to jettison the notion of implied consent in marriage. The law must uphold the bodily autonomy of all women, irrespective of their marital status.”
Justice J. B. Pardiwala, Ahmedabad High Court, The Indian Express, April 3, 2018
"Freedom of faith is essential to his/her autonomy; choosing a faith
is the substratum of individuality and sans it, the right of choice becomes a shadow.”
Supreme Court Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar, opining
on the Hadiya love jihad case,
The Hindu, April 10, 2018
"Much can be written about
the conduct of the landlord
who has carried out substantial unauthorized works, thereby
damaging the building and
exposing the life and property
of tenants to grave danger.”
Justice Sharukh J. Kathawalla, Bombay
High Court, slamming four landlords
whose unauthorized structural changes endangered a building, The Times
of India, March 25, 2018
"Teaming up for a project is like a smaller version of a marriage. A commitment to a film is a big one, it involves a journey.”
Akshaye Khanna, actor, whose
mother Geetanjali is a Parsi,
Bombay Times, June 30, 2017