"Beginning in spring and
moving on into summer, the
avenue of mahogany trees
(Swietenia mahogani) in the colony puts on a fashion show of sorts. First, they shed all their dried leaves, which the poor Bombay Municipal Corporation sweepers have a hard task clearing piles of in the morning. The massive canopies soon adorn a brand-new garment of pretty pinkish leaves that turn fluorescent green."
Katie Bagli, naturalist and author,
sunday mid-day, May 8, 2022
"Children grow up so quickly and had I continued shooting at my earlier pace, I would have lost the opportunity to be around them
(my grandchildren)."
Boman Irani, actor, The Times of India, April 26, 2022
"Women who set a low value
on themselves make life
hard for all women."
Nellie McClung, Canadian author,
politician and social activist,
Inspirational Quote, March 2023
India has "the lowest female labor force participation ratio (at 21%,
below even Saudi Arabia’s)
of any country in the G20."
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman, Forbes Marshall, past president, Confederation of Indian Industry, chairman, Centre for Technology Innovation and Economic Research and Ananta Aspen Centre, Business
Standard, December 22, 2022
"Whoever said ‘food is love’
never worked for a caterer."
Matt and Ted Lee, authors, Hotbox,
Inside Catering, the Food World’s
Riskiest Business, The Economic
Times, December 18, 2022
"If you want to know how
poor somebody was growing
up, ask them how many
windows they had."
Mieko Kawakami, opening line of Breasts and Eggs quoted in The New York
Times Magazine, February 12, 2023
Russian President Vladimir
"Putin was ‘not well-informed. It’s like arguing with an eighth-grader with his facts wrong.’"
George W. Bush, former US President,
The Economic Times, June 21, 2021
"By the time I joined medical college in the 1940s, Indian Standard Time was quite well-established. Certain clocks did display Bombay Time but it was hardly in use."
Dr R. P. Soonawala, gynecologist, quoted
in "The long History of ‘Bombay Time’
and Resistance to Colonial Rule,"
Atlas Obscura, June 30, 2021
"Imagine that you could have a 15-year idle capacity for a small reservation fee to a manufacturer who can manufacture (vaccines) for the entire region on priority at
the push of a button."
Adar Poonawalla, chief executive
officer, Serum Institute of India,
Business Standard, July 1, 2021
"Like the famous quote goes,
‘In a world where you can be
anything, be kind.’"
Dr Mazda Turel, practicing neurosurgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals and Honorary Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Grant Medical College and Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals, sunday mid-day, July 11, 2021
Dancer Astad Deboo "helped me set up a booth, carrying heavy suitcases full of sarees. Everyone around my stall laughed in envy saying that a famous dancer
was carrying my luggage.
‘You have a fancy coolie!’"
Ashdeen Lilaowala, fashion designer,
mid-day, July 11, 2021
"It seems to me that no better
use can be made of the ascetic spirit than the establishment of monasteries or residential halls for men dominated by this spirit, where they should live with
ordinary decency and devote their lives to the cultivation of sciences — natural and humanistic."
Jamsetji Tata in a letter to Swami
Vivekananda, November 23, 1898,
Good thoughts, Good words, Good
deeds, A book of Tata quotes
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring
your own sunshine."
Anthony J. D’Angelo, American author, Inspirational Quote, August 2021
"Though you are making the
film for the audience, your work
has to be honest, you have to be honest with yourself first. If you can’t do that, then you can’t be honest with the audience."
Farhan Akhtar, filmmaker, actor, whose mother Honey is a Parsi, The Times of India, August 26, 2021
"He (Rashid Irani) read copiously, sitting at the (Brabourne) cafe
galla (cash counter), even if for short snatches of five to seven uninterrupted minutes."
Virat Chandok, bookseller, poetry
lover and protégé of Irani, sunday
mid-day, September 5, 2021
"My family is completely dysfunctional. I don’t know how they are allowed to roam around in society."
Cyrus Sahukar, video jockey, mid-day,
September 22, 2021
"An Empire’s paper of record
could never be kept other than
in an organized file. A file of
unmanaged documents was the hallmark of peoples who could
not rule themselves."
Pheroze Nowrojee, Kenyan based human rights lawyer and writer, Station Master, Eburru and other stories
"Very frequently Parsi lads, until the age of 16, wear rings either in one or both of their ears."
The Parsis or Modern Zerdusthians: A Sketch (1852) by Henry George Briggs; reprinted by Kessinger Publishing