"E-rickshaws will be an
absolute disaster. The red mud
has disappeared and to ply
e-rickshaws Matheran was paved with concrete paver blocks at
huge expense, completely
ruining the aesthetics and
charm of the grand hill station.”
Dr Rohinton Mehta, co-author,
Matheran: A Mountaineering Manual,
mid-day, July 29, 2022
"Between 2004 and 2014, under the Congress, the Enforcement
Directorate had carried out 112 raids. But between 2014 and
2022, there have been 3,010
raids under the Bharatiya Janata
Party — a 27-fold increase.”
Scroll, July 28, 2022
"Rishi (Sunak’s) candidacy is understandably a matter of pride and watchfulness in India and throughout the diaspora. Indians have, from Dadabhai Naoroji, Lord (Satyendra) Sinha, (Mancherjee) Bhownaggree and Shapurji ‘Saks’ Saklatwala (incidentally, my
great- grandfather’s cousin) have
been elected to the House
of Commons from the
19th century on.”
Farrukh Dhondy, writer, The Times
of India, July 24, 2022
"Rather than being the guardian
of rights, the Supreme Court
is now a significant threat to
it. This is a depressing
predictability that the Court
brings to Indian jurisprudence.”
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, contributing editor, The Indian Express, on the recent Supreme Court judgment upholding the draconian
clauses in the Prevention of Money Laundering
Act, The Indian Express, July 29, 2022
"A lot of pet parents come to me with a rottweiller or a German
shepherd pup saying he is biting. My first question to them is, how can you allow that? I insist on
training both the dog and the
owner together so that they know how to behave with each other.”
Cyrus Cowasji, animal caregiver and
trainer, The Times of India, July 21, 2022
"The horse racing industry in India has witnessed a sharp decline since the evolution of GST (Goods and Services Tax) and is now on the verge of closing down.”
Zavaray S. Poonawalla, chairman,
GST Cell and council member, Turf
Authorities of India, mid-day, July 16, 2022
"Two decades after the riots, as the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case walk free, activist Teesta Setalvad and police officer R. B. Sreekumar, who fought on the side of the petitioners, are in jail — the police took their cue from the court, its verdict became the basis for the FIRs
(first information reports). The apex
court must ensure that the injustice to Bilkis Bano is reversed.”
Editorial, The Indian Express,
August 17, 2022