"It would be criminal if the
Government of India makes as much of a mess disbursing this humanitarian aid as it has in
controlling the pandemic.”
Bachi Karkaria, columnist, The
Economic Times, May 12, 2021
"June or July will tell us which way the tide is turning. The shortage of vaccines is creating a little bit of a set-back. Unless we have 50% of the population vaccinated we will not see a clear shift for the better.”
Zarin Daruwala, chief executive officer, India and South Asia Markets, Standard Chartered Bank, Mint, April 29, 2021
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Government has seemed more intent on removing criticism
on Twitter than trying to
control the pandemic.”
Editorial in The Lancet, May 8, 2021
"Urge the Prime Minister and a few of his colleagues to spend at least one day visiting the hospitals in Delhi to directly hear the dying gasps of patients deprived of oxygen, to see the despair of relatives watching their loved ones dying waiting for a bed, waiting for oxygen that never comes.”
Farokh E. Udwadia, emeritus professor in medicine, Grant Medical College and the J. J. Group of Hospitals, consultant physician, director, Intensive Care Unit, Breach Candy Hospital, consultant physician, The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital, The Indian Express, April 28, 2021
"Migration is a way in which you actually work as one market,
where people move from where
employment opportunities
are less to where employment opportunities are more, where everyone ends up with a better life, and as a result, shedding the notion that migrants are less than local, as less than equal.”
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman,
Forbes Marshall, past president, Confederation of Indian Industry, chairman, Centre for Technology Innovation and Economic Research and Ananta Aspen Centre,
Financial Express, April 17, 2021
"‘How do I keep my brain sharp?’
a lot of people ask me. ‘Clean
living and keep moving’ is my
standard response.”
Dr Mazda Turel, practicing neurosurgeon at Wockhardt Hospitals and Honorary Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Grant Medical College and Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals, Sunday mid-day, May 2, 2021
"Life becomes easier when you learn
to accept the apology you never got.”
Robert Brault, freelance American writer, Inspirational Quote, May 2021
"In 1903 there were more than 2,000 car companies, and nearly all of them failed even though
cars have transformed the country since then. There’s a lot more
to picking stocks than figuring
out what will be an incredible
industry in the future.”
Warren Buffet, billionaire investor, at Berkshire
Hathaway’s annual meeting, Mint, May 3, 2021