"It would not be an exaggeration to say hundreds of thousands of patients globally will be left with this pulmonary complication (from contracting Covid-19). The crucial question is whether they will
recover over time or stay
permanently disabled.”
Dr Zarir Udwadia, pulmonologist,
MumbaiMirror, October 25, 2020
"The first time you have an unplanned baby you can call it carelessness and maybe bad (or good) luck. Now to have two unplanned babies in this modern era of contraception is not carelessness — it’s called being Punjabi.”
Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, from The 12 Commandments of Being a Woman, The Times of India, October 25, 2020
"The comic image on the basis
of my unconventional looks,
personality and body type is
suffocating. Why can’t I play a quintessential mother or a
protagonist if I am a good artiste?”
Delnaaz Irani, actor, The Times of India, October 24, 2020
"Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God... You can’t kick someone out of a family, nor make their life miserable for this. What we have to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally covered.”
Pope Francis, quoted in documentary, Francesco, The Indian Express, October 22, 2020
"When I finished addressing a group of women on the importance of education for girls, one of the community women said, ‘If my daughter goes to school, who will get water for the family?’”
Zarina Screwvala, co-founder, Swades Foundation, Mint, October 16, 2020
"A theater’s essence can
really be back only when the
world reopens.”
Shernaz Patel, thespian, artistic
director of Aadyam, Aditya Birla Group’s theater initiative, The Free Press
Journal, October 10, 2020
"Our constitutional law has
been replaced by a Hindutva
version of sharia law.”
Anand Patwardhan, documentary film
maker, The Indian Express, October 4, 2020
"A surgeon should always encourage a patient to take a second opinion, rather than get offended by the suggestion. It offers security to the family and bolsters the first surgeon’s decision making when seconded by another colleague.”
Dr Mazda Turel, neurosurgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals and Honorary Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Grant Medical College and Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals, mid-day, October 11, 2020