"For my friends, everything;
for my enemies, the law.”
Oscar R. Benavides, President of
Peru from 1933 to 1939, cited
recently on social media posts
pertaining to crony capitalism in India
"Bombay was a huge aviation
market in those days. It was the most obvious choice for an airline base. Back then, getting night parking stands was not difficult, having an engineering base with a hangar that can accommodate an aircraft or two was not difficult. Airlines would want to be based out of Bombay, but (today) infrastructure constraints don’t allow it.”
Parvez Damania, founder of erstwhile
Damania Airways, The Times of
India, May 3, 2023
"Taxis parked on our road
(Garden Road, Colaba) are
a help rather than a nuisance. When I needed a vehicle at
sunrise to attend the prayers
for someone deceased, a driver called Badruddin readily
dropped me to Doongerwadi
safely on time and refused the
fare payable. Because of the
sad situation, he said —
very respectful of him.”
Dinoo Dordi, Garden Road resident,
sunday mid-day, May 7, 2023
"We do not reflect that it is
perhaps as difficult to write a
good life as it is to live one.”
Lytton Strachey, English writer,
cited by Bakhtiar Dadabhoy in
Homi J. Bhabha: A Life (Rupa 2023)
"Nostalgia is the underlining
theme for the menu of this
38-year-old café (Ideal Corner
run by Pervez Patel). It includes
a dish called railway mutton. It is an old recipe from when the railways were the only mode of transport. People carried along
a dry mutton recipe with
roti to avoid any fuss.”
mid-day, April 19, 2023
"I’m hands-off as far as possible, but intervene when needed. I
know what’s going on broadly. Some people thrive on being
micro-managers; I don’t.”
Jamshyd N. Godrej, chairman and
managing director, Godrej & Boyce,
Business Standard, March 25, 2023
"Xerxes (Gobhai) was a great
bass player. The way he took
to the stage, you could sense
the talent behind it.”
Gary Lawyer, singer, mid-day, March 8, 2023
"France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older
— intelligence and good manners.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, novelist, quoted
by Rachel Cusk, The New York Times,
May 2, 2023