"The 1865 Act explicitly protected the right of Parsi husbands to
have sex with prostitutes.”
Mitra Sharafi, Law and Identity in
Colonial South Asia, extract submitted
by reader Prochy Mehta
"As for the stock markets, I’ve also stopped (investing in them). I lost a few hundred crores there, never been in the stock market since.”
Cyrus Poonawalla, chairman,
Poonawalla Group, The Economic
Times, January 22, 2016
"For a country as large as India, we should be competitive in every sphere. We can’t say we will only do services or we will only do agriculture. Or only manufacturing, for that matter. Therefore, we need
to take measures to improve
the conditions under which
Indian factories work.”
Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group,
The Economic Times, January 26, 2016
"Do you want to change and
throw away popular cinema? I don’t think so because that is
the entertainment which our
masses survive on.”
Boman Irani, actor, Free Press
Journal, January 29, 2016
"A grant is given for three to
five years typically; everybody should accept that it is not
going to be for infinity.”
Ratan Tata, chairman (emeritus), Tata
Trust, talking about the need to evolve the goals of the trusts, Tata Review, reprinted in The Economic Times, February 3, 2016
"Some women choose to have a C-section because of an extreme fear of labor pain; others do not want to opt for a vaginal route
as they find it ‘gross.’”
Dr Jeroo Bhada, gynecologist,
Hindustan Times, January 31, 2016
"I wanted to talk about all the taboos, prejudices and biases that plague our community. We can whitewash it as much as we want, but the truth is that we are just like
anybody else. Not purer or anything.”
Kersi Khambatta, scriptwriter,
Mid-Day, January 31, 2015
"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it’s the government.”
Woody Allen, humorist and film-maker, Reader’s Digest, January 2016
"Customers used to ask for a certain combination of products — for example, instead of a plain chicken sandwich, they wanted chicken and cheese. But, since it was not on the menu, the waiter would say no and the customer would either leave or settle for the plain sandwich. That’s when the concept of giving more variety came in.”
Farokh Shokriye, Kyani & Co, Irani
café, Mint, February 4, 2016