"When their leopard named Tiger scared passersby, the good lady
of the house placated, ‘No, no,
the small dog’s meaner.’”
Shirinbai Hormuzdi, old time Bandra
resident quoted by Meher Marfatia in her
article "All creatures great and small,”
mid-day, October 4, 2020
"The happiness of strays depends
on their closeness to humans.”
Daisy Sidhwa of The Welfare of Stray Dogs, mid-day, October 4, 2020
"English women are ugly, French women perverse, Spanish
women bring us bad luck, and
we get along with America.”
Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini
speaking to his political enforcer Lt Attilio
Teruzzi on the latter’s son marrying an
American Jew. From a review of Victoria de Grazia’s The Perfect Fascist published in The Wall Street Journal, October 3-4, 2020
"Not exercising at all, and
excessive exercise, both lead
to lowered immunity as compared
to moderate exercise.”
Dr Aashish Contractor, director,
rehabilitation and sports medicine, Sir
H. N. Reliance Hospital, MumbaiMirror,
September 22, 2020
"If you ask questions in court
its contempt, if you ask questions
in society, its sedition. And
now you can’t ask questions
in Parliament either.”
Mahua Moitra, member of Parliament from West Bengal’s Krishnanagar constituency, Business Standard, September 26, 2020
"We lost 120 million jobs in one month and in the next two months restored most of them. It’s a reflection of how flexible the labor market
is at the informal end.”
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman of Forbes
Marshall, past president of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and chairman of the
industry group’s India@75 Foundation,
The Times of India, October 2, 2020
"I was born to a Punjabi father, living in a Parsi home with a stepdad who was Maharashtrian!”
Natasha Poonawalla, executive director, Serum
Institute of India, Hindustan Times, August 9, 2020
"People are sitting at home, and there’s only a certain amount of news one wants to watch — Covid-19 or the other things that are going on. I think sports is something that brings the family together — a lot of the people who watch the IPL (Indian Premier League) are young kids,
middle-aged and elderly.”
Ness Wadia, co-owner of Kings XI Punjab,
IPL, BusinessLine, September 14, 2020
"Our Ingress to this world was
naked and bare; Our Progress in this world is trouble and care; Our Egress from this world will be nobody knows where; But, if we do well here we shall do well there.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet,
quote shared by reader Armin Kalyaniwalla