"Bombay has come a long
way from being the birthplace
of Tata Air to being a city with no major airline based out of it. First Air India moved its base from Bombay to Delhi, then Jet Airways filed for bankruptcy and now with (the Wadia Group’s) GoFirst in deep waters it looks like Bombay is on its last leg as far as civil aviation is concerned.”
Capt Manoj Hathi, former director,
operations, Air India, The Times of
India, May 3, 2023
"I have got 57% of my pilots sitting on the ground and they are very expensive people. So, I have another threat. If people — my employees, my pilots and others — don’t see relief coming, they will leave the airline. If the relief comes too late, I won’t have the pilots, I won’t have the organization. So, the number of engines and the speed of that is critical for our existence for the next six months.”
Nusli Wadia, chairman, Wadia Group, which owned Go Airlines, explaining the company’s predicament concerning Pratt and Whitney engine problems and delivery, before Emergency Arbitrator hearings in
Singapore Mint, May 26, 2023
"Celebrated investor Warren
Buffett once said if a far-sighted capitalist had been present at
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, when the Wright Brothers launched the first flyer, he would have shot them and done future generations
of investors a huge favor.”
Editorial, Business Standard, May 4, 2023
"No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child.”
Abraham Lincoln, US president,
Inspirational Quote, June 2023
"The Sangh (the RashtriyaSwayamsevak Sangh and allied bodies) rallied around (Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament, Brij Bhushan Sharan)Singh because in its deepest being, it is a patriarchal, misogynistic
organization hardwired to
discipline recalcitrant women.”
Mukul Kesavan, historian, on the Bharatiya Janata Party government’s reluctance to take cognizance of sexual harassment charges against Singh, The Telegraph Online, June 4, 2023
"I’m told the sole of my grandpa’s foot resembled a hard horseshoe, tough after walking most of the dis-
tance from Tehran in his 20s. He hit
work in a Matunga Station tea stall, then this chai-pao (tea and bread) joint with a jukebox, got the first beer licence in central Bombay.”
Hushang Mazdayasna, owner, New Roshan Bakery
at King’s Circle, sunday mid-day, May 21, 2023
"We need to keep innovating, and do that in conjunction with being sustainable and green. So (that) combination... is really going to allow us to make the goods and
services that are highly competitive.”
Jamshyd Godrej, chairman, Godrej
and Boyce Manufacturing Company,
Forbes India, February 10, 2023