"I was against demonetization.
I did not think it would be a useful thing to do. And I tried to explain why I did not think it as useful.
I asked my people, ‘Can we
oppose it? And will our will
prevail?’ And they said, ‘No, we cannot. The government can give us directions, and we will have
to obey the government.’”
Raghuram Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of
Finance at the University of Chicago,
Chicago Booth School of Business and the
23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, The Indian Express, December 18, 2023
"I want to ensure that each house in Dharavi gets sunlight... We want to make a model of social housing and show it to the world. I want to give them large open spaces and gardens. I want people to say, ‘I wish I was living in Dharavi.’
If that happens, I would say I
have succeeded.”
Hafeez Contractor, architect, Hindustan Times, January 7, 2024
"‘Surgery at 87 is okay?’ she asked with trepidation. ‘Only if you want
to live to be a hundred!’ I said.”
Dr Mazda Turel, practicing neurosurgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals and honorary
assistant professor of neurosurgery,
Grant Medical College and Sir J. J.
Group of Hospitals, sunday mid-day,
December 24, 2023
"A conductor, first and foremost, has to have something profound within themselves that they need to say through their music. The choir, or an orchestra, is our instrument.”
Coomi Wadia, India’s first woman
music conductor, Sunday Times of India,
December 24, 2023
"The average Japanese is
over four times (and German
seven times) as productive as
the average Indian, and
increasing working hours per
worker changes nothing.”
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman, Forbes Marshall; past president, Confederation of Indian Industry; chairman, Centre for
Technology Innovation and Economic
Research and the Ananta Aspen Centre,
Business Standard, November 23, 2023
"We are slowly establishing
a de facto Hindu state, where
the Hindu religion is given primacy in the established social and
political order. Anyone opposing such an enterprise is anti-Hindu
as well as anti-national.”
Kapil Sibal, lawyer and member of the Rajya Sabha, The Indian Express,
January 2, 2024
"The man who does not read
has no advantage over the
man who cannot read.”
Mark Twain, American writer,
Inspirational Quote, September 2023