"Vigilance is also required on the part of parents. They should quit thinking that this (suicide) cannot happen to their child. Everyone goes through distress, the
point is to find healthier
coping mechanisms.”
Dr Zirak Marker, child psychiatrist and medical director of Mpower, a mental health center for youth, on the "Blue Whale”
phenomenon, mid-day, August 6, 2017
"My customer is the common man and middle-class employee, who is price and quality-conscious. To him/her, the taste of my food is of utmost importance, so I do not believe in frills and will never compromise on taste and quality.”
Farokh Shokri, owner, Kyani &
Company, The Hindu, June 30, 2017
"I like varied roles which I got to
do in theater. The more we widen our idea of what a lead could be, the richer society becomes.”
Jim Sarbh, actor, mid-day, July 19, 2017
"We have got perhaps the best European art collection in India. We have been buying a lot of international art. We have got close to a
$ 70-80 million art collection, which we built partly as a passion and partly as an investment.”
Adar Poonawalla, philanthropist and chief executive officer and executive director,
Serum Institute of India Private Limited, Mint, September 16, 2017, submitted
by reader Rashid Khosravi
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a refusal to ask
for directions.”
Gavin Baskerville, comedian,
Reader’s Digest, October 2017
"When Indira died (in 1984), my school in Surat, run by the Sir J. J. Orphanage, immediately claimed her as one of the community. Summoning an assembly to mark the tragedy, our deputy headmaster Maj Bamji (Retd), somewhat puzzlingly, informed the school
that Indira ‘lived like, and was
cremated, as a Parsi.’ Of this fact, he said, he was ‘very proud.’”
Aakar Patel, columnist, The Times
of India, October 22, 2017
"The Crow Eaters was the
first major novel with Parsi
characters and context and I
realized that the community had misunderstood the title and felt that the book had to do with our manner of disposing of the dead.”
Bapsi Sidhwa, author, G2,
December-January 2008, submitted
by reader Rashid Khosravi
"As I was the only son of my parents, my mother was totally against me riding a bike and refused to buy me one. However, I was adamant and refused to eat for 21 days! Finally, they relented and bought me my first bike, the JD350.”
Zubin Karkaria, chief executive officer,
VFS Global Group, G2, December-
January 2008, submitted by reader
Rashid Khosravi