"The only race greater than
the Jews, is the Derby.”
Victor Sassoon quoted in The Last Kings
of Shanghai, The rival Jewish dynasties
that helped create modern China by
Jonathan Kaufman
"Like a wedding guest piling food from a buffet onto their plate until there is no place left, doctors have been prescribing fistfuls of drugs when attempting to manage patients with Covid-19.”
Dr Zarir F. Udwadia, consultant chest physician, PD Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Bombay and Dr Satchit Balsari, assistant professor in Emergency Medicine and in Global Health at Harvard University’s medical and public health schools, The Indian Express, July 11, 2020
"This pandemic will change how we see patients. The personal touch is lost. I can’t touch a
patient’s arm to comfort them. I have to remain at a distance.
Social distancing and face
shields are the new norm.”
Dr Behram S. Pardiwalla, consultant
physician, The Indian Express, July 9, 2020
"It is the government’s discretion whom to designate a terrorist, a throwback to the Emergency-era MISA (Maintenance of Internal Security Act).”
Coomi Kapoor, consulting editor, The
Indian Express and author of The
Emergency: A Personal History, The
Indian Express, June 25, 2020
"There are just two families in the world, my old grandma used to say, the haves and the have-nots, and she
always stuck by the haves.”
Sancho Panza, Don Quixote by
Miguel de Cervantes
"It’s difficult to say what our
growth will be in the next three
to five years while we are still in
the midst of Covid-19. At this
juncture, it is possible that it
will take a whole year for demand to return to pre-Covid levels.”
Noel Tata, chairman, Trent and Voltas,
The Economic Times, June 23, 2020
"I’ve seen my mother (Honey
Irani) animated (on the screen), with different expressions,
speech, seen her change, and grow. It’s really interesting
even now, to see her like that.
She was darn cute, man! She,
and my aunt Daisy (Irani)!”
Zoya Akhtar, film director,
mid-day, May 15, 2020
"My father (Khodamurad Meherwan Afkham) had no home, only hope, but an attitude of gratitude in his heart. He slept on the footpath outside, with a thin gunny sack lining the cold ground.”
Banoo Kalantary, on her father who
worked in New Majestic Restaurant and Stores where he later became a partner,
mid-day, May 10, 2020