"When you attack us, you will
see our faces, not our backs.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, The Free Press Journal, February 25, 2022
"Experience is something I’d
like to have without going through all the trouble of getting it.”
Dr Mazda Turel, practicing neurosurgeon, recalling a statement he read somewhere, sunday mid-day, March 6, 2022
"The man who knows how to humbug and hypnotize the public stands a good chance of being elected to a number of bodies
from the board of trustees of
the Parsi Punchayet to the
central council of State.”
Nani Palkhivala, jurist, in an article written for
Rast Rabbar, November 6, 1943 reproduced
in Essays and Reminiscence: A Festchrift in Honour of Nani A. Palkhivala (2020), edited by Arvind Datar; submitted by jurist Fali Nariman
"With the OTT (over the top streaming services) boom and
the rise in female-driven narratives, female actors are being paid their worth. And that’s great, because then you don’t feel undervalued.
We aren’t just pretty faced anymore.”
Amyra Dastur, actor, Hindustan Times, March 13, 2022
"World-class cities are known
for their residents’ sustained engagement with the arts. As the city emerges from its recent phase of restrictions, we are pleased to collaborate with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on this
initiative to resume performances not just in our theaters but also take them to the public.”
Khushroo N. Suntook, chairman,
National Centre for the Performing
Arts, on the Symphony Orchestra of India performing at the Cooperage Bandstand Garden,
The Indian Express, March 6, 2022
"Hundreds of Zerdusthians may
be seen on the Esplanade of Bombay in the cool of the afternoon, mumbling the Gujaratized Zend jargon of devotion, without a knowledge of what they utter, or the capacity to appreciate the observance undergone.”
The Parsis Or Modern Zerdusthians:
A Sketch (1852) by Henry George
Briggs, reprinted by Kessinger Publishing Legacy Reprints (2009)
"Due to mounting losses, taxation, maintenance, electricity bills,
salaries and Covid-19, very few single screen cinemas will stay open in the future.”
Viraf Vatcha, deputy president, Cinema Owners & Exhibitors Association of India, Sunday MumbaiMirror, February 27, 2022
"He (Rahul Bajaj) generally had the last word in meetings, sometimes because it was the loudest, always because it was the rightest.”
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman, Forbes Marshall; past president, Confederation of Indian Industry; chairman, Centre for
Technology Innovation and Economic
Research and Ananta Aspen Centre,
Business Standard, February 17, 2022