"This (Murder In old Bombay: A Mystery) is also a novel about how our social mores control us and prevent us from being our full selves. It dictates whom we can be friends with and include in our sect. It’s a form of racism... I do believe that the people who are promoting this orthodoxy are good, generous and devout. In fact, I love so many of them. But, this thinking often results in hurt, and that’s why I believe, it is flat out wrong.”
Nev March (Navaz Merchant), writer,
sunday mid-day, November 21, 2021
"(Tata director A. D.) Shroff
later bemoaned the ‘moral
cowardice the businessmen of India suffered from at the time I sponsored the Forum of Free
Enterprise in 1956.’”
Mircea Raianu, author, Tata:
The Global Corporation That Built
Indian Capitalism
"People do not lack strength;
they lack will.”
Victor Hugo, French writer, Inspirational Quote, December 2021
"We realized that we didn’t
need to stick to the text book, as most of the children were not
going to school. So, we created content which we thought
was lacking in the syllabus.”
Piroja Shroff, educator, former chief
executive officer, English E. Teach,
mid-day, December 27, 2020
"We worked together, perfecting
a trick, giving it a new twist,
simplifying it, polishing it
— because the best tricks
have great simplicity.”
Jehangir (Jean) Bhownagary,
filmmaker and conjuror on working
with radio presenter Hamid Sayani,
during their school days, sunday
mid-day, November 21, 2021
"Most innovation is fueled by the application of technology that is transforming the way we do business. Traditional businesses will have to actively watch for the advancement of technology that can very well replace their business models overnight.”
Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus,
Tata Sons, The Times of India,
December 27, 2020
"In October, globally respected democracy watchdog Freedom House released its Internet
Freedom Index and India marked
a third consecutive year of
decline, having registered the
largest number of internet
shutdowns in the world.”
Shekhar Gupta, journalist and columnist, Business Standard, in arrangement with ThePrint, December 19, 2020