“The realm of the entrepreneur exists beyond business.
Entrepreneurs are tackling problems of poverty and
inequity, like Shaheen Mistri, whose nonprofit provides
after-school tutoring to children in slums in India.”
Hillary Clinton, US secretary of State, Span, July/August 2010
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things
left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln, former US president, Span, July/August 2010
“Court staff have no infrastructure, advocates sit in cycle sheds, courts are in bathrooms. Rickety furniture is seen in every mofussil court. The government spent Rs 108 crore to give laptops to the
subordinate judiciary, but unless there is a generator, you can’t operate laptops, can you?”
Sarosh Kapadia, Chief Justice of India,
The Indian Express, July 16, 2010
“I believe that a child can be a Zoroastrian even if one of the parents is not a Parsi, provided that both the parents basically agree with each other. The conservatives, on the other hand, believe that the faith can only be passed on to children whose both parents are Parsis. In such circumstances I am afraid that in a hundred years the Parsis will become extinct.”
Zubin Mehta, music maestro, The Score of My Life, submitted
by Dara Khodaiji
“Not allowing the child of a Parsi mother to follow the religion is unfair, patriarchal and makes no sense, since biologically both parents contribute equally to a child.”
Armaity Desai, former University Grants Commission chairperson and
former director at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, (TISS),
The Times of India, January 22, 2009
“As regards the ‘rivalry’ between (Soli Sorabjee and me), for a long while we were rivals, later unfriendly rivals, but now, in the evening of our lives, we are friends. Please don’t disturb us
in the evening of our lives!”
Fali Sam Nariman, jurist, The Times of India, June 20, 2010
“Every time you touch pen to paper — you are subconsciously painting a picture of your personality. Every letter you write, every line or curve you make, unfolds a story of your personality to the eyes of a handwriting analyst.”
Khushroo B. Master, chief general manager — finance, Godrej
Appliances, Change, house magazine of Godrej, January-April 2010
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if
you just sit there.”
Will Rogers, humorist, Span, July/August 2010
“Participants move at their own pace, without being forced to move and with no restrictions, unlike a structured dance form. This relaxes the body and beats stress.”
Dilshad Patel, dance therapy conductress, DNA, February 8, 2009
“Barbering is a male technique in which the barber works with clippers and employs the scissors over comb. All over England, you have barber shops... there is dignity in labor there.”
Dilshad Pastakia, hairstylist, Bombay Times, February 13, 2009
“‘Can you imagine an 84-year-old like me having to deal with a (film) shooting crew and rough spot boys who have made themselves at home? You have to be taskmaster to rent out your home.”
Manijeh Patel, owner, Green Gifts bungalow on Turner Road, DNA,
February 15, 2009
“St Petersburg (is) a captivating city especially if one’s rooms
are on the street where Dostoevsky wrote Crime and Punishment, and where Gogol lived and in which Tchaikovsky wrote the Pathetique symphony before dying, officially of cholera and unofficially by his own hand when his Conservatoire colleagues discovered
he was gay.”
Farrukh Dhondy, writer, DNA, May 29, 2009
“We must take a new departure and cut ourselves adrift from
the illiterate and unsympathetic aristocracy of wealth. Our
sheet-anchor should now be the aristocracy of intellect.”
D. E. Watcha to Dadabhai Naoroji 1889. Extracts from Christine Dobbin’s ‘Urban Leadership in Western India: Politics and Communities in Bombay City 1840-1885’ (1972)
“We have hitherto been in the habit of depending and throwing
the whole burden on the rich. The rich of Bombay have at times done their part nobly, as we all know. Let us, the middle class, do our duty also. Let us bear our own share of the burden.”
Dadabhai Naoroji, The Journal of the East India Association, 1869. Extracts from Christine Dobbin’s ‘Urban Leadership in Western India: Politics and Communities in Bombay City 1840-1885’ (1972)
“I say, and I am proud to say, that I belong to the poor. I mean
to the masses, the great mass of men that constitute the
nation, the commons in whose hands are vested all the powers
of the purse and the provisions of the ways and means in
civilized countries.”
K. N. Kabraji, editor of Rast Goftar, 1872. Extracts from Christine Dobbin’s ‘Urban Leadership in Western India: Politics and Communities in Bombay City 1840-1885’ (1972)