"There is nothing new in the
world except the history you
do not know.”
Harry S. Truman, a former President
of the United States of America
"Patients should be encouraged to seek (second) opinions especially when the diagnosis is rare, as the world of academia may have physicians working on breakthrough treatments in the field.”
Dr Mazda Turel, neurosurgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals and Honorary Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Grant Medical College and Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals, mid-day, October 11, 2020
"There were a lot of things to consider while picking the plays (during the pandemic), like certain elderly actors did not wish to shoot, some actors weren’t in Bombay anymore, other
times the old sets are broken.”
Shernaz Patel, thespian, artistic
director of Aadyam, Aditya Birla Group’s theater initiative, The Free Press
Journal, October 10, 2020
"The most important lesson from the Spanish Flu that crushed
the world in 1918 was not an
epidemiological one. It was that a pandemic can only be tackled by truth. We seem to be doing the opposite. We have been silently complicit in developing a system that hides the truth.”
Anurag Behar, chief executive officer,
Azim Premji Foundation who also leads
the sustainability initiatives for Wipro Ltd,
Mint, October 22, 2020
At the movies "You want to be a witness to someone’s healing; to feel good about yourself, you want to see the protagonist triumph over all odds.”
Boman Irani, actor, on producing movies, MumbaiMirror, September 13, 2020
"Statistics indicate that a lot of people do feel suicidal or anxious in the evening — a time when the mind is possibly less occupied with the hustle and bustle of the day — and this is when they reach out.”
Dr Zirak Marker, child and adolescent
psychiatrist, medical director, The
Aditya Birla Integrated School,
mid-day, December 13, 2020
"I STD (subscriber trunk dialling
for long distance) called my
Surat boyfriend (from Irani
cafe phones) in every lunch
break, wickedly paying local
rates. I think the gentleman at
the galla knew but said nothing.”
Hutoxi Turel, student of Convent of Jesus and Mary, mid-day, December 12, 2020
"It is also amazing that we can all bring a concert from our homes to yours which no one would have thought at the beginning of 2020.”
Farah Ghadiali, soprano, mid-day,
December 17, 2020