"With the new tuberculosis (TB) drugs approved by the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration), nobody should be dying of TB... They’re not available here
because of (Indian) government
inertia, and it’s unconscionable.”
Dr Zarir Udwadia, physician, The New
York Times, September 2, 2016
"Many people were of the view that (Prime Minister) Jawaharlal Nehru led an aristocratic life. People do not know that he was in jail for 15-and-a-half years. These leaders took blows to make India independent. If someone today asks me to be jailed for 15 years and then become Prime Minister I will refuse.”
Varun Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament, great-grandson
of Nehru and grandson of Indira
and Feroze Gandhi, The Economic
Times, September 3, 2016
"Can there ever be ethics in politics? Perhaps, but never in party politics. In the interest of so-called party discipline, members of parliament have to follow the party mandate, not their individual conscience. I must record that in my personal view there are a few instances of ethics in politics, but there is no ethics in party politics.”
Fali Nariman, eminent jurist,
The Indian Express, August 4, 2016
"The bank robber Willie Sutton
was once asked why he stole
money from banks. ‘That is
where the money is,’ he is said
to have famously quipped.”
Mint, August 11, 2016
"John loves washing his cars and motorcycles. ‘It’s the crazy Parsi
in me. It’s my meditation. I have a
special shampoo for my tyres.
I have glass cleaners specifically for the glass, and I use four
different kinds of cloth, for
different parts of the cars.’”
John Abraham, actor, whose mother
Pheroza is a Parsi, DNA, August 4, 2016
"If you’re hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You’ll get the same kind of feeling and you won’t have to pay.”
Bob Dole, former U.S. senator,
Hindustan Times, July 17, 2016
"The professional kitchen is a very sexist place in two ways — it’s hard for women to enter, and once they do they have to work doubly hard to prove their mettle.”
Anahita Dhondy, chef manager, Delhi’s SodaBottleOpenerWalla restaurant,
Hindustan Times, May 22, 2016
"If voting changed anything,
they’d make it illegal.”
Emma Goldman, writer,
The Economic Times, May 24, 2016