"Many more lives may have
been lost than saved by
India’s lockdown.”
Zarir F. Udwadia, consultant physician, Hinduja Hospital and Research Centre, Bombay and T. Jacob John, former
professor of clinical virology, CMC Vellore,
The Times of India, August 4, 2020
"I bore witness to the real man,
in strip clubs, shady business meetings, and in the unguarded moments when he revealed
who he really was: a cheat, a
liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist,
a predator, a con man.”
Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump’s one time lawyer and fixer in a foreword to his memoir, Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump, The Indian Express, August 15, 2020
"Our cities have among the
least generous floor-space
indices (FSI) in the world. New York, HongKong and Tokyo have an FSI five times Bombay’s.”
Naushad Forbes, former president,
Confederation of Indian Industry,
chairman, India@75 Foundation and co-chairman, Forbes Marshall, The
Indian Express, August 21, 2020
"If, on the other hand, the forces of authoritarianism and sectarian bigotry continue to gather
momentum, and the Supreme Court does little or nothing to
check them, then the verdict of
history and of constitutional
scholarship will be even harsher than it is at present. In that
case, the Court of today may
come to be viewed by future
generations of Indians not merely as an executive Court, but
as a collaborationist Court.”
Ramachandra Guha, Bangalore based historian, The Indian Express, August 13, 2020
"I do believe that we need to
adapt with the times... I made
a lot of structural changes. The
aim was to reach out to Parsis,
as well as non-Parsis.”
Tanaz Godiwalla, caterer, on her new
food delivery business, mid-day,
August 10, 2020
"As for ‘opportunistic takeovers’
in a depressed stock market,
who can ever confidently
know when falling stock
markets are bargains?
‘Never catch a falling knife’ is
an old stock market saying.”
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar,
whose late wife was a Parsi, The
Economic Times, April 22, 2020
"A medical examination was
conducted during which the jail doctors checked their vitals to declare them fit for hanging.”
On the four who raped Nirbhaya, The
Times of India, March 21, 2020