"Amazing is all that I can say. Shocking is the right word to
use. What is going on is
distressing. How could the
provision be invoked by police even six years after the SC (Supreme Court) had struck it down?”
Rohinton F. Nariman, Supreme
Court judge, on section 66A of the
Information Technology Act still being
used to arrest people for social media
posts,The Times of India, July 6, 2021
A Parsi lady "asked me what the Gathas have to say about abortion and being gay. That is such an uninformed question that it makes me despair... People have to be reminded that the Gathas were composed around 3,500 years ago and Zarathushtra did not make dogmatic statements. On the contrary, free choice within a context of rational clear thinking was prescribed as the way forward.”
Stanley Insler, professor and Gathic
scholar, Fezana Journal, Spring 2021
"We were all ‘bloody Indians’
to them till a few years ago.
Now once the IPL (Indian
Premier League) started... just
because of the money, they
are licking our boots. But
people like me know what their true colors were initially.”
Farokh Engineer, former India and
Lancashire wicketkeeper, referring to
racist Tweets by English fast bowler
Ollie Robinson about a decade ago,
The Indian Express, June 9, 2021
"Only the guy who isn’t rowing
has time to rock the boat.”
Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher
and writer, Inspirational Quote, July 2021
In the International Monetary
Fund per capita gross domestic
product projections of 195
nations for 2021 "India falls
some steps this year to 148
with Ghana, Congo, Ivory Coast and Morocco above. And of
Botswana (84) and Gabon (80) way above besides South Africa, Namibia and the two islands of Mauritius and Seychelles.”
Shekhar Gupta, columnist, Business
Standard, by special arrangement with
ThePrint, June 5, 2021
"The remedy of a negative
Press, perhaps, lies not in
abusing the credibility of the
rating agencies but introspecting. Not bashing the messenger
but altering the message.”
Coomi Kapoor, consulting editor, The
Indian Express, May 31, 2021
"The audience will watch a Sanjay Dutt or a Salman Khan film
irrespective of what they do,
because their audience is fixed.
It makes me feel great that,
however small or big, we
have a fixed audience.”
John Abraham, actor, The
Times of India, June 13, 2021
"A ward boy’s... grandfather got sick and died. While the reports ruled out Covid-19 as reason for death, he thought he may have transmitted the virus... He was
ridden with guilt and couldn’t emerge out of it. Finally, we had
to put him on medication.”
Dr Kersi Chavda, consultant
psychiatrist, P. D. Hinduja Hospital,
mid-day, June 13, 2021
"There are a shocking number
of people who believe they can simply torment fat people into weight loss and disciplining their bodies or disappearing their
bodies from the public sphere.”
Roxane Gay, feminist writer and
professor, quoted by Preeti Zachariah,
Mint, June 12, 2021
"Our biggest failure is grossly incompetent handling of vaccination by the Union health ministry. Four months into our vaccination program, we have ordered just 230 million doses — against a requirement of almost 10 times that.”
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman, Forbes Marshall; past president, Confederation of Indian Industry; chairman, Centre for Technology Innovation and Economic
Research and Ananta Aspen Centre,
Business Standard, May 20, 2021
"For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds/ Their large professions and their little
deeds/ Mingle in selfish strife, lo!
Freedom weeps/ Wrong rules the land, and waiting Justice sleeps.”
Wanted Men by Josiah Gilbert Holland, reprinted in Prominent Parsis of
Navsari by Marzban Giara
"There are about 4,600 kinds of cockroaches around today and barely 30
of them are pests to humans.”
C. Y. Gopinath, columnist, mid-day,
May 18, 2021
"The unchecked spread of misinformation — ‘death by WhatsApp’ — is also responsible for Indians’ wariness about the vaccine.”
Dr Zarir F. Udwadia, pulmonologist and
member of the Maharashtra Covid task force, The Times of India, April 23, 2021
Actor "Irrfan Khan told me that
if he could go back in time and change something, anything,
in his life’s journey, he
wouldn’t change a thing.”
Homi Adajania, movie director,
The Times of India, April 22, 2021
"All the time, women are the
victims of men’s wars.”
Raihana Azad, a member of
Afghanistan’s Parliament, The New
York Times, April 19, 2021
"The estimated earned income
of women in India is only one-fifth of men’s, which puts the country among the bottom 10 globally
on this indicator.”
Press Trust of India, Business
Standard, April 1, 2021