"One of the oldest flyovers in the city
(at Kemp’s Corner) is still standing,
and has required hardly any repair,
but all the flyovers built over the last
15 years have collapsed or are lying
in various states of disrepair.”
Cyrus Guzder, former head of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Heritage Society,
MumbaiMirror, March 17, 2019
"Most spine ailments originate
from poor posture, lack of
exercise, paucity of sunlight, unhealthy diets and, probably, a genetic disposition to degeneration. ‘To feel fit as a fiddle you must tone down your middle!’ my grandfather used to say.”
Dr Mazda Turel, neurosurgeon,
Jam-e-Jamshed Weekly, March 17, 2019
"Parsis are big hoarders. My
wife loves collecting plastic
bags. Today, she says, ‘I knew
this day would come. It’s
banned, but I have it.’”
Meherzad Patel, founding partner and director, Silly Point Productions theater company, mid-day, March 17, 2019
"One of the nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”
Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer cited on the cover of the menu of the Bombay-based restaurant, The Nut cracker
"That part (his half-Parsi roots)
is alive and kicking. ‘I am a
pescetarian (person who eats
fish but not other meat) so
saas ni macchi and patra ni
machhi I can devour.’”
John Abraham, filmmaker and actor,
whose mother Pheroza is a Parsi,
mid-day, March 17, 2019
"Art institutions need artistes as managers. Our administration,
programme heads, technicians even accountants are artistes
basically. Only an artiste can
empathize with another.”
Khushroo N. Suntook, chairman,
National Centre for the Performing Arts,
The Hindu, March 22, 2019
"I had grown to my desk... and the wood had entered into my soul.”
Charles Lamb, writer and career clerk
with the East India Company and known
for his persistent unpunctuality,
The Hindu, March 24, 2019
"It is completely unethical to promote
a drug in a video as if it is a miracle
(cure). Also, why does the video have
a physio (therapist) talking about a
Parkinson’s drug?”
Dr Pettarusp M. Wadia, senior neurologist, regarding a video showing a drug for
instant cure of Parkinson’s disease,
MumbaiMirror, March 7, 2019
"A retrospective reveals the evolving
patterns in an artist’s oeuvre. It allows
us to contextualize the adjacencies,
continuities and ruptures in an artist’s
practice. It enables us to look back
and to look deep, and to read art
history against the grain.”
Nancy Adajania, art curator,
mid-day, March 3, 2019