"In north India, Hindu nationalists clambered atop a mosque to plant the Hindu saffron flag. They did the same in central India, unfurling the standard of Lord Ram atop a Christian church. In the south,
they burned down a Muslim fruit seller’s shop. And outside
Bombay, India’s financial capital, they pressured local police to
bulldoze Muslim businesses.”
Report in The Washington Post, referring to attacks on minorities in the wake of the Ram Mandir consecration in Ayodhya, January 28, 2024
"As a society, I think we are more divided than I’ve ever seen, but I’m a student of history. It teaches us that there’ve been many times that we were even more divided than we are today.”
Firdaus F. Dordi, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, Valley Lawyer, July 2022
"A nation’s greatness is
measured by how it treats its weakest members.”
Mahatma Gandhi, the driving force for India’s independence, Inspirational
Quote, August 2023
"In order for nonviolence to
work, your opponent must
have a conscience.”
Stokely Carmichael, American Black
leader, quoted by Ajaz Ashraf, columnist, mid-day, September 5, 2022
"Many Zarthosti Iranis also went into theater in the 1800s. They had the stature, presence, diction (needed for dialogs in Urdu); advertisements declared that the play had Real Persian actors.”
Dr Simin Patel, scholar and founder
director, Bombaywalla Historical Works, sunday mid-day, September 4, 2022
"A giant jackfruit tree overlooked our dining room windows. The room couldn’t be unattended without risking the crows swoop on breakfast fried eggs and milk with beady-eyed alertness. Sometimes, magpie robins winged in to perch nonchalantly on the sofa.”
Aban Mukherji, writer-translator, who
lived at Avasia House on Darabsha
Lane, off Nepean Sea Road, sunday
mid-day, April 23, 2023
"He (Sohrab P. Godrej) was
deeply involved in the holistic
development of the nation. One
of the vehicles that he chose for that was the World Wildlife Fund. He would say that our environment goes hand in hand with the
population of India.”
Dr Pheroza Godrej, art historian and
author, mid-day, May 22, 2023
"When a man is lynched for
having beef in his refrigerator...
the police first go and check whether the meat was beef
or not. Not whether the man
was lynched.”
Saeed Mirza, author and filmmaker,
The Indian Express, December 19, 2022