"Now, that all restaurants are shut, I go once in the morning for my tea, at a small shack in the nearby lane. Here, I am joined by garbage workers, the underprivileged, and the elderly; (they have been hit the worst due to the lockdown) and
yet, I do not see despair in them.
That’s moving, but it has also
made me very angry. At times,
I am overwhelmed with rage.”
Rashid Irani, film critic, mid-day,
June 7, 2020
"Three orders separately passed by different benches of the highest court had declined to give any direction to the majoritarian government at the Centre to make transport available to migrant workers.”
Fali S. Nariman, senior jurist, The
Indian Express, May 22, 2020
"I do not know why the first lockdown needed to be announced with four hours’ notice. That’s what caused a lot of the immediate crisis for many migrant workers because there was a certain mass of people who were trying to get on trains and so on to go home.”
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman, Forbes Marshall and president, Confederation of Indian Industry, The Indian Express, May 21, 2020
"Mumbai is woefully short of hospital beds and supporting ongoing efforts of those fighting this pandemic is the right thing for us to do. The managing committee is fully supportive of the decision to help in any way we can and I hope you all agree that this is the time for us to stand up and be counted.”
A. Narielwala, chairman, Willingdon Sports
Club, on the Bombay Municipal Corporation
using a part of the Club property for the
pandemic patients, mid-day, May 23, 2020
"Is there no limit to the power
of this dyna-mite?”
Bachi Karkaria, columnist, The
Times of India, May 7, 2020
"The food industry does not make a lot of profit and works on a tight margin. With most eateries around Mohammad Ali Road falling under unorganized sector with no insurance, there will be hundreds who would not be able to return.”
Kurush Dalal, food blogger, The Indian Express, May 7, 2020
"Post Covid, there will be no face-to-face selling, our boys are no more welcome in stores — this is the reality. We will have to cut down on sales manpower.”
Piruz Khambatta, chairman and
managing director, Rasna, The Indian Express, June 6, 2020
"Will cancer wait idly, while a
Covid virus takes center stage,
and takes over hospital resources, beds and doctors, and drains all hopes of a cancer cure?
Dr Roshan Farokh Chinoy, cancer specialist in diagnostic pathology, worked at the Tata Memorial Hospital for over 32 years, now works in Prince Aly Khan Hospital, The Indian Express, June 6, 2020