"I used to come from Dadar to the Cricket Club of India to practice and would hang off the trains, just
missing the telegraph poles by
inches. I’d carry my heavy kit bag
and walk back from Dadar station
to Dadar Parsi Colony. It wasn’t
easy but I was determined to make something of myself. Unless you have that burning ambition in
anything, you won’t succeed.”
Farokh Engineer, former test
wicketkeeper-batsman, quoted in a
documentary Four on Eleven: The
Fading Glory of Parsi Cricket by
Shrikaran Beecharaju, sunday
mid-day, August 25, 2024
"There are very few young Parsi boys left to take up any sport. There were no Parsis in my school (Jadi Rana High School in Valsad, on the border of Gujarat and Maharashtra) either. The only Parsis I know are in
Bombay, and all are either pursuing academics or jobs or their family business. Sports is not a serious career option for young Parsis.”
Arzan Nagwaswalla, left-arm pacer from Gujarat, quoted in a documentary Four on Eleven: The Fading Glory of Parsi Cricket
by Shrikaran Beecharaju, sunday
mid-day, August 25, 2024
"‘Every monsoon, the grass at the Oval Maidan would grow higher. It
was never cut and just dried up after
the rains were over,’ says (Oval neigh-
borhood resident Nayana) Kathpalia, 81, while Shirin Bharucha, 85, adds that a shrub master was borrowed from a club to clear the stone-filled ground and over 300 truckloads of junk were removed which included wash basins, toilets, tube lights,
garbage and animal bones.”
The Times of India, September 22, 2024
"China’s real estate bust left behind tens of millions of empty housing units. Now that historic glut of
unoccupied property is colliding with China’s shrinking population, leaving cities stuck with homes they might never be able to fill.”
The Wall Street Journal, reprinted
in Mint, October 2, 2024
"We can understand if such a thing happened to an ordinary man...
But that a former minister (Baba Siddique) was killed shows the failure of the state home departments.”
Amol Mitkari, Nationalist Congress Party, Maharashtra Legislative Council (Ajit Pawar/faction), The Indian Express, October 14, 2024
"Hospitals and shops catering to pets have become ubiquitous, while
childbirth clinics have all but
disappeared, as South Korea’s
birthrate has become the lowest in the world. Online shopping malls
say they sell more baby carriages
for dogs than for babies.”
The New York Times reprinted in The
Indian Express, October 14, 2024