"The only vegetables served at a Parsi wedding are perhaps in the form of the achaar (pickle) served right at the beginning.”
Tanaz Godiwalla, caterer,
Mint, June 17, 2017
"The only way to include veggies
in a Parsi diet is perhaps by
adding meat to them.”
Perzen Patel, Bawi Bride, Mint,
June 17, 2017
"The first impulse of the police is to spring to the defence of the assailants. Nothing could be worse for police morale and ethics than to watch lynch mobs burn shops, beat up people and do nothing.”
Keki N. Daruwalla, writer and former
member of the Union cabinet secretariat,
The Indian Express, June 20, 2017
"If they’re saying that they’re
taking more money from the
public because they want to
plough it back into Rani Bagh,
it is a myth... Everything goes
into the municipal fund, and
everything is spent as per
the budgetary allocation.”
Hutokshi Rustomfram, trustee, Save Rani Bagh Botanical Garden Foundation,
The Hindu, May 17, 2017
"I’ve have been working all my
life. It was torture, to not be able
to work... Then, one understands
the value the opportunity one
has been given to be an actor.
The audience decides who
they will watch, and you’ll only
get one, maximum two
new faces each year.”
Akshaye Khanna, actor, whose
mother Geetanjali is a Parsi,
The Indian Express, June 20, 2017
"As an actor, I am an entertainer, and
we should really not take everything
so seriously. It’s okay if a few movies
do not have a message to impart.”
Boman Irani, actor, mid-day, June 11, 2017
"I like to remind my class — ‘you will
always have a unique project if you
write about Zoroastrianism!’ and
you are assured of good marks as so
few people Down Under have heard
about the Zoroastrians.”
Pheroza Daruwalla, Sunday School
teacher in Australia, Volume35/Issue2/Manashni, May 2017
"Talaq may be essential, but it is a big step to claim that this (instant triple talaq) is essential to religion.”
Rohinton Nariman, Supreme Court
Justice, The Hindu, May 18, 2017
"All of a sudden we are hearing these voices of women who are married outside but want to remain Parsis. Why? What’s wrong in being a good Hindu, Christian or
a Muslim? I wonder how the
husbands allow it to happen.”
Cmde Medioma Bhada (Retd),
The Hindu, May 22, 2017
"Newborns in India have a
lesser chance of survival than babies born in Afghanistan and Somalia, according to the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study published in the medical journal The Lancet.”
The Hindu, May 20, 2017
"I will be buying a house right
now because interest rates are
at the bottom and I do not see property prices remaining that
low or going low any further
from where they are now.”
Keki Mistry, vice chairman and
chief executive officer, Housing
Development Finance Corporation
Limited, Mint, May 17, 2017
"He (U.S. President Donald Trump) has attention deficit disorder. He is impulsive. He is a vulgar casino operator. He is superficial,
ignorant and dangerous and
those are the nice things that
I have to say about him.”
Alan Friedman, journalist, The Indian
Express, May 17, 2016
"Conservation isn’t just about
the conservation of grand
buildings; what you must
conserve is context, sense of place, sense of time and history.”
Brinda Somaya, principal architect
at Somaya and Kalappa,
MumbaiMirror, April 23, 2017
"We also cook fresh prawns
on clotted cream. This dish is called malai ma kolmi, but we
call it ‘heart attack on a plate.’”
Kurush F. Dalal, Katy’s Kitchen, Mint,
June 17, 2017
"If you think you are too little to make a difference, you haven’t spent the night with a mosquito.”
African proverb quoted by Eunice de
Souza, MumbaiMirror, June 8, 2017
"There was so much free time during shooting of Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi that Boman and I would play board games. That’s when I told him, now I know why actors have affairs on set — it’s
out of sheer boredom.”
Farah Khan, film director, producer and choreographer, whose mother is a Parsi, MumbaiMirror, May 28, 2017
"No classroom can give you
the sort of exposure that you
get by dealing with failure and
success. All the theories in
the world won’t help.”
Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer, Serum Institute of India, Forbes India, December 9, 2016, submitted by reader Rashid Khosravi
"In the matter of Hindutva’s
continuing cow obsession, I will predict one fallout of the new law of Friday: more animals may or may not be saved but more Indians will certainly be slaughtered.”
Aakar Patel, columnist, The Times
of India, May 28, 2017
"When the famously taciturn
president Calvin Coolidge died, she said, ‘How do they know?’”
Eunice de Souza quoting American
poet Dorothy Parker, MumbaiMirror,
June 22, 2017