"In terms of efficacy, it is 62% if doses are given one month apart and, as AstraZeneca CEO (chief executive officer) Pascal Soriot had said a week ago, we also can get 90% efficacy if we space the doses two to three months apart.”
Adar Poonawalla, CEO, Serum Institute of India, Mint, December 4, 2020
"Behind every successful
Indian businessman there
is a nationalized bank.”
Kunal Kamra, stand-up comedian,
The Indian Express, January 30, 2021
"He (Zend Zend) then participated in the Bombay marathon in the senior citizen category, at least twice I think. He simply wanted to run because the marathon route
was past (his Yazdani) bakery.”
Zyros Zend, partner, Yazdani Bakery,
mid-day, January 12, 2021
"Farmers are half our workforce, but produce 15% of our GDP (gross domestic product). The pandemic has seen this worsen, as migrants by the million have returned home from higher
productivity urban jobs to lower
productivity farming.”
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman,
Forbes Marshall, past president,
Confederation of Indian Industry,
chairman, Centre for Technology
Innovation and Economic Research and Ananta Aspen Centre, Business
Standard, December 1, 2020
"Eighty percent of the jobs in 2040 do not exist right now, just as ‘head of social media’ or ‘influencer’ did not exist 20 years ago. The 10 most valuable companies in the world have not yet been founded.”
Ted Wainman, director of Cadogen Consultants
and author, MoneyWeek, November 6, 2020
"Between 2019 and 2020, the numbers (of court cases) crept up from 35
million toward 40 million, an over 10%
rise. According to the India Justice
Report 2019, it takes an average
of three years for the case to
traverse the high court and six
years in the subordinate courts.”
Maja Daruwala, senior adviser,
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
and Vijay Raghavan, professor, Centre
for Criminology and Justice, School of
Social Work, Tata Institute of Social
Sciences, The Indian Express,
December 28, 2020
"J. B. (Petit School)’s legendary liberal principal Shirin Darasha cancelled the third word of the classic ‘Please do not disturb’ board fronting her office
(to read) ‘Please do disturb.’”
Meher Marfatia, columnist,
mid-day, November 1, 2020