"If you can’t keep yourself in
optimum shape in every realm, how can you be there for other people in your life?”
Nawaz Modi Singhania, fitness consultant, The Economic Times, August 28, 2019
"A suit should not look like a gunny bag put around your neck. The right cut flatters your body. That’s more important than the brand.”
Jimmy Mistry, chairman, Della, The
Economic Times, September 9, 2019
"A Muslim charged with terror crimes can spend 14, even 23, years in jail, before he steps
out, innocent. A Hindu charged with terror is likely to soon walk free, and might even be elected
to Parliament.”
Harsh Mander, human rights worker and writer, Indian Express, September 14, 2019
"My childhood was in Rasht by the Caspian Sea. Fish there was grilled with simple sea salt and lime juice, not the chutney of patra ni machhi or spice of saas ni machhi.”
Kurush Dalal, caterer and archeologist,
mid-day, September 15, 2019
"I will tell them (single men wooing Parsi women) to learn three new things in a year. Like learning a new language or an instrument. It is about expanding their intellect and grey matter and that is what will make them attractive.”
Hormuz Ragina, India’s JAM master,
MumbaiMirror, September 16, 2019
"By avoiding the hard job of
justice, the Supreme Court has abandoned us to rule without law.”
Umair Ahmad, writer and novelist, writing on the Babri Masjid judgment, The Times of India, November 10, 2019
"Earlier, we were dependent on the relationship manager to do a good job. So, it really depended on whether the relationship manager was doing his job well. Now we depend on technology to de-risk the
bank on the loan side.”
Zarin Daruwala, chief executive
officer, Standard Chartered Bank India, DNA, June 24, 2019
"There is an enormous fight
going on about which data is
right and the government has a particular view... all data that is inconvenient to it is wrong.”
Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel Economics Prize winner who shared the award with his wife Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer, The Economic Times, September 16, 2019
"Your film is only good if it lasts
two or three weeks.”
John Abraham, actor and filmmaker,
whose mother Pheroza is a Parsi,
mid-day, August 25, 2019