"I have to be still, quiet, so
that life can approach me.”
The late Nariman (Nari) Dossabhai
Gandhi, architect, Inside Outside,
February 2014, clipping submitted by
reader Rashid Khosravi
"We would always be teary-eyed on Sundays because there were so many onions to be cut for mom’s catering business. My mum would experiment in the kitchen and as kids, we had already tasted
Gazpacho, Jambalaya and other
world cuisine, which other kids
our age had no idea of.”
Kainaz Messman, production head,
Theobroma, Mid-Day, September 28, 2014
"Once smart cities are created, say on the outskirts of Bombay, you will see lots of businesses from the city migrating to the new city due to cheaper land, labor and property.”
Keki Mistry, vice chairman and chief executive officer, Housing Development Finance Corporation, DNA, October 13, 2014
"India went red ages ago. Look at the pavements, the walls of buildings, the stairways of offices.”
A. F. S. Talyarkhan, sports commentator, The Times of India, December 21, 1955, reprinted in Freedom First, October 2014
"Changing the mindset of a 60-year-old manufacturing enterprise wasn’t easy. There were a lot of legacy systems in place and a lot of modernization needed to be carried out. My biggest success has been to alter our thought process and thus goals of where we want to go in the future.”
Shome Danani, business scion, Bharat Bijlee Ltd, whose mother is a Parsi, Hello!, July 2014, clipping submitted by reader Rashid Khosravi
"The eighth round you go back to the client with (your advertising presentation) is the one
that will be released.”
Kainaz Karmakar, executive creative
director, Ogilvy and Mather, Campaign India, September 19, 2014
"Most countries have armies, but in Pakistan the army has a country.”
Ayesha Jalal, author, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics, quoted in The Economist, reprinted in The Indian Express, September 23, 2014
"The problem with aviation is that for 50 years it’s been populated by people who think it’s a wondrous sexual experience when it’s really just a bus with wings.”
Michael O’Leary, chief executive officer, Ryanair, The Times of India, October 5, 2014