"My Lord, what is Parsi law? Since I have been in Bombay, I have never been able to discover it; and I have never met any man who had... I think I may insist, that the Parsis have no law.”
British lawyer arguing in court in 1939,
Law and Identity in Colonial South
Asia, Parsi Legal Culture 1772-1947
by Dr Mitra Sharafi
"There is an old joke about
Muhammad Ali Jinnah demanding Kashmir, and Jawaharlal Nehru replying that he could have
Kashmir provided he also took Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.”
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar
whose late wife was a Parsi, The
Economic Times, March 15, 2017
"Speak only when you can
improve upon the silence.”
Buddhist saying quoted by chief
economic adviser Arvind Subramanian,
The Indian Express, March 3, 2017
"Infertility can be cured. With IVF (in vitro fertilization), I have been blessed with three beautiful angels. Life feels complete now. I urge all couples, who are unable to conceive, to seek help and fulfil their dream of parenthood. It changed
my life and it could change theirs too.”
Farah Khan, filmmaker and
choreographer, whose mother is a
Parsi, Mid-Day, February 10, 2017
"I was a stiff kid. Sam (Kerawalla) called me to Patkar after school, taught me to walk and talk. He
introduced me to the smell of
a theater, the exciting sense
of an auditorium.”
Shernaz Patel, actor-producer,
Mid Day, March 19, 2017
"We are on the threshold of a Hindu state (unconstitutional though it be). We are moving — not towards the soft Hindutva that Justice J. S. Verma spoke of in his judgment in the Manohar Joshi vs N. B. Patil case (1995), ‘not a religion but a way of life,’ but the hard Hindutva of V. D. Savarkar — ‘Hindu rashtra (state), Hindu jati (race) and Hindu sanskriti (culture).’”
Fali S. Nariman, constitutional jurist and
senior advocate, Supreme Court, The
Indian Express, March 25, 2017
"The kids are influenced by the environment, rather than us.
At the end of the day God is one and that’s what we instill in them — to respect all religions.”
Raj Kapur, who is married to Yasmin,
DNA, February 6, 2017
"It is unfair to penalize companies for hiring foreign H-1B professional workers. If Congress doesn’t want foreign workers, fix the US first. Encourage math and science not just professional sports.”
Farhan Sethna, immigration
attorney, US, The Economic Times,
February 14, 2017