"We must create an environment where (an individual) can
be motivated here and that
requires a community of
investors, capitalists who take risks... Then you’ll get those
(globally successful results) here too. It cannot be a typical, bankable project. It has to be risk-bearing and there will be failures. The failures themselves will be lessons leading to successes.”
Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Trusts,
The Economic Times, October 12, 2017
"If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges or the protective members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected — those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most — and listens to their testimony.”
James Baldwin, American writer and social critic, quoted by Justice Gautam Patel,
The Indian Express, October 12, 2017
"Photography is very subjective because you are putting a
frame around reality. And so,
you can block out what you
don’t want to see.”
Sooni Taraporevala, director, scriptwriter
and photographer, mid-day, October 8, 2017
"It’s unlikely that the scholars
who consistently maintained
that driving would damage ovaries, deprive (women) of their virginity and integrity had a sudden
epiphany that their decades-old beliefs were wrong.”
James Dorsey, Singapore’s
S. Rajaratnam School of International
Studies, The Hindu, October 5, 2017
"A. D. Shroff, a financial genius
from the House of Tatas had
such a fiery temper that he sometimes banged the phone down on Jeh (J. R. D. Tata). But the mutual respect underlying the equation ensured a quick rapprochement, rather than an ego tussle.”
From the biography of A. D. Shroff by Sucheta Dalal, Moneylife, December 23,
2016-January 5, 2017, submitted by
reader Rashid Khosravi
"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.”
Gloria Steinem, American feminist,
journalist and social political activist, quoted by Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India, October 2, 2017
"A new patient handed me
her medical history form. Under past traumas, she’d written:
‘Married twice.’”
Amy Wright Brill, Reader’s Digest,
September 2017