"My own navjote was my favorite. I was nine and my eight-year-old brother got drunk because he
kept asking everybody for a
sip of their drink.”
Amyra Dastur, actor, mid-day,
August 22, 2018
"Behind every successful man is
an entire group of women who were told they couldn’t go to school, could not have careers
and equal pay, had no rights over their own bodies and that their short skirt was asking for it.”
Radhika Vaz, comedian and columnist,
The Times of India, July 17, 2018
"Some of our best content comes out of Marathi, Malayalam and Bengali cinema because they don’t have the crutch of a big budget.”
John Abraham, actor, whose mother
Pheroza is a Parsi, MumbaiMirror,
August 3, 2018
"I am a lazy boy. (My music teacher) Rael (Mendes) will tell you I
am a lazy bugger. But, anything that reminds me of school and exams puts me off.’”
Rumi Taraporevala, 88, training to be a baritone, mid-day, August 12, 2018,
submitted by reader Rashid Khosravi
"I’ve been doing plays ever since school. There’s never really been a stop to it. Except for one year, when I went off wandering around and stayed at an ashram for
five months. Even there I was
cast as Jesus in a play.”
Jim Sarbh, actor, The Free Press
Journal, July 20, 2018
"I do not feel India has a
water problem but I feel we
will have a problem if we do
not manage it properly.”
Nadir Godrej, chairman, Godrej Agrovet, The Free Press Journal, July 18, 2018
"From the Coorgi cuisine, for instance, we only know pandi curry. But do you know that the souring agent (Kochumpalli) used to make it is a cousin of the kokum and comes from south east Asia? This is exactly what we want to bring out. Food is a great unifier.”
Dr Kurush Dalal, archaeologist, caterer and faculty member, University of Bombay Centre for Extra-Mural Studies, mid-day, April 26, 2018
"A business that makes nothing
but money is a poor business.”
Henry Ford, businessman, Wit & Wisdom, The Economic Times, October 8, 2018
"Earlier, people generally went on one long holiday. Nowadays, people prefer to take shorter holidays two or three times a year.”
Zubin Karkaria, chief executive officer, VFS
Global Group, G2, December-January 2008,
submitted by reader Rashid Khosravi