"Henry Francis Lyte’s poem (Abide with me) set to William Henry Monk’s Eventide is among the most goose-bumping of Christian hymns, the latter arguably being the real reason why it was bumped off in these goose-stepping times.”
Bachi Karkaria, columnist and author, on the dropping of the hymn from the 2022 Republic Day parade program, The Times of India, January 27, 2022
"No one should underestimate the political intelligence of (Prime
Minister) Narendra Modi. I think
the political intelligence of (Home
Minister) Amit Shah may be
overrated; he’s a manipulator
and a divider, an intriguer but
Modi understands things.”
Ramachandra Guha, historian and author, The Indian Express, January 24, 2022
"India has among the least skilled workforces in the world. Under
five percent of our workforce is formally skilled, compared to 96% in South Korea, 75% in Germany and 52% in the US.”
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman,
Forbes Marshall; past president,
Confederation of Indian Industry;
chairman of the Centre for Technology
Innovation and Economic Research and Ananta Aspen Centre, The Indian
Express, January 19, 2022
"Now, we ask, whether those
behdins, or mobeds, or dasturs, who may be keeping fire in their temple only for a few hours of the day, and may be thinking it right and proper to smoke the hookah, can be called Zoroastrians?”
Rev John Wilson, Bombay missionary,
The Oriental Christian Spectator,
June 1848 quoted in Iran, the Mark of
Paradise or the Land of Ruin? Historical Approaches to Reading Two Parsi
Zoroastrian Travelogues by Daniel
Sheffield, assistant professor,
Department of Near Eastern Studies,
Princeton University
"We are aghast to note that some of the so-called flat purchasers who are themselves builders are moving around in the complex with revolvers with a view to threaten those who are obstructing their entry in the subject complex.”
Bombay High Court Justices Shahrukh Kathawalla and Milind Jadhav, The
Indian Express, January 4, 2022
"The Omicron variant spreads in five minutes. This means that earlier one person would spread it to 1.5 people, but now one person can infect five to seven people.
In such a situation, it’s almost
impossible to contact trace
(as per present guidelines).”
Dr Khusrav Bajan, member of
Maharashtra’s Covid-19 task force,
sunday mid-day, January 16, 2022
"The contribution of Soli Batlivala and the Bhulabhai Institute will go down the history of Bombay’s art world in golden letters.”
Meher Marfatia, columnist and author,
sunday mid-day, January 2, 2022