"You can’t be thinking about
your audience too much, but
yes, you do read the room.
And in a room like the one at
the Oscars, I feel that the
reaction (to comedian Chris
Rock’s joke) should have
been more grown up.
It’s toxic masculinity to think
that you have to protect your
woman. Rock showed more
grace than anyone there.”
Cyrus Sahukar, presenter and actor,
on actor Will Smith slapping Chris
Rock at the 2022 Oscars ceremony
for making a joke concerning his
wife who suffers from a hair
loss illness, alopecia, sunday
mid-day, April 3, 2022
"A book by PG Wodehouse, a
humor book, was sent by his
family (but) the jail authorities
refused to hand it to him saying
it was a security risk twice.”
Yug Chaudhry, counsel for Gautam
Navlakha, social activist, The Free
Press Journal, April 5, 2022
"Today, Congress’s only
feat is defeat.”
Bachi Karkaria, columnist,
The Times of India, March 17, 2022
"Artistes would give me 15% of their earnings from their shows, which I ploughed back into my organization, and that helped me cover my costs. It wasn’t easy, especially since I was doing
this entirely on my own.”
Shireen Isal, former impresario and
author of Joy, Awe and Tears:
My Association with Sargam,
sunday mid-day, April 3, 2022
"You know, Cicily has been my
wife for 50 long years. She has been a good wife but in married
life of this length I must frankly confess that the first 49 years
have been the most difficult!”
C. K. Daphtary, lawyer, cited by jurist
Fali Nariman in a tribute, The Indian
Express, April 1, 2022
"A builder needs deep pockets
to build a tower over 40 floors. Skyscrapers put cities on the
global map. Places like Kuala
Lumpur, Dubai and New York
are glittering stars. But in
Bombay, only a foolish
guy would want to go
up beyond a point.”
Hafeez Contractor, architect,
sunday mid-day, March 27, 2022
"The success of these places
on street corners? Look,
Iranis mostly didn’t care what
Indians said [Hindu
businessmen considered
corner plots ‘panvati,’
(inauspicious)], they did
what they had to.”
Rustom Nasrabadi, proprietor,
Cosmopolitan Restaurant and Stores,
mid-day, March 21, 2022