"It’s important to do a lot of
portraits because that’s what
really develops you as an artist, to get to the core of your craft, then it’s important. Portraiture helps strengthen your skills in terms
of sketching, coloring, blending.”
Nawaz Singhania, fitness trainer
and artist, Hello!, April 2014, submitted
by reader Rashid Khosravi
"Customers can be broadly
classified under two major
categories, the ‘value seeking customer’ and the ‘adornment mindset’... where it is really about the beauty of the product and
purchase becomes about adornment rather than investment.”
Deepika Tewari, general manager —
marketing, Tanishq, Campaign India,
June 12, 2015
"I am noticing that the critics
today (like) only a particular type of film, which is arty, slow and a bit boring. They do not like commercial films at all... Audiences watch a film using their own sensibility and if they like it, they go again. They don’t go only by the critics.”
Farah Khan, choreographer-turned-filmmaker, whose mother is a Parsi, The Free Press Journal, July 6, 2014
"Discrimination is
discrimination, even when
people claim it’s tradition.”
Dashanne Stokes, author, Hindustan
Times, June 12, 2015
"Americans have been eating genetically modified grain for generations and nothing has happened. Besides we’ve been eating genetically modified stuff for centuries — only it was modified by cross-fertilization and cross-breeding and pruning and not in the laboratory.”
Farrukh Dhondy, writer, Hindustan
Times, July 10, 2014
"Small donors’ contributions
vastly outweigh those of billionaire philanthropists and their foundations: a 2007 study estimated that American households gave at least $ 60 billion annually to charities... By comparison, the Gates
Foundation made grants totalling
$ 3.9 billion last year.”
The Economist, reprinted in The Indian Express, May 28, 2015
"Till the time my son was two, he would not watch TV serials. However, when he joined school there’d be other children talking about serials and this got him interested. He would come back wanting to watch those.”
Dr Pervin Dadachanji, psychiatrist,
Mumbai Mirror, July 11, 2014
"You show people what
you’re willing to fight for when
you fight your friends.”
Hillary Clinton, former US secretary of state, Reader’s Digest, October 2014