"If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.”
Kendrick Lamar, American Rapper,
Inspirational Quote, May 2021
"Following Standard Time was a loss ‘of prestige’ and the first act
of ‘swaraj’ or Indian self-
determination ‘would be to
restore local time to Bombay.’”
J. B. Boman-Behram, lawyer and former
mayor of Bombay, quoted in "The long History of ‘Bombay Time’ and
Resistance to Colonial Rule,” Atlas
Obscura, June 30, 2021
"The worst thing is when herberds (Zoroastrian priests) do not know how to use the (ritual) implements properly, nor do they know about the decisions, or the religious
authorities, or purity or pollution.
It is incumbent, therefore, that
two knowledgeable herberds should come to Iran to learn the
Pahlavi script and find out what
is and what is not proper.”
Rivayat of Nariman Hushang (1478 AD), cited in Iran, the Mark of Paradise or the Lands of Ruin? Historical Approaches to Reading Two Parsi Zoroastrian
Travelogues by Daniel Sheffield, assistant professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
"Not long ago, a Gujarati
newspaper broadly asserted
that perjury was common to the Parsis, and that formerly they
were in the habit of making away with women by poison, and
by other subtle agencies.”
The Parsis or Modern Zerdusthians: A Sketch (1852) by Henry George Briggs, reprinted by Kessinger Publishing
"If the highest aim of a captain
were to preserve his ship, he
would keep it in port forever.”
St Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and philosopher, Inspirational Quote, July 2021
"(Dadabhai) Naoroji was a
socialist, but also saw trade,
industry and free enterprise
as parts of the solution to
create a prosperous India.”
Dr Dinyar Patel, assistant
professor of history, S. P. Jain
Institute of Management and Research, Mint, December 4, 2021
Roger "Van Damme’s acquaintance of (Kekoo) Gandhy blossomed to a business proposition. He provided the know-how for the 1940 factory manufacturing chemical moldings. With finance rustled up by Kekoo and his brother Russy, the venture got christened Gallery Chemould — short for ‘chemical moulding.’”
Meher Marfatia, columnist and author,
sunday mid-day, January 2, 2022
"External healing begins with what we tell doctors, who expect us to follow this principle: what you reveal, we can heal.”
Shaista Tayabali, author, Lupus, you odd unnatural thing, a tale of auto-immunity, (Blue Hill Publications, 2022)