"Mr (Sharokh) Sabavala attended meetings with (prime minister Indira) Gandhi and myself and I think somewhere I mentioned in my biography that when she lost interest she started fiddling and opening
envelopes and removing letters and beginning to read them.”
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy (J. R. D.) Tata,
industrialist, Gentleman, June 1992
"There is no edict that says so.
It’s the Indian patriarchal system that’s largely to blame (for
disadvantaging women). Getting married outside the community
is a matter of choice.”
Yezdi Bamji, priest, Tardeo’s Sethna
Agiary, mid-day, April 30, 2017
"There are two types of
people (who drink and drive) —
the youth who believe nothing wrong can happen to them and those in the older age group who are deluded enough to believe
that they can take the wheel.
This latter attitude percolates to
the younger lot over time.”
Dr Kersi Chavda, consultant psychiatrist, Hinduja and Hurkisondas hospitals,
mid-day, June 11, 2017
"Everyone has been applying
coats of paint to it — that’s
beautification; and conservation
is not beautification.”
Vilas Dilawari, conservation architect,
on Bombay’s Flora Fountain
MumbaiMirror, April 23, 2017
"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
Coco Chanel, founder, Chanel, The
Economic Times, June 14-20, 2017
"People expect a little bit of everything
in my films or as (director) Shirish
Kunder says, they expect a thaali.”
Farah Khan, film director, producer and choreographer, whose mother is a Parsi, MumbaiMirror, May 28, 2017
"As there were no priests till 1975 (in Australia NSW), during the sad bereavements in the community, prayers were recited by only one half ordained priest along with a couple of women who could pray from the Avesta.”
Villie and Kersi Meher-Homji,
Manashni, May 2017
"Our institutions are
exclusively meant for Parsi Irani Zoroastrians and by that definition, children born to a couple
with either one of the parents
from (an) other faith cannot be
considered Parsis and cannot access these institutions.”
Ervad (Dr) Parvez Bajan, The Hindu,
May 22, 2017
"I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to
achieve it through not dying.”
Woody Allen, filmmaker, The
Economic Times, January 6, 2017