"Forget about teaching university students — a really tough crowd to please is 12-15-year-old Zoroastrian Sunday Schoolers ‘The Terrific Tween/Teens.’”
Pheroza Daruwalla, Manashni, newsletter of the Australian Zoroastrian Association
of New South Wales, May 2017
"In law, there is no such thing
as deemed conversion.”
Shiraz Patodia, lawyer, The Hindu,
May 22, 2017
"The vaccine industry works with a herd mentality. If a company launches a particular vaccine,
all others follow suit. So you
have good profits for four to five years after which products from competition flood in and
revenues/profits disappear.”
Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer, Serum Institute of India, Forbes India, December 9, 2016, submitted by reader Rashid Khosravi
"I never studied through the
night for exams; I studied
through the year.”
Nadir Godrej, poet and managing
director, Godrej Industries, G2,
August-September 2016, submitted by reader Rashid Khosravi
"Many elderly people who wanted to take a reverse mortgage were dissuaded by their children who feared losing control over the
property. In the Indian context,
the elderly haven’t been free
to be independent and act in
their own best interest.”
Mathew Cherian, chief executive
officer, Helpage India, Civil Society,
May 2017
"We have child models from
Ankita Jhaveri to my daughter Avan Khambatta for the ‘Love
You Rasna’ campaign, but here
too I realized that for Rasna to grow it should not just be a
children-centric brand.”
Piruz Khambatta, chairman and
managing director, Rasna Pvt Ltd,
G2, August-September 2016, submitted
by reader Rashid Khosravi
"We (conductors) perform with great
orchestras, which have great musicians. They also have their interpretive ideas. Sometimes we have to be flexible. It’s a give and take between conductor and orchestra.”
Zubin Mehta, maestro, Fridayreview,
May 12, 2017
"The number of electric two-
wheelers in China is immense. Your chances of being run over
by a two-wheeler in Beijing are very high because they are
soundless. The largest number
of electric buses anywhere in
the world are in China.”
Ajay Mathur, director-general, TERI
(The Energy Resources Institute),
Civil Society, May 2017