Ebadi was born in 1947 to liberal academic parents who did not send her to Islamic schools. “I went to a Zoroastrian school as it was a better one.”
-- Dr Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, The Week, December 10, 2006
“Why should we have exchange controls...? In 6,000 years of recorded history, great trading empires have flourished with no exchange controls!”
“The only way I can respond to this question is to quote Ferdowsi’s Shah-Nameh: ‘How did they hold the world in the beginning, and why is it that it has been left to us in such a sorry state? And how was it that they were able to live free of care during the days of
their heroic labors?’”
-- S. S. Tarapore, chairman, Committee on Fuller Capital Account Convertibility, Business India, October 22, 2006
“Jehzan is aware his ‘papa’ is no more, He has accepted the fact but cries before he goes to sleep. After all, it would be his papa who would tell him stories every night.’’
-- Farzin Munshi, whose husband was killed in the Bombay train blasts of July 11, 2006, The Indian Express, December 8, 2006
“Bombay is like an old man with blocked arteries. It needs a desperate clean up in the form of ring roads with east-west connection. We may soon have to work from home.”
-- Hafeez Contractor, architect, Hindustan Times, December 7, 2006
“The Tata Group spends more than any other Indian business group on philanthropic activities.”
-- Business Today, August 27, 2006
“H. M. Seervai’s annual income would have put a junior to shame. When he was told it would not be wrong to take high fees if clients were willing to pay them, Seervai retorted, ‘If a man was willing to be robbed would you be a thief?’”
-- T. R. Andhyarujina, senior advocate of the Supreme Court and former Solicitor-General of India, The Indian Express, December 5, 2006
“Dinner was a fruit, broccoli and tofu. These days, it is a full-course meal and you wouldn’t believe it, my favorite gulab jamuns fill the dessert plate entirely.”
-- Pesi Shroff, former jockey turned trainer, The Indian Express, November 20, 2006
“The moment a guest sees a platter of water chestnuts with corn curd, they know it’s my food.”
-- Farrokh Khambata, Hindustan Times, December 16, 2006