"Forget your bullet trains PM (Prime Minister Narendra)
Modi. Give us the new drugs we
need to treat, give us the labs
and tests to diagnose early, give
us more funds, not more cuts
in the TB (tuberculosis) budget.”
Dr Zarir Udwadia, in a TED (media
organization that posts talks online for
free distribution) talk ahead of the
World TB Day on March 24, The Indian Express, March 24, 2017
"Previously, sailing was only
limited to members of the Yacht Club and military personnel. Thanks to some ex-sea cadets
who started this business,
anyone can come and sail now.”
Jimmy Nadar, former sea cadet, who
runs the Gateway Sailing Club, The
Times of India, April 9, 2017
"He is, maybe, the funniest guy on
stage, but for us he (director Dinyar
Contractor) was a terror to work with.”
Delnaaz Irani, actress,
MumbaiMirror, April 2, 2017
"All politicians demand loyalty,
but some politicians demand more loyalty than others. Xi Jinping, China’s President, is in the
Napoleon class — Napoleon, the pig, that is, who taught the creatures of George Orwell’s Animal Farm the slogan: ‘Comrade
Napoleon is always right.’”
The Economist reprinted in The Indian Express, April 10, 2017
"I love Parsi food because it is
flavorsome. Italian food, with
a drizzle of this and a drizzle
of that, I don’t like at all. I am
quite a Bawaji that way.”
Aban Pardiwala, who caters from home, The Hindu, March 18, 2017
"The aim of the Gayan Uttejak Mandali founded in 1870 by Kaikhushro Kabrajee was
‘to propagate among the
Parsis a liking for indigenous
music and promote songs
and music which are moral
and also with proper sur
(tone) and tal (rhythm).’”
Rupa Sethna, 68, managing committee member, Swar Sadhana Samiti,
co-founded in 1961 by the late Keki
Jijina and the late Dr Aban Mistry,
MumbaiMirror, April 9, 2017
"But the art world over the
years has also gotten a lot more professional, a little more
organized and certainly
earned more respectability.”
Dadiba Pundole, Pundole’s (auction
house), MumbaiMirror, April 16, 2017
"Make a building taller than the
Burj Khalifa, make your Darling Harbor (a harbor next to the
city centre in Sydney, Australia)
but at what cost?... We blame
the British for atrocities but look
at what our own elected
representatives are doing.”
Pervez Cooper, who was thrown
out of his office building along with
all the other occupants by the Bombay
Port Trust, Mid-Day, April 18, 2017