"Try and remember me beloved
as the flower you plucked and
not the flower you tread upon.”
Ruttie Jinnah (née Petit), in a
letter to her husband Muhammad
Ali Jinnah, cited by Deepa Gahlot,
columnist, The Free Press
Journal, August 11, 2023
"The interview was published
verbatim but the last line was struck out. There I had said:
‘I hope our Muslim friends can
live in peace in India.’”
Zubin Mehta, music conductor,
referring to an interview he had given
a leading publication, The Indian
Express, August 19, 2023
"I do not know what is more
unfortunate, our Prime Minister
refuses to come to Parliament or that he refuses to go to Manipur.”
Mahua Moitra, Trinamool Congress
Member of Parliament, The Free
Press Journal, August 11, 2023
"We don’t have a problem with
nudity; we only have a problem with nudity if it’s in a movie. This is why members of our ruling party spoke out against Oppenheimer but were silent when Indian
women in Manipur were stripped and paraded in public.”
Lindsay Pereira, columnist, mid-day,
August 19, 2023
"Hard questions must be asked of the collegium of the Supreme Court. Why was this judge
(Justice S. Muralidhar) not taken
to the Supreme Court when he is so supremely qualified and has
performed so brilliantly? With
such merit on display, along with matchless integrity and probity,
on what grounds was he denied
his rightful place?”
Fali Nariman, constitutional jurist and senior advocate, Supreme Court; Madan B. Lokur, former judge, Supreme Court, and Sriram Panchu, senior advocate and mediator,
The Indian Express, August 16, 2023
"A famous surgeon once told
me, ‘There may be a few
patients whom we may not be
able to heal, but there are
none we cannot harm.’”
Dr Mazda Turel, practicing neurosurgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals and honorary
assistant professor of neurosurgery,
Grant Medical College and Sir J. J.
Group of Hospitals, sunday mid-day,
August 20, 2023
"The key feature of our translation process is reading the original
text aloud. This gives a feel
for pacing, rhythm and flow.”
Tulsi Vatsal in discussion with co-translator Aban Mukherji, sunday mid-day,
August 13, 2023
"Education’s purpose is
to replace an empty mind
with an open one.”
Malcolm Forbes, publisher, Forbes
magazine, Inspirational Quote,
September 2023