Quotes
So they say
"A community is not its arguments. Its soul cannot be determined by doctrine. More than a concern with how big our community will be, lately I've begun to wonder if anyone is interested in what kind of community it will be, and whether it will have any of the traits that distinguished previous generations of Parsis."
- Jehangir S. Poncha, Hamazor - Issue 3, 2005
"The most difficult of them all are the Parsi weddings. For instance, in the Hindu weddings the pooja is so long and the actions are repeated so many times, that even if you lose a shot once, you always have the chance to click it again. Whereas in a Parsi wedding, once the action is lost, it is lost forever. Therefore, if a person doesn't know the rituals, he will not know what he has missed. Unfortunately, even today, there are a lot of Parsi photographers who are not aware of these rituals themselves. Shooting a wedding requires a kind of study or a keen interest in the ceremony itself."
- Rustom Havewalla, photographer, Smart Photography, October 2005
"The Jewish feast of Purim celebrates the story of how Esther, queen to a Persian king (Cyrus), saved the Jews of the kingdom from annihilation. But along with the benevolence of Cyrus and the wisdom of Esther, there also lurked on the horizon the evil vizier, Haman of the race of Agog, whose mind and heart were darkened by rancor and hate."
- Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian studies program, Stanford University, International Herald Tribune, November 11, 2005
"In 1995, one needed 22 times of one's annual income to buy a house. Now, it is just 4.5 times."
- Keki M. Mistry, managing director, Housing Development Finance Corporation, The Week, November 27, 2005
"Britain has a true meritocracy and there is a genuine free market -without this there would have been no way I could have built Cobra from scratch into a virtually household name over the past 14 years."
- Brewer Karan Billimoria, SynergyZ, Vol 2, November 2005
"In 1999, there were just three malls in India, now we have 35-40 and by 2007, 250 odd malls are what we estimate."
- Kekoo Colah, executive director, Knight Frank (India), Business Today, December 18, 2005
"It's one of the toughest businesses to be in and average net margins of even large retailers tend to be under three per cent."
- Jehangir Dalal, senior vice president, CISCO (India), Business Today, December 18, 2005
- Jehangir S. Poncha, Hamazor - Issue 3, 2005
"The most difficult of them all are the Parsi weddings. For instance, in the Hindu weddings the pooja is so long and the actions are repeated so many times, that even if you lose a shot once, you always have the chance to click it again. Whereas in a Parsi wedding, once the action is lost, it is lost forever. Therefore, if a person doesn't know the rituals, he will not know what he has missed. Unfortunately, even today, there are a lot of Parsi photographers who are not aware of these rituals themselves. Shooting a wedding requires a kind of study or a keen interest in the ceremony itself."
- Rustom Havewalla, photographer, Smart Photography, October 2005
"The Jewish feast of Purim celebrates the story of how Esther, queen to a Persian king (Cyrus), saved the Jews of the kingdom from annihilation. But along with the benevolence of Cyrus and the wisdom of Esther, there also lurked on the horizon the evil vizier, Haman of the race of Agog, whose mind and heart were darkened by rancor and hate."
- Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian studies program, Stanford University, International Herald Tribune, November 11, 2005
"In 1995, one needed 22 times of one's annual income to buy a house. Now, it is just 4.5 times."
- Keki M. Mistry, managing director, Housing Development Finance Corporation, The Week, November 27, 2005
"Britain has a true meritocracy and there is a genuine free market -without this there would have been no way I could have built Cobra from scratch into a virtually household name over the past 14 years."
- Brewer Karan Billimoria, SynergyZ, Vol 2, November 2005
"In 1999, there were just three malls in India, now we have 35-40 and by 2007, 250 odd malls are what we estimate."
- Kekoo Colah, executive director, Knight Frank (India), Business Today, December 18, 2005
"It's one of the toughest businesses to be in and average net margins of even large retailers tend to be under three per cent."
- Jehangir Dalal, senior vice president, CISCO (India), Business Today, December 18, 2005
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