Quotes
So they say
"We already have in place a very efficient legal services authority functioning under a statute designed to promote legal literacy, but the convenience of the unfortunate litigant is not on its list of priorities."
- Fali Nariman, jurist, The Indian Express, December 8, 2005
"The Zubin Mehta folklore, meanwhile, never tires with repetition: the Indian may have gone out of India but India has never gone out of the Indian."
- Hindustan Times, December 29, 2005
"Now there are quite a number of very poor Parsis in Bombay and in the villages of India. When on a visit to India it would be a good idea to take the children to see them - to help them to ignite the community feeling and a oneness with our less fortunate brethren."
- Silloo Mehta, Khshnoomist author, Dini Avaz, Oct-Dec 2005
"My father who had performed more than 80 nirangdins, used to tell us that he had seen the nirang as pure and golden from nirangdins performed 10 years back."
- K. N. Dastoor, Parsi Pukar editor, The Bombay Samachar, January 8, 2006
"I retired from press photography when I got badly beaten up by a mob during the 1993 riots. They mistook me for a Muslim because of my beard."
- Rashid Bamanbehram, photographer, The Times of India, January 6, 2006
"I think they offered me this job because I was the only technocrat in lipstick they could lay their hands on. Besides, Lakme was so broke, it could not pay the salary of an MD."
- Simone Naval Tata, chairman, Trent department stores, BMA Review, September-October 2005
"Parsis who are known to enjoy their drink will be surprised to know that it was a member of their own community, Dr Manchersha D. Gilder, who as minister for public health and excise in the late 1930s, was responsible for introducing prohibition in the then province of Bombay. Gilder faced a major backlash from the Parsis, but was adamant: 'We want prohibition not only to come in but to stay with us forever,' he had said."
- Nauzer Bharucha/TNN, Sunday Times of India, January 15, 2006
"There are so many disturbances around you, such a lot of tragedies. There is so much of sorrow everyday when you open the newspapers that you seek a way to find peace. This is how I seek it. I try to capture the idea of solitude among all these."
- Jehangir Sabavala, artist, The Times of India, January 14, 2006
- Fali Nariman, jurist, The Indian Express, December 8, 2005
"The Zubin Mehta folklore, meanwhile, never tires with repetition: the Indian may have gone out of India but India has never gone out of the Indian."
- Hindustan Times, December 29, 2005
"Now there are quite a number of very poor Parsis in Bombay and in the villages of India. When on a visit to India it would be a good idea to take the children to see them - to help them to ignite the community feeling and a oneness with our less fortunate brethren."
- Silloo Mehta, Khshnoomist author, Dini Avaz, Oct-Dec 2005
"My father who had performed more than 80 nirangdins, used to tell us that he had seen the nirang as pure and golden from nirangdins performed 10 years back."
- K. N. Dastoor, Parsi Pukar editor, The Bombay Samachar, January 8, 2006
"I retired from press photography when I got badly beaten up by a mob during the 1993 riots. They mistook me for a Muslim because of my beard."
- Rashid Bamanbehram, photographer, The Times of India, January 6, 2006
"I think they offered me this job because I was the only technocrat in lipstick they could lay their hands on. Besides, Lakme was so broke, it could not pay the salary of an MD."
- Simone Naval Tata, chairman, Trent department stores, BMA Review, September-October 2005
"Parsis who are known to enjoy their drink will be surprised to know that it was a member of their own community, Dr Manchersha D. Gilder, who as minister for public health and excise in the late 1930s, was responsible for introducing prohibition in the then province of Bombay. Gilder faced a major backlash from the Parsis, but was adamant: 'We want prohibition not only to come in but to stay with us forever,' he had said."
- Nauzer Bharucha/TNN, Sunday Times of India, January 15, 2006
"There are so many disturbances around you, such a lot of tragedies. There is so much of sorrow everyday when you open the newspapers that you seek a way to find peace. This is how I seek it. I try to capture the idea of solitude among all these."
- Jehangir Sabavala, artist, The Times of India, January 14, 2006
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