Quotes
So they say
“We are too minuscule in numbers to justify reserving a certain percent of seats for us. But keeping a few seats in institutions founded by us would be a nice gesture to a minority group that has done so much for the city and country.”
-- Dr Armaity Desai, former director of TISS, Mumbai Mirror, January 24, 2006
“Gustadji’s Grace: Oh maara Khodayji, Do bless our Pallonji. From the time I married my Anna, I have missed my favorite Parsi khaana. Now for my Sunday lunch, Dhansaak and kebabs I get to munch. And for the afternoon high tea, Bhakras and Daar ni pori with the perfect crunch!”
-- Advertisement for supplying Parsi food in the Zoroastrian Society of Ontario newsletter
“I do not know who killed Jessica Lal. The judge who tried the case acquitted the accused after seven long years. He too does not know; which does little credit to our system of criminal investigation, even less to our system of criminal justice. But most of all, it does no credit at all to public morality; witnesses to the incident turned hostile and justice was the victim.”
-- Fali S. Nariman, noted jurist, The Times of India, March 7, 2006
“I never expected to find that a Zoroastrian priest was a bit like the fly in Jurassic Park that sucked a dinosaur’s blood and was then embalmed in amber sap, thus preserving dinosaur DNA intact through time. In the same way, Zoroastrian priests have preserved a treasure down through ages without knowing what it was they had inside them.”
-- Dr Raiomond Mirza, composer and writer, Hamazor - Issue 4, 2005
“The intellectual level of Parsis has so much gone down that Khojestiyaos and Pundoliyaos are thriving on the ignorance and immunity towards serious thinking. (The) Parsi faith is drying up. The rate of evaporation increases every moment.”
-- K. N. Dastoor, editor, Parsi Pukar, Vol. 10, No. 4, Apr-May-Jun 2005
“I think people should have the freedom to worship in any way they want. If the non-Parsi spouse wants to worship as a Zoroastrian, he or she should be allowed to do so. The community has to think in a less stringent manner if it wants to survive.”
-- Parvez Damania, industrialist, Mumbai Mirror, August 8, 2005
“Most of the women (employees) are widows or the sole breadwinners of their family. So the need to go with a begging bowl to their men for money disappears, which is a liberating and heady experience.”
-- Behroze Singh, proprietor, Cottons, The Economic Times, March 4, 2006
-- Dr Armaity Desai, former director of TISS, Mumbai Mirror, January 24, 2006
“Gustadji’s Grace: Oh maara Khodayji, Do bless our Pallonji. From the time I married my Anna, I have missed my favorite Parsi khaana. Now for my Sunday lunch, Dhansaak and kebabs I get to munch. And for the afternoon high tea, Bhakras and Daar ni pori with the perfect crunch!”
-- Advertisement for supplying Parsi food in the Zoroastrian Society of Ontario newsletter
“I do not know who killed Jessica Lal. The judge who tried the case acquitted the accused after seven long years. He too does not know; which does little credit to our system of criminal investigation, even less to our system of criminal justice. But most of all, it does no credit at all to public morality; witnesses to the incident turned hostile and justice was the victim.”
-- Fali S. Nariman, noted jurist, The Times of India, March 7, 2006
“I never expected to find that a Zoroastrian priest was a bit like the fly in Jurassic Park that sucked a dinosaur’s blood and was then embalmed in amber sap, thus preserving dinosaur DNA intact through time. In the same way, Zoroastrian priests have preserved a treasure down through ages without knowing what it was they had inside them.”
-- Dr Raiomond Mirza, composer and writer, Hamazor - Issue 4, 2005
“The intellectual level of Parsis has so much gone down that Khojestiyaos and Pundoliyaos are thriving on the ignorance and immunity towards serious thinking. (The) Parsi faith is drying up. The rate of evaporation increases every moment.”
-- K. N. Dastoor, editor, Parsi Pukar, Vol. 10, No. 4, Apr-May-Jun 2005
“I think people should have the freedom to worship in any way they want. If the non-Parsi spouse wants to worship as a Zoroastrian, he or she should be allowed to do so. The community has to think in a less stringent manner if it wants to survive.”
-- Parvez Damania, industrialist, Mumbai Mirror, August 8, 2005
“Most of the women (employees) are widows or the sole breadwinners of their family. So the need to go with a begging bowl to their men for money disappears, which is a liberating and heady experience.”
-- Behroze Singh, proprietor, Cottons, The Economic Times, March 4, 2006
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