Quotes
So they say
“Do you really want to continue to despise the children of Parsi to non-Parsi marriages and label them non Zarathushtis or non-Parsis on the subcontinent?”
-- Sam Kerr, founder member of the Australian Zoroastrian Association of New South Wales, Hamazor - Issue 3, 2005
“At the time Cymroza happened, people asked who would visit a gallery in Breach Candy? There was this myth that in order for one to be around art, one had to be around Jehangir (gallery). Today, it’s wonderful to see Indian art grow, wonderful also to see people travel to Juhu and Lower Parel to visit art exhibitions.”
-- Pheroza Godrej, proprietor, Cymroza Art Gallery, Hindustan Times, October 18, 2005
“When shooting, I also ensure that I do not break the laws of the rituals. If a ceremony has to be done facing a particular direction, I see to it that the couple faces that direction, irrespective of whether it suits my requirements or not.”
-- Rustom Havewalla, photographer, Smart Photography, October 2005
“In recent times Parsiana has begun to be sponsored by individuals, associations and charitable trusts. Can the content of a magazine be unbiased if it is sponsored by a specific caucus in the community? Can a sponsored community magazine be an independent observer of community affairs? Parsiana is today the flag bearer of the reformist caucus promoting intellectual dishonesty.”
-- WAPIZ Page Afternoon Despatch & Courier, November 24, 2005
“Amusing and ironical are indeed the ways of WAPIZ. On one hand they spend lakhs of rupees every month buying space in the print media to denigrate and deride others; on the other hand they appeal for ‘a helping hand’ to build houses for the poor to alleviate poverty!”
-- Dinshaw Tamboly, Bombay Parsi Punchayet trustee, Jam-e-Jamshed Weekly, January 15, 2006
“You can rebuke boastful NRI friends leading sedentary lives in Chelsea, Manhattan or Alameda Island: ‘Zubin Mehta will be 70 next year and if he can keep his Indian passport despite needing visas every month, why can’t you?’”
-- Renuka Narayanan speaking about Zubin Mehta’s home coming, Hindustan Times, December 29, 2005
“For years the orthodox lobby has recommended the reformist set up their own places of worship and facilities for disposing the dead. And now when a certain reformist group has picked up the gauntlet the orthodox are once again feeling threatened. It’s about time the orthodox made up their mind.”
-- Noshir Dadrawalla, orthodox spokesperson, The Bombay Samachar and Jam-e-Jamshed, January 8, 2006
-- Sam Kerr, founder member of the Australian Zoroastrian Association of New South Wales, Hamazor - Issue 3, 2005
“At the time Cymroza happened, people asked who would visit a gallery in Breach Candy? There was this myth that in order for one to be around art, one had to be around Jehangir (gallery). Today, it’s wonderful to see Indian art grow, wonderful also to see people travel to Juhu and Lower Parel to visit art exhibitions.”
-- Pheroza Godrej, proprietor, Cymroza Art Gallery, Hindustan Times, October 18, 2005
“When shooting, I also ensure that I do not break the laws of the rituals. If a ceremony has to be done facing a particular direction, I see to it that the couple faces that direction, irrespective of whether it suits my requirements or not.”
-- Rustom Havewalla, photographer, Smart Photography, October 2005
“In recent times Parsiana has begun to be sponsored by individuals, associations and charitable trusts. Can the content of a magazine be unbiased if it is sponsored by a specific caucus in the community? Can a sponsored community magazine be an independent observer of community affairs? Parsiana is today the flag bearer of the reformist caucus promoting intellectual dishonesty.”
-- WAPIZ Page Afternoon Despatch & Courier, November 24, 2005
“Amusing and ironical are indeed the ways of WAPIZ. On one hand they spend lakhs of rupees every month buying space in the print media to denigrate and deride others; on the other hand they appeal for ‘a helping hand’ to build houses for the poor to alleviate poverty!”
-- Dinshaw Tamboly, Bombay Parsi Punchayet trustee, Jam-e-Jamshed Weekly, January 15, 2006
“You can rebuke boastful NRI friends leading sedentary lives in Chelsea, Manhattan or Alameda Island: ‘Zubin Mehta will be 70 next year and if he can keep his Indian passport despite needing visas every month, why can’t you?’”
-- Renuka Narayanan speaking about Zubin Mehta’s home coming, Hindustan Times, December 29, 2005
“For years the orthodox lobby has recommended the reformist set up their own places of worship and facilities for disposing the dead. And now when a certain reformist group has picked up the gauntlet the orthodox are once again feeling threatened. It’s about time the orthodox made up their mind.”
-- Noshir Dadrawalla, orthodox spokesperson, The Bombay Samachar and Jam-e-Jamshed, January 8, 2006
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