Quotes
So they say
“There is the famous Parsi who bakes cakes by the shores of the Red Sea in Kipling’s Just So Stories. It goes: Them that takes cakes What the Parsi man bakes Makes dreadful mistakes!”
-- Farrukh Dhondy, writer, The Times of India, October 15, 2006
“In our country, once a woman is married she’s writen off in terms of glamor. But my contest offers married women an equal chance. I believe they have more facets to their personality. They’re better multi-taskers than single women and have learnt to make the most of who they are by balancing a career, a family and self.”
-- Maureen Wadia, organizer of the six-year-old Bombay Dyeing Gladrags Mrs India Contest, Hindustan Times, October 12, 2006
“We squirm in shame and embarrassment when we have to tell our non-Parsi friends not to enter the bunglis and/or the fire temples, while permitting dogs, goats and bulls to do so.”
-- Berjis Desai, “Parsi tari arsi” column, The Bombay Samachar, October 22, 2006
“In the 1970s one in three whites favored laws that barred marriage between blacks and whites; in recent years it is barely one in 10.”
-- Associated Press quoted in The Times of India, October 23, 2006
“Vodka is an odorless spirit that can be blended with anything and everything. Everything else has a taste of its own. That’s why so many vodka-based cocktails can be created.”
-- Ami Shroff, a prize-winning bartender, Mumbai Mirror, October 19, 2006
“Once our space is gone, there will be hawkers occupying the setback area or vehicles will be parked. Then why should we forego our space?”
-- D. P. Dalal, priest at the Seth Nasserwanji Ratanji Tata Agiary, commenting on the plans to widen Bandra’s Hill Road, Hindustan Times, October 23, 2006
Kyani, the Irani restaurant near Metro Multiplex needs Rs 5,000 worth of Rs 2 coins every month. But there is such severe shortage that the restaurant bought the coins for Rs 5,300 — at an illegal commission of six percent from an itinerant change dealer. “We have never paid such high prices for coins. Even in 2002, when there was a severe shortage, we used to pay around two percent commission to dealers.”
-- Farokh Shokri, partner at Kyani, Mumbai Mirror, October 20, 2006
-- Farrukh Dhondy, writer, The Times of India, October 15, 2006
“In our country, once a woman is married she’s writen off in terms of glamor. But my contest offers married women an equal chance. I believe they have more facets to their personality. They’re better multi-taskers than single women and have learnt to make the most of who they are by balancing a career, a family and self.”
-- Maureen Wadia, organizer of the six-year-old Bombay Dyeing Gladrags Mrs India Contest, Hindustan Times, October 12, 2006
“We squirm in shame and embarrassment when we have to tell our non-Parsi friends not to enter the bunglis and/or the fire temples, while permitting dogs, goats and bulls to do so.”
-- Berjis Desai, “Parsi tari arsi” column, The Bombay Samachar, October 22, 2006
“In the 1970s one in three whites favored laws that barred marriage between blacks and whites; in recent years it is barely one in 10.”
-- Associated Press quoted in The Times of India, October 23, 2006
“Vodka is an odorless spirit that can be blended with anything and everything. Everything else has a taste of its own. That’s why so many vodka-based cocktails can be created.”
-- Ami Shroff, a prize-winning bartender, Mumbai Mirror, October 19, 2006
“Once our space is gone, there will be hawkers occupying the setback area or vehicles will be parked. Then why should we forego our space?”
-- D. P. Dalal, priest at the Seth Nasserwanji Ratanji Tata Agiary, commenting on the plans to widen Bandra’s Hill Road, Hindustan Times, October 23, 2006
Kyani, the Irani restaurant near Metro Multiplex needs Rs 5,000 worth of Rs 2 coins every month. But there is such severe shortage that the restaurant bought the coins for Rs 5,300 — at an illegal commission of six percent from an itinerant change dealer. “We have never paid such high prices for coins. Even in 2002, when there was a severe shortage, we used to pay around two percent commission to dealers.”
-- Farokh Shokri, partner at Kyani, Mumbai Mirror, October 20, 2006
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