Quotes
So they say
“The successor would be named probably, a year before I retire and does not necessarily have to be someone from within the family... It doesn’t have to be (Noel Tata). I am not saying he is or is not.
I don’t think the choice will necessarily be confined to that.”
-- Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata group, The Indian Express, December 29, 2006
“I remember asking my parents why couldn’t we have been Parsis so we could eat lacy cutlets and prawn patia as a matter of routine. My mother gave me one of her killer looks and asked me to finish my karela!”
-- Rahul Bose, actor, Communalism Combat, December 2006
“I got to know the stage hands, actors, even the doorkeepers. I would have a ‘wing -side’ view of the plays as they admitted the small curious boy inside the stage zone which always had the forbidding sign ‘No admission without permission.’ I relished the style and idiom of the Urdu and Gujarati I heard, very different from the Parsi-Gujarati we hear in plays today.”
-- Firoze Rangoonwalla, film journalist, quoted by Eunice de Souza, Mumbai Mirror, December 21, 2006
“Religion and religious differences will always exist but they should not be at the centre of our existence.”
-- Ayesha C. Guzder, lawyer, Communalism Combat, December 2006
“Retail media provides a targeted access to real consumers. It is a direct touch point with consumers unlike the conventional media which is actually a message platform.”
-- Sam Balsara, chairman and managing director, Madison World, Business Today, December 31, 2006
“Human beings are not natural carnivores. When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us, because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings, who are natural herbivores.”
-- Dr William C. Roberts, MD, editor, American Journal of Cardiology, PETA’s Animal Times, Festive 2006
“I might be making more money now, but I remain staunchly middle-class in my mindset. I lead a very simple life, have a very simple house and not too many clothes in my wardrobe. I haven’t splurged. That’s the difference between the true middle-class and the nouveau riche — we don’t throw around our newly-acquired wealth.”
-- John Abraham (whose mother is Parsi), actor, Hindustan Times, December 31, 2006
I don’t think the choice will necessarily be confined to that.”
-- Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata group, The Indian Express, December 29, 2006
“I remember asking my parents why couldn’t we have been Parsis so we could eat lacy cutlets and prawn patia as a matter of routine. My mother gave me one of her killer looks and asked me to finish my karela!”
-- Rahul Bose, actor, Communalism Combat, December 2006
“I got to know the stage hands, actors, even the doorkeepers. I would have a ‘wing -side’ view of the plays as they admitted the small curious boy inside the stage zone which always had the forbidding sign ‘No admission without permission.’ I relished the style and idiom of the Urdu and Gujarati I heard, very different from the Parsi-Gujarati we hear in plays today.”
-- Firoze Rangoonwalla, film journalist, quoted by Eunice de Souza, Mumbai Mirror, December 21, 2006
“Religion and religious differences will always exist but they should not be at the centre of our existence.”
-- Ayesha C. Guzder, lawyer, Communalism Combat, December 2006
“Retail media provides a targeted access to real consumers. It is a direct touch point with consumers unlike the conventional media which is actually a message platform.”
-- Sam Balsara, chairman and managing director, Madison World, Business Today, December 31, 2006
“Human beings are not natural carnivores. When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us, because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings, who are natural herbivores.”
-- Dr William C. Roberts, MD, editor, American Journal of Cardiology, PETA’s Animal Times, Festive 2006
“I might be making more money now, but I remain staunchly middle-class in my mindset. I lead a very simple life, have a very simple house and not too many clothes in my wardrobe. I haven’t splurged. That’s the difference between the true middle-class and the nouveau riche — we don’t throw around our newly-acquired wealth.”
-- John Abraham (whose mother is Parsi), actor, Hindustan Times, December 31, 2006
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