Quotes
So they say
“The births facilitated by the (BPP fertility) clinic will not make a significant change in the community’s demographic predicament. We are probably not going to reverse the decline in the community’s population. But we are delighted because in the end, you are giving a couple the pleasure of having children.”
-- Dr Pervin Dadachanji, psychologist, Mumbai Mirror, October 31, 2006
“The American national anthem, Star Spangled Banner, was written on board HMS Minden, made in the Bombay docks by Wadias, master builders who were so good at their craft that British ship builders raised hell about the Royal Navy outsourcing manufacturing even back then. In their time, Wadias built more than 150 warships, including HMS Cornwallis in 1800, named after a man who offers one of the earliest links between America and India.”
-- Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India, January 7, 2007.
“Formerly, Bombay had no proper banks. The Parsis soon appropriated unto themselves the kind of activity which substituted for banking, and went in for money lending called Shroff Business in India. At a place in the Fort, known as Parsi Bazaar one could see rows of Parsi Shroffs, seated on benches with silver coinage of different European and Asian currencies, as well as East India Company bullion heaped before them.”
-- The Parsis Vol III by Delphine Menant 1917, Zoroastrian Association of Victoria Inc Rathaeshtar, September 2006
“When religions restrict freedom to worship and restrict modes of worship, they become unsuitable for creating a harmonious society. When religion becomes all encompassing and gives full freedom to pray and worship in any manner — that religion will bring righteousness and peace in people and will be suitable for any society.”
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, spiritual leader, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, October 26, 2006
“I had a Parsi grandfather, Muslim grandmother, Zoroastrian/Irani father and a Muslim/Parsi mother.”
Zareen Irani, daughter of filmmaker Aspi Irani, Mid Day, January 14, 2007
“The official hairdressers messed up my hairdo on the final day, and I was so scared that I did my makeup myself. My roommate told this to her father, who happened to be a well-known hair dresser, and finally, he did my hair.”
Tanya Vakil, beauty pageant winner, The Times of India, November 13, 2006
-- Dr Pervin Dadachanji, psychologist, Mumbai Mirror, October 31, 2006
“The American national anthem, Star Spangled Banner, was written on board HMS Minden, made in the Bombay docks by Wadias, master builders who were so good at their craft that British ship builders raised hell about the Royal Navy outsourcing manufacturing even back then. In their time, Wadias built more than 150 warships, including HMS Cornwallis in 1800, named after a man who offers one of the earliest links between America and India.”
-- Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India, January 7, 2007.
“Formerly, Bombay had no proper banks. The Parsis soon appropriated unto themselves the kind of activity which substituted for banking, and went in for money lending called Shroff Business in India. At a place in the Fort, known as Parsi Bazaar one could see rows of Parsi Shroffs, seated on benches with silver coinage of different European and Asian currencies, as well as East India Company bullion heaped before them.”
-- The Parsis Vol III by Delphine Menant 1917, Zoroastrian Association of Victoria Inc Rathaeshtar, September 2006
“When religions restrict freedom to worship and restrict modes of worship, they become unsuitable for creating a harmonious society. When religion becomes all encompassing and gives full freedom to pray and worship in any manner — that religion will bring righteousness and peace in people and will be suitable for any society.”
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, spiritual leader, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, October 26, 2006
“I had a Parsi grandfather, Muslim grandmother, Zoroastrian/Irani father and a Muslim/Parsi mother.”
Zareen Irani, daughter of filmmaker Aspi Irani, Mid Day, January 14, 2007
“The official hairdressers messed up my hairdo on the final day, and I was so scared that I did my makeup myself. My roommate told this to her father, who happened to be a well-known hair dresser, and finally, he did my hair.”
Tanya Vakil, beauty pageant winner, The Times of India, November 13, 2006
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