Quotes
So they say
“As for British racism, I think I know what it is. I was fire-bombed out of my flat in Brixton in the seventies by the fanatics of a right-wing party who torched five Asian houses that night. I have been a week in hospital with brain concussion (does that account for it??) after being beaten senseless by three white men for dancing with three white women (work colleagues, not girlfriends, but my assailants didn’t enquire) simultaneously in a night club.”
-- Farrukh Dhondy, former commissioning editor of Channel 4,The Times of India, January 19, 2007
“I told my wife that if we ever tried to build a house we’d end up with either a house OR a marriage — not both!”
-- Structural engineer Parekh quoted in a letter dated December 2006 by Jeroo and Khushroo Engineer who are building a house in Gurgoan
“We should have around 100 stores by 2010, subject to availability of suitable retail spaces.”
-- Noel Tata, managing director of Trent, Business Today, May 7, 2006
“People are quite willing to donate their eyes, but when it comes to the whole body, they are afraid of the disfigurement of the body after the organs are removed. But organ removal is done in the same operation theatres where living people are operated, and the bodies can be given just the way patients are wheeled out... One cadaver can help eight people — two will receive kidneys, the liver will be shared by two, one will get the heart, one the lung and two the eyes.”
-- Dr Kim Mammen, professor and head of the urology department, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, The Week, November 19, 2006
“The criteria for becoming a news anchor today are ‘Basic intelligence, an interest in everything and lipstick. Seriously, even men have to wear different colored lipstick today when they are reporting different kinds of stories. Today TV reporting is in, so much so that anybody could just do it for a few years, earn their moolah and then get out looking for a serious job!’”
-- Cyrus Broacha, MTV funnyman, Hindustan Times, November 7, 2006
“Come rain or sunshine dance I must and dance I will. As George Balanchine, the very well known Russian choreographer mentioned: ‘there are dancers who dance and there are dancers who have to dance’ and I belong to that category.”
-- Astad Deboo, dancer, Mid Day, October 3, 2006
-- Farrukh Dhondy, former commissioning editor of Channel 4,The Times of India, January 19, 2007
“I told my wife that if we ever tried to build a house we’d end up with either a house OR a marriage — not both!”
-- Structural engineer Parekh quoted in a letter dated December 2006 by Jeroo and Khushroo Engineer who are building a house in Gurgoan
“We should have around 100 stores by 2010, subject to availability of suitable retail spaces.”
-- Noel Tata, managing director of Trent, Business Today, May 7, 2006
“People are quite willing to donate their eyes, but when it comes to the whole body, they are afraid of the disfigurement of the body after the organs are removed. But organ removal is done in the same operation theatres where living people are operated, and the bodies can be given just the way patients are wheeled out... One cadaver can help eight people — two will receive kidneys, the liver will be shared by two, one will get the heart, one the lung and two the eyes.”
-- Dr Kim Mammen, professor and head of the urology department, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, The Week, November 19, 2006
“The criteria for becoming a news anchor today are ‘Basic intelligence, an interest in everything and lipstick. Seriously, even men have to wear different colored lipstick today when they are reporting different kinds of stories. Today TV reporting is in, so much so that anybody could just do it for a few years, earn their moolah and then get out looking for a serious job!’”
-- Cyrus Broacha, MTV funnyman, Hindustan Times, November 7, 2006
“Come rain or sunshine dance I must and dance I will. As George Balanchine, the very well known Russian choreographer mentioned: ‘there are dancers who dance and there are dancers who have to dance’ and I belong to that category.”
-- Astad Deboo, dancer, Mid Day, October 3, 2006
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