Quotes
So they say
“Widowed when I, her only child, was an infant, she voluntarily remained a widow, wrapped up in me, her everything in the world. Although illiterate, and although all love for me, she was a wise mother. She kept a firm hand upon me. She was the wise counselor of the neighborhood. She helped me with all her heart in my work for female education and other social reforms against prejudices of the day. She made me what I am.”
--Noshir H. Dadrawala, community activist, quoting Dadabhai Naoroji in Dadabhai Naoroji — The Promise of India
“There are two ways to start institutions. One is to build the institution and then look for a director to head it. This is what Sir John Templeton did... The other is to find the director and then build an institution around him. This is what the trustees of the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust did by taking note of the very good social work that an American missionary, Clifford Manshardt, was doing in Bombay in the 1930s and accepting his proposal to start the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.”
--Russi M. Lala, author, quoted in Spiritual Information 100 Perspectives on Science and Religion, edited by Charles L. Harper Jr.
“If a person wants to take the pearl from the bottom of the ocean, then he should not shout at the pearl to come up while he
sits on the beach. If he really wants the pearl, he should try his
hardest to plunge to the bottom of the ocean to get it.”
--Meher Baba, spiritual guru, Glow International, February 2007
“FEZANA is looking for a permanent home for its secretariat. I am pleased to report that Houston was one of the short-listed cities, along with Chicago and New York, as a possible permanent home for FEZANA.”
--Manashni, newsletter of the Zoroastrian Association of Houston,
May 2007
“And, I realized, not without a little post-condescension guilt,
that music can, and does, move equally, whether you are going home to asparagus mousse or masoor ma gos.”
--Bachi Karkaria, journalist, on attending a piano and violin recital by Cyrus Panthaky and Cawas Billimoria, The Times of India, May 29, 2007
“It has been found that a large number of Sikh boys and girls are getting married to non-Sikhs and such marriages are being solemnized in gurdwaras against Sikh ‘maryada’... However, if the couple embrace Sikhism then such marriages can be allowed.”
--Balwinder Singh, President, Dehradun Gurmat Satsang Sabha,Indian Express, May 16, 2007
“I don’t understand the line between meaningful and commercial cinema. Look, Rang De Basanti, Omkara and Lage Raho Munnabhai — they are all commercial successes but decidedly different. It’s an interesting time for Indian cinema. Run-of-the-mill type of films don’t exist anymore. Techniques have changed... marketing plays a big role.”
--Rahul Khanna, actor, whose mother is a Parsi, HT Cafe, May 9, 2007
“He’s broken his silence for the first time to the media ever since the tussle with Danone came out in the open. Wadia group chairman Nusli Wadia, also known as the Samurai of India Inc, emphatically stated that Britannia was a strategic asset for the Wadia group.”
--Boby Kurian about Nusli Wadia, chairman, Wadia group, The Economic Times, July 4, 2007
“The study revealed that IBM and Accenture were the top IT outsourcing firms in terms of brand recall in the market. But people were not sure which firm was third in the pecking order. Some said it was EDS, some TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), some CSC, some Capgemini. We want to be that third player.”
--Phiroz Vandrevala, head of Corporate Affairs, TCS, Business Today,
May 20, 2007
“The month of March was a fitting tribute to a grand finale, a month
in which we chalked up a turnover in excess of Rs 380 crores,
each business shattering its earlier record and establishing
new milestones.”
--P. D. Lam
--Noshir H. Dadrawala, community activist, quoting Dadabhai Naoroji in Dadabhai Naoroji — The Promise of India
“There are two ways to start institutions. One is to build the institution and then look for a director to head it. This is what Sir John Templeton did... The other is to find the director and then build an institution around him. This is what the trustees of the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust did by taking note of the very good social work that an American missionary, Clifford Manshardt, was doing in Bombay in the 1930s and accepting his proposal to start the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.”
--Russi M. Lala, author, quoted in Spiritual Information 100 Perspectives on Science and Religion, edited by Charles L. Harper Jr.
“If a person wants to take the pearl from the bottom of the ocean, then he should not shout at the pearl to come up while he
sits on the beach. If he really wants the pearl, he should try his
hardest to plunge to the bottom of the ocean to get it.”
--Meher Baba, spiritual guru, Glow International, February 2007
“FEZANA is looking for a permanent home for its secretariat. I am pleased to report that Houston was one of the short-listed cities, along with Chicago and New York, as a possible permanent home for FEZANA.”
--Manashni, newsletter of the Zoroastrian Association of Houston,
May 2007
“And, I realized, not without a little post-condescension guilt,
that music can, and does, move equally, whether you are going home to asparagus mousse or masoor ma gos.”
--Bachi Karkaria, journalist, on attending a piano and violin recital by Cyrus Panthaky and Cawas Billimoria, The Times of India, May 29, 2007
“It has been found that a large number of Sikh boys and girls are getting married to non-Sikhs and such marriages are being solemnized in gurdwaras against Sikh ‘maryada’... However, if the couple embrace Sikhism then such marriages can be allowed.”
--Balwinder Singh, President, Dehradun Gurmat Satsang Sabha,Indian Express, May 16, 2007
“I don’t understand the line between meaningful and commercial cinema. Look, Rang De Basanti, Omkara and Lage Raho Munnabhai — they are all commercial successes but decidedly different. It’s an interesting time for Indian cinema. Run-of-the-mill type of films don’t exist anymore. Techniques have changed... marketing plays a big role.”
--Rahul Khanna, actor, whose mother is a Parsi, HT Cafe, May 9, 2007
“He’s broken his silence for the first time to the media ever since the tussle with Danone came out in the open. Wadia group chairman Nusli Wadia, also known as the Samurai of India Inc, emphatically stated that Britannia was a strategic asset for the Wadia group.”
--Boby Kurian about Nusli Wadia, chairman, Wadia group, The Economic Times, July 4, 2007
“The study revealed that IBM and Accenture were the top IT outsourcing firms in terms of brand recall in the market. But people were not sure which firm was third in the pecking order. Some said it was EDS, some TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), some CSC, some Capgemini. We want to be that third player.”
--Phiroz Vandrevala, head of Corporate Affairs, TCS, Business Today,
May 20, 2007
“The month of March was a fitting tribute to a grand finale, a month
in which we chalked up a turnover in excess of Rs 380 crores,
each business shattering its earlier record and establishing
new milestones.”
--P. D. Lam
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