Quotes
So they say
“I couldn’t believe we didn’t have enough Parsis. Every European consulate in town had a Parsi trying to stop you from going abroad. The British Council Library was guarded by a ferocious old bat whom we called ‘No please’ because that was what she snarled at you all the time, whatever your request was.”
Jerry Pinto, journalist, Mumbai City Limits, December 2007
“If good looks and physique were so important, then all the male models who had tried to crossover to films would have succeeded.”
John Abraham, actor, whose mother is a Parsi, The Week, November 25, 2007
“Not everyone can compose music or paint. (But) though they may not all show it to anyone, human beings don’t feel debarred from trying to express felt emotions, even immense personal pain, in verse.”
Dr Gieve Patel, painter-poet, Time Out Mumbai, August 24-September 6, 2007
“Nobody thought of this as a profit-and-loss (business). They thought of it as a cash flow (business). So, if a producer-director made a movie and it lost $ 5 million, but he got advances of $ 5 million to make his next movie, then (in his mind), he’d broken even.”
Ronnie Screwvala, CEO, UTV, Business Today, December 30, 2007
“When I studied the street directory of 1947, I could identify around 300 Irani cafes. Now, there are only about 20.”
Bruce Carter, public historian, Hindustan Times, December 16, 2007
“We must either have an orderly and transparent opening up of the banking sector to international capital or face a disorderly integration of the Indian financial sector with the rest of the world.”
S. S. Tarapore, leading economist, BSENSEX, December 2007-January 2008
“When I was training in America, my bosses encouraged me to dress casually on Fridays, but I don’t do that here. My patients trust me to make important decisions for them. I have to be worthy of that. Can you imagine a doctor making life-altering decisions in a Hawaiian shirt and a pair of Bermudas?”
Dr Cyrus K. Mehta, consulting ophthalmic surgeon, The Mehta International Eye Institute and Colaba Eye Hospital, HT Cafe Mumbai, October 5, 2007
“When the Tatas selected Singur, if I had said no to them, then
no corporate house would have come to our state.”
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, West Bengal chief minister, The Week, March 4, 2007
Jerry Pinto, journalist, Mumbai City Limits, December 2007
“If good looks and physique were so important, then all the male models who had tried to crossover to films would have succeeded.”
John Abraham, actor, whose mother is a Parsi, The Week, November 25, 2007
“Not everyone can compose music or paint. (But) though they may not all show it to anyone, human beings don’t feel debarred from trying to express felt emotions, even immense personal pain, in verse.”
Dr Gieve Patel, painter-poet, Time Out Mumbai, August 24-September 6, 2007
“Nobody thought of this as a profit-and-loss (business). They thought of it as a cash flow (business). So, if a producer-director made a movie and it lost $ 5 million, but he got advances of $ 5 million to make his next movie, then (in his mind), he’d broken even.”
Ronnie Screwvala, CEO, UTV, Business Today, December 30, 2007
“When I studied the street directory of 1947, I could identify around 300 Irani cafes. Now, there are only about 20.”
Bruce Carter, public historian, Hindustan Times, December 16, 2007
“We must either have an orderly and transparent opening up of the banking sector to international capital or face a disorderly integration of the Indian financial sector with the rest of the world.”
S. S. Tarapore, leading economist, BSENSEX, December 2007-January 2008
“When I was training in America, my bosses encouraged me to dress casually on Fridays, but I don’t do that here. My patients trust me to make important decisions for them. I have to be worthy of that. Can you imagine a doctor making life-altering decisions in a Hawaiian shirt and a pair of Bermudas?”
Dr Cyrus K. Mehta, consulting ophthalmic surgeon, The Mehta International Eye Institute and Colaba Eye Hospital, HT Cafe Mumbai, October 5, 2007
“When the Tatas selected Singur, if I had said no to them, then
no corporate house would have come to our state.”
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, West Bengal chief minister, The Week, March 4, 2007
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