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So they say

“Live life with the belief a bad hair cut always grows out.”

Zenobia Pithawalla, senior creative director, Ogilvy & Mather,
Campaign India,
Vol I, Issue 13, February 29, 2008

“There is a shortage of people and there is concerted thinking that by the year 2010 or 2012 people will have to work with only 60 percent of their (present) strength.”

P. D. Lam, president and executive director, Godrej and Boyce
Manufacturing Company Limited, Change The Godrej house
magazine, December 2007

“It’s not about a community or a religion. These buildings (fire tem-
ples) have existed from the 19th century. They are not monumental
structures, but are vernacular structures of that period and the only samples left representing that typology.”

Pankaj Joshi, conservation architect, The Times of India,
February 15,2008

“The heat and the pollution and congestion are things that
one needs to get used to after living in the States for so long.
But I have grown up here and it’s okay for me; my elder daughter
had a tough time.”

Delna Dastur, artist, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, February
15, 2008

“The minute books of the ZTFE trace its first General Meeting to have been held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 22, 1861. It was held at the residence of Seth Muncherji Hormusji Cama...It was known as the Europena Zarathoshtionu Dharamnu Khatu, translated in English as The Religious Fund of the Zarathushtrians of Europe.”

The Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe (Incorporated), Annual
Report,
April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007

“Most organizations are board driven or CEO-driven. It is rare to find the ideal combination where the board is involved in the governance and the CEO in the management.”

Noshir Dadrawala, CEO, Centre for Advancement of Philanthropy, The Economic Times, November 9, 2007

“When that car came to me, it was it bits and pieces. Somebody else
had tried to fix it and obviously did not do a good job. I had to make the parts, fit them after looking at the photos and manuals of that model. It takes nearly Rs 6 lakhs to repair a Rolls-Royce.”

Soli Bhathena, car ‘auto doctor,’ The Week, October 21, 2007

“Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty,
and the pig likes it.”

John McCain, Republican party American presidential candidate, New
York Times, January 24, reprinted in The Indian Express,
January 25, 2008
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