Quotes
So they say
“Our growth in the furniture business
has been driven partly by the boom in the IT and ITES industries.”
Jamshyd Godrej, chairman, Godrej & Boyce, Business Today, May 4, 2008
“I remember being shocked at the last elections when BJP leaders including Narendra Modi referred to Sonia Gandhi as a ‘Jersey Cow’ and Rahul Gandhi as her ‘hybrid calf’ and so-called ‘cultured’ leaders like (L. K.) Advani did nothing to pull them up.”
Sujata Anandan, Political Editor, Hindustan Times, March 26, 2008
“The important thing about the residential real estate sector in India is that most of the end-users are genuine. In fact, most are first time home buyers. Today, I believe speculators in the residential markets are not prominent.”
Keki Mistry, HDFC managing director, The Economic Times, March 7, 2008
“Hasn’t George Orwell rightly said, ‘In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.’”
Noshir Paghdiwalla, president of The Borivali and Suburban Zoroastrian Association, BASZA Newsletter, Volume 10 — Issue 1, March 2007
“For the most part of my childhood, I didn’t know that Mumbai existed beyond the Mahalaxmi race course. This place is my second home.”
Delna Poonawalla, fashion designer and daughter of stud farm baron Zavaray Poonawalla, The Indian Express, February 12, 2008
“I admire my late father-in-law (Dinshaw) who was a completely self made man. He was brought up in an orphanage, studied by candlelight, gave tuitions while he was studying to make some money and really achieved something.”
Goshpi Avari, wife of Pakistani businessman Byram Avari on being asked who she admired most, Boss, December 24-30, 2007
“My work is large and the cost is high; unlike in the West,
we don’t have a culture where this kind of work is commissioned. Besides, a lot of them have fabulous production grants. If
they want a hippopotamus on stage for a production, they will have it, if they want a swimming pool, they have it as well.”
Astad Deboo, dancer and choreographer, Mumbai Mirror, March 22, 2008
“Some say we want our constitutional rights so we can marry their daughters. But that is nonsense, so we don’t have to pay any attention to that... Some say that we smell. Well, the fact is that some of us do smell. We cannot afford a plane trip to Paris to buy the world’s most expensive perfumes, but no Negro in Montgomery is so poor that he cannot afford a five-cent bar of soap.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. US civil rights leader, Span, January/February 2008
has been driven partly by the boom in the IT and ITES industries.”
Jamshyd Godrej, chairman, Godrej & Boyce, Business Today, May 4, 2008
“I remember being shocked at the last elections when BJP leaders including Narendra Modi referred to Sonia Gandhi as a ‘Jersey Cow’ and Rahul Gandhi as her ‘hybrid calf’ and so-called ‘cultured’ leaders like (L. K.) Advani did nothing to pull them up.”
Sujata Anandan, Political Editor, Hindustan Times, March 26, 2008
“The important thing about the residential real estate sector in India is that most of the end-users are genuine. In fact, most are first time home buyers. Today, I believe speculators in the residential markets are not prominent.”
Keki Mistry, HDFC managing director, The Economic Times, March 7, 2008
“Hasn’t George Orwell rightly said, ‘In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.’”
Noshir Paghdiwalla, president of The Borivali and Suburban Zoroastrian Association, BASZA Newsletter, Volume 10 — Issue 1, March 2007
“For the most part of my childhood, I didn’t know that Mumbai existed beyond the Mahalaxmi race course. This place is my second home.”
Delna Poonawalla, fashion designer and daughter of stud farm baron Zavaray Poonawalla, The Indian Express, February 12, 2008
“I admire my late father-in-law (Dinshaw) who was a completely self made man. He was brought up in an orphanage, studied by candlelight, gave tuitions while he was studying to make some money and really achieved something.”
Goshpi Avari, wife of Pakistani businessman Byram Avari on being asked who she admired most, Boss, December 24-30, 2007
“My work is large and the cost is high; unlike in the West,
we don’t have a culture where this kind of work is commissioned. Besides, a lot of them have fabulous production grants. If
they want a hippopotamus on stage for a production, they will have it, if they want a swimming pool, they have it as well.”
Astad Deboo, dancer and choreographer, Mumbai Mirror, March 22, 2008
“Some say we want our constitutional rights so we can marry their daughters. But that is nonsense, so we don’t have to pay any attention to that... Some say that we smell. Well, the fact is that some of us do smell. We cannot afford a plane trip to Paris to buy the world’s most expensive perfumes, but no Negro in Montgomery is so poor that he cannot afford a five-cent bar of soap.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. US civil rights leader, Span, January/February 2008
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