Quotes
So they say
“Maharaj, my surname is ‘Dordi.’ You know, Your Highness, that you may burn a dordi (rope made of twisted coir), but can never take the twist out of it. So is it with me. When once I form a decision, nothing will dislodge me from it.”
As said by Dadabhai Naoroji to Maharaja Mulharrao Gaekwad quoted in Dadabhai Naoroji — The Promise of India by Noshir H. Dadrawala
“Are we really Zarathushtis or Zar druj tis?... We all go astray once in a while but we have the choice and freedom to get back on the right path. Should we exercise our freedom? When?”
Hosi Mehta, president of the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Chicago, October 2007 Newsletter
“I have toured most of the countries in the world taking
our Indian classical music to others. Foreigners are more enthusiastic about our melodies and there were some foreigners who asked me to teach songs and also performed with me on stage.”
Farokh Bardoliwala, singer and music director, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, June 25, 2007
“He’s especially thankful for all the encouragement he received from Dr Sam Taraporevala, the director of the Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC) who is himself a visually challenged degree college professor at St Xavier’s.”
Report on HSC (12th standard) topper Ajay Krishna Kumar, a visually handicapped student, who topped the Arts section for Bombay with 86.83 percent, The Times of India, June 9, 2007
“The vast majority of this Parsee literature is the expression of a latent ethnocentrism as well as of century-long uncertainty regarding their feeling of identity. This uncertainty is compensated by a glorification of their own historical past, by an exaggerated
assessment of the social importance of the minority.”
The Parsees in India, Eckehard Kulke, 1974
“I’m happy at MTV because I get to do lots of varied stuff —
no day is ever the same as the next. I’ve played everyone from Shania Twain to Prince. It’s also a place where off-beat ideas get approved. It’s great fun. There’s not a day that goes by when I
don’t feel lucky to be here.”
Cyrus Sahukar, MTV VJ, Hindustan Times, July 7, 2007
“Ten days ago, a monkey entered my apartment on the fourth floor — not once, but twice. He stole some bananas which were
on the table, ate half of them, scattered the rest around.”
P. S. Dhabhar, a resident of Parsi Colony, Dadar, Mid Day, May 9, 2007
As said by Dadabhai Naoroji to Maharaja Mulharrao Gaekwad quoted in Dadabhai Naoroji — The Promise of India by Noshir H. Dadrawala
“Are we really Zarathushtis or Zar druj tis?... We all go astray once in a while but we have the choice and freedom to get back on the right path. Should we exercise our freedom? When?”
Hosi Mehta, president of the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Chicago, October 2007 Newsletter
“I have toured most of the countries in the world taking
our Indian classical music to others. Foreigners are more enthusiastic about our melodies and there were some foreigners who asked me to teach songs and also performed with me on stage.”
Farokh Bardoliwala, singer and music director, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, June 25, 2007
“He’s especially thankful for all the encouragement he received from Dr Sam Taraporevala, the director of the Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC) who is himself a visually challenged degree college professor at St Xavier’s.”
Report on HSC (12th standard) topper Ajay Krishna Kumar, a visually handicapped student, who topped the Arts section for Bombay with 86.83 percent, The Times of India, June 9, 2007
“The vast majority of this Parsee literature is the expression of a latent ethnocentrism as well as of century-long uncertainty regarding their feeling of identity. This uncertainty is compensated by a glorification of their own historical past, by an exaggerated
assessment of the social importance of the minority.”
The Parsees in India, Eckehard Kulke, 1974
“I’m happy at MTV because I get to do lots of varied stuff —
no day is ever the same as the next. I’ve played everyone from Shania Twain to Prince. It’s also a place where off-beat ideas get approved. It’s great fun. There’s not a day that goes by when I
don’t feel lucky to be here.”
Cyrus Sahukar, MTV VJ, Hindustan Times, July 7, 2007
“Ten days ago, a monkey entered my apartment on the fourth floor — not once, but twice. He stole some bananas which were
on the table, ate half of them, scattered the rest around.”
P. S. Dhabhar, a resident of Parsi Colony, Dadar, Mid Day, May 9, 2007
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