Quotes
So they say
“All along the focus of entrepreneurs and corporations have
been to design and develop products for the top of the
pyramid that has about 250-300 million people though these
people constitute about 25-30 percent of the population. The need of the hour is to create products and services for the rest of the Indians... We have taken a conscious decision to innovate products that are affordable and durable to the masses.”
Ratan Tata, industrialist, Hindustan Times, May 29, 2009
“There are two green
initiatives which are close to
my heart. The CII-Godrej
Green Business Centre in Hyderabad because it can
transform the Indian industry
into an environment-friendly
mode. The other initiative is the
conservation of the large tract
of mangroves which I look upon
as the lungs of Bombay.”
Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group,
DNA, June 5, 2009
“China is a different ball game compared to Pakistan. We know very little about its combat edge or military professionalism. It’s certainly a greater threat.”
Fali H. Major, former Air Force chief, Hindustan Times, May 25, 2009
“I have a perspective that the Indian economy will double from
$ 1 trillion in five to six years. That means a nominal GDP growth rate of 13-14 per cent or a real growth of seven-eight per cent with inflation between five and six per cent. I think it is easily achievable and is not an abstract assumption. Energy, infrastructure, financial services and tourism will participate more in this growth.”
Rukshad Shroff, managing director, JP Morgan, Hong Kong, Hindustan Times, June 9, 2009
“They are worried about their responsibilities, for there is no law in India that defines their role.”
Neville Dumasia, head, KPMG’s Audit Committee Institute on the role of independent directors on corporate boards, Business Today, May 31, 2009
“I also worry that if aid groups paid executives as lavishly as Citigroup does, they would be managed as badly as Citigroup.”
Nicholas D. Kristof, Philanthropy, January-February-March-April 2009
“While the bridge was being
built, the two towers stood
solitarily, unconnected to the completed sections of the bridge on either side. A much smaller bridge that carried a single large yellow pipe ran alongside. The pipe funnelled the concrete
required for the tower from the deck of the completed bridge right up the 48 storey high towers
while the work was in progress.”
Jimmy Mogal, head of Hindustan
Construction Company, builders of the Bandra-Worli sealink, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, May 15, 2009
“My hobby is to read books
which few read and write books which fewer still might be
expected to read... in the hope
that I might create a taste in others for such subjects as anthropology, folklore, origin of customs
and history of institutions.”
Sir Rustom Masani quoted by B. K. Karanjia, Freedom First, June 2009
“Carnival glasses were the
cheapest glass when initially
made, but the Bombay
middle-class really took to
them. The iridescent ones,
which are actually the freaks thanks to a manufacturing
defect, have a streak of blue, dreamily staining the glass;
they are far more expensive than the regular immaculate ones.”
Kaizad Todywalla, antique dealer,
Mumbai Mirror, May 24, 2009
“The crumpled kurta-pyjama, the two day stubble, Hindi as the preferred language and renunciation of high office in favor of grassroots party work, has certainly set the tone of a government that prefers — or ostensibly prefers — Darbhanga to Davos.”
Sagarika Ghose, columnist, quote on Rahul Gandhi, Hindustan Times, June 10, 2009
“We are shocked to see the
BMC destroy the central garden
by laying jogging tracks in granite, over which people will slip and
fall, and replace the spotless galvanized iron railings with
cast iron that will have to
be painted each year.”
Arzan Khambatta, architect,
The Times of India, June 11, 2009
“The house where Dostoevsky wrote Crime and Punishment now houses Hertz Rent-a-car and American Express — crime and punishment, indeed!”
Farrukh Dhondy, writer, DNA, May 29, 2009
“The gym is not a place to merely get thin and I do not believe in isolating staying fit from life.”
Zareen Watson, fitness trainer, Afternoon Despatch and Courier, May 28, 2009
been to design and develop products for the top of the
pyramid that has about 250-300 million people though these
people constitute about 25-30 percent of the population. The need of the hour is to create products and services for the rest of the Indians... We have taken a conscious decision to innovate products that are affordable and durable to the masses.”
Ratan Tata, industrialist, Hindustan Times, May 29, 2009
“There are two green
initiatives which are close to
my heart. The CII-Godrej
Green Business Centre in Hyderabad because it can
transform the Indian industry
into an environment-friendly
mode. The other initiative is the
conservation of the large tract
of mangroves which I look upon
as the lungs of Bombay.”
Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group,
DNA, June 5, 2009
“China is a different ball game compared to Pakistan. We know very little about its combat edge or military professionalism. It’s certainly a greater threat.”
Fali H. Major, former Air Force chief, Hindustan Times, May 25, 2009
“I have a perspective that the Indian economy will double from
$ 1 trillion in five to six years. That means a nominal GDP growth rate of 13-14 per cent or a real growth of seven-eight per cent with inflation between five and six per cent. I think it is easily achievable and is not an abstract assumption. Energy, infrastructure, financial services and tourism will participate more in this growth.”
Rukshad Shroff, managing director, JP Morgan, Hong Kong, Hindustan Times, June 9, 2009
“They are worried about their responsibilities, for there is no law in India that defines their role.”
Neville Dumasia, head, KPMG’s Audit Committee Institute on the role of independent directors on corporate boards, Business Today, May 31, 2009
“I also worry that if aid groups paid executives as lavishly as Citigroup does, they would be managed as badly as Citigroup.”
Nicholas D. Kristof, Philanthropy, January-February-March-April 2009
“While the bridge was being
built, the two towers stood
solitarily, unconnected to the completed sections of the bridge on either side. A much smaller bridge that carried a single large yellow pipe ran alongside. The pipe funnelled the concrete
required for the tower from the deck of the completed bridge right up the 48 storey high towers
while the work was in progress.”
Jimmy Mogal, head of Hindustan
Construction Company, builders of the Bandra-Worli sealink, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, May 15, 2009
“My hobby is to read books
which few read and write books which fewer still might be
expected to read... in the hope
that I might create a taste in others for such subjects as anthropology, folklore, origin of customs
and history of institutions.”
Sir Rustom Masani quoted by B. K. Karanjia, Freedom First, June 2009
“Carnival glasses were the
cheapest glass when initially
made, but the Bombay
middle-class really took to
them. The iridescent ones,
which are actually the freaks thanks to a manufacturing
defect, have a streak of blue, dreamily staining the glass;
they are far more expensive than the regular immaculate ones.”
Kaizad Todywalla, antique dealer,
Mumbai Mirror, May 24, 2009
“The crumpled kurta-pyjama, the two day stubble, Hindi as the preferred language and renunciation of high office in favor of grassroots party work, has certainly set the tone of a government that prefers — or ostensibly prefers — Darbhanga to Davos.”
Sagarika Ghose, columnist, quote on Rahul Gandhi, Hindustan Times, June 10, 2009
“We are shocked to see the
BMC destroy the central garden
by laying jogging tracks in granite, over which people will slip and
fall, and replace the spotless galvanized iron railings with
cast iron that will have to
be painted each year.”
Arzan Khambatta, architect,
The Times of India, June 11, 2009
“The house where Dostoevsky wrote Crime and Punishment now houses Hertz Rent-a-car and American Express — crime and punishment, indeed!”
Farrukh Dhondy, writer, DNA, May 29, 2009
“The gym is not a place to merely get thin and I do not believe in isolating staying fit from life.”
Zareen Watson, fitness trainer, Afternoon Despatch and Courier, May 28, 2009
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