Quotes
So they say
“We don’t have any servants in the house. So I wash my own clothes. Sometimes (my wife) washes some of mine and her own clothes.Three out of four days, she does the sweeping and one out of four days,I do it.”
Dr Keki Gharda, founder of Gharda Chemicals,
Money LIFE, May 12, 2007
“Instead of being Lehman Brothers if it were to have been Lehman Sisters the company would not have sunk! Women are not reckless in their approach, but are more prudent and risk averse.”
Pilloo Aga, director, Gold Seal Engineering Products Pvt Ltd, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, July 30, 2009
“Whenever Feroze uncle came to Bombay he visited all our
homes in Colaba and took us out for coffee to the Coffee House and dinners at the Taj. But even after a scrumptious dinner, he would come back home and ask my mother for the ‘rumble tumble anda,’ which is scrambled eggs. She would say, ‘Bhai you went to the Taj now, what are you talking?’ to which Feroze would reply (alluding to the dish at the Taj), ‘Itna lamba chauda naam aur nikla toh (such a fancy name but it turned out to be), fried fish.’”
Ratoo Dastoor, niece of the late Feroze Gandhi,
People, August 14, 2009
“I own this 100 plus-year-old Parsi recipe book with 1,000 recipes
of Parsi dishes. Of these nearly 300 recipes alone have eggs as the key ingredient. One dish even suggests topping egg on masoor dal.”
Farrokh Khambata, chef,
The Indian Express, August 15, 2009
“How will it (Parsi Gujarati theater) survive — actors
today can’t read Gujarati, to interpret written nuances.”
Dadi Sarkari, actor,
Mumbai Mirror, August 16, 2009
“Eleven-year-old Serena, daughter of Fiona and Rustom Setna
grows her hair to the required length, snips off around 12” and sends the lock to a hospital for wigs by the needy cancer patients
undergoing chemotherapy.”
Jehanbux Mehta, trustee, BMH Parsi General Hospital,
What’s On, newsletter of the Karachi Zarthosti Banu Mandal,
August, 2009
“Whenever the question of risk taken by doctors comes up, I remember the words of Prof Illingworth of the Royal Western Infirmary in Glasgow. He was scrubbing up before undertaking a bilateral adronolog, a major operation, when I asked him, ‘Professor, what risk do you take in this operation?’ ‘The surgeon never takes a risk;
it’s always the patient who does,’ he replied.”
A Life of Change, The autobiography
of a doctor by Dr Noshir H. Antia
Dr Keki Gharda, founder of Gharda Chemicals,
Money LIFE, May 12, 2007
“Instead of being Lehman Brothers if it were to have been Lehman Sisters the company would not have sunk! Women are not reckless in their approach, but are more prudent and risk averse.”
Pilloo Aga, director, Gold Seal Engineering Products Pvt Ltd, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, July 30, 2009
“Whenever Feroze uncle came to Bombay he visited all our
homes in Colaba and took us out for coffee to the Coffee House and dinners at the Taj. But even after a scrumptious dinner, he would come back home and ask my mother for the ‘rumble tumble anda,’ which is scrambled eggs. She would say, ‘Bhai you went to the Taj now, what are you talking?’ to which Feroze would reply (alluding to the dish at the Taj), ‘Itna lamba chauda naam aur nikla toh (such a fancy name but it turned out to be), fried fish.’”
Ratoo Dastoor, niece of the late Feroze Gandhi,
People, August 14, 2009
“I own this 100 plus-year-old Parsi recipe book with 1,000 recipes
of Parsi dishes. Of these nearly 300 recipes alone have eggs as the key ingredient. One dish even suggests topping egg on masoor dal.”
Farrokh Khambata, chef,
The Indian Express, August 15, 2009
“How will it (Parsi Gujarati theater) survive — actors
today can’t read Gujarati, to interpret written nuances.”
Dadi Sarkari, actor,
Mumbai Mirror, August 16, 2009
“Eleven-year-old Serena, daughter of Fiona and Rustom Setna
grows her hair to the required length, snips off around 12” and sends the lock to a hospital for wigs by the needy cancer patients
undergoing chemotherapy.”
Jehanbux Mehta, trustee, BMH Parsi General Hospital,
What’s On, newsletter of the Karachi Zarthosti Banu Mandal,
August, 2009
“Whenever the question of risk taken by doctors comes up, I remember the words of Prof Illingworth of the Royal Western Infirmary in Glasgow. He was scrubbing up before undertaking a bilateral adronolog, a major operation, when I asked him, ‘Professor, what risk do you take in this operation?’ ‘The surgeon never takes a risk;
it’s always the patient who does,’ he replied.”
A Life of Change, The autobiography
of a doctor by Dr Noshir H. Antia
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