Quotes
So they say
“Absolute nonsense, I mean a man is going to spend five years
writing a book for Nusli Wadia — what has Nusli Wadia got to do with Jaswant Singh?”
Nusli Wadia, grandson of the founding father of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, on being asked if he financed Jaswant Singh’s book on partition and Jinnah, Hindustan Times, September 9, 2009
“Subject to the whims and under the thumb of every politician that comes along, police leadership continues to willingly bend over for power, the cutting edge sees its self-interest lying with the strongest whether they are criminal or not, and the rank and file feel demeaned and undervalued by their own leadership and disliked and distrusted by the public. Morale is low and morality lower.”
Maja Daruwala, director,
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, DNA, September 9, 2009
“At any social event you see young and old sway to scintillating Persian tunes, waving their hands gracefully, you will hear the
Persian national anthem and Chhaiyé Hamé Zarathushti sung by all Zarathushtis, Parsi and Iranian, you will find chelo palo and lagannu nu stew served side by side.”
Dolly Dastoor, editor, FEZANA Journal, Summer 2009
“The ancient Persian religion is ascribed to Zarathushtra, and has sometimes been classed as an individual religion. But among critical scholars Zarathushtra has long been recognized as a purely mythical name, and all that tradition tells us about him is now acknowledged to be of very late origin.”
Max Muller, editor of Sacred Books of the East quoted by K. N. Dastoor in Parsi Avaz, July-Aug-Sept 2009
“We are not talking about immediate listing; we are talking about planning for listing. We will find the right moment (when) the markets seem to be reviving for our kind of company which is largely around intellectual property. The products we are working on are all million dollar products and they have to enter the market.”
Villoo Morawala-Patell, founder and CMD, Avesthagen Ltd,
The Economic Times, September 2, 2009
“No dahling, I don’t write as good as I talk.”
Jeannie Naoroji, India’s first fashion choreographer on being asked if she intended to write her memoirs, Vogue India, August 2009
“Also against me is the fact that both my parents are Kurdish, educated liberals and my mother is a Zoroastrian.”
Zarah Ghahramani, Iranian dissident and co-author of My Life as a Traitor, in Reader’s Digest, August 2009
writing a book for Nusli Wadia — what has Nusli Wadia got to do with Jaswant Singh?”
Nusli Wadia, grandson of the founding father of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, on being asked if he financed Jaswant Singh’s book on partition and Jinnah, Hindustan Times, September 9, 2009
“Subject to the whims and under the thumb of every politician that comes along, police leadership continues to willingly bend over for power, the cutting edge sees its self-interest lying with the strongest whether they are criminal or not, and the rank and file feel demeaned and undervalued by their own leadership and disliked and distrusted by the public. Morale is low and morality lower.”
Maja Daruwala, director,
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, DNA, September 9, 2009
“At any social event you see young and old sway to scintillating Persian tunes, waving their hands gracefully, you will hear the
Persian national anthem and Chhaiyé Hamé Zarathushti sung by all Zarathushtis, Parsi and Iranian, you will find chelo palo and lagannu nu stew served side by side.”
Dolly Dastoor, editor, FEZANA Journal, Summer 2009
“The ancient Persian religion is ascribed to Zarathushtra, and has sometimes been classed as an individual religion. But among critical scholars Zarathushtra has long been recognized as a purely mythical name, and all that tradition tells us about him is now acknowledged to be of very late origin.”
Max Muller, editor of Sacred Books of the East quoted by K. N. Dastoor in Parsi Avaz, July-Aug-Sept 2009
“We are not talking about immediate listing; we are talking about planning for listing. We will find the right moment (when) the markets seem to be reviving for our kind of company which is largely around intellectual property. The products we are working on are all million dollar products and they have to enter the market.”
Villoo Morawala-Patell, founder and CMD, Avesthagen Ltd,
The Economic Times, September 2, 2009
“No dahling, I don’t write as good as I talk.”
Jeannie Naoroji, India’s first fashion choreographer on being asked if she intended to write her memoirs, Vogue India, August 2009
“Also against me is the fact that both my parents are Kurdish, educated liberals and my mother is a Zoroastrian.”
Zarah Ghahramani, Iranian dissident and co-author of My Life as a Traitor, in Reader’s Digest, August 2009
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