Quotes
So they say
“Our religion is based on gender equality and if a Parsi/Irani girl
or boy chooses to marry outside of our faith and does so by way
of a civil ceremony he/she has, according to me, every right to continue to attend the agiary or atash behram of his/her choosing.”
Dastur Khurshed Kaikobad Dastoor, High Priest of Udvada,
FEZANA Journal, Fall 2010
“The assertion of the right of the media to broadcast these tapes has to be evaluated against the invasion of the right to privacy... for it is obvious that the right to freedom of expression cannot be a euphemism for waging (a) surrogate corporate war.”
Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Group, affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on January 8, 2011, The Economic Times, January 10, 2011
“Pacts always boiled down to who was offered which gaadi from which maximum influence or corrupt money could be milked. India should think of outsourcing political-corruption expertise.”
Farrukh Dhondy, scriptwriter, DNA, January 7, 2011
“Animal activists do not patronize circuses with animals and other animal performances, go for joy rides or (participate) in processions involving animals. Nor do they attend animal races and fights,knowing that the animals involved are subjected to torture, hunger and fear.”
Khurshid Bhathena, trustee and honorary secretary of
Beauty Without Cruelty, Compassionate Friend,
Journal of Beauty Without Cruelty-India, Winter 2010
“India is much more land-short than other countries. Our density of population (among large economies) is the highest except for Bangladesh. We are 10 times as densely populated as United States and two-and-a-half times as China. And our policies should reflect that but unfortunately they don’t.”
Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej group, DNA, December 31, 2010
“There are lies, damn lies and there is Parsiana.”
Areez Khambatta, chairman, WAPIZ, WAPIZ Page, Free Press Journal,
December 17, 2010
“India today has 300 universities for a 1.2 billion population. I did a calculation for India. If they want to create the same level of education as the US has for its population of 300 million, they will need 7,000 universities, which means they will have to build 6,700 universities, which is impossible.”
Vijay Govindarajan, Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and founding
director of its Center for Global Leadership, Mint, January 13, 2011
or boy chooses to marry outside of our faith and does so by way
of a civil ceremony he/she has, according to me, every right to continue to attend the agiary or atash behram of his/her choosing.”
Dastur Khurshed Kaikobad Dastoor, High Priest of Udvada,
FEZANA Journal, Fall 2010
“The assertion of the right of the media to broadcast these tapes has to be evaluated against the invasion of the right to privacy... for it is obvious that the right to freedom of expression cannot be a euphemism for waging (a) surrogate corporate war.”
Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Group, affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on January 8, 2011, The Economic Times, January 10, 2011
“Pacts always boiled down to who was offered which gaadi from which maximum influence or corrupt money could be milked. India should think of outsourcing political-corruption expertise.”
Farrukh Dhondy, scriptwriter, DNA, January 7, 2011
“Animal activists do not patronize circuses with animals and other animal performances, go for joy rides or (participate) in processions involving animals. Nor do they attend animal races and fights,knowing that the animals involved are subjected to torture, hunger and fear.”
Khurshid Bhathena, trustee and honorary secretary of
Beauty Without Cruelty, Compassionate Friend,
Journal of Beauty Without Cruelty-India, Winter 2010
“India is much more land-short than other countries. Our density of population (among large economies) is the highest except for Bangladesh. We are 10 times as densely populated as United States and two-and-a-half times as China. And our policies should reflect that but unfortunately they don’t.”
Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej group, DNA, December 31, 2010
“There are lies, damn lies and there is Parsiana.”
Areez Khambatta, chairman, WAPIZ, WAPIZ Page, Free Press Journal,
December 17, 2010
“India today has 300 universities for a 1.2 billion population. I did a calculation for India. If they want to create the same level of education as the US has for its population of 300 million, they will need 7,000 universities, which means they will have to build 6,700 universities, which is impossible.”
Vijay Govindarajan, Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and founding
director of its Center for Global Leadership, Mint, January 13, 2011
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