Quotes
So they say
“We’re setting up a marriage bureau because otherwise our Anglo-Indian girls and boys will marry outside and dilute our population and culture. We are a distinctive community
and we must stay together.”
Dr Charles Dias, Anglo-Indian member of the Lok Sabha, reprinted from The Daily Telegraph in DNA, November 30, 2011
“The values he (Maoist Kobad Ghandy) cherishes, he told me, ‘are those epitomized by my late wife — simplicity, straightforwardness, self-sacrificing, absence of ego/arrogance and childlike. The New Man needs to be like that — heart of a child, spirit of love and affection, but with the mind of a scientist. But it is difficult to acquire these in this world. Let us hope that I
can find some answers to these in the few years left of my life.
I will continue the search.’”
Sudheendra Kulkarni, BJP member on being incarcerated in Tihar jail where Ghandy is held), The Indian Express, December 11, 2011
“Balancing creativity and commerce is a very individual phenomenon. The urge to direct a film has to come from a personal motivation. But when you have an investor, you have to be responsible. The minimum responsibility is to ensure the person does not lose the
money he has invested.”
Farhan Akhtar, son of Honey Irani and Javed Akhtar, The Economic Times, December 10, 2011
“Society still treats HIV positive people like dirt — they often lose their jobs, their families, social circles shun them, their children are thrown out of school. This happens in cities like Bombay too, where we should know better.”
Parmeshwar Godrej, philanthropist, DNA, December 1, 2011
“In the spring of 1990, when I was invited as a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy, at the City University of New York, the emigration officer at JFK grilled me on what exactly philanthropy is supposed to be. I told him, it’s to do with ‘non-profits’ and he said, ‘You mean you have come here to study how to make losses.’”
Noshir H. Dadrawala, chief executive officer, Centre for
Advancement of Philanthropy, FEZANA Journal, Fall 2011
“Bohemian Rhapsody was Freddie’s magnum opus. I
believe it was his expression of the need to allow him to live
a homosexual lifestyle. It was he giving himself permission to leave the ‘old’ Freddie behind. He was killing him off.”
Lesley-Ann Jones, Freddie Bulsara (Mercury’s) biographer,
Mid Day, November 23, 2011
and we must stay together.”
Dr Charles Dias, Anglo-Indian member of the Lok Sabha, reprinted from The Daily Telegraph in DNA, November 30, 2011
“The values he (Maoist Kobad Ghandy) cherishes, he told me, ‘are those epitomized by my late wife — simplicity, straightforwardness, self-sacrificing, absence of ego/arrogance and childlike. The New Man needs to be like that — heart of a child, spirit of love and affection, but with the mind of a scientist. But it is difficult to acquire these in this world. Let us hope that I
can find some answers to these in the few years left of my life.
I will continue the search.’”
Sudheendra Kulkarni, BJP member on being incarcerated in Tihar jail where Ghandy is held), The Indian Express, December 11, 2011
“Balancing creativity and commerce is a very individual phenomenon. The urge to direct a film has to come from a personal motivation. But when you have an investor, you have to be responsible. The minimum responsibility is to ensure the person does not lose the
money he has invested.”
Farhan Akhtar, son of Honey Irani and Javed Akhtar, The Economic Times, December 10, 2011
“Society still treats HIV positive people like dirt — they often lose their jobs, their families, social circles shun them, their children are thrown out of school. This happens in cities like Bombay too, where we should know better.”
Parmeshwar Godrej, philanthropist, DNA, December 1, 2011
“In the spring of 1990, when I was invited as a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy, at the City University of New York, the emigration officer at JFK grilled me on what exactly philanthropy is supposed to be. I told him, it’s to do with ‘non-profits’ and he said, ‘You mean you have come here to study how to make losses.’”
Noshir H. Dadrawala, chief executive officer, Centre for
Advancement of Philanthropy, FEZANA Journal, Fall 2011
“Bohemian Rhapsody was Freddie’s magnum opus. I
believe it was his expression of the need to allow him to live
a homosexual lifestyle. It was he giving himself permission to leave the ‘old’ Freddie behind. He was killing him off.”
Lesley-Ann Jones, Freddie Bulsara (Mercury’s) biographer,
Mid Day, November 23, 2011
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