So they say

"My Parsi heritage taught me
to be inquiring and inquisitive,
experimental and creative; it didn’t tie me down to hide-bound traditions that claimed to preserve
the purity of our peoples.”

"There is nothing left for us
here. All the Parsis sold their homes... and left for bigger cities.”

"When the music starts, a
positive wave goes from this
stage everywhere.”

In a gara, finish is everything. "In Parsi Gujarati, there’s a phrase, ‘aagal heera, paachhal keera
(diamonds at the front, worms on the rear).’ They (the craftsmen) are encouraged to avoid bulbous knots on the saree’s underside.”

"It was 1973 and he always
used to dress flamboyantly. But
I used to tell him to have his hair cut short as it was long. He said, ‘No, no mum, that is the way I am.’ But when short hair came into fashion he said: ‘You see I’ve
had it cut short. I did it.’”

Jer Bulsara, Freddie Mercury’s mother, Rathesthar, March 28, 2013, clipping
submitted by reader Rashid Khosravi

"Whether 500 or five years old, whether five or 100 years hence; in order to be successful, design needs to respond to the user,
to context and to function...
and in that sense, it needs
to be timeless.”

"If you find violence against women titillating or semi-pornographic or worth censoring, the problem is with your mindset, not the play.”

"By giving us the opinions of
the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance
of the community.”