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So they say

"In almost no sport is there a Parsi champion, which should be a cause for worry. Sport today is not a mere pastime. It represents the soft power of a community as much as of a country. By not being in the forefront in sport, the Parsis have vacated their own importance in the national scheme of things.”

Ayaz Memon, sports columnist,
Hindustan Times, December 30, 2013

"I have an issue with the notion that if you are honest people, you have an honest party. Politics is not only about good or bad
individuals; it’s also about the law and about institutions. I think they (the Aam Admi Party) have to focus as much on remaking institutions as they do on reforming individuals.”

Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Mumbai Mirror, January 12, 2014

"Bombay had its own grace. Much of that is gone.”

Ved Mehta, writer, DNA, January 14, 2014

"They have released Rs 10 crore for a Parsi fertility program, it’s an ethnic grouping. They haven’t given it to promote Zoroastrianism. They have given it because the Government of India recognizes the beauty and importance of the Parsi ethnicity.”

Khojeste Mistree, Bombay Parsi Punchayet trustee and preacher,
The Times of India, December 29, 2013

"The only time I’ve seen Parsis really angry as a group is when others fail to turn off their cellular phones at the Symphony
Orchestra of India’s concerts.”

Aakar Patel, columnist, Mint,
January 18, 2014

"I find religious structures the most beautiful and fascinating in terms of scale, proportion, structure and the use of geometry. They are all incredible. It is difficult not to draw inspiration from all of them.”

Rooshad Shroff, architect, G2,
April-May 2012, clipping submitted
by reader Rashid Khosravi

"My belief is that if today a developer is convinced that a customer is genuine which means he has the capacity to
buy a house, then probably he would even negotiate the price. You may be able to get a discount of five-10% on the property
but not more than that.”

Keki Mistry, vice chairman and chief executive, Housing Development Finance Corporation, Mint, January 8, 2014

"If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.”

Norman Mailer, American author, quoted
by Karan Thapar, Hindustan Times,
December 29, 2013

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