So they say
"When I first went to Tata
(Memorial), I saw all these poor patients on the footpath. And I thought ‘Arré yaar, I have a
machine, my mother had taught me sewing.’ So I started
making quilts” for them.
Frontline, November 29, 2013, clipping submitted by reader Rashid Khosravi
"Today, women want to concentrate on careers and sometimes, having a baby takes a back seat. So if they want to postpone
motherhood, it is possible to
freeze their eggs at 30 and they can, perhaps, have a baby at 42.”
Reproduction and Genetics at the Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre,
The Gateway, February 11-17, 2014
"Enough is enough. The law of the land should be respected. The state government and the Pune Municipal Corporation must follow the law and protect the city’s environment. After completing all the legal process to protect the biodiversity park, the state government is now once again contemplating to allow construction on the hills, which is much against
the wishes of the people.”
of Parliament and member of the
National Advisory Council, The Times
of India, March 4, 2014
"When I left in 1969, there were 1,200 Parsis, now they’re less than 550. In my growing-up years, our Calcutta kaum (community) could fill the commodious Star Theatre.”
"To sneer at love and wrench apart/The bonds of body mind
and heart/With specious reason and no rhyme;/This is the
true unnatural crime.”
author, on the Supreme Court decision
upholding criminalization of
homosexuality, Mint, February 8, 2014
"The loss of memory is unexpected, frightening. The old are reduced to tears of helplessness by their inability to remember:
the young are doomed to remember. Poets, young, middle-aged and old, by virtue of their calling, are fated to make of memory something substantial.”
"Penguin has entered into an
out-of-court settlement with a bunch of thugs without even
waiting for a court decision.”