Quotes
"So far as my ministry is
concerned, of the six minority
communities the weakest is clearly the Parsis. They are a minuscule
minority that is so precariously placed that one needs to take
care of their survival.”
"The Bharatiya Janata Party
campaign has once again proven that mass media has the power
to move mountains; that mass
media is not expensive as it is thought to be and multi-media
is essential for effectiveness.”
"When they (James Ivory and Ismail
Merchant) first came to meet her in Delhi to make her novel Householder into a film, she refused, and told them: ‘I’m not a film person.’”
"It is very unfortunate that in a country as big as ours, we have such a limited pool of individuals who pay a higher amount of
taxes and the rest of the people
do not pay taxes.”
executive officer, Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited, Mint,
May 23, 2014
"Riding is a fantastic form of exercise and disciplines you. It’s also exhilarating for a child to be in control of something so big.”
Anya riding a horse, The Economic
Times, May 22, 2014
"It’s just a basic discipline of how to be on stage. There is no magic trick to it or special skill required. As long as you can follow the
basics and show commitment
to your performance, you have
won half the battle.”
"People look for a lot more
than just the price when selling their business. In many cases
we were the ultimate buyer
because they saw in us a
group that would take forward
the legacy of the brand that
they’ve created and take
care of their employees.”
The Economic Times, May 16, 2014
"Why does everyone talk
about change? Aren’t things
bad enough as they are?”
Minister of Great Britain to sit in the
House of Lords, quoted by Lord
Meghnad Desai, The Indian Express,
May 25, 2014
"The joke goes that until last
week India had no government; now it has no opposition.”
The Economist reprinted in The
Indian Express, May 27, 2014