Quotes

"Hinduism has been a very tolerant religion. But somehow, we have noticed that in the last 20 years, it is not as tolerant as it was. We really need a Gandhi today.”

Fali Nariman, noted jurist, The Sunday Express, April 6, 2014

"The people at the Bharatiya Janata Party are not the politician stereotypes; they are smart, savvy and intelligent managers who have left their corporate jobs to help the nation catch up on lost time.”

Sam Balsara, chairman and managing
director, Madison World, DNA, May 24, 2014

"Karachi used to barely have
a population of a hundred thousand when Partition happened. Now,
it has got 23 million. It has
become one of the world’s largest cities. So, you know anything
that grows so fast becomes
broken after a point.”

Bapsi Sidhwa, Pakistan born US-based author, Mid Day, December 23, 2013
"We are now worried that
the agiary and the dakhma
(tower of silence) will be
encroached. We don’t want to
lose our ancestral property.”

Kety Khambatta, whose family are the last remaining Parsis in Khambhat, Gujarat,
Hindustan Times, January 5, 2014

"The great German philosopher Immanuel Kant, when he was
developing his thesis of cosmopolitanism, said in the 18th century
that one of the most important ways in which you judge a society is how it treats strangers and the way it gives hospitality. He also said hospitality is a right for
anybody who is threatened.”

Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Mint, January 4, 2014

"I think my best running will come after I turn 60, with more time on my hands, more training and full
concentration. I hope to run till I live.”

Pervin Batliwala, executive secretary,
Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL),
Mint, December 24, 2013

"In spite of some architects
being overrated, the profession,
as a whole, is highly understated — especially in India. So if there are a few overrated architects
that could bring awareness to
the importance of design,
well then it’s a good thing.”

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

"You can’t allow your child to
play violent games that involve
killing someone or destroying something to get to the next level. If they use a gadget to say,
mix colors, it is okay.”

Dr Pervin Dadachanji, psychiatrist,
Mumbai Mirror, July 11, 2014