Quotes

"Donors often look for low

overheads in the mistaken

belief that this is a proxy for cost-effectiveness. But to solve new problems charities need

discretionary cash for staff,

research and infrastructure."

The Economist reprinted in The Indian Express, May 28, 2015

"Our (UK’s) international strategy is highly Eurocentric, as we

trade more with Belgium, a

nation of little more than 10

million, than we do with India,

a nation of over 1.2 billion."

Lord Karan Bilimoria, Chancellor, University

of Birmingham and founding chairman

of the UK-India Business Council, The Times of India, May 28, 2015

"Heirs may be given in marriage, but not to someone of lower

social standing... No one shall be arrested or imprisoned on the appeal of a woman for the death

of any person except her

husband... If a man dies owing money to Jews, his wife may

have her dower and pay nothing

towards the debt from it."

Quotes from the Magna Carta,

Hindustan Times, June 15, 2015

Member of the British Parliament Shapurji Saklatvala "got into

trouble with the Communist

Party. This happened after he

initiated his children into the

Parsi faith, thus annoying his staunchly atheist comrades."

Sidin Vadukut, columnist, Mint, May 30, 2015

"My childhood was a continuous initiation into the design world, be it on family holidays with visits to museums and galleries or going to my father’s office and sketching over blueprints as a kid."

Rooshad Shroff, architect, G2,

April-May 2012, clipping submitted

by reader Rashid Khosravi

"I don’t think there is any real relation between a novel, a screenplay and a short story, except that

you learn certain techniques in one

form that you can apply in the other."

Cyrus Mistry, writer and winner of the 2014 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, The Times of India, January 22, 2014

"I do feel magazines occupy a small and strong niche. It is important that it finds its niche, which is engagement and not exposure."

Sam Balsara, chairman and managing

director, Madison World, Campaign

India, March 7, 2014

"Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly."

Alain De Botton, author,

Reader’s Digest, October 2014

"I think Americans have learned that it’s harder to end wars than

it is to begin them."

US President Barack Obama,

Associated Press, The Indian Express,

June 17, 2014