Quotes

"It is not as if there are only Hindus in the Indian Union. There are Muslims, Parsis, Christians and other religious groups here. The assumption of the Hindus that India now has become the land of the Hindus is erroneous. India belongs to all who live here.”

Mahatma Gandhi quoted by Swaminathan
S. Anklesaria Aiyar, whose late wife was a
Parsi, The Economic Times, October 14, 2015

"It is great pity that the kind of mean spirited narrow-mindedness, portraying the most offensive, intolerant kind of Hindutva, and now even intolerant Jainism, riding on the back of the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) led government, have turned these religions into paradoxical parodies of themselves and what they stand for.”

Percy Mistry, head of the expert committee which first recommended that the International Financial Centre be promoted in India’s financial capital, The lndian
Express, October 13, 2015

"India continues to rank 142nd
out of 189 countries for the ease
of doing business. [That’s higher than India’s 155th place FIFA
(Fédération Internationale de
Football Association) ranking, which means that we’re fractionally better at curbing red tape than
we are at football.]”

Tunku Varadarajan, Virginia Hobs
Carpenter Fellow, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, The Indian Express, September 27, 2015

"Can you imagine, even today, there are auditoriums that have banned The Vagina Monologues? Censorship is so stupid. I mean, how can you censor art? It is
the true history of our country
and the times we are living
in. By manipulating that,
we are destroying history.”

Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, thespian, The Times of India, September 27, 2015

Novelist "Barbara Cartland
said to me, ‘Oh, Miss Collins,
your books are filthy and
disgusting and you are
responsible for all the perverts
in England.’ I paused for a few
moments and said, ‘Thank you.’”

Jackie Collins, late novelist, Free
Press Journal, September 21, 2015

"Most of the families are so
poor that when they want to
show their gratitude for finally
being able to have a child,
they’ve come with a few eggs
from their farm, even a few
bunches of vegetables. I even
was presented a live hen once.”

Dr Firuza Parikh, In Vitro Fertilization
specialist, Mid Day, October 19, 2015