Quotes

"Some 62% of our (Indian)
population is below 32 years of age. Since the average age of a home buyer is 35-38 years, the
demand for buying houses is
going to rise steadily.”

Keki Mistry, vice chairman, Housing
Development Finance Corporation,
Hindustan Times, July 22, 2015

"My son was killed while laughing at some jest. I would I knew/What it was, and it might serve me in a time when jests are few.”

Rudyard Kipling, writer, on his son’s death in World War I, quoted by Eunice de
Souza, Mumbai Mirror, July 23, 2015

"There is a need for some radical changes in laws, because laws govern everything from architecture to design. There is ambiguity in laws with respect to fire safety.”

Hafeez Contractor, architect, DNA,
November 8, 2015

"I want my city to be a place where people come to live, not just where they come to make a living.”

Annise Parker, three-time mayor of
Houston, Mint, July 8, 2015

"There has been a tendency to go and buy technology. What we (Tata Trusts and partners such as the University of California, Los Angeles) are trying to do is to put our best minds together to address
the problems by ourselves here and try to find (local) solutions.”

Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Trusts,
Mint, January 12, 2016

"I was lucky that within a month
of registration, I got a heart...
There is need for more awareness
on cadaver donation.”

Hvovi Minocherhomji, perhaps the
first from Maharashtra to undergo a
heart transplant in Madras, DNA,
January 6, 2016

"I often suggest ways and means of media innovations. We also talk about TRPs (television rating points), GRPs (gross rating points), etc. Sometimes, producers are
taken aback. They say, ‘We thought you only went to the
gym.’ Then I have to tell them
that this is what I have studied.
I’m an educated person and
a strategic (media) planner.”

John Abraham, actor and producer whose mother Pheroza is a Parsi, Hindustan Times, January 7, 2016

"One can argue that India needs
to be more competitive with
respect to China, but China is
not making money from selling steel at these prices. So, we can’t call them competitive. So, let’s be fair to the industry including Tata Steel which has invested about
Rs 40,000 crore in the past five years in the eastern states of Jharkhand and Orissa.”

T. V. Narendran, managing director
(India and South East Asia), Tata Steel, DNA, January 8, 2016