Quotes

"One should always distinguish between a business default and a legal default. The business basis for a default means a decision was taken with the right motive. That’s not a crime. Going bust is not a crime and if there is a business failure as a result of taking a wrong decision — I think that is okay and it should be seen as being okay.”

Naushad Forbes, president, Confederation of
Indian Industry (CII) and co-chairman, Forbes
Marshall, The Times of India, April 11, 2016

"We’ve stocked them (the suites for women) with silk robes, velvet slippers, women’s magazines
and other amenities for women.
It has been a great concept
and the women feel great.”

Byram Avari, chairman, Avari Hotels,
G2, April-May 2015, submitted by
reader Rashid Khosravi

"Over the years, where Maharashtra has failed is that its infrastructure has not kept pace with growth. What we lacked is thinking big enough for the growth that
we could achieve.”

Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata Trusts, The Economic Times, February 16, 2016

"My mother once remarked
wryly that she probably deserved the title of Mother India more than anyone else. Why so? Because her eldest son, Mani, married a Sikh. I, the second son, married a Parsi. Mukundan, her youngest son, married a Christian. Her daughter, Tara, married a Hindu. And her sister, Dr Alankaram,
married a Muslim.”

Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, columnist,
The Times of India, March 27, 2016

"Our sacred exclusivity is strengthened by some rather unedifying secular dread of having to share the enviable legacy of housing, hospitals and scholarships with ‘half-breeds.’ Strident traditionalists buy full pages to pass off their bigotry as news. The cybersphere bristles with damnation; parts of the diaspora are often more hysterical. Reasoned opinion gets battered
by the hateful tide.”

Bachi Karkaria, columnist, The
Times of India, March 27, 2016

"India comes in at No. 185 in an IndexMundi list of 215 countries ranked by literacy rates. How embarrassing! Perhaps the government could spend less energy locking up students for sedition
and try to educate them instead?”

Sohaila Abdulali, Mint, March 19, 2016

"We don’t need more schools.
We need to understand how to
get faculty there.”

Ronnie Screwvala, investor and
co-founder in education venture, UpGrad, The Times of India, March 20, 2016