Quotes
"Lentils and rice with caramelized onions... It may seem exotic to Western viewers, but, come on, it’s masoor dal and rice, for us.”
Roxanne Bamboat, blogger, mid-day,
May 28, 2017
"Have infrastructure that works for you (professional women), save time by not doing things you are not supposed to and basically trying to do the best you can. The end result is a proud parent, a proud leader and proud children, who will grow up. So, it’s just a matter of how to get better at it.”
Zia Mody, AZB Partners, The
Economic Times, May 1, 2017
"In spite of him (Adar) being my only son, I threw him into the deep end. That has shaped him well as a person and as an entrepreneur.”
Dr Cyrus Poonawalla, chairman,
Poonawalla Group, Forbes India,
December 9, 2016, submitted
by reader Rashid Khosravi
"If you do not own a house
and your income is less than
Rs 1,50,000 a month then there is a big subsidy that you get from the government and that is available only up to September 2017.”
Keki Mistry, vice chairman and
chief executive officer, Housing
Development Finance Corporation
Limited, Mint, May 17, 2017
"The first 4,000 rupees I earned, we got a fridge in the house. We didn’t have one for 10 years and would ask our neighbors to store cold water for us.”
Farah Khan, film director, producer and choreographer, whose mother is a Parsi, remembering her "nomadic childhood” following her parents’ separation,
MumbaiMirror, May 28, 2017
"All citizens know it is wrong to cut trees. Call it sentiment, but to stand by and see a petrol-fueled saw
roar and cut into a trunk, to smell the sweet sap, to hear birds confusedly calling and flying about... this is not being sentimental,
this is standing by and
watching a murder.”
Lyla Bavadam, deputy editor, Frontline,
The Hindu, May 25, 2017
"Despite an influx of 1.2 million
refugees over the past two
years, Germany’s population
faces near-irreversible decline.
According to predictions from
the UN in 2015, two in five
Germans will be over 60 by
2050 and Europe’s oldest
country will have shrunk to
75 m from 82 m. Since the
1970s, more Germans have
been dying than are born. Fewer births and longer lives are a
problem for most rich countries.”
The Economist reprinted in
The Indian Express, April 20, 2017