Quotes
"Be it Frank Sinatra, Elvis
Presley or Jim Morrison — the
’60s was the time of an explosion in Western music. These were the three major influences, but I would like to think that it all began with Sinatra. He changed the
face of Western music.”
Gary Lawyer, singer, mid-day, April 8, 2018
"I played the coach, Tony Singh, and didn’t require as much training as the others but I was diligent
because on-screen, your eyes reflect your confusion.”
Boman Irani, actor, MumbaiMirror,
April 2, 2018
"What is being practised by
Parsis today is Parsiism. It is
not Zoroastrianism.”
Vispy Wadia, businessman, on his
motive in setting up the open-to-all Asha Vahishta Zoroastrian Centre in Poona,
The Hindu, March 26, 2018
"As they say, ‘treat comedy seriously, and treat tragedy lightly.’”
Jim Sarbh, actor, Hindustan Times,
March 31, 2018
"If you give priority to business, then the business does well and then so does the family. But it’s very important to prioritize
business interest.”
Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group,
The Economic Times, April 4, 2018
"As far as possible, he (my
father, actor Vinod Khanna) loved
driving himself and was well
known for stopping his car to
give a ride to old ladies.”
Rahul Khanna, actor, whose mother
Geetanjali is a Parsi, Bombay Times,
April 24, 2018
"I want my children to have all
the things I couldn’t afford. Then
I want to move in with them.”
Phyllis Diller, actor, The Economic
Times, February 26, 2018
"I said that I would like to do the designs for free because I would like to show the government what are the disabilities (problems)
and what can be done.”
Hafeez Contractor, architect, on his
offer to design 19 railway stations across the country, The Afternoon Desptach
& Courier, February 26, 2018
"I have many people with special needs who come to class and with the power of dance as therapy,
see themselves healing.”
Shiamak Davar, choreographer,
Hindustan Times, January 31, 2018
"I have friends who document
food of their community. Now,
that is anthropology and
ethnography but not history.”
Dr Kurush Dalal, archaeologist, caterer and faculty member, University of Bombay Centre for Extra-Mural Studies, mid-day, April 26, 2018
"We often misconstrue a nuclear test with just a bomb but India wanted to be a self-sustaining nuclear power nation that
would take care of its own
electricity and energy, etc.”
John Abraham, actor, whose mother
Pheroza is a Parsi, on his new film
Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran on how India conducted nuclear tests in 1998,
Hindustan Times, May 21, 2018
Cornelia Sorabji "was the first solicitor in the British Empire, and Mithan Tata Lam was the first woman to work as a barrister in India. Both were Maharashtrians with ethnic Parsi heritage whose biographies contributed to the making of Perveen. She had to be Parsi because the community was very active in sending their daughters into the professions in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.”
Sujata Massey, novelist, on her book
A Murder on Malabar Hill featuring a
fictional Parsi lawyer, Perveen Mistry,
The Hindu, March 29, 2018
"I think (TV content is depleting
because) viewers watching it belong to an older generation,
who want regressive content.
Creative and progressive
shows rarely do well.”
Sanaya Irani, actor, mid-day,
April 10, 2018
"The accountability on the
corporate governance front has been in the limelight like never before in the backdrop of some
of the recent scams.”
Piruz Khambatta, chairman and managing director, Rasna International Private
Limited and chairman, western region, Confederation of Indian Industry,
The Hindu, April 11, 2018
"Liberals say new US national
security adviser (John) Bolton
never met a war he didn’t like
or a problem country
he didn’t want to bomb.”
Seema Sirohi, The Economic Times,
April 4, 2018
"The nature of activism is, by definition, slow and painstaking. It starts with one person or group challenging the status quo; that’s when the first few slivers of the rock begin to chip away.”
mid-day editorial on the Goolrookh Gupta case, December 16, 2017
"The problem with beauty is
that it’s like being born rich
and getting poorer.”
Joan Collins, American actress, The
Economic Times, December 1, 2017
"About 10 years after The
Crow Eaters, there was a small crop of writers — Firdaus Kanga, Boman Desai, Rohinton Mistry, Thrity Umrigar and some others, and the community became
accustomed to seeing itself
portrayed in fiction.”
Bapsi Sidhwa, author, G2,
December-January 2008, submitted
by reader Rashid Khosravi