Quotes

"All who are interested in the maintenance of democracy, (should) not lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or to trust him with powers which enable him to subvert their institutions.”

Soli J. Sorabjee, former Attorney
General for India, quoting British
philosopher John Stuart Mills, The
Indian Express, October 15, 2019

"The ultimate security blanket is not your husband, not even your children. It’s your friend.”

Vahbiz Mehta, show director, mid-day, October 13, 2019

"Manufacturing in India is only 2% of global manufacturing industries.”

Jamshyd Godrej, managing director,
Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. Ltd., The Hindu, October 10, 2019

"Bombay’s Irani cafes, which formed one of the earliest
spaces where different communities came together, famously
had color-coded crockery:
pink for Hindus, green for
Muslims, floral for everyone else.”

Vikram Doctor, writer, The Times of
India, February 23, 2020

"They were extraordinary! In
fact, way better than most of us who had done ballet for so many years, and had every privilege, which neither of them did. I
wanted to tell their story.”

Sooni Taraporevala, director-writer-
photographer, on the protagonists
of her film Yeh Ballet, mid-day,
February 23, 2020

"If it weren’t for my grandmother (Navajbai Sett-Tata), I wouldn’t have ended up at Cornell
University (College of Architecture, New York) in the US. It was
because of her that even
though I enrolled for mechanical
engineering, I switched majors
and graduated with a
degree in architecture.”

Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus, Tata Sons, The Free Press Journal, February 14, 2020
"According to estimates, currently more than two million teachers in the country have an educational qualification below graduation and one in every five teachers is not professionally qualified.”

Kreeanne Rabadi, regional director, CRY
— Child Rights and You (West), The
Free Press Journal, January 24, 2020

"Do we have a single iconic building that we can be proud of? In the US, there is the Empire State Building; in London, you have The Gherkin, but in India, we can’t think
beyond the Gateway of India
or the Taj Mahal.”

Hafeez Contractor, architect,
The Sunday Express Magazine,
February 2, 2020

"Next they (the police) will be
giving (notices under multiple sections of the Code of Criminal Procedure) to anyone who asks
for the menu at Arabia Hotel.”

Deepanjana Pal, columnist, Hindustan Times, February 9, 2020