Quotes

"When a party is headless, its members are easy to scalp.”

Bachi Karkaria, columnist, regarding attempts by the Bharatiya Janata Party to unseat the ruling Congress Party in Rajasthan, The Times of India, July 16, 2020

"Even without going into
the incidents of corruption,
extortion, intimidation, just the number and regularity of
heinous crimes calls out for
root and branch repair of the
police and the many guardian
agencies tasked with
keeping them lawful.”

Maja Daruwala, senior advisor, Tata Trusts and Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, The Indian Express, July 13, 2020

"We did not need this appointment to understand that (former Supreme Court Chief Justice Ranjan)Gogoi was, in all likelihood, in a perverse embrace with the executive. We knew that each time he authored logic and Constitution-defying judgments which favored the
executive. We knew that when
we saw hearings in crucial cases
of constitutional importance
being delayed.”

Dushyant, MumbaiMirror, March 20, 2020

"We were the only chicken
suppliers and there were people screaming and shouting for their orders to be filled. Someone who was sending in 100 orders earlier was now ordering 500.”

Perizaad Zorabian, director, sales
and marketing, Zorabian Chicks,
Mint, July 3, 2020

"Here’s to strong women.
May we know them. May we
be them. May we raise them.”

Anahita N. Dhondy, chef-partner
SodaBottleOpenerWala, Hindustan
Times, March 22, 2020

"The unemployment rate in
India in May climbed to an
astonishing 23.5%, compared
to Brazil’s 12.6%, the US’s 13.3% and China’s 6%. China’s official data on unemployment needs
to be taken with caution.”

Kaushik Basu, C Marks Professor at
Cornell University and former chief
economist and senior vice president,
World Bank, The Indian Express,
July 8, 2020

"The problem is with the way
some people think. I wish
they didn’t see a body as a
mere sexual object, but also
appreciated its beauty.”

Benafsha Soonawalla, reality TV star,
on posing sans a top with her hands
covering her bosom,The Times
of India, June 14, 2020

"He never hit me one time that I didn’t hit him back twice.”

Loretta Lynn, country songwriter and
singer, on her husband, Wikipedia