Quotes

"A man who wants to lead
the orchestra must turn his
back on the crowd.”

Max Lucado, American author and pastor, Inspirational Quote, July 2021

"If we have regulatory barriers, then it makes it difficult for all kinds of vaccines to be available for
everyone. If the World Health Organisation (WHO) approves a vaccine, then a vaccine certificate from that country should be
acceptable as the citizens have used a WHO-approved vaccine.”

Adar Poonawalla, chief executive
officer, Serum Institute of India,
Business Standard, July 1, 2021

"I knew about it growing up because as a Parsi, our fire temples observed time according to the old Bombay Time, because it is closer to ‘real’ solar time. When I first started wearing a watch, it was a source of confusion.”

Farrokh Jijina, journalist, quoted in
"The long History of ‘Bombay Time’
and Resistance to Colonial Rule,”
Atlas Obscura, June 30, 2021

"I don’t see the office going away. There’s a lot of in-person sharing you can’t replicate online.”

Nisa Godrej, chairperson, Godrej
Consumer Products, The Economic
Times, June 29, 2021

"At my age one’s got to be
sincere. Lying’s too much effort.”

Character of Jean Tarrou in The
Plague by Albert Camus

"As well-water is used for
religious ceremonies, wells and their surroundings are generally kept clean by the Parsis and
Hindus alike, but there is a
further incentive to cleanliness
in the case of wells which
are regarded as the dwelling-
places of spirits.”

Sir Rustom Masani’s Folklore of Wells:
Being a Study of Water Worship in East
and West (1918), quoted by Vikram Doctor,
The Economic Times, June 26, 2021

"She became a hero not because she was fearless, but because she was afraid of what was going to happen to her four children
after her husband’s death.”

Boman Irani, actor, on his late mother Jerbanoo, The Times of India, June 27, 2021

"If journalism is the first draft of history, then photojournalism is
the first draft of its evidence.”

Raghu Rai, veteran lensman,
Business Standard, June 19, 2021

"Our mis-governance, lousy
identity politics of caste or religion, fake socialism, corruption,
self-congratulation, empty
triumphalism, are catching up
and ruin our self-image faster
than we imagine.”

Shekhar Gupta, columnist, Business
Standard, by special arrangement with
ThePrint, June 5, 2021