Quotes

"Having smarted all these years,
(about my shortness) I’ve come up
with a riposte: ‘I stopped worrying
about my height and set about
acquiring stature.’ All of you on
the short-list, feel free to use it.”

Bachi Karkaria, columnist, The Times
of India, October 7, 2021

"My husband Tehemton was
really involved with the carnivals. He was the last King Momo.”

Viloo Shroff, among Matharpacady’s
last few Parsis along with three Buhariwala family members, mid-day, April 18, 2021

"Telling people from Orissa, or Bihar, or Assam, or Uttar Pradesh that they do not have the same rights as those
born in the state destroys that
sense of being one nation.”

Naushad Forbes, co-chairman,
Forbes Marshall; past president,
Confederation of Indian Industry, chairman, Centre for Technology Innovation and
Economic Research and Ananta Aspen Centre, The Times of India, April 16, 2021
"Speak to any CRPF (Central
Reserve Police Force) officer on the ground in Sukma or Bijapur, and he will tell you that such
ill-fated operations are planned
by officers who have no
understanding of the Maoist
heartland other than the Power Point presentations they
carry on their laptops.”

Rahul Pandita, author, Hello, Bastar:
The Untold Story of India's Maoist
movement, on the killing of 22 security
personnel this April by alleged Maoists,
The Times of India, April 11, 2021

"Custodial torture and other
police atrocities are problems
that still prevail in our society.
In spite of constitutional
declarations and guarantees,
the lack of effective legal representation at the police stations is
a huge detriment to arrested/
detained persons.”

N. V. Ramana, Chief Justice of India,
The Indian Express, August 9, 2021
"We have our Planning Commissions... but Jamsetji Tata formed himself into some kind of a planning commission and began his own five-year, not a five-year
but a much bigger, plan.”

Jawaharlal Nehru, former Indian Prime Minister, speaking at the inauguration of the Jubilee Park, Jamshedpur, March 1, 1958 reprinted in Good thoughts, Good words, Good deeds, A book of Tata quotes

"My mother still doesn’t remember my birthday; she calls my sister to wish her on my birthday.”

Cyrus Sahukar, video jockey, mid-day,
September 22, 2021

"I don’t peg OTT (over the top
media) against theater because they are different mediums. A
theatrical experience is something else entirely and I believe
that OTT medium is used
at one’s convenience.”

Amyra Dastur, actor, The Times of
India, August 31, 2021