Quotes

"Why should such an important project, massive in scale, conceived in secrecy, shared selectively with small groups but shut out of the public eye, without considering cheaper and better alternatives,
be executed in the midst of a pandemic when every rupee that can be spared should go into improving the country’s medical capabilities?”

T. N. Ninan, editor, on the government
constructing a new parliament building
and other structures, Business
Standard, May 15, 2021

"We have been established since 1850. We have pleased and displeased people ever since. We have made money and lost money. We have been cussed and discussed, knocked out, talked about, lied to, lied about, held up, robbed, squeezed, etc to the end of the chapter and the only reason we are staying in business is to see what the hell will happen next.”

Sir Nowroji Saklatvala, third Tata Group chairman, Rotary Club of Bombay, November 28, 1933, Good thoughts, Good words, Good deeds, A book of Tata quotes

"When you’ve operated hard and long enough like I have,
the OT (operating theater) also
has the smell of joy, grief, gladness, remorse, and hope, with, above all, a fragrance of
resilience and compassion.”

Dr Mazda Turel, practicing neurosurgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals and honorary assistant professor of neurosurgery, Grant Medical College and Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals, sunday mid-day, November 14, 2021

"Because both sides have
accepted (the Babri Masjid
judgment), it has become the right judgment, not the other way around. It’s not a right judgment, which both sides have accepted.”

P. Chidambaram, Congress leader, The Indian Express, November 11, 2021

"What makes life meaningful is love. The right that makes us
human is the right to love.”

Leila Seth, retired High Court Chief
Justice, on the LGBTQ (lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or
questioning) movement quoted in an
article published in The Logical Indian,
July 24, 2020

"My mother and mamaiji
(maternal grandmother) would avoid wearing anything black
on auspicious days. They
were even particular about
shoes and made sure I
wore brown shoes on my
navjote rather than black.”

Ashdeen Lilaowala, fashion designer,
Jam-e-Jamshed, November 14, 2021

"‘Calcutta’ and ‘Bombay’ are
shorthand for a free-spirited
cosmopolitanism. So I’ll stick
to them, thank you.”

Bachi Karkaria, columnist, The Times of India, November 11, 2021