Quotes

"For our society to continue
to thrive, we have to ensure
that everyone feels that they are included, that they have
access to the courts, and that they’re not going to be judged
unfairly based on cultural
differences, rather than the
merits of their case.”

Firdaus F. Dordi, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, Valley Lawyer, July 2022

"So the answer to Bilkis Bano’s question — ‘Is this how justice ends?’...This is not how justice ends, since perhaps real justice had never started.”

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, contributing
editor, The Indian Express,
August 19, 2022

"The ascent of Hindu nationalism
in India offers stark parallels
with the rise of white supremacism and antidemocratic tendencies
in the United States.”

Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of
History, Harvard University,
nyt.com, August 20, 2022

"When we grow older, we become more and more like our parents, whether we like it or not. I feel sad that we are too much like
our parents and too little like
our children. I believe the lessons that our children teach us are our most precious lessons.”

Dr Deenaz Damania, psychotherapist,
coonoorandco.com, August 8, 2022

"Fixing new teeth (implants) in human jaw bones has brought
longevity to human life and
blessings to the toothless.”

Dr Firoze Dara Mirza, patron, Indian
Society of Oral Implantology (ISOI)
at a mid-term conference in Nasik,
July 23-24, 2022

"Nearly everyone assumes
that Jawaharlal Nehru spoke
till midnight (but) the records of the Constituent Assembly show, the task of speaking till midnight fell
to Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan,
who would go on to become
India’s second President.”

Vikram Doctor, columnist, The Economic Times, August 15, 2022

"Hosting is my first love. But today, there are so many opportunities out there; I don’t want to limit myself. I am mesmerized by digital content and would like to be a part of an interesting web show, too.”

Parizad Kolah Marshall, TV host and actor,
The Times of India, August 13, 2022

"A Gujarati newspaper broadly asserted that perjury was common to the Parsis, and that formerly they were in the habit of making away with women by poison, and by other subtle agencies.”

The Parsis Or Modern Zerdusthians:
A Sketch (1852) by Henry George
Briggs, reprinted by Kessinger Publishing Legacy Reprints (2009)