Quotes

"Fitness for surgery is a meaningless term. Anyone who can lie down is fit for surgery. Fitness for anesthesia is what’s needed.”

Dr Mazda Turel, practicing neurosurgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals and honorary
assistant professor of neurosurgery,
Grant Medical College and Sir J. J.
Group of Hospitals, citing an anesthetist, sunday mid-day, December 12, 2021

"Much like in the era of the Gandhis, today’s spin doctors churn out sycophantic advertisements which credit a single individual, be it a chief minister, central minister, or even the prime minister, for multidimensional programs where success is possible only due to the
combined efforts of many.”

Coomi Kapoor, consulting editor, The
Indian Express, December 21, 2021

"For stand-up comedian Munawar Farooqi, there is no justice, simply because he is a Muslim. He was jailed for an action which he had not committed but the so-called sadhus of the Dharma Sansad roam free, despite exhorting the mass killing of Muslims.”

Ashutosh, columnist and author, Hindu Rashtra and editor, SatyaHindi.com, The Free Press Journal, January 4, 2022

"The intellectually starved
(Zoroastrian) minority which
remained in ignorance of any
scientific developments after the ninth century CE, was spared
the need to struggle with new
knowledge, or to re-examine the dogmas of their ancient faith.”

Dr Mary Boyce, British scholar of Iranian languages, quoted in Iran, the Mark of Paradise or the Lands of Ruin? Historical Approaches to Reading Two Parsi Zoroastrian Travelogues by Daniel Sheffield,
assistant professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

"Mum says she used to cry all the time when she was being
courted by Dad, and unable to
decide whether she, a Parsi, should marry him, a Muslim, a choice she had never anticipated having to make. Once she
took her leap of faith, joy
stepped into place. Maybe, for women, there is a time for tears, and then a time to put them away, because the men aren’t crying
and it appears unseemly.”

Shaista Tayabali, in her book Lupus, you odd unnatural thing, a tale of auto-immunity (Blue Hill Publication, 2022)

"(A) number of Parsis speak
garbled Portuguese, in use in
India, with ease and fluency;
particularly those who have been any time resident either at Macao in China or in Daman.”

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