Quotes

"Be ‘close without being closed,’
is the succinct phrase of
Delhi’s scholarly doyenne,
(the late) Piloo Jungalwala.”

Bachi Karkaria, columnist, The Times
of India, August 4, 2022

"Even when I was struggling,
money was never the sole
criterion to take up work. One
of the key reasons I worked
on Jalwa (1987) is that we
were being flown to Goa
and till then I had never
travelled in an aircraft.”

Farah Khan, director, The Times
of India, July 4, 2022

"My mother (Mehroo) used to tell
us how... (Dr Rustam N. Cooper) tied his shoelaces on both shoes simultaneously by using one
hand for each shoe. This story
fascinated me as a child and
attested to his prowess as
a skilled surgeon.”

Jeroo Ranji, one of Cooper’s
granddaughters, mid-day, June 19, 2022

"I cannot even support my
laborers. When industries in Boisar and other neighboring regions pay their staff Rs 300 a day, why will anyone work for Rs 180 with me? Even paying that salary pinches
us because of the low yield.”

Ronnie Boman Irani, Dahanu
horticulturist and hotelier, sunday
mid-day, June 26, 2022

"The National Family Health Survey recently revealed that (Gujarat) was second only to Bihar with 39.7% of its children from 0 to five years being underweight. It is also true that, according to data from the Integrated Child Development Scheme, 51% of girls between 11 and 19 there had a low body mass index. I would like to point out, however, that a state cannot be judged by how poorly it treats girls and children. Why aren’t we looking at the number of millionaires
it has created over the past
decade instead?”

Lindsay Pereira, columnist, mid-day,
September 17, 2022

"I suffer from an irresistible
urge to correct not only my
own drafts, letters or speeches,
but also those of others, much
to the distress of my long-
suffering secretaries...
My excuse for my correcting
mania lies in my abiding love
for the English language, so
often profaned in our country.”

J. R. D. Tata, chairman, Tata Sons, in a
Foreword to Keynote, edited by S. A.
Sabavala and R. M. Lala, 1986, published
in Good thoughts, Good words, Good deeds, a book of Tata quotes

"98.7% of reported rape
cases in England and Wales
are not prosecuted.”

BBC sexomania sleep program,
viewed on November 26, 2022