Quotes

"I grew up in a house that didn’t have gender-specific roles. When I came to this (movie) industry, I saw inequality and injustice of gargantuan levels. It has been difficult for me to put my point across in male-heavy rooms. I have been cut short, short of being shut down.”

Tara Sutaria, actress, sunday mid-day,

November 5, 2023

"At that time (1998-99), convent schools were all the rage, and people often boasted about

their schools. We (J. B. Vachha High School for Parsi Girls) took pride in being an all-girls school; we had some of the prettiest

girls, and we still do!”

Nauheed Cyrusi, ex-student, actress and model, sunday mid-day, November 5, 2023

"Schools today might not

necessarily be a place where

you get some new information.

But it is where a child learns

how to engage with the world.

How to respond to another child who might snatch his pencil

away? A child, who is a bully,

might learn how to say

‘Thank you’ or be more

considerate of others.”

Sharuk Bhesania, trustee, New

Activity School, sunday mid-day,

November 19, 2023

"This country’s powerhouse is

at 1, Safdarjung Road. You

and I are small bulbs which are connected through wires to the powerhouse. If the wires are cut, we will lose our light. Therefore,

I come every third day to see

if my wire is intact and has

not been cut by any rat.”

Gaini Zail Singh, former president of

India, quoted by D. D. Thakur in his

memoirs My Life–Years At the

Bar, Bench and Kashmir Politics,

submitted by reader Fali Nariman

"In a telling comment in 2018, (Prime Minister Narendra)

Modi’s minister in charge

of higher education said

evolution was ‘scientifically

wrong’ because nobody

‘ever saw an ape turning

into a human being.’”

Vidya Krishnan, journalist and author,

The New York Times, October 26, 2023

"I really did think about that a

lot when ‘Delhi Crime Season 1’ came out — what does it mean

to take a tragedy and turn it

into a hit show? It’s a very

odd juxtaposition.”

Jim Sarbh, actor, The Indian

Express, November 1, 2023

"India may be largely peaceful today, but shockingly 86.6 lakh Indians were detained by the

police in 2021 mostly on

superficial grounds.”

Arghya Sengupta, author, The

Colonial Constitution, The Times

of India, October 8, 2023