“The common person would accept an 8.5 percent inflation, provided it was a reasonably accurate assessment of the ‘true’ rate ofinflation... the inflation rate in the market place is significantly higher than what the index shows.”
S. S. Tarapore, former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, The Free Press Journal, January 31, 2011
“Our philosophy is that a short-term loss is not a problem. Even when hotel occupancy dips, quality is not compromised. That doesn’t mean you give stale food. That’s the loss you have to sustain.”
Byram Avari, chairman, Avari Hotels International,
The News International, August 29, 2011
“There is something wrong somewhere because India haven’t just lost, they have been outplayed in every department of the game. England have been in charge with the bat, the ball, in the field and in the captaincy.”
Farokh Engineer, former cricketer,
Afternoon Despatch and Courier, August 18, 2011
“The lower classes of natives who, as a rule, resort to
hospitals are very filthy in their habits, and the Parsis, as a rule, being of more cleanly habits, do not therefore like to associate
with them in the same wards. For these reasons arrangements have been specially made by the Parsi community in all the hospitals of Bombay — except in the Gokaldas Hospital — for segregating Parsi patients in separate wards.”
Preeti Chopra, A joint enterprise: Indian elite and the making of
British Bombay, quoted by Simin Patel Hamazor, Issue 3, 2011
“There is the story of success, there is the story of grinding, persistent poverty and inequality and I find it very difficult to
turn those into one narrative. And all of us who love this country should be politically and morally vigilant to see that these great differences and inequalities are healed.”
Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg professor of English and American literature and language and the director of the Humanities Centre at Harvard University, DNA, January 31, 2011
“Often, workers who want to leave are uneducated and not
fully informed of the process, or how to execute it. Educating migrants of their rights is one of the most difficult tasks.”
Mehru Vesuvala, Migrant Workers Protection Society in Bahrain, Mint,
May 19, 2011