"The thing about medicine is that all patients want certainty, but medicine is all about uncertainty. The human body is both simple and complex in simultaneity. Exactly the same surgery performed on different patients often yields varying results... This is hard for patients to understand and doctors to accept.”
Dr Mazda Turel, practicing neurosurgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals and honorary
assistant professor of neurosurgery, Grant
Medical College and Sir J. J. Group of
Hospitals, sunday mid-day, May 28, 2023
"More expensive cars are doing better than cheaper models, and cars overall are doing better than two-wheelers. All this indicates rising inequality of incomes.”
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman, Forbes Marshall, past president, Confederation of Indian Industry, chairman, Centre for Technology Innovation and Economic Research and Ananta Aspen Centre, Business
Standard, December 22, 2022
"Lights on trees are, in fact, not environment friendly and these beautification initiatives, even if well-
intentioned, seem to be skewed...
Our axiom should not be bright and
beautiful but green and gorgeous.”
Katie Bagli, author and environmentalist, mid-day, May 24, 2023
"Soli (Sohrab Godrej) uncle,
used to wear two cloth patches,
a black patch and a white one, to visually emote the days when he was in mourning or feeling happy.”
Pheroza Godrej, art historian and author, mid-day, May 22, 2023
"Right now you have just been dragged and thrown away
like a sack of garbage. Article
129 gives the police the right
to shoot. Under proper circumstances, that wish will also be fulfilled... See you again at the postmortem table.”
N. C. Asthana, retired Indian Police Service officer, referring to national award winning wrestlers protesting against the alleged sexual harassment by Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament and president of the Wrestling Federation of India, mid-day, May 30, 2023
"The IPS (Indian Police Service) officer
is talking about shooting us. Brother,
we are standing right here; tell me
where shall I come to get shot... I
swear that I will not show my back,
I will take your bullet in my chest.”
Bajrang Punia, wrestler, protesting against the alleged sexual harassment by Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament and president of the Wrestling Federation of India,
mid-day, May 30, 2023
During the 2008 global financial crisis, (American hedge fund manager Ken) Griffin said he turned to Goldman Sach’s then (chief executive officer) Lloyd Blankfein for advice."I asked Lloyd when the crisis would abate and he responded, ‘A forest fire ends when there
is nothing left to burn.’”
Bloomberg, reproduced in
The Economic Times, May 5, 2023