This book has a little bit for everybody. City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore, edited by Bapsi Sidhwa, Penguin, Rs.395. AN anthology is like a Jack of all Trades — it has a little bit for everybody, but ends up being master of none. That being said, City of Sin and Splendour is… Continue reading Labour of love
Author: arZan
A film man’s life without the gossip!
Hindu – Chennai,India … We get fascinating accounts of the upper middleclass Parsi life in the country and, excellent pen portraits of some of the author’s favourite persons, grandpa …
Author plans holiday home for street kids
Delhi Newsline – Delhi,India New Delhi, November 30: As a seven-year-old Indian migrant in London, Zerbanoo would sell tiny flags outside a hotel run by her Parsi parents. …
Adopted daughter repays with murder
Mid-Day Mumbai – Bombay,India On Wednesday afternoon, the last evidence in the infamous murder case of senior citizen Adi Cursetjee was examined at the sessions court. Cursetjee’s close friend and complainant, Navroz Jilla, spoke to Anand Hollaabout the gruesome murder. Adi uncle would repeatedly warn his adopted daughter Geeta that he would disown her from… Continue reading Adopted daughter repays with murder
Parsi Boy In A Red T-Shirt
So they were not Muslims. That little boy who loved cricket and who vanished in that post-Godhra carnage, belonging to a perfectly hardworking, reasonably honest middle class locality, was not a Muslim. So don’t create perverse noises of protest. Let him be. Let him be. He was a little Parsi kid who disappeared. You killed… Continue reading Parsi Boy In A Red T-Shirt
Proudly Indian
Hindu Business Line – India … reputation and all relatives and friends were told to take care of me!” Almost half his salary went towards the PG accommodation he had with a Parsi family in …
Jaipal Reddy promises co-prod treaties with Italy, UK
Screen India – India … Focussing on a Parsi family trapped in strife-torn Gujarat where their 10-year-old-son comes up missing, the film stars Naseeruddin Shah, Sarika and Emmy award …
