A couple of days ago when I started working on my third book, I asked a friend in Mumbai to help me straighten up a Parsi character. Having spent a good part of my life in Chandigarh, I had no idea about the Parsi community, except the bits I had gleaned from watching Bollywood movies… Continue reading A Wicked Wit Sums Up the Parsis: Book Review
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The Real Mrs Jinnah: New Book Offers Insights Into the Fascinating Life of Ruttie Petit
“What put it into her silly little head to suddenly fall in love with a man old enough to be her father?” mused Sarojini Naidu’s son Jaisoorya, in a letter to his sister Padmaja. He was referring to a scandal that had shaken Bombay’s high society and political circles in 1916, when Muhammad Ali Jinnah,… Continue reading The Real Mrs Jinnah: New Book Offers Insights Into the Fascinating Life of Ruttie Petit
Go Home: A Book by Sohrab Homi Fracis
Exile on Main Street A book review by by Tadzio Koelb | The Brooklyn Rail Go Home is the story of Viraf, who, like author Sohrab Homi Fracis, is an immigrant to America from India’s Parsi community, a group that left Persia a millennium ago to escape religious persecution. When we first meet him in… Continue reading Go Home: A Book by Sohrab Homi Fracis
Pride of Pakistan : Bapsi Sidhwa
In lieu of Independence Day on August 14, all of August, the Daily Times will highlight individuals who continue to make Pakistan proud. Our 29th feature is on the renowned award-winning novelist Bapsi Sidhwa A writer par excellence, with some of the most well-read and award-winning books to her credit, Bapsi Sidhwa has indeed done… Continue reading Pride of Pakistan : Bapsi Sidhwa
Book Launch: Lt General Faridoon Bilimoria: His Life & Times
On Monday 25th July, Lt General Bilimoria: His Life & Times – a biography of Lord Karan Bilimoria’s father, was launched at the Nehru Centre, the cultural wing of the High Commission of India, by the Indian High Commissioner, His Excellency Navtej Sarna. The event celebrated the distinguished career of Lt General Faridoon Bilimoria, “Billy”… Continue reading Book Launch: Lt General Faridoon Bilimoria: His Life & Times
Book launches for Dadabhai Naoroij: Selected Private Papers
Zoroastrian scholar and our friend Dinyar Patel informs us about a new book he has co-authored, that will be released soon in India. Dinyar writes… In early August, Oxford University Press will be bringing out a volume of selected correspondence from the papers of Dadabhai Naoroji, co-edited by S.R. Mehrotra and me: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/dadabhai-naoroji-9780198076667?cc=us&lang=en& We will… Continue reading Book launches for Dadabhai Naoroij: Selected Private Papers
In Search of Bobby Mugaseth Bags Raghu Karnad the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Award
The writer’s search into his family’s history is a riveting biography, that recently won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar. If you don’t know your history, you cannot fully fathom the present or future. In the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar-winning book, Farthest Field: A Story of India’s Second World War, writer, journalist and searcher of truth,… Continue reading In Search of Bobby Mugaseth Bags Raghu Karnad the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Award
The First Navjote: A Book By Ava Mehta.
‘The First Navote ‘ is a new book written by Ava Mehta for both children and their families in the same style as her first very successful book, now in 4 th edition ‘The story of the religion, Zoroastrianism.’ The first Navjote portrays the journey Zarathushtra makes to King Vishtaspa’ s kingdom to spread the… Continue reading The First Navjote: A Book By Ava Mehta.
Of affaires d’amour and princely intrigues
Firmly intertwining the personal with political history, this brilliant novel’s strength lies in Keki Nusserwanji Daruwalla’s trademark wit and underscored humour, effortlessly flowing prose, and a trenchant grasp of the historic events that are accorded an unconventional treatment. It’s not a mere family saga, says KALYANEE RAJAN Ancestral Affairs Author- Keki N Daruwalla Publisher- Fourth… Continue reading Of affaires d’amour and princely intrigues
