The official launch of this book is planned during the Times Litfest in Mumbai on December 4th, 2015 ‘An Uncensored Life’ by seasoned editor Farida Master, is a compelling biography of the human rights campaigner Zerbanoo Gifford. A game changer at the heart of the women’s movement, an author of numerous history books on our… Continue reading An Uncensored Life: Zerbanoo Gifford
Category: Books
Raghu Karnad: Farthest Field An Indian Story Of The Second World War
Frequent readers of Parsi Khabar will be familiar with the name of Raghu Karnad who has featured on the site in the past seeking information during the research phase of his first book “Farthest Field: An Indian Story Of The Second World War”. The book was recently launched and we are happy to have got… Continue reading Raghu Karnad: Farthest Field An Indian Story Of The Second World War
Lifegiver: The Biography of Dr Rustom P. Soonawala
One of Mumbai’s most celebrated gynaecologists gets a biography that connects his roots with medical innovation of the 1960s Watching him drive his sedan past some serious afternoon traffic to Gallops restaurant at Mahalaxmi racecourse, and then tuck into kebabs and jalebi cheesecake between sips of techni-coloured fruit mocktail, you wonder if Dr RP Soonawala,… Continue reading Lifegiver: The Biography of Dr Rustom P. Soonawala
Farthest Field An Indian Story of the Second World War
Raghu Karnad the author of “ Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War” writes in about the new book. It features stories about Parsi soldiers in World War 2. Three young men gazed at him from silver-framed photographs in his grandmother’s house, ‘beheld but not noticed, as angels are in a frieze… Continue reading Farthest Field An Indian Story of the Second World War
Sohrab Homi Fracis: An Interview with the Author
What better metaphor for disorientation than an acid trip? Viraf has been in America for two months, and the differences from his home in Bombay might best be described by how he feels about Ali, one of the two deadheads who’d given him his first hit of acid. By Tim Gilmore | FOLIO Weekly “She… Continue reading Sohrab Homi Fracis: An Interview with the Author
Bapsy Sidhwa In Conversation with BBC
Leading Pakistani novelist Bapsi Sidhwa reflects on growing up during Partition and how it fed into her comedy novel The Crow Eaters. We examine the complicated relationship between Pakistan, its politics and the guitar. Note: In this podcast by BBC, interviewee kept on repeating the well known King Jadav Rana, who gave asylum to refugees… Continue reading Bapsy Sidhwa In Conversation with BBC
The Charm of Bombay: An anthology of writings in praise of the first city of India.
This chromolithograph is taken from plate 4 of William Simpson’s ‘India: Ancient and Modern’. The artist depicts the teeming street of the bustling city of Bombay (Mumbai), a hub of India trade. A distinct feature of the architecture was the elaborate red-and-green coloured carving on wooden pillars and beams of houses. The man in a… Continue reading The Charm of Bombay: An anthology of writings in praise of the first city of India.
Tinaz Pavri: Author of Bombay in the Age of Disco
An interview highlighting our newest author, Tinaz Pavri and her book Bombay in the Age of Disco. Keep an eye out for its release this spring! 1. In a brief summary describe your transition from India to the United States? I came to the U.S. for graduate school in Ohio. I got a Master’s first… Continue reading Tinaz Pavri: Author of Bombay in the Age of Disco
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism
Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina, eminent Zoroastrian scholar at Stanford University and a good personal friend of Parsi Khabar brings out the much-awaited Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism This is the first ever comprehensive English-language survey of Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest living religions Evenly divided into five thematic sections beginning with an introduction to Zoroaster/Zarathustra and concluding… Continue reading The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism
