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In War and Peace – The Life of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, MC
in 2003 UNESCO’s PARZOR Project produced “In War and Peace” a documentary abou tthe life of India’s first Field...
A secret Painting of J R D Tata
Location: Tata Museum , Jamshedpur. In the first pic, you can see a painting. This was a gift to JRD Tata on his Birthday by a street artist. Nobody was able to understand his art. Unfortunately,...
By Shanaya Lalkaka for DNA India Sooni Taraporevala’s Little Zizou is busy making the rounds of film festivals and will hit Mumbai theatres soon, reports Shanaya Lalkaka Sooni Taraporevala’s...
City-born clothier will outfit Obama: Homi Patel
Barack Obama has ordered his first new tuxedo in 15 years for his inaugural celebration on January 20, 2009. And Homi Patel, the Mumbai-born chairman and CEO of the leading American suit maker...
Sooni Taraporewala: In conversation post – Little Zizou
Sooni Taraporevala, who wrote the screenplay for Salaam Bombay, Mississippi Masala and The Namesake, turns director with Little Zizou. Her stories dredge up the darkness in society, yet her...
Face-to-face with chef Kaizad Patel
By Prachi Sibal “It's laced with a flavour of mint and coriander, and a little hint of other spices that go into our regular cooking," he explains with careful attention laid on every spice,...
Tribute: Kersy Katrak
Poet of the soul By KEKI N. DARUWALLA As a poet Kersy Katrak did not get his due, but his poetry had yet to be fully explored and articulated when he died. Katrak’s poetry blends the serious with...
Forever Curious: In Coversation with Farrukh Dhondy
He says he still plays with equations. Farrukh Dhondy on the long journey from quantum physics to a life in literature and his latest book, The Bikini Murders. Excerpts… Photo: NAGARA GOPAL Farrukh...
Capt Cyrus Cama becomes first Indian to commander the A380.
Article suggested by Percy Kavarana Indian to command world's first double-decker aircraft MUMBAI: The world's first double-decker aircraft A380 may not have had its maiden commercial flight in...
Nazneen Contractor’s long, strange trip to ‘The Border’
As customs agent Layla Hourani on "The Border" -- which airs Mondays on CBC Television -- Nazneen Contractor is almost a genre of one. Hourani defies both the Western stereotype of the submissive...
Dr. Homi Bhabha Birth Centenary
Article contributed by Parsi Khabar reader Percy Kavarana The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) on Thursday celebrated Dr Homi Bhabha's 99th birth anniversary amidst its Founder's Day festivities...
Hafeez Contractor may offload 74% for $150 mn
Hafeez Contractor, involved with several landmark real estate developments, is looking at offloading a majority stake in his eponymous and India’s largest architectural design firm, sources said....
Gieve Patel: Mister Behram
Mister Behram and Other Plays puts the spotlight on Gieve Patel, the dramatist Decades have passed since the talented cast and crew of Princes, Savaksa and Mister Behram took a bow. Their stage run...
How Manekshaw tackled a Man who wowed to kill him
This is a small clip of Sam Manekshaw’s Speech at Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He is narrating of an incident at North East India’s Military Camp. [via DeshGujarat]
Mumbai Symphony: Zubin Mehta in Pictures
Photographs: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
Did Ratan Tata Pay Back a Parsi Debt to Gujarat ?
In a sort of coup d'etat Narendra Modi got the Nano Car manufacturing plant to Sanand, Gujarat. I despise Narendra Modi's politics of hate and his questionable human rights record. However I have...
I want to conduct in Kashmir: Zubin Mehta
An interview by Malavika Sangghvi On the eve of his concert in Mumbai and the release of his autobiography The Score Of My Life, classical music maestro Zubin Mehta talks to Malavika Sangghvi about...
Zubin Mehta in Conversation
Interview by Noopur Tiwari Sunday, September 28, 2008: (Zurich) : NDTV's Noopur Tiwari got talking to music maestro, Zubin Mehta about his personal life, his Indianness and his love story with...
Zubin Mehta: The Scores of My Life
Zubin Mehta, one of the greatest conductors of western classical music of all times has come out with his autobiography titled The Scores of My Life, published by Roli books. In the book, he writes...
Life, as Mehr Jesia knows it
As India Couture Week walks its way across Mumbai ramps, 80s icon Mehr Jesia talks about life after modelling, why she’s happier at 40 and why ‘in her time’, models were so much more professional...
Zubin Mehta awarded the Praemium Imperiale
Indian conductor Zubin Mehta was named Tuesday a recipient of Japan's Praemium Imperiale, one of art's richest awards, for his lifetime work with orchestras around the world. Mehta, 72, one of the...
Music Conductor Zane Dalal
On Saturday night, Zane Dalal will lead the Symphony Orchestra of India into the future. But for this London-born Parsi, the journey to the Jamshed Bhabha Theatre has been replete with the grandeur...
Ahmedabad Flyover to be named after Field Marshal Sam Maneckshaw
Ahmedabad’s newest ready to drive Shivranjani cross roads flyover in Satellite area will be named after Parsi Gujarati Bangladesh war hero the late Field Marshal Sam Maneckshaw, in recognition of...
Jennifer Kotwal to Star in a new movie
She will soon be seen in Mudh Mudh Ke Na Dekkh Mudh Mudh Ke with Himesh Reshammaiya but despite picking up offers from Bollywood, Jennifer Kotwal says she will never turn her back on Kannada and...
Ratan Tata’s words of inspiration
Ratan Naval Tata has been called many things. Quiet. Reticent. Humble. A businessman par excellence. Tenacious. And a tiger, when pushed to the wall. As we all witnessed when it looked like the...
Film Personalities on Parsi New Year
Perizad Kolah Marshall: Pateti is the last day of the year for the Parsi community and generally falls in the last days of August as per the English calendar. Bawas don’t need an excuse for...
The First Dastur Meherji Rana
The below is an article from a newslist. This is a chapter written by Noshir H. Dadrewala. Earlier we errenously mentioned that the author was not known. We apologize for the error. The first Dastur...
Boman Irani: I am proud to be a Zoroastrian
Q.I am very proud to be a Zoroastrian... A.Besides playing a Parsi in few of my films, I have played a Parsi in the play I am not Bajirao . I presume it is probably my best work to date. About the...
Roshan Peiris: Challenge-loving scribe who quizzed world leaders
She was in the twilight of her professional life as a journalist when she joined The Sunday Times, in the early ’90s, but even at that stage of her career she was a formidable force, and soon earned...
The Grandson of Field Marshal Maneckshaw Speaks
This was received via email from my kaka Keki P. Wadia. It's a message from Field Marshal Sam Maneckshaw's grandson. Makes wonderful reading It's been an overwhelming few weeks for us...
Loyalty is a meter of Mehta
IT IS not, at first sight, a marriage made in heaven. The conductor is a Parsee Indian, brought up in Bombay, trained in Vienna and living in Los Angeles. The orchestra is a band of refugees who...
225th Birth Anniversary of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy
Parsis from all over the city gathered to celebrate the 225th birth anniversary of the first baronet His initials are JJ. At 22, Jehangir Jejeebhoy is not just another law student. He has an...
Ardeshir Cowasjee on Sam Bahadur
SAM Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw was his full name by which he was rarely called, as he was known familiarly and affectionately by his men and officers and friends as Sam Bahadur. Manekshaw...
Sam Manekshaw: Obituary in The Economist
His most famous remark was not, strictly speaking, true. On the eve of the war with Pakistan in December 1971 that led to the creation of Bangladesh, India’s prime minister, Indira Gandhi, asked her...
Kaoos Rustom Sethna: To Be with Nature
K R Sethna who gave up a thriving career as a horse-race jockey in Poona and came to the Western Ghats just to be with Nature. Everyone is talking about the disappearance of sparrows from our...
Here’s my pistol, now come on shoot me
As a young major in 1947, Eustace D'Souza first read about Major Sam Manekshaw when reading about the Burma campaign in World War II. Manekshaw was shot in the stomach when he and his company...
Barack Obama Praises Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
While the Indian Government screwed up and bungled in handling the funeral of Field Marshal Manekshaw, Barack Obama, the Presidential candidate in the U.S. issued a statement acknowledging the...
Kanga Laments Lack of Music Culture in Karachi
Mrs Kanga: musician with a message As the World Music Day was marked around the globe on June 21, it was rather disappointing to note that a vibrant city such as Karachi failed to organise a decent...
The last of the Punjabi Parsis
By Ajay Bharadwaj With the passing away of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw on Friday, none of the Parsis who had made Amritsar their home are alive today CHANDIGARH: Amritsar has been in deep mourning...
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw Passes Away
Iconic former Army Chief Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, who died in the wee hours on Friday, was given the final salute in a state funeral and laid to rest with full military honours. ( Watch ) As a...
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw in Coma
The Indian Army's first and only surviving Field Marshal, Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw is fighting for his life at the Army Hospital (Research & Referral) in Wellington in Tamil...
Ronnie Screwvala: Bollywood to Hollywood
Screwvala lives with his second wife, Zarina, and his lookalike labrador, Sprite, in an upscale apartment block in Mumbai. They are currently having another apartment renovated that will look out...
Villoo Patell Bags Top French Award
Villoo Morawala Patell, founder-chairperson of India's leading life sciences firm Avesthagen Ltd, was on April 23 honoured with a top civilian award by the French government for her...
A Tribute to Pandit Firoz Dastur
As a tribute to Pandit Firoz Dastur, artistes Shrikant Deshpande, Girish Sanzgiri and Srinivas Joshi are organising a concert Having passed away on May 9, Pandit Firoz Dastur, the doyen of the...
An interview with Jimmy Engineer
JIMMY ENGINEER’S quiet, unassuming manner belies the mammoth social work he has undertaken and the wealth of thought-provoking artwork he has painstakingly created. The Pakistani artist and...
Pioneer woman-journalist Roshan Peiris departs
Roshan’s typewriter ticks no more Hers was a familiar ‘byline’ to many generations of readers. Veteran journalist Roshan Peiris, a stalwart of The Observer and in later years of The Sunday Times who...
About Freddie Mercury Being a Parsi
By Vir Sanghvi in The Mint. I know a lot of people are going to treat this as blasphemy so I better just come out and say this. I saw a DVD of a concert by Queen with Paul Rodgers on vocals and you...
Zubin Karkaria: Travel Executive in Conversation
Time is a precious commodity for Zubin Karkaria, chief executive officer and managing director, India & South Asia, Kuoni Travel Group. Steering the Rs-1,800-crore travel company, the largest in the...
Tata, the headiest brew in the world
An Indian Giant Tea, cars, steel, IT... Tata, the headiest brew in the world India's extraordinary conglomerate has found unique solutions to many of its problems. But it's still unclear what will...
Ratan Tata: The 2008 TIME 100
By Simon Robinson Since Ratan Tata first suggested building a car that could sell for 100,000 Indian rupees ($2,500) four years ago, rival automakers have sniggered. "If you think about the...
Jennifer Kotwal: Actress
Looking trendy-as-ever, Jennifer Kotwal of Just Mohabbat fame gets chatty while on a visit to the city From several Hindi television serials like Just Mohabbat, acting in a brief role in Subhash...