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Fali S. Nariman: A life dedicated to the Constitution’s promise

Fali S. Nariman (1929-2024): A life dedicated to the Constitution’s promise From defending business giants to championing human rights, Nariman shaped India’s legal landscape, inspiring generations to fight for a just society.Article by Indira...
Remembering Dorab Patel

Remembering Dorab Patel

Born in 1924, Dorab Patel was a Pakistani lawyer of Parsi descent. After completing his education in England, he returned to Karachi in early 1950s to practice law. Throughout his illustrious...

Remembering Soli Batlivala

Remembering Soli Batlivala

It was a scene out of a film. The young patriot supporting the Quit India struggle heard the police knock on the door of his Parel home. Though no stranger to jail, alerted by his mother Bachoobai,...

Dosabhoy Framji Karaka

Dosabhoy Framji Karaka

Karaka, Dosabhoy Framji [Dosoo] (1911–1974), journalist and writer, was born on 14 April 1911 in Bombay, British India, into a middle-class Parsi family, the eldest of three children of Framji...

Rati Framroze Cooper: In Memorarium

Rati Framroze Cooper: In Memorarium

On Friday March 8, 2019 Rati Framroze Cooper passed away in Lahore, Pakistan. It may be coincidence or not, that one of the most amazing women educators of the Indian sub-continent, passed away on...

Stanley Insler Passes Away

Stanley Insler Passes Away

Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology Stanley Insler GRD ’63 passed away on Jan. 5 at the age of 82.Insler was a distinguished historical linguist who studied Indo-European...

Remembering Behram Palkhivala (1926-2018)

Remembering Behram Palkhivala (1926-2018)

Behram Palkhivala, the younger brother of Nani Palkhivala, passed away last Friday (27th July). Not many lawyers know of the enormous role he played in the writing of Kanga and Palkhivala’s “Law and...

Professor John Hinnells : Obituary

Professor John Hinnells : Obituary

Determined expert on Zoroastrianism who founded degree courses on world religion and zipped across the world on crutches As a child sick with tuberculosis of the bone, John Hinnells spent the best...

Missing Sam

Missing Sam

Field Marshal Manekshaw was loving, gracious, playful and charismatic Many of us have a day that no matter how hard we try, it leaves us sad and feeling blue. For me it’s June 27. It’s the day that...

Jamsheed Marker | Obituary

Jamsheed Marker | Obituary

Naval officer under the Raj who became a cricket commentator and respected diplomat in PakistanJAMSHEED MARKER, who has died aged 95, commanded a minesweeper in the Royal Indian Navy during the...

Marker’s Memory

Marker’s Memory

Distinguished diplomat Jamsheed Marker was truly one of a kind There is no better description for Jamsheed Marker than the foreword penned by historian Stanley Wolpert for the former diplomat’s...

Ambassador Jamsheed Marker Passes Away

Ambassador Jamsheed Marker Passes Away

We are extremely saddened to hear about the passing away of Ambassador Jamsheed Kekobad Ardeshir Marker today June 21, 2018. He was one of the most illustrious Zarathushtis of the 20th Century and...

Phiroz Dorabji Mehta

Phiroz Dorabji Mehta

Phiroz Mehta was born on 1st October 1902 in Cambay, India. There were 5 generations of the family in the house where he was born at the time. His father was the chief superintendent of the Ceylon...

Kitty Irani: In Memoriam

Kitty Irani: In Memoriam

Our dearest friend and mentor Zerbanoo Gifford pens this beautiful obituary on the passing away of her beloved mother Kitty Irani. The last of those who studied under the famous child psychologist...

Abode in Amritsar

Abode in Amritsar

“It is all like a dream now…” I stand in the thicket and look over the board to read an article written about my grandmother.  The bulletin is full of clippings on the great Mrs. Bhandari. For...

The evergreen educator: Ratamai Peer

The evergreen educator: Ratamai Peer

A total absorption in her work coupled with frequent walks is Ratamai Peer’s mantra for sound health at 91 Article by Parinaz Madan and Dr Dinyar Patel published in the Parsiana, re-published with...

Dr. Farhang Mehr: A Pillar of Strength and Faith

Farhang Mehr Passes Away

As per a communique from FEZANA….FEZANA announces with great sorrow the passing away of Farhang Mehr. Farhang Mehr passed away in southern California in the early morning on March 4, 2018.Farhang...

Tehmi Bhandari: The Grand Lady of Amritsar

Tehmi Bhandari: The Grand Lady of Amritsar

UPDATE: Shirin Bhandari the author of the piece below reminds us "This was originally published in 2004, my grandmother died in 2007 at the age of a 101." “It is all like a dream now…” I stand in...

The Roda I know

The Roda I know

dentsu X’s Divya Karani on media veteran Roda Mehta (ex-O&M), the AAAI’s Lifetime Achievement Award Winner for 2017 I have had the fortune of working with some very tall men. Roda is one of...

Amchi Farida Master Abroad !

Amchi Farida Master Abroad !

A typical Bandra girl with a disciplined upbringing under the strict eye of Roman Catholic nuns, Farida Master moved to the pensioner’s paradise of Pune in the eighties to start the iconic Citadel...

Obituary: Maneck Dalal

Obituary: Maneck Dalal

Maneck Dalal, the man responsible for expanding Air India into an international operation, began his career with the airline looking after celebrity passengers. In the late 1940s, when the Hollywood...