Interview Articles

MAZDA Multimedia presents: Hoshaang Gotla, Founder XYZ In Conversation Xtremely Young Zoroastrians (XYZ) is an...

Bajun Mavalwalla and his son Baji Mavalwalla speak on NPR about their tours of duty in Afghanistan.The U.S. military...

"There's a mantra out there — 'move fast and break things.' I think it's created a lot of problems beyond technology," the Archetype Solutions Group exec said. "I think there's a way to learn and...

Brilliant chef and good friend Cyrus Todiwala writes about his recent medical bout with prostate cancerAs one that has never stopped working nearly fifteen hours a day since 1976 and, thinking that...

The activist, whose book has just been released, criticises Indian Marxists for being terribly dogmatic, and says it’s the system that has failed, not the ideologyWhen he was arrested in 2009,...

True tales of women breaking barriers to forbidden places, and bettering the lives of others, are inspiring. Mithan Jamshed Lam is one of these legendary women. Recently I chatted about this...

Zoroastrianism is the world's oldest monotheistic religion, revealed by a prophet in Persia back in the 5th Century BC. Believing in one supreme deity, Ahura Mazda (Lord of Wisdom), creator and...

Temilyn Mehta, VP of Client Services at CMDS for almost eight years, makes digital marketing human. With a background in public relations and in the pharmaceutical industry, her viewpoint is that...

Lara Balsara Vajifdar, Executive Director, Madison World writes that with the right approach and mindset, women can achieve fulfilment in both personal and professional lifeWith technology at our...

Fali Sam Nariman speaks to our Pallavi Saluja Editor of Bar and Bench on a host of issues from Supreme Court's handling of the migrant crisis to his time as a Law Officer, and Law Officer during...

In a series organized by India Today Homes....our dear friend and eminent designer and hospitality man Jimmy Mistry answers 5 questions. The questions are posed by his daughter Pearl Mistry who is a...

Kainaz Messman is the founder of Theobroma, once a family-run café and bakery, now an empire with 50 outlets. Sharanya Deepak talks to Kainaz about her journey as an entrepreneur, and her new book,...

We had recently featured Aviva Damania on Parsi Khabar. Below is an interview she did with Mumbai’s top radio host Hrishi K. HrishiKay · Aviva Damania (psychologist & counsellor) on Mental...

"Self-censorship has become the norm", Senior Advocate Navroz Seervai on the modern-day threats to Freedom of Speech and ExpressionFrom where lies the threat to the Constitutionally guaranteed...

Topic: Lessons from a Doctor in the frontline. About the Speaker: Dr. Zarir F Udwadia is a consultant chest physician and MD, DNB, FCCP (USA) and FRCP (London) attached to the Hinduja Hospital, and...

Our dear friend and legendary ad man Sam Balsara of Madison World in a fantastic conversation with Michael Menezes of EEMA. https://youtu.be/xr_9GjLhkYI

Real estate firm Godrej Properties Ltd (GPL) plans to use the ongoing struggle and slowdown in the real estate sector as an opportunity to scale up its business and consolidate market share.The last...

Our dear friend and brilliant designer and entrpeneur Jimmy Mistry in conversation on the “The Ranveer Show”. For the latest and today’s episode, we have another crazy motivational and inspirational...

Thrity Umrigar was born in Bombay and came to the U.S. when she was 21 for graduate school. She’s worked as a journalist, is the best-selling author of numerous novels, and is a Professor of English...

Khojeste Mistree talks about one of the world’s oldest surviving religions and what we can learn from it in the present day Zoroastrianism has  an unbroken tradition going back 3,500 years. It is...

Our dearest friend Kaiyan K. Mistree recently joined ISPRAVA as its Head of New Business and Markets. Below is an interview with Kaiyan about his role and work at ISPRAVA  Walk into the Isprava...

Parsi Khabar founder Arzan Sam Wadia is also intimately involved with the Zoroastrian Return To Roots Program that just concluded the 4th trip in India. Arzan was invited by RJ Rohini Ramanathan of...

Sooni Taraporevala was on the air with Radio host Hrishi K of 94.3 FM radio station in Mumbai. She discusses her upcoming exhibition and book launch. Click here to listen 

Adil Jussawalla is one of the most recognisable voices in Indian Poetry in English — and as a former journalist, editor and translator, he has worn many hats. Through the independent small press...

It's in poor taste to describe a murder trial as glamorous. And yet, no case in India commanded this much public attention and involved as many high-profile characters—before social media and 24X7...

Following in the footsteps of Jyoti Sagar, J. Sagar Associates’ Senior Partner Berjis Desai retired from the firm on March 31 this year. Having followed the firm’s retirement policy, the senior...

Thermax’s Anu Aga and her daughter Meher Pudumjee see philanthropy as much more than writing out cheques for charity   Anu Aga and her daughter Meher Pudumjee, of energy and environment...

Chef Cyrus Todiwala OBE chooses Dadabhai Naoroji, the 'Grand Old Man of India' who in 1892 became Britain's first Asian MP for Finsbury Central. He later returned to India and petitioned for the...

Dinaz is India’s fitness expert, a Guinness Book of World Record holder, 3rd runner’s up of the Miss Fitness Universe pageant, an accomplished baker, a successful entrepreneur and a supermom who...

Here is a 2007 interview where Dastur Dr. Kotwal is in conversation Dr. Shernaz Cama; Chair of the UNESCO PARZOR Project. This interview originally appears on the PARZOR website Dastur Dr. Firoze...

In 2014, just weeks after a major surgery for a cancer diagnosis that two-years earlier had thrown Dilshad Master’s life into some sort of chaos, she found herself leading a trip to the Everest Base...

Female Entrepreneur: Zeenia Master | Founder, Xenia Hospitality Solutions Interview by Ashish Bhardwaj, wearethecity.in Tell us a bit about yourself, background and what you do currently Being...

CAP India’s blog features an interview with Tanya Balsara, CEO of Tanya Computer Center in Mumbai India. I met Tanya Balsara five years ago, while co-authoring my book, Cuisine for A Cause. If I...

It wasn’t easy trading her stellar grades in finance for a role in communications. Khushnooma Kapadia’s passion for marketing and media led her to abruptly switch (all for good reason as she would...

In the first episode of 'Storied', Shradha Sharma, founder of India's leading Mediatech company YourStory interviews Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons about his life, learnings, and his...

It has been a little over 2 years since Ronnie Screwvala left the media and entertainment sector after UTV, the company he had founded back in 1990, was bought over by The Walt Disney Group....

If public intellectuals are ostracized or vilified from speaking their minds, India risks becoming a "cultural dictatorship", world famous music conductor Zubin Mehta has said, calling the protest...

As a 19-year-old in India in 1981, Karan Bilimoria was unusual in wanting to study in the UK. Many of his contemporaries were headed for the US. He remembers them asking: “What are you doing going...

Be it the impeccable maintenance of their vehicles or their unique style of swearing, Parsi quirks are legendary. Ahead of the Parsi New Year (August 18), we invited entrepreneur Kainaz Messman,...

Nell Freudenberger talks from Mumbai about the dwindling population of Parsis in India. The word Parsi refers to followers of the prophet Zarathustra who came to the west coast of India from what is...