Fans of Indian cinema and literature will want to catch upcoming presentations by visiting professor Dr. Nilufer Bharucha at the University College of the Fraser Valley. Bharucha, the head of the English department at the University of Mumbai, will be making two public presentations, one on Images of Women in Indian Cinema on Wednesday, Oct… Continue reading Nilufer Bharucha focuses on women in Indian fiction, cinema
Month: October 2006
Parsi Surnames
What do you call a PARSEE….Bootlegger? Daruwalla Who thinks he is aristocratic? Noble Who loves to cook? Masalawalla Who is mysterious? Mistry Who is a Wheeler Dealer? Dalal Who has aspirations of flying? Captain Who loves plenty of cats? Billi Moria Who agrees with everybody? Jee Jee Bhoy Who thinks bananas are the only source… Continue reading Parsi Surnames
Strife over death at Parsi meet
Punchayet will form panel to decide alternative ways to dispose dead The body disposal issue reared its head last month when Dhun Baria clandestinely shot a video and took photographs of Tower of Silence Sorab Ghaswalla Mumbai A MEETING of eminent city Parsis convened on Thursday by the Bombay Parsee Punchayet (BPP) to debate the… Continue reading Strife over death at Parsi meet
Perizaad Zorabian all set to marry Boman Irani
How did you know?”was Perizaad Zorabian’s reaction when we congratulated her on the news of her wedding. December 7 will see the actress tying the knot with beau Boman Irani – not the funnyman from Munna bhai, but a Mumbai-based real estate developer. But it will take some time before the whole idea sinks in.… Continue reading Perizaad Zorabian all set to marry Boman Irani
Breeding revives fortunes of India’s rare vultures
Indian conservationists have successfully bred a rare species of vulture, brought near to extinction by a drug used to treat cattle but which is highly toxic to the scavenging birds. Eighteen slender-billed vultures, the rarest of three endangered species living in India, were caught in Assam and used to start breeding programmes late last year… Continue reading Breeding revives fortunes of India’s rare vultures
Kennedy Center to Honour Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta is among the five stalwarts from the arts and entertainment field who will be honoured by the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts this year. Apart from Mehta, the others are musical theatre composer and producer Andrew Lloyd Webber, country singer and songwriter Dolly Parton, singer, songwriter and producer Smokey Robinson,… Continue reading Kennedy Center to Honour Zubin Mehta
Dr. Homi Dastur, Eminent Neurosurgeon Turns 80
Dina Mehta, the power-house Indian blogger writes to inform that My dad, Dr. Homi Dastur, is 80 today … and you’d never know it if you met him. He’s a neurosurgeon and still operates at Jaslok Hospital, where he has been since 1974, and will until he is 83. One of the pioneering neurosurgeons in… Continue reading Dr. Homi Dastur, Eminent Neurosurgeon Turns 80
