Airplane maker creates partnership with India’s Tata to make more than $500 million in aerospace components. Boeing and Tata have formed a joint venture for $500 million in aerospace components. Boeing Co., the world’s second-largest commercial jet manufacturer, said Thursday it created a joint venture with Tata Industries Ltd. to make more than $500 million… Continue reading Boeing partners with Tata for plane parts
Month: February 2008
No identity crisis
There was a time when Parsi businessmen and industrialists from Mumbai preferred to employ the ‘Marathi manoos’ in their offices, for he was hard-working, sincere and honest. He had respect for scholarship, was kind to subordinates and obedient to employers. His work ethics earned him esteem from those around him. To be Marathi was like… Continue reading No identity crisis
Open up to world, Zoroastrians told
Original article published in the TOI He is a man of peace. But whenever he dwells upon the crisis that has begun to loom large over the Zoroastrian community in terms of their dwindling numbers, the reactions he evokes are just short of extreme rage. That’s because Dasturji Dr Kersey Antia is of the firm… Continue reading Open up to world, Zoroastrians told
Karanjia and his Blitz
by Vir Sanghvi in the Hindustan Times When my mother phoned on Friday to tell me that Russy Karanjia had died, I was both sad and worried. I was saddened by his passing: I had, after all, grown up before his eyes, and after my father died, in 1971, he was always kind and helpful… Continue reading Karanjia and his Blitz
Orthodox Parsis heckle liberal’s talk
This article appeared in the TOI. The controversy over acceptance of Parsis from mixed marriages into the Zoroastrian fold blew up on Saturday as the orthodox sections of the community disrupted and heckled a talk by Kersey Antia, a priest from the US who preaches freedom of choice for all those who want to accept… Continue reading Orthodox Parsis heckle liberal’s talk
Parsi community caught in contradiction
Paris community is caught in a contradiction, a community whose numbers are fast dwindling but is adamant on shutting its doors on the children of mixed marriages. It is an old debate that has resurfaced with a group of liberals trying yet again to coax orthodox Parsis to allow the children of intermarriages to practice… Continue reading Parsi community caught in contradiction
Report: 4th World Zoroastrian Youth Congress
Back to the future? this oxymoron was the tag line, the usp for the 4th World Zoroastrian Congress at Ballarat this Australian summer. I was there. And I went back to the future. When I heard the theme of the Congress the first time, it didn’t make sense to my logical mind. But then I… Continue reading Report: 4th World Zoroastrian Youth Congress
