It has been Zubin Mehta’s life-long dream to play in Jammu and Kashmir. Author: Naseer Ganai Source: The Daily Mail UK Come September, and the world famous musician and composer’s wish will finally come true and the picturesque Shalimar Bagh on the banks of the Dal Lake will be the setting. The concert will be… Continue reading Zubin Mehta to Perform in the Kashmir Valley
Month: August 2013
The story of Adi R. Kanga
A visionary & the birth of Navi Mumbai By Rusi Sorabji Before my email of April 30th 2013 informing friends and Zarathushti entities of the passing away of this Visionary who helped create the modern city of New Bombay (Navi Mumbai), I only knew him as Zubin R.Kanga’s talented grand-father, brother of the London Philharmonic… Continue reading The story of Adi R. Kanga
Parsi Baug Builder: Bai Jerbai Naoroji Nusherwanji Wadia
A few days ago we had posted an article titled “The Parsi Baugs of Mumbai” A Parsi Khabar reader, Mr. E. J. Kanga wrote in with further information on this topic. To All Diaspora & Bharati Hamdins. The recent article in ‘Parsi Khabar’ written by Kaizad Bhamgara about the ‘Parsi Baugs of Mumbai’, that is… Continue reading Parsi Baug Builder: Bai Jerbai Naoroji Nusherwanji Wadia
Cyrus Poonawalla: Polio vaccines – Injecting competition
WILL the world eradicate polio? If it does, some of the credit may go to a 73-year-old billionaire horse-breeder from the Indian city of Pune: he wants to provide injectable polio vaccine at a loss—at least for some time. Published in The Economist The world has made much progress in the fight against polio, a… Continue reading Cyrus Poonawalla: Polio vaccines – Injecting competition
Parsi cafes: Custom Made in Mumbai
They once numbered in the hundreds, but the few Parsi cafes that survive in Mumbai today have lost none of their charm, writes Rosie Birkett for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong I’m eating the best creme caramel of my life in 26 degrees Celsius heat, with life-sized cutouts of Britain’s Duke and… Continue reading Parsi cafes: Custom Made in Mumbai