Month: September 2018 Articles

Tête-à-Tête With Iconic Mumbai Eatery Britannia’s Owner

On a warm on Saturday afternoon in the city of dreams - Mumbai, when masses rejoice their weekend, a Parsi family gears up to welcome their customers at their iconic eatery Britannia & Co. The restaurant that has been up and running since 1923...
The Dragon Awakens

The Dragon Awakens

For Parsi’s information - about the opium trade. A Copyright compendium in limited circulation. © Formatted from various acknowledged original sources – By E. Kanga. China Remembers – A vast crime...

XYZ Leadership Camp 2018 by Rayaan Dadiburjor

XYZ Leadership Camp 2018 by Rayaan Dadiburjor

Rayan Dadiburjor the XYZ President-Elect writes in about the recent XYZ Leadership Camp.Rayan writes…We arrived at Karjat’s Rivergate Resort with our bags packed for an overnight trip but went back...

Artist Mehlli Gobhai passes away

Artist Mehlli Gobhai passes away

The 87-year-old veteran artist had been ailing for a while The Mumbai-based artist, Mehlli Gobhai has died at the age of 87 in a city hospital this morning. The artist was said to be ailing for a...

Ashdeen Lilaowala on his love for Parsi Gara

Ashdeen Lilaowala on his love for Parsi Gara

Ashdeen Lilaowala dives into his fabulous family archives and has come up some “Vintage Tales” Childhood memories never fade away. In fact, the talented tend to preserve these precious recollections...

Tales of yore retold with parsi embroidery

Tales of yore retold with parsi embroidery

What: Vintage Tales by AshdeenWhere: 85 Lansdowne, 85B Sarat Bose RoadWhen: September 7 and 8; 11am-7.30pmAshdeen Z. Lilaowala travelled back to the decade-old “studio culture” among the Parsis to...

Hollywood framed for a father

Hollywood framed for a father

Maxie Cooper's art exhibition, Now Showing, reels back in tribute to her movie mogul father Keki Modi and the golden cinema years he brought Bombay Brothers Sohrab Modi (extreme left) and Keki Modi...