In an article Mitra Sharafi who is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School; discusses how even as falling law school enrollment leads to a merger, among Middle Eastern and South Asian Americans there is growing engagement with the field. Her research brings about a fascinating story about Parsis and their involvement… Continue reading The changing face of the legal profession
Category: History
Of Steel, Metal Birds And More: The Tatas
The Tata sky is a limitless firmament, and its gods a generation of Parsi gentlemen like no other Article by Zareer Masani | Outlook India Telling the story of the Tatas, both the Indian business empire that now looms so large in Britain and the remarkable family which built it, has taken me back to… Continue reading Of Steel, Metal Birds And More: The Tatas
Bombay Heritage Walks for Tata Employees
The business group takes staff back in history by organising Bombay Heritage Walks every week in an effort to reacquaint them with the company’s storied links to the city. By Anirban Chowdhury | TNN How many Tata Group employees would know that George Wittet, the Scottish architect who designed the Gateway of India was one… Continue reading Bombay Heritage Walks for Tata Employees
Nobody learns Parsi history in schools, says historian
On just a short stretch of Veer Nariman Road in Fort, beginning at the stained glass enclosure of the Bhikha Behram Well and ending at the v-shaped Eros Cinema with its Art Deco dome, six Parsi gents are memorialized. Article by Nergish Sunavala | Times Of India There are three bronze statues of Sir Hormusjee… Continue reading Nobody learns Parsi history in schools, says historian
Godrej Legacy and Winning in India
The talk titled “ Godrej Legacy and Winning in India” was delivered by Nadir Godrej at Enterprise Dubai 2014 on December 20th, 2014. It started with our illustrious founder ‘We couldn’t have asked for someone sounder Thoughjust a lawyer by Profession, Invention was a strong obsession. His first case was in Zanzibar And though he… Continue reading Godrej Legacy and Winning in India
How an accidentally distorted drawing of the Prophet led to a riot in 19th-century Mumbai
The image, published with a biography of the Prophet in a Gujarati magazine, led to Muslim and Parsi clashes for a month in 1851. Article by Mridula Chari | Scroll.in On a Friday towards the end of 1851, an unidentified person pasted a copy of a Gujarati article on the wall of the Jama Masjid… Continue reading How an accidentally distorted drawing of the Prophet led to a riot in 19th-century Mumbai
East India Company, Bombay Talkies, Tatas… a family tree forms
As assistant professor of history at the Ramnarain Ruia College is set to give Mumbaikars with a yen for the city’s history a delectable account of the lineage of one of Mumbai’s oldest notable families, the Sett and Sethna families. Written by Dipti Singh | Indian Express These two Parsi families trace their lineage back… Continue reading East India Company, Bombay Talkies, Tatas… a family tree forms
