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In War and Peace – The Life of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, MC
in 2003 UNESCO’s PARZOR Project produced “In War and Peace” a documentary abou tthe life of India’s first Field...
Ratan Tata: The 2008 TIME 100
By Simon Robinson Since Ratan Tata first suggested building a car that could sell for 100,000 Indian rupees ($2,500) four years ago, rival automakers have sniggered. "If you think about the...
Jennifer Kotwal: Actress
Looking trendy-as-ever, Jennifer Kotwal of Just Mohabbat fame gets chatty while on a visit to the city From several Hindi television serials like Just Mohabbat, acting in a brief role in Subhash...
Jinnah and Ruttie — a wedding to remember
Exactly 90 years ago today, the Quaid-i-Azam, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, married Ruttenbai Dinshaw Petit, a charming Parsi girl; Mr Jinnah was 42, while Ruttie, as she was known more commonly, was 18....
Around the world bicycle trip memoirs to be released after 80 yrs
Vadodara, April 18 One of the three men was a Barodian; almost 80 years after it was first published, his son will release a new edition of the book today Just in their twenties and living off a...
Around the World in 53 months
Recently we reported about the launching of the book that chronicles the bicycle trip around the world by Parsi cyclists. Below is an article by Ervad Marzban Hathiram, a good friend of the Parsi...
With Cyclists Around The World: Book Review
With Cyclists Around The World (Roli, Rs 350) by Adi B. Hakim, Rustom B. Bhumgara and Jal P. Bapasola It is the fascinating memoir of three young Parsi men of a group of six from the Bombay...
An Accidental Millionaire: Tata
The words used most often to describe Ratan Tata are shy and loner. The 71-year-old chairperson of the Tata Group shuns the media spotlight. Quiet and unassuming, the Indian business baron drives...
Remembering Navroz Mody
New Jersey in the 80's was undergoing a wave of attacks on Indians. These attacks were perpetrated by a group of locals who saw the new "immigrants" as unwanted nuisances in their neighborhoods....
Bhicoo Manekshaw:Recipe of youth
Bhicoo Manekshaw, elegant with her short, elegantly set silver hair, finger nails neatly manicured is 85 years and proud to be so. One of the best-known names in the world of gastronomical delights,...
Cyrus Todiwala: Master Chef in conversation
To understand the implications of these changes, I sit down to discuss the situation over a very hot lamb vindaloo with Cyrus Todiwala, late one afternoon at Cafe Spice Namaste, his Indian...
A conversation with Kekoo Gandhi
We explore the avant-garde Progressive Art Group as veteran art collector Kekoo Gandhy unearths its history Many art veterans believe that the formation of the ‘Progressive Art Group’ is one of the...
Jimmy Engineer’s waistline
Jimmy said when he was six, his kidneys failed and the doctors told his parents that their son was as good as dead. But then something very odd, if not miraculous, happened, and happened on its own....
Ratan Tata rode the tiger economy and now he drives Jaguar
"Chairman of Corporate India" By William Langley It is tempting to look at Ratan Tata, the Indian tycoon whose company last week took over Land Rover and Jaguar, as a symbol of a nation's headlong...
Of heroes and cities
This country seems to honour its heroes only after they have kicked the bucket. We name our battleships, our airports, our boulevards and bridges after them. What’s wrong with naming a few things...
Dr. J.J. Bunshah on Total Knee Replacement Surgeries in India
Arthritis is a disease that affects millions around the world. There is little we can do to prevent it, besides maintain a healthy lifestyle and control our weight. It is very painful and most...
Katayun Saklat: Parsee artist from Calcutta
Katayun Saklat, the septuagenarian Parsee artist from Calcutta, was here as an organiser of Art in Industry painting workshop held at the Centre for Excellence. The co-owner of art gallery in...
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...
Veteran journalist Russy Karanjia passes away
Veteran journalist Russy Karanjia, the powerful and dynamic editor of the fearless tabloid Blitz, passed away in Mumbai today. He was father of Rita Mehta, editor of Cine Blitz, and brother of noted...
Why Blame Ratan Tata for the Nano?
That is the title of a wonderful article by Govindraj Ethiraj. It is the only sensible arguement I have read amongst all the people who are gunning for Ratan Tata for creating more traffic and chaos...
Dr. Keiki R Mehta Awarded the Padma Shri
A regular reader Minoo Naval Unwalla tipped us off to the news that Dr. Keiki R Mehta, one of India's leading opthalmologists was awarded the Padma Shri this month. From Dr. Mehta's website... Dr....
How to turn a Nani into a Nano
By Bachi Karkaria Apro Ratan has allowed the masses to have an 'apri gaadi'. So we don't need Meddling Mamata's permission to continue the rah-rah, and explain why it caught everyone's imagination...
Jamsheed Choksy appointed to National Endowment Council in the US.
IU professors Jamsheed Kairshasp Choksy and David Michael Hertz are two of three Hoosiers nominated this year to the council, which is part of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Hertz is...
Architect Jimmy Mistry: The high of creativity
Maverick architect Jimmy Mistry is an accidental architect who loves the freedom that hospitality design offers him. There are some things you don’t want to know about your architect. Such as a...
Faces of enterprise: Ratan Tata
After celebrating his 70th birthday on Friday, Ratan Tata would in the normal course of affairs be facing mandatory retirement from the Tata Group. Two years ago, however, India's most respected and...
Ratan Tata turns 70 today
Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata turns 70 today (December 28, 2007). Among Asia's business titans, Ratan N. Tata stands out for his modesty. The chairman of the Tata Group - India's biggest...
Sanaya Ichhaporia: On The Right Track
Her favourite subject is history and she has already made history. Sanaya Ichhaporia, a VIII standard student from Christ Church school, is the only athlete to have ever set two records in the MSSA...
Ratan Tata: Top 25 Powerful People of 2007
In Fortune Magazine?. and on BusinessWeek?.as one of the Top 25 most important people and the Tata Car as one of the Top 25 Trends of 2007 This is Ratan Tata's year truly Technorati tags: Tata,...
Resurrecting Feroze Gandhi
Bharuch, a bustling town in south Gujarat known for its peanuts, may not be an Allahabad or Amethi for the Gandhi family, but it is getting special treatment from the Congress. The party is going...
Zarina Mehta: An Interview
Founder Member UTV & CEO bindass 11:00 am Wake up time! I love to sleep as late as possible on a Sunday. My idea of a terrific Sunday is to laze, eat and spend time with my family. 11 am -12.30 pm...
Lunch with Karan Bilimoria
Cobras eventually get their prey and that's what's keeping this successful UK brewer going despite limited luck in India and none in the US or China. "Kingfisher." Karan Bilimoria's ears perk up in...
100 years since Jamshedji Tata met Charles Perin
Chronicling the journey of Tata Steel KOLKATA: The door to a small, crowded office in New York opened. At a table covered with books sat Charles Page Perin, a geologist and metallurgist, renowned...
Stalwarts of Our Past: Dadabhai Naoroji
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917) At some point, his picture stared out from our history textbooks. A bespectacled man with a stiff Parsi hat, Dadabhai Naoroji was the Grand Old man of India. He was the...
Why gatecrash a Bawa lagan? Parsi bhonu…
The minute you told someone you were Parsi, they'd crib about how they never got invited to Bawa weddings, their only chance at nirvana after downing Patra ni Machchi. The load on our conscience is...
Parsis Remembered in Hong Kong On Independance Day
As the tricolour is hoisted to mark the 60th anniversary of India’s independence, it is well worth acknowledging the contributions of the Indian diaspora across the world in keeping the tiranga...
Distilling the Muslim World’s First 20-Year-Old Whisky
An almost 150-year-old brewery in Pakistan is preparing to bring the Muslim world's first 20-year-old single malt whisky to the market. Murree Brewery, however, can only sell to non-Muslims, who...
‘After Superman, it’s Bo-Man’
When ABN-Amro recently flew down the versatile Boman Irani for a chat with VJ Cyrus Sahuhar, the talent behind "Piddhu The Great" and "Simi Girebaal", the duo broke into the most entertaining...
Denying industry speculation that Gharda Chemicals and Godrej…
Denying industry speculation that Gharda Chemicals and Godrej Industries may go for an out-of-court settlement brokered by leaders in the Parsi community, sources close to the agrochemicals major...
Boman Irani: Interview with the Actor
• My guest today is one of Mumbai's Parsi Colony's most famous residents, Boman Irani. And it's really unfair to cast you as a Parsi, because you're a Sikh one day, Delhi Punjabi the other, a Rajput...
Bejan Daruwala going strong at 77
Bejan Daruwala missed turning 77 on 7/7/07 by four days, but that did nothing to dampen the spirits at the bawdy Parsi astrologer's birthday party on Wednesday night. Girlfriend and muse Tehmi...
Youth, entrepreneurship are focus of ancient faith
The world's oldest monotheistic religion has taken steps to empower its youth and preserve the faith for the future. Zoroastrians, as they wound up their 14th North American Congress in Toronto this...
Conversation From Karachi
Talking to 80-year-old Dhanjishae H. Munderji, an occupant of the he Parsi general hospital, over a cup of tea, turned out to be quite an elucidating experience. Speaking on a host of issues, we...
Perizaad Zorabian Is Pregnant
Sources close to the actress reveal, "The bump is showing and she is already enjoying motherhood." Perizaad Zorabian, who tied the knot with high profile builder Boman Irani in a traditional Parsi...
Penaz Masani: Crooning Glory
A Parsi who didn't know Urdu, Penaz Masani went on to carve a niche for herself in the male-dominated ghazal domain. The singer talks about her over 25-year-old musical journey For ghazal lovers,...
Thrity Umrigar: If Today Be Sweet
A Disquieting Clash of Cultures In a wintry suburb of Cleveland, a recently widowed Parsi named Tehmina has come from her apartment in Bombay to visit -- maybe to live with -- her only son, Sorab,...
I’ve married at the right Time: Perizaad Zorabian
The beautiful Parsee babe, Perizaad Zorabian is rocking post marriage. She says that she has married at the right time and wants to enjoy life to the fullest with her hubby. Perizaad does not feel...
Bottle your own great idea
Image copyrights DNA IndiaEven before he became the first Parsi in history to enter the British House of Lords, 45-year-old India-born Lord Karan Bilimoria was nobility of a different kind, widely...
Mathematical Minoo Jokhi
Minoo Jokhi is so passionate about calculations that he teaches mathematics tricks and memory games to others We've heard of people being phobic to mathematics and calculations. Here's one person,...
How Keki Gharda stunned the MNC giants
Once upon a time he used to bite pens. Now he fidgets with a knife in a cramped office lined up to the ceiling with books that range from Game Theory to the history of the Roman Empire to polymer...
Bottled For Business
Karan Bilimoria's story is a classic case of how to chase a dream successfully. He had only his dream and passion as his assets when he set out against all odds to turn his vision for a less gassy...
Perin Ferrao: Activist refused to accept a woman’s lot in India
Even as a youngster Perin Ferrao never accepted the conventional view in her native India that women were subordinate to men. Committed all her life to the emancipation of women, the Montreal...