Category: Individuals

Yes, it was the day India got its Independence. But in Karachi, for 18-year-old Parsi teenager Mani Mehta, August 15, 1947, was the day of her engagement to Jehangir Clubwala, a young executive from Mumbai with a promising career in Parry and Co. “I remember there were people out on the streets of Karachi celebrating… Continue reading Mani Clubwala: 70 years ago today in Pakistan

dentsu X’s Divya Karani on media veteran Roda Mehta (ex-O&M), the AAAI’s Lifetime Achievement Award Winner for 2017 I have had the fortune of working with some very tall men. Roda is one of them. I joined O&M to work with Roda. And then did my best to keep out of her way. Why? I… Continue reading The Roda I know

The last time I spoke to Piroj was two days before Nina Goel, her friend called me from Piroj’s mobile phone to inform me of her hospitalization and to tell me that Piroj would not be able to send in her weekly column for The Daily Eye (www.thedailyeye.info), as she wasn’t well; but that she… Continue reading Piroj Wadia: So Long, Farewell, It’s Hard To Say Goodbye!

A typical Bandra girl with a disciplined upbringing under the strict eye of Roman Catholic nuns, Farida Master moved to the pensioner’s paradise of Pune in the eighties to start the iconic Citadel magazine. One of the biggest sources of inspiration for her was the late Luku Sanyal, the glamorous head of the English Department… Continue reading Amchi Farida Master Abroad !

Even though he is one of the youngest members in the Britain’s House of Lords, yet India-born Karan Bilimoria stands out among his peers. This young Indian Lord wears many hats. His credentials as an eminent educationist are simply impeccable; he is the first ever Indian Chancellor of the University of Birmingham and also chairs… Continue reading Karan Bilimoria: The First Parsi in Britain’s House of Lords

Maneck Dalal, the man responsible for expanding Air India into an international operation, began his career with the airline looking after celebrity passengers. In the late 1940s, when the Hollywood star Errol Flynn was thrown off a BOAC plane in London for being drunk, it was Dalal who arranged for him to be transferred to… Continue reading Obituary: Maneck Dalal

Neomi Rao who has been picked to become the “regulatory czar” in the Trump White House, is the second Zoroastrian Parsi to head an office in the current US Administration. Readers of Parsi Khabar may remember that in January we had written about Huban A. Gowadia who was appointed to head the Transportation Safety Adminstration… Continue reading Neomi Rao Picked to be Regulatory Czar in Trump White House.