Individuals Articles

UPDATE: Shirin Bhandari the author of the piece below reminds us "This was originally published in 2004, my grandmother died in 2007 at the age of a 101." “It is all like a dream now…” I stand in...

Our very dear friend Narges Kakalia has been named to the inaugural class of the Leading Women Lawyers in New York City. Narges, more power to you in the years to come. Mintz Levin is pleased to...

‘It is tragic only a few remember the fearless crusader, let alone recall his services to nation’ Named after Rustom K Sidhwa, former member of the Constituent Assembly and the first Parliament...

Zubin Mehta discusses Wagner, Mahler and the evolution of the Jewish state in the half-century since he adopted it. For the first few minutes of our meeting, Zubin Mehta is on his cellphone with an...

Ron Mehta’s 1970 Pledge to Give Back to India Results in Nearly $1 Million Over 25 Years in Total Philanthropic Contributions Most recent donation from IIT Bombay alumnus comes in advance of WHEELS...

Dadabhai Naoroji, the first Indian elected to the House of Commons, lent his energies to causes as diverse as the women’s suffrage movement and Indian self-rule Article by Manu S. Pillai | LiveMint...

Our dearest friend Ervad Soli Dastur writes a beautiful heartfelt and personal obituary on the passing away of his brother Palanji It is with a very heavy sad heart I have to inform you about the...

Many of us have had careers that meandered down winding paths. Rita Kapadia, of East Street, has followed a path filled with ones and zeros as well as halves and quarters. She began her career in...

We are thrilled to see Perin Boga in an interview on Youtube. Perin Boga is an amazing member of the miniscule Parsi community in Lahore, Pakistan, and I had the fortune of meeting her and her...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Our dear friend Meher Heroyce Moos draws our attention to the passing away of Maneck Dalal, who headed Air-India in London for many years and was a truly amazing person. Maneck Ardheshir Dalal OBE...

A cliché that is often employed when marking the demise of an eminent personality is that the event represents “the end of an era”. In many cases the use of such language is symptomatic of...

UPDATE: Due to a technical glitch, an earlier version of this article linked to a picture of Mr. Nariman. The error was on our part and we are sorry for this mistake. Former solicitor general of...

A fantastic article on our dear friend and mentor Meher Heroyce MoosWhen you look at Meher Moos, affectionately called “Magellan” Moos, you see an elegant 72-year-old woman with rosy cheeks,...

Education is very crucial, but the lack of it should not be an obstacle to chasing your dream. Engineering dropout Jimmy Mistry has always been a firm believer in self-learning and on-the-job...

Indian American attorney Firdaus Dordi, a former public defender and co-founder of the Dordi, Williams, Cohen law firm, has been appointed by California Governor Jerry Brown to the Los Angeles...

Ronnie Screwvala sat cross-legged early last month on the floor of a three-room schoolhouse here in Nate, a village about 100 miles from Mumbai, the city of his birth where he built a billion-dollar...

The following is the keynote address delivered by Nadir Godrej at the Awards Gala at the conclusion of the Global Annual General Meeting of the World Zoroastrian Chamber of Commerce, hosted in Hong...

Padma Shree awardee, Capt. Desai who celebrates his 100th birthday on October 20, today has founded seven institutes for the blind community. In the bylanes of Colaba, sitting in the living room of...

Dr. Shernaz Cama needs no introduction. Over the years she has done amazing work that has enhanced the community’s standing in the society and helped highlight and preserve the glorious history and...

Not Just Admiration - Awe Article by Vibha Desai | KULZY Although one usually looks up to their bosses, seeing them as role models, emulating them and of course learning from them, in the case of...

Bejan Daruwalla Official website: https://bejandaruwalla.com Shree Ganesha Namah! It's Bejan Daruwalla's birthday on Monday. That bawdy Parsi astrologer and celebrated Ganpati-bhakt will turn 86. He...

To our regular readers, the name Dina Pestonji may ring a bell. Way back in 2013 we had posted about her running a marathon after a debilitating and life changing illness. As Dina writes on her...

Indelible impression ABC personality DEL IRANI stands for diversity on our television screens Article by Jasmeet Kaur Sahi | Indian Link It’s been a hectic few weeks for Del Irani. The shock Brexit...

The video jerked into play… realised I wasn’t looking for the Great Man: Sam Manekshaw’s daughter Maja Daruwala Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw died this day in 2008. A daughter remembers.  ...

We are extremely saddened to hear about the passing away of Vada Dasturji Dr Peshotan Mirza, who was one one of the two Vada Dasturjis of the Pak Iranshah Atashbehram. We were informed of this by...

We were sad to hear last week of the death on 12 May of Jal Amrolia, a long-standing friend of the Ancient India and Iran Trust. Jal Edulji Amrolia was born in Zanzibar on 22nd August 1929 to...

I wanted to be the Attorney General”, Anuj A in conversation with Phiroza Anklesaria She does not look like it. She simply does not. You would be forgiven for mistaking Phiroza Dhanjishaw Anklesaria...

Endearingly called Billy by his friends, Lt Gen FN Bilimoria, PVSM was undoubtedly one of the most distinguished and dedicated soldiers in the Indian Army. His family lineage too was uniquely...

His centennial birth year is an opportunity to celebrate the man who set up the Border Security Force and laid the ground for the first Public Interest Litigation case Though he was born a Parsi on...

On 16-1-1920 was born a child in Bombay whom his parents christened Nanabhoy. It was not an earth-shattering event at that time. In later years, he was known as Nani Palkhivala—a household name, not...

Sarosh Zaiwalla peers deeply into his phone. It pings at him. His kitchen-sitting-dining room is several shades of white; sunlight beams through large modern windows. Beyond the garden, the English...

ROSHANI ~ (Shenazz Nadirshah) is An Advanced Certified Medium for Angel Card Reading & Holistic Healing, Wholeistic Living Spiritual Coach, Mentor, Empowerist & Counselor; Certified from...

This is the story of our hero and our father Framroze R. Bhandara, who served with pride in the British Navy during World War II. He was born in Mumbai into a middle class Zoroastrian priestly...

Dolly Dastoor a dear friend and mentor of Parsi Khabar and the current editor of the FEZANA Journal, and past President of FEZANA was one of the 50 prominent Indo Canadians on “The A-List”. She and...

Few people born after 1980 would know of S S Tarapore. He retired from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as deputy governor at the end of September 1996. When his last day at RBI ended, he refused the...