Category: Individuals

Four Parsi women are amongst the Top 50 Most Influential Women in the Indian Marketing, Advertising and Media realm.   Leading the pack at No. 4 is Tanya Dubash. Tanya is on the Board of the Godrej Group of Companies. She is also the Executive Director and President, Marketing of the Godrej Group.   As… Continue reading 4 Parsi Women Among Top 50 in Marketing, Media and Advertising

Nitin Gokhale writes a beautiful account of his meeting up with Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw’s driver of 22 years…a gentleman by the viagra form canada name of Kennedy. I ventured to ask Kennedy how well did he know the Field Marshal. His instant reply was: "Sir I drove him and Madam around for 22 years!"… Continue reading Driving the Field Marshal: When Kennedy drove Manekshaw!

  In “Blindspot,” Mahzarin Banaji (pictured) and longtime collaborator Anthony Greenwald offer people tools to overcome their hardwired biases, and to stoke conversation about the deeply ingrained, very human tendency toward bias in a country that prides itself on egalitarian values. Peering into our blind spots Banaji’s new book details decades of groundbreaking work on… Continue reading Mahzarin Banaji: Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People

Raghu Karnad, a journalist and editor based between Delhi and Bangalore, is writing a non-fiction book about Indian servicemen in the Second World War. The narrative follows three young men, two of them Parsis who died in the war, and Raghu is keen to hear from anyone who may have any information or memories about… Continue reading Seeking Godrej Mugaseth and Maneck Dadabhoy

Raghu Karnad has written an excellent essay on his experience recovering memories of WWII in Manipur, all while trying to trace any remaining information about his Parsi great-uncle, killed in action in Kohima in 1944 and buried here. Strange place to find family, a cemetery. Stranger yet in Imphal, a city where I’m in no… Continue reading In Search of Godrej Khodadad Mugaseth

Most winners of India’s highest gallantry award — Param Vir Chakra in war and its peacetime equivalent Ashoka Chakra – have received it posthumously, laying down their lives while displaying “most conspicuous bravery” in battling the enemy or terrorists. The ones who survived never went beyond the rank of a Colonel. By Rajat Pandit |… Continue reading Brigadier Cyrus Adi Pithawala: Highest gallantry award winner breaches rank ceiling

By the time the 38th Chief Justice of India, SH Kapadia, hangs up his cloak and collar on September 29, he would have added yet another landmark verdict in the form of an ‘opinion’ in deference to the Presidential reference raising the core issue: Whether all the natural resources can (have to) be allocated by… Continue reading A Chief Justice of India who breathes integrity

Sarosh Homi Kapadia Age: 64 Profile: Chief Justice of India. In his long legal career, he has served as a lawyer at Bombay Bar, a Bombay High Court Judge, a Special Court Judge, Uttaranchal Chief Justice, Judge Supreme Court By Dinesh Narayanan | Forbes India His Achievement He is one of the finest judges and… Continue reading Chief Justice Sarosh H. Kapadia: Pilgrim of Justice