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How Madam Bhikaiji Cama became the first Indian to raise the tricolour abroad
Born into privilege, Madam Cama could have enjoyed a life of ease. Instead, she founded the Paris Indian Society to...
Caught in a moment : Exhibition of Photography by Shirin Kumaana-Wadia
To Eternity and Back is the debut photo exhibition by New York-based interior designer and photographer Shirin Kumaana-Wadia. The images encapsulate fleeting-yet-timeless moments in New York City...
Brigadier Furdoon Mehta Meets with Prince Charles
The Prince of Wales met some of India’s last surviving Second World War veterans as he paid his respects to the country’s war dead on Remembrance Sunday. The Prince and The Duchess of...
To Eternity And Back: Shirin Kumaana-Wadia
We are proud to announce that our very own Shirin Kumaana-Wadia shall be holding her first solo exhibition of photography at The Viewing Room in Mumbai, India. The exhibition runs from December 6th...
Dina Pestonji: Stroke patient to run in Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon
After 10 months of therapy, goal of completing half-marathon within reach After suffering a severe stroke that required emergency brain surgery to remove part of her skull, 29-year-old Dina Pestonji...
JRD Tata: The father of commercial aviation in India
Hardelot is a beach town in the north of France. It is in the Pas de Calais, a region along the English Channel where the distance to Britain is short and, unlikely as it may seem, this is why it...
Sorabji N. Pochkhanawala And His Wild Ambition: Barons of Banking
In 1910, a young Parsi assistant accountant with the Bank of India in Bombay had the far-fetched idea that he could set up a bank of his own. When news of this alarmingly ambitious enterprise...
Pheroza Bilimoria receives International Advertising Association’s Champion Award
At the Intercontinental Hotel in London, a 300-strong gathering of advertising communication veterans from across the globe who had come together for a black tie dinner to celebrate IAA’s 75th...
Hosi Daruwala: Colaba’s Patchwork Man
Seated in a chair at the head of a rickety old sewing machine, Mr. Hosi Daruwala matches its battle-weariness with some of his own. Author: Reza Noorani | Source: Home Grown At 71, he is a small,...
The story of Adi R. Kanga
A visionary & the birth of Navi Mumbai By Rusi Sorabji Before my email of April 30th 2013 informing friends and Zarathushti entities of the passing away of this Visionary who helped create the...
Sarosh Zaiwalla Wins Iran Bank Case In British Supreme Court
London/Mumbai – Mumbai-born Parsi lawyer Sarosh Zaiwala Wednesday notched a remarkable success in a bank case in the British Supreme Court, with major ramifications on the international banking...
Ronnie Screwvala: The Indian billionaire working for Disney
Bollywood pioneer Ronnie Screwvala is Disney’s point man in India. By Kurt Wagner | FORTUNE Ronnie Screwvala believes in India. As a self-made entrepreneur, Screwvala turned his small cable...
Usheen Davar Awarded MIN's 2013 Sales Person of The Year Advertising award
Usheen Davar, Digital Sales Director at Meredith Digital (Meredith Corporation) was just awared the MIN’s 2013 Sales Person of The Year (Web/Digital) Advertising award. She had made it to the...
Nauzer Bharucha Bags Journalism Award for Irrigation Scam Expose.
TOI journalist bags award for irrigation scam expose Mumbai: Nauzer Bharucha, senior editor at the Times of India, won the Red Ink Award for Excellence in Indian Journalism 2013 for political...
Kainaz Amaria in Conversation: Being Zoroastrian
Photographer Kainaz Amaria has been born and brought up in America. As a child, when she’d tell her friends at school she was a Zoroastrian, they thought she was pretending to be a superhero....
Jasmin Sohrabji elevated to CEO, South East Asia and India At Omnicom Media Group
In a significant thumbs up to the progress that Jasmin Sohrabji has made as Chief Executive of Omnicom Media Group India, she has been elevated and will take on responsibilities of South East Asia...
Dr. Motibai Kapadia: Gujarat's first lady doctor treated sexism and untouchability too
Dr Motibai Kapadia (1867-1930) obtained a degree in medicine in 1889, just three years after Anandi Joshi became the first lady doctor of India. Motibai also strove to serve society and did so in...
The Passing of an Icon: Keki Bhote
Keki Bhote ( 1925 – 2013) In the early days of our (Zoroastrian) presence in North America, in the 1950s and 1960s, any Zoroastrian bound for America was given the names of Keki and Mehroo...
Villoo Appoo: Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois CEO Awarded Alumni Honors
Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois CEO Villie M. Appoo received a Distinguished Alumni award from Washington University’s G. W. Brown School of Social Work at a ceremony April 17 at Steinberg...
A Master Plan: Fali Nariman
Fali Nariman offers a legal luminary’s guide on the follies of the corrupt and the way out of it Fali Nariman’s new book, The State of the Nation tries to explain why things are the way...
Ratan Tata: The Cornell Story
This documentary features Cornell College of Architecture graduate Ratan Tata ’59, BArch ’62, chairman of Tata Sons, India’s premier conglomerate. Created in honor of Tata’s...
Adi Kanga: Visionary who helped create New Mumbai
A week before Adi Kanga died he could not remember what he had for breakfast, but he could explain Pythagoras’ theorem to you. He was an all-rounder: a mathematician, an imaginative artist...
Bhicoo Manekshaw: A Tribute
Bhicoo Manekshaw, the food writer has passed away. She wrote really excellent, professionally done and well researched cookbooks, like her book on the food of her Parsi community. By Vikram Doctor |...
Bhicoo Manekshaw Passes Away
We are saddened to inform the passing away of Bhicoo Manekshaw. She was one of the best known names in the world of gastronomical delights. Her cookbooks on Parsi cooking are some of the best...
Remembering Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw on his 100th Birthday
Col LK Anand (Retd) sends us a compilation of information about Field Marshal Sam HFJ Manekshaw. Sam Bahadur as he was known to his soldiers would have turned 100 years today. Compiled by Col LK...
4 Parsi Women Among Top 50 in Marketing, Media and Advertising
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...
Driving the Field Marshal: When Kennedy drove Manekshaw!
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...
Mahzarin Banaji: Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
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...
Seeking Godrej Mugaseth and Maneck Dadabhoy
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...
In Search of Godrej Khodadad Mugaseth
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...
Brigadier Cyrus Adi Pithawala: Highest gallantry award winner breaches rank ceiling
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...
A Chief Justice of India who breathes integrity
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...
Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry: A quiet billionaire
Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry, 82, is the world’s most reclusive billionaire. For a man with an estimated wealth of almost $10 billion (Rs 55,000 crore), he is surprisingly invisible, rarely seen...
Chief Justice Sarosh H. Kapadia: Pilgrim of Justice
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...
Minorities can rise to top jobs only in India: Chief Justice of India
Chief Justice of India Sarosh H Kapadia on Wednesday said India was the only country in the region where members of minority communities could aspire to become the head of judiciary because of the...
Rusi M Lala: The man for whom Ratan Tata holds the door open
I’m at the gates of Cusrow Baugh, a Parsi residential colony in South Mumbai that looks more like a fortress. As I walk past the gates, it feels like I’ve left time behind. Huge trees lining the...
Firdaus Dhabhar: The positive effects of stress: TED Vancouver
A short talk on the "Good Side of Stress" given at the TED Salon in Vancouver by Dr. Firdaus Dhabhar of Stanford University. Firdaus Dhabhar, winner of 2012 FEZANA Excellence in...
Homi Adajania on the Fresh Look of ‘Cocktail’
He’s just made “Being Cyrus” before this, an English thriller that starred Saif Ali Khan, won critical appreciation, and was a commercial success considering its budget and genre. Homi Adajania is...
Behramji Merwanji Malabari (1853 – 1912)
A Tribute to Behramji Merwanji Malabari (1853 – 1912) on the occasion of his death centenary By Marzban Jamshedji Giara He was born at Vadodara on 18th May 1853. His father’s name was Dhanjibhai...
Sam Balsara: Advertising Has Become A Cut-Throat Dog-Eat-Dog Business
Sam Balsara of Madison Communication speaks to Merril Diniz For those students who want an exciting, challenging and creative career, Sam Balsara, the doyen of advertising advises them to not look...
Shapoor Mistry seen within the Shapoorji Pallonji Group as a 'big picture strategist'
Reclusive Indian-born Irish tycoon Pallonji Mistry, 82, officially bequeathed the chairman’s role of the $2.5-billion Shapoorji Pallonji Group (SPG) to eldest son, Shapoor Mistry, 47, in early...
Shernaaz Engineer Editor of Jame Jamshed In Conversation.
Behind the Ingrid Bergman-esque smile is a steel gritty woman, steering over one-and-a-half-century-old boat in turbulent waters. Shernaaz Engineer speaks to the Deccan Herald The journalistic...
Ratan Tata India’s most powerful CEO, Cyrus Mistry debuts at No. 15
Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata heads the ET-Corporate Dossier ranking of India Inc’s Most Powerful CEOs for the fourth year running. Set to retire by the end of the year, Tata will leave a...
Deena Mistri of BVS Parsi High School: Teacher, Principal, Humanitarian
Mrs Deena Mistri, the longest serving Principal of the BVS Parsi High School, in Karachi, Pakistan. Deena dedicated her life to the school and to the cause of education in Pakistan. This is a small...
Anu Aga: A Profile
69-year-old Anu Aga, who was nominated to the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, is known as much for her social work and activism as her business accomplishments. Published by NDTV In 2004, she retired as...
Anu Aga Nominated to the Rajya Sabha as a Member of Parliament
Anu Aga the former Chairwoman of Thermax India has been nominated to the Rajya Sabha as a member of the Indian Parliament. Her nomination by the President of India was announced recently. Below is...
High honor for Bhabha
India recognizes professor for work in literature, education By Corydon Ireland | Harvard Gazette Earlier this year, Harvard literary scholar Homi K. Bhabha — director of the Mahindra Humanities...
India’s Defence Minister Makes Amends, Gives Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw His Due
Today at a special ceremony at the Zoroastrian Parsi Cemetary at Ootacamund, Nilgiris, India’s first Field Marshal and one who bestowed on the country its first military victory in a thousand years,...
Jeroo Billimoria: Social Entrepreneur Teaches Street Kids How to Manage Money
Serial social entrepreneur Jeroo Billimoria, founder of Child and Youth Finance International, rang the NASDAQ opening bell in New York Mar. 21. By Sunita Sohrabji | India West Billimoria’s...
Darius Khambata is Maharashtra’s New Advocate General
Darius Khambata, the additional solicitor general (ASG) is now the newMaharashtra advocate general (AG). The state cabinet on Monday approved Khambata as the state’s top law officer, two...
Pallonji set to quit after six decades
Reclusive billionaire Pallonji Mistry has relinquished board seats in some of his companies as a precursor to possible change of guard in the 147-year-old Shapoorji Pallonji Group, regarded as one...