Category: Individuals

Our dear friend and eminent Zoroastrian scholar Professor Almut Hintze shares the below writeup and photographs. With great sadness we share the notice that Ervad Asphandiar Dadachanji passed away on Friday, October 22nd, 2021, aged 82. The MUYA team had the privilege of working with Ervad Dadachanji on the film we made in Mumbai in… Continue reading MUYA Remembers Ervad Asphandiarji Dadachanji

It is with great sadness we share the news that Ervad Asphandiar Dadachanji passed away at 8:30 AM India Time on Friday October 22nd, 2021. Ervad Dadachanji was a legendary figure for his immense ritual knowledge and service as a Mobed and the Panthaki Saheb of the Vatcha Gandhi Agiary at Hughes Road in Mumbai.… Continue reading Ervad Asphandiar Rustomji Dadachanji : In Memoriam

Justice Nariman, who has authored several notable judgments, some of which were written while he was a junior judge, ends his tenure on 12 August.  Justice Rohinton Nariman is in select company — he was only the fourth senior counsel to be elevated from bar to the bench. That was on 7 July, 2014, when… Continue reading Rohinton Nariman, Parsi priest & only 4th lawyer to become SC judge, retires this week

For many Indian women, the 1930s was a fundamental time, particularly in the political domain with their increasing participation in Independence movements.  The advent of the Art Deco style (then simply known as ‘modern’ or ‘style moderne’) in Bombay[1]  at the same time, ushered in a short-lived but significant era in Mumbai’s architectural and modern… Continue reading India’s first woman architect – a tribute to Perin J. Mistri

Brigadier Furdoon “Duck” Mehta, the Royal Indian Artillery officer who survived a bullet passing through his cap and later became military attache in Washington, has passed away on his 101st birthday on March3. Cut to March 1944: flying a single-seater Auster over the Bm1nese jungle while direct­ing artillery fire, Captain “Duck” Mehta always had to… Continue reading Brigadier Furdoon “Duck” Mehta: Obituary

Women’s Day Special: Remembering-The lady of the Law- Mithan Tata Lam There are few life stories as invigorating as that of Mithan Tata. Mithan Tata has the distinction of smashing the thickest of all professional ceiling- she has the distinction of being the first women, allowed to practice law before the Bombay High Court. In… Continue reading Remembering-The lady of the Law – Mithan Tata Lam