Ratan Naval Tata has been called many things. Quiet. Reticent. Humble. A businessman par excellence. Tenacious. And a tiger, when pushed to the wall. As we all witnessed when it looked like the controversy about Singur, where the Tata Nano was to be manufactured, looked like escalating instead of dying down. The 70-year-old roared, “If… Continue reading Ratan Tata’s words of inspiration
Category: Individuals
Film Personalities on Parsi New Year
Perizad Kolah Marshall: Pateti is the last day of the year for the Parsi community and generally falls in the last days of August as per the English calendar. Bawas don’t need an excuse for celebration, so you can imagine to what extent we go to bring in the New Year. For me, it’s a… Continue reading Film Personalities on Parsi New Year
The First Dastur Meherji Rana
The below is an article from a newslist. This is a chapter written by Noshir H. Dadrewala. Earlier we errenously mentioned that the author was not known. We apologize for the error. The first Dastur Meherji Rana was the undisputed spiritual leader of the Parsi community in India during the 16th century. He was renowned… Continue reading The First Dastur Meherji Rana
Boman Irani: I am proud to be a Zoroastrian
Q.I am very proud to be a Zoroastrian… A.Besides playing a Parsi in few of my films, I have played a Parsi in the play I am not Bajirao . I presume it is probably my best work to date. About the community, I am very proud to be a Zoroastrian. I do not know… Continue reading Boman Irani: I am proud to be a Zoroastrian
Roshan Peiris: Challenge-loving scribe who quizzed world leaders
She was in the twilight of her professional life as a journalist when she joined The Sunday Times, in the early ’90s, but even at that stage of her career she was a formidable force, and soon earned the respect and admiration of her colleagues. She had in earlier times reached the highest echelons of… Continue reading Roshan Peiris: Challenge-loving scribe who quizzed world leaders
The Grandson of Field Marshal Maneckshaw Speaks
This was received via email from my kaka Keki P. Wadia. It's a message from Field Marshal Sam Maneckshaw's grandson. Makes wonderful reading It's been an overwhelming few weeks for us as a family, and now, I shall tell you about the man I knew, the man behind the one you all knew as Field… Continue reading The Grandson of Field Marshal Maneckshaw Speaks
Loyalty is a meter of Mehta
IT IS not, at first sight, a marriage made in heaven. The conductor is a Parsee Indian, brought up in Bombay, trained in Vienna and living in Los Angeles. The orchestra is a band of refugees who maintain a pocket of the ultimate in Western culture in the middle of in a war zone. And… Continue reading Loyalty is a meter of Mehta
