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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...
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 months...
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...
Zia Mody: One of Asia’s 50 Power Businesswomen
Zia Mody, the founding partner at AZB & Partners is featured as one of the top 50 Asian Businesswomen by the Forbes Magazine. This Cambridge and Harvard Law School grad is one of India's leading...
Homi Battiwala to head cola marketing at PepsiCo India
He takes over as Executive Vice President – Colas, Hydration & Mango Based Beverages. He will head the marketing responsibilities for Pepsi and Diet Pepsi which were hitherto handled by Sandeep...
Nina Godiwalla Speaks at TEDxHouston
Nina Godiwalla is the bestselling author of Suits: A Woman on Wall Street, which The New York Times describes as the Devil Wears Prada of investment banking. It's an insider's perspective on her...
Vispi Kasad Enters Guinness Book of World Records
Vispi Kasad an academician and educator and a martial arts expert has entered the Guinness Book of World Records. As per the Guinness Book website Most layered bed of nails sandwich (1 inch)...
Jinnah Award: For Ardeshir Cowasjee, recognition of a lifetime of wit, fight and philanthropy
The Jinnah Society has presented its 11th Jinnah Award to columnist and philanthropist Ardeshir Cowasjee in recognition of his outstanding and dedicated services to the country. The ceremony was...
Three Parsis Amongst List of 129 Padma Awardees for 2012
The Indian Government announced the 2012 list of awardees for the highest civilian awards that the country bestows upon individuals. Dr. Noshir H. Wadia Padma Bhushan An eminent Neurologist from...
Remembering Homai: Dinyar Patel Reminisces about Vyarawalla
Dinyar Patel, editor at Yazdgerd and good friend of Parsi Khabar has penned a personal note on the passing away of Homai Vyarawalla. "Homai Vyarawalla, India’s first woman photojournalist,...
First Indian Woman Photo-Journalist Homai Vyarawalla Dies
First Post: India’s first woman photo-journalist, Vyarawala captured a nation in transition A picture of Jawaharlal Nehru, smoking and helping Ms Simon— wife of then British High Commissioner to...
New tricks from the Todiwalas in London
Arguably the industry's most iconic Indian chef, Cyrus Todiwala has won more awards than Jamie Oliver has opened restaurants. He has published three cookbooks, advised Government and cooked for...
Innovator Educator Jamshed Bharucha Inaugurated As 12th President of The Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ushered in a new era for the esteemed 152-year-old institution with the inauguration of its 12th president, cognitive neuroscientist Jamshed...
The Freddie Mercury we didn’t know
To his legions of fans, Freddie Mercury was a flamboyant, and very British, rock star. But in the background was a much more complex sense of identity, summed up by one picture, a black and white...
Clouds and Multiple Perspectives: A Jehangir Sabawala Retrospective
Jehangir Sabavala will be remembered for bringing Cubism to Indian art He stood silently in a corner of the huge hall at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, delighted with the paintings...
Dababhai Naoroji’s House in utter disrepair
Fellow Zoroastrians, Is this how we remember one of the greatest Zoroastrians of recent times, by letting his ancestral house fall into ruins and then be sold off to a builder?...
Darius Forbes and Forbes Marshall: Building Up Industry
Much sweat goes into the building up of a successful enterprise, but at times, it must give its founders much joy By Ashok V. Desai |Businessworld We know about Tatas, Birlas and Ambanis, about how...
Rustom Mazda : NID Student to Design For Ferrari Maker
A graduate from the National Institute of Design, Paldi has landed a job in world's leading automobile design house Pininfarina as a consultant designer. Rustom Mazda, who graduated from NID's...
Artist Jehangir Sabavala passes away
Jehangir Sabavala, an artist whose career spanned over 60 years, passed away on Friday morning after battling lung cancer for two years. The end came at Breach Candy hospital due to respiratory...
Mumbai’s original transformers: 5 superheroes you should know
Dadabhai Naoroji As I walk down the road past the maidans, at Flora Fountain Dadabhai Naoroji, book held open in his hand, asks me in Parsi Gujarati, “Are you going to Kala Ghoda? That’s where I...
Late Lt. Cdr. Firdaus Darabshah Mogal awarded Shaaurya Chakra
President Pratibha Patil has approved gallantry medals for 137 security personnel, including 14 for the country's third highest peacetime bravery award, the Shaurya Chakra, on the occasion of the...
The story of India through Powerful leaders: Ratan Tata
Ratan Tata was born to Naval Tata and Soonoo Commisariat in the Tata family, a prominent family belonging to the Parsi community. He is the great-grandson of Tata group founder Jamsedji Tata. After...
Condolences from a former Pakistan Air Force pilot to Jahangir Engineer’s kin
In an unusual heart-warming gesture, some five-decades after Pakistan Air Force shot down a civilian aircraft in Gujarat, the pilot sent a note of condolence to the daughter of the Indian pilot...
K. D. Sethna: A colossus passes on
To many of us, K.D. Sethna was the foremost mystic poet of our generation, next only to Sri Aurobindo. He has left behind nearly a thousand splendid poems and several volumes of prose. Future will...
Rohinton Nariman To Be Appointed Solicitor General of India
Senior advocate Rohinton Nariman is all set to be appointed as the new solicitor general of India, the second senior most law officer of the country, in place of Gopal Subramanium, who quit...
Darius Karani and Manuka Gold Liqueur: Flavours to tempt Asian tastebuds
Only at the end of the interview does Indian New Zealander Darius Karani reveal this surprising fact: Auckland boasts the third-highest population of practising Zoroastrians in the world, outside...
Kobad Gandhy speaks from Tihar
A petite Mumbaikar, Anuradha Shanbag, captured the fancy of a tall, lanky, bespectacled young man, who had returned to Mumbai from London after a stay in jail. By Madhusree Chatterjee| IANS The man...
Adi Modi: Obituary
Adi Modi, who died on June 27 aged 60, was general manager for more than 25 years of the Bombay Brasserie in London, Britain's first upmarket Indian restaurant. Published in the Telegraph UK A...
In Tihar, Kobad Ghandy traces his Parsi roots
As a communist ideologue, Kobad Ghandy rarely showed any interest in Parsi community issues. But in Delhi’s Tihar jail, where he has been imprisoned for nearly two years, Ghandy is reading about the...
Cyrus Pishevar: Teen Web Innovator in Silicon Valley
Palo Alto's Cyrus Pishevar, 13, is one of Silicon Valley's second generation of Web innovators—teens who grew up online, watching and feeding the rise of Facebook and other nearby ventures By...
One of Ratan’s biggest achievements is the way he has unified the Tata Group
JRD Tata announced the appointment of Ratan Tata as the Chairman of Tata Sons on 25 March 1991. Two weeks later, on 5 April, I met JRD just as he was going to Europe for his angioplasty procedure...
Paranormal experience with Ragini MMS actress Kainaz Motivala
She has thrown the proverbial beautiful, sexy and sultry out of the window. So when I was told to meet her, I was a bit sceptical. Yes, I picked her for my next interview. Not that I knew that she...
Came close to getting married four times: Ratan Tata
Revealing one of the best kept secrets of his personal life, the bachelor industrialist Ratan Tata has said that he had fallen in love and had come seriously close to getting married as many as four...
India’s Tata Succession Struggle
Ratan Tata: Can't anybody do this job? Indian way of succession leaves something to be desired India's largest conglomerate -- the US$71-billion salt-to-steel behemoth Tata Group, is struggling to...
Dilnaz Boga wins AFP prize for work in Kashmir
Dilnaz Boga, an Indian photojournalist and reporter, has won the Agence France-Presse Kate Webb Prize for her courageous work in Indian-administered Kashmir, the AFP Foundation announced Wednesday....
Woman with a View: Homai Vyarawalla
If you mention women and cameras today, the picture that comes to the minds of many is that of an attractive young woman posing in front of a camera. In a world driven more and more by the visual...
Kainaaz Mistry: Teaching Dance to the Physically Disabled
She worked for an organisation that firmly believes – Have feet, will dance. But, she proved that even those without feet, can still dance! While we find peace in giving a few hours of our...
Out of India: The Tata Group and Ratan Tata
Under Ratan Tata, the business group that bears his name has transformed itself from an Indian giant into a global powerhouse Published in The Economist [print edition] March 03, 2011 RATAN TATA is...
Peenaz Masani: The Ghazal Queen
It is refreshing to speak to ghazal exponent Penaz Masani who is steeped in tradition, says Monarose Sheila Pereira Padmashree recipient Penaz Masani is a ghazal singer who has carved a niche for...
What next, Karan?
The founder of Cobra beer has become a minority partner in UK, exited USA and downsized in India The Karan Bilimoria sitting across the table at House of Ming in Delhi’s Taj Mahal Hotel is not the...
Of Zubin Mehta, Berlin Musicians and Nature Conservation
Zubin Mehta, a renowned Indian conductor of western classical music -- who commutes between the major music centres in Europe, the United States and Israel -- remains emotionally attached to the...
Deena Mistri, former principal of BVS Parsi High School, dies
Deena Mistri, the great-granddaughter of the founder of Bai Virbaijee Soparivala (BVS) Parsi High School, and its former principal, passed away on Thursday at the age of 85. She had taught there for...
Three Eminent Parsis Bestowed Padma Awards 2011 by Indian Government
Homai Vyarawalla, Late Dr. Keki Byramjee Grant and Dadi Dorab Pudumjee were amongst the 128 Indians bestowed with the Padma Awards. More about Homai Vyarawalla here. Legendary photographer Homai...
Dr. Ratan Marshall Passes Away
Eminent Parsi scholar Dr Ratan Marshal, who turned 100 in October last year, passed away on Sunday morning. He was not keeping well for the past three days. Marshal was the first to chronicle the...
The Pioneering Parsis of Karachi
UPDATE: It has been brought to our attention that the article below was originally authored by Farishta Dinshaw and published on Vohuman.org. The original article is now available here. We regret...
Afshin Irani: How a Young Irani Girl Stumped Obama
Afsheen Irani, a Mumbai college student, asked the one question everyone wanted to ask the most powerful man in the world. 'Why is Pakistan so important an ally to America so far as America has...
Villie M. Appoo Makes Her Mark as CEO of Illinois Girl Scouts
Villie M. Appoo, the current CEO of Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois assumed her postion in 2009 and later formed a Senior Leadership Team that successfully led the merger of two legacy...
Shiamak Davar: India’s Most Successful Choreographer
On June 7, 2005. India is playing host to Bill Clinton and the sleepy town of Lucknow is a stop over. On the menu is the finest Awadhi cuisine and the best dancer India can find to entertain a...
Gustadji Hathiram And The Power of Prayers
Over the years Parsi Khabar has published several articles [ 1, 2, 3, ] about the tremendous, fantastic feat of Parsi Cyclists cycling around the world in 53 months way back in the 1920's. One of...
Spurred by faith, Parsi man walks from Mumbai to Udvada
Jehangir Randeria, a childhood friend and neighbor at the Moholla at Wadia Street, Tardeo recently walked from Tardeo, Mumbai to Udvada to spur his faith. The article below was published in the...
Lady With The Lens
Like most of today’s generation, you must have been introduced to her photographs in those boring history textbooks. Homai Vyarawall , 97, a Gujarat-born photographer, captured some of Delhi’s...