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Book decoding Parsi-Gujarati lingo gets second edition

Book decoding Parsi-Gujarati lingo gets second edition By Mitali Parekh |Posted 06-Mar-2016   Sometimes expression needs more than one language. Want to try Parsi-Gujarati? Help is at hand with the second part of Parsi Bol   Two years and 1,058 crowd funded phrases later, the Parsi Bol team of Sooni Taraporevala, Meher Marfatia, Farzana Cooper and Hemant Morparia are back with

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Gall in the family!

We fight our relatives with vigor and venom – If we may he pardoned an unscientific generalization, Parsis fight with their relatives—spouses and siblings, parents and progeny, aunts, uncles and cousins — more than members of other communities. While money and marriage are the major reasons, allergy, eccentricity and simple dislike also lead to courts and police stations. The orphan

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Vintage Busybee

In the history of Indian journalism, there will never be another humorist like Busybee; he was the Art Buchwald of India, the P.G. Wodehouse of our times and more, a writer with a brilliant sense of timing for satire and humour, but with a soft and sensitive pen. And with a flow of words that could have readers rolling in

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Parsi swearing is sweet

During the membership interview at the Ripon Club some 30 years ago we were asked if we were joining for the mutton dhansak on Wednesdays. We smiled sheepishly and said we were vegetarian. A general look of disgust was evident. Do you enjoy a tipple? was the next question. Not really, we said. What kind of a Parsi are you?

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