Category Archives: Professionals

Uniting Democracies: The US-India Alliance | Policy Stories with Dinsha Mistree

  The US-India alliance is key to securing democracy, innovation, and balance in a shifting global order. Check out more from Hoover Fellow Dinsha Mistree: Listen to the Matters of Policy and Politics podcast “India before it was cool” with Dinsha Mistree here:    • India, Before It Was Cool   Read “A Panoramic View of India” by Dinsha Mistree here: https://www.hoover.org/research/panor… Read “The Folly of India’s

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Zubin Sethna on Advisory Board of All Party Advisory Group

We are very happy to share this good news and great honour bestowed upon our dear Zubin. We  congratulate  Zubin on yet another opportunity for Service and Leadership through this accolade, and for making all Zoroastrians and his family proud and happy. “Regent’s academic, Professor Dr Zubin Sethna, Professor of Entrepreneurial Marketing & Consumer Behaviour and Director of Business, Finance

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Shawn Wadia Completes PhD, Advances Global Cancer Research

Mumbai-born Shawn Wadia, successfully completed the PhD component of the MD-PhD program at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, marking a major milestone in his journey toward becoming a physician-scientist. Wadia’s research explored the interaction between Wnt and MAPK signalling pathways in pancreatic and colorectal cancers. His work sheds new light on how these aggressive tumors grow and respond to treatment, paving

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Adil Writer – A Genius with Clay!

Once upon a time, an architect was busy designing buildings with bricks of clay in bustling cities like Bombay and San Francisco. After a solid run, he took a detour to Pondicherry, where he stumbled upon actual clay and had a “this is it!” moment. Architecture was out, and pottery was in. Now, instead of designing with bricks, he designs

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Inaugural session of the Zoroastrian Alliance for Lawyers (ZAL), titled “Dialogues: Faith, Ethics & Law”

We are delighted to announce the release of the inaugural session of the Zoroastrian Alliance for Lawyers (ZAL), titled “Dialogues: Faith, Ethics & Law.” This pioneering session features eminent legal professionals, Adv. Rashna Jehani (Founder, Jehani Legal) and Adv. Khusnuma Nagwaswalla (Partner, Agram Legal Consultants, Mumbai), who engage in a compelling conversation on the interplay between faith, ethical values, and

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Remembering a reclusive post-war modernist who painted Mumbai

  In a modest Parsi household in Andheri, where the pagri-clad patriarch passed away last month, there are no portraits of the departed, only ones painted by him. Propped on a narrow cot is a six-decades-old painting of a young girl named Firooza, alongside two landscapes evoking Google Maps: Naval Jijina‘s signature aerial views from the 1960s, conjuring the sensation of

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Why Mumbai doctor Farokh Udwadia wrote a play to teach history-taking and bedside manners

Polymath doctor brings his work to Delhi to inspire junior doctors Dr Farokh Udwadia (Express photo by Praveen Khanna) For years, Dr Farokh Udwadia has sat by the bedside of his patients at the intensive care unit (ICU) of Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital, holding hands, listening and talking to them. “That bond often wins battles because it is about the

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Designer Ashdeen Lilaowala On Reviving Parsi Gara, A Timeless Indian Textile Tradition

Ashdeen Lilaowala is bridging centuries of craftsmanship with contemporary style and making slow, meaningful fashion relevant again. Photo Credit: Ashdeen Lilaowala Delicate, detailed, and deeply symbolic, Parsi Gara embroidery is more than just a textile tradition—it’s a visual language that tells stories of migration, memory, and meaning. Leading its revival is designer Ashdeen Lilaowala, who, through his eponymous brand, is bringing

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Father, son led from the front

Fairness and transparency were the hallmarks of the Nanavatty duo Distinction: Lt Gen Rostum K Nanavatty served as the GOC-in-C of the Northern Command. Photo courtesy of Lt Gen Nanavatty   WHEN and how did Lt Gen Rostum Kaikhushru Nanavatty learn to “shoot straight”? He imbibed that quality and other outstanding ones from his father, Kaikhushru Nanavatty. The senior Nanavatty

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