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...Khorshed Naoroji, who heads Gandhi's foreign secretariat, is a slim Bombay Parsi with an easy sense of humor and a pleasant, informal manner. Her grandfather was Dadabhai Naoroji, first president of the Indian National Congress and first Indian member of the British Parliament. She was recently released from prison. First jailed (for her political views) in Bihar, she was moved under escort of eight armed policemen and one wardress to the Poona jail. On the train the sleepy police men handed her their revolvers to guard. She asked: "How can you dare do this?" Answer : "Oh, we know...
...widower held an unsteady umbrella against India's brilliant sun. About his shawled figure pressed kinsfolk and friends, chanting Hindu, Moslem, Parsi and Christian prayers. Intently he looked upon the burning ghat...
...Bombay's white community, where Britons regularly go for their "sundowners," the neat, half-size whiskey and soda known as a chotapeg. But for Bombay Presidency's 18,192,500 natives it meant the end of the liquor trade, put some 8,000 members of the wealthy Parsi community out of work, closed 8,500 bars and liquor shops...
First shot in New Jersey's gubernatorial campaign was immediately fired not by Democrat Moore nor Republican Clee but by an Independent, a Parsi named Dinshah Pestanji Framji Ghadiali, whose first name means "King of Duty." Born in Bombay 63 years ago, King of Duty Ghadiali has been, according to his own account, a wireless experimenter at Hillsdale, N. J., a medical student, export manager of a smelting company at Union, N. J., an assistant professor of mathematics in Bombay, manager of Bombay's first cinemansion, a commander in the New York Police Air Service, a mechanical engineer...
Died. Shapurji Saklatvala, 61, son of a rich Bombay Parsi merchant, second Communist to sit in the British House of Commons; of a heart attack; in London...