Author Mishi Saran raises
the veil from the small community that lived
and traded in Shanghai of yore
Farrokh Jijina
Mesmerized… you might say obsessed with China,” is how author Mishi Saran describes her interest in the Middle Kingdom. It was natural that her "ears pricked up” when she heard in 2012 of former Shanghai resident Jehangir Bejan Tata. "Nobody has firsthand accounts of Parsis in Shanghai…It was thanks to Tata that all these stories about Shanghai Parsis came tumbling out,” she said. The author was speaking on "Stray Birds on the Huangpu: Why were Parsis in Shanghai Over a Century Ago?” at a lecture organized by the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu......