Greetings on seeing Parsiana back in circulation. What a pleasant surprise the Readers’ Forum column (Parsiana, July 21-August 6, 2020) harbored for this subscriber. In addition to my own, "Life lessons,” there were three other engrossing and informative letters. Two were written by old time Delhites, Nawshir Khurody and Yezad Kapadia, while the third was from a California-based friend, Dr Ardeshir Damania.
Khurody and I were Delhites from the 1930s and 40s. He does not remember when we met; maybe he was too young then. His mother, Persis Kothawala, and mine, Kumi Irani (Sorabji), were schoolmates 100 years ago. When my......