From Rangoon where we had led a “cloudlessly happy” life the family came to Delhi as refugees
Fali S. Nariman
My mother’s family (the Burjorjees) hailed from Burma (now the Union of Myanmar). My father, Sam Nariman, came to Rangoon from Bombay (now Mumbai) in the year 1927 to establish a branch office of the New India Assurance Company Limited. Here he met and fell in love with my mother, Banoo Burjorjee (16 years younger than him). They married early in 1928, setting up home in Rangoon, where my father was posted as the company’s branch manager.
Shirinbai Burjorjee, Fali Nariman’s grandmother
As to how my mother’s ancestors first came to Burma is a story of adventure. Since the early 19th century,......