The Tatas, Freddie Mercury and Other Bawas: An Intimate History of the Parsis by Coomi Kapoor. Published in 2023 by Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd, 4th Floor, Capital Tower 1, M. G. Rd, Gurgaon, 122002; website: www.penguin.co.in. Pp: xli + 334. Price: Rs 599.
It is not often that a book gets reviewed twice in the same magazine by the same person, but the revised edition of Coomi Kapoor’s The Tatas, Freddie Mercury and Other Bawas: An Intimate History of the Parsis justifies revisiting the book. Described as an intimate history of the Parsis, Kapoor’s book attempts to tell the......