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Podcast: The Wire Talks
Episode:

The Parsi Community Has Contributed a lot to India feat. Coomi Kapoor

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:43:26
Publish Date: 2021-07-27 00:35:17
Description:

Coomi Kapoor is a well known journalist who has been writing on the the inner workings of the corridors of power for many many years. Her last book 'The Emergency: A Personal History' chronicles the lives of her own family and her father's during the internal emergency from 1975 to 1977. Hey new book is about Parsis, or more specifically, the icons of the community ranging from Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, the tycoon of the 19th Century, to Nusli Wadia, to Freddie Mercury, who's real name, as we all know, was Farrokh Bulsara.

On this episode, Sidharth talks to Coomi about how she wrote and researched for her new book, how she got into writing, and tons more.

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