In 2004-7, I met with a number of elderly Parsis who shared memories of their families’ lives in colonial Burma. Some recalled fleeing to India during the Japanese invasion of Burma in World War …
Burma
Ruttie & Bella
I was recently struck by the strangely inverted but parallel lives of two young women, both tragic figures in early 20th-century Parsi history. Ratanbai Petit and Bella Captain were born in 1900. Ratanbai or “Ruttie” lived …