In a conversation with ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, senior journalist Coomi Kapoor talks about her new book ‘The Tatas, Freddie Mercury and other Bawas’. Kapoor engages with questions around what it means to be a Parsi and famous Parsis who have brought laurels to the country. Kapoor says Parsis have a strong sense of ethics, hard work and a natural talent for enterprise, which is why they mostly succeed —whether it is the business success of the Tatas and the Mistrys or the current contributions such as the manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines by the Parsi-founded Serum Institute of India.
Nine Years, Made Possible by Readers
In 2017, Shekhar Gupta started ThePrint with a simple belief: Indian readers want journalism that asks why and what next, not just what. And that enough of them would be willing to pay for good journalism.
Nine years on, that belief has held.
And, in these nine years, we’ve stayed true to our mission. We’ve been asking the follow-up questions, going beyond the headlines and explaining what’s actually happening. We’ve travelled across the country to bring you in-depth, visually-compelling stories from the ground.
It’s been nine years of readers choosing to make this possible. If you’d like to be one of them:
