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Tag: Minoo Shah

Fafda Files Down Memory Lane - Seniors Today
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Fafda Files: Down Memory Lane…

April 17, 2021April 17, 2021 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

There were Dheeraj’s, Dhiren’s and Dhairyawan’s who crossed my path – an uncle, a bookie, even my own personal tailor but never the one and only inimitable Dhirubhai. Allow me …

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Fafda Files Easter ‘Holi’-Day
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Fafda Files: Easter ‘Holi’-Day

April 3, 2021 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

Adults and kids were prancing around with war cries drowning out the Easter Bunny nursery rhymes which were competing with Bollywood renditions of “Holi Hein!” The netizens decided to put …

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Fafda Files System Management - Seniors Today
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Fafda Files: System Management

March 20, 2021 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

I am not an Engineer, a Doctor, a Lawyer but the certificate hanging on my walls says Minoo Shah, MSM (Master’s in System Management).   Put me in the category of …

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Fafda Files: Ha Ha Happy Thanksgiving

November 28, 2020November 29, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

The key phrase of the evening being, ‘Arre yaar, let bygones be bygones, writes Minoo Shah   As the word suggests, it’s all about thanking and on this side of …

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Fafda Files I am not fat, my neighbour is thin - Seniors Today
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Fafda Files: I am not fat, my neighbour is thin

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

Would you ever give up ice cream in lieu of a few inches off your waist, wonders Minoo Shah One fine day sunlight came streaming through the trees, birds chirped …

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Fafda Files: 2020 Resumes for Seniors

November 14, 2020 - by seniorstoday - Leave a Comment

Dos and Don’ts of what to out on a resume from Minoo Shah   Want to go back to work? Toss your traditional resume out the window and if it …

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Fafda Files - My Pet Peeves (Seniors Today)
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Fafda Files: My Pet Peeves

October 31, 2020November 11, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

Pothotles, WhatsApp chatters, Elections, Junk Mail, Facebook Freaks… these are a few of Minoo Shah’s peeves. Read on… Everyone has them and so do I.The degree of angst may vary …

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Fafda Files: Exams Begone!

October 24, 2020October 25, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

I propose that formal education does not begin till age 12 (believe it or not, this was the norm in Southern India), let the kids be kids, writes Minoo Shah …

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Classism vs Racism - Seniors Today
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Fafda Files: Classism vs Racism

October 17, 2020October 17, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

Anthropologists have confirmed that the natural evolution of living species is in a continuum, writes Minoo Shah Ashley Montagu 1 in his infinite wisdom while reading stories of his ancestor …

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NRIs: Happy in their New Home - Seniors Today
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NRIs: Happy in their New Home

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

Non-Resident Indians have accepted the country they immigrated to as their home and are comfortable visiting India occasionally, writes Minoo Shah Why do Indians who left India not wish to …

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Fafda Files The NRI, Zeus & the US Presidential Elections
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Fafda Files: The NRI, Zeus & the US Presidential Elections

October 10, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

Fifty-odd couples are coming for dinner on November 3 to watch the vote countdown of the Presidential election and caterers have been informed not to chug a few or do …

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Tree of life
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Fafda Files: I am Fickle

October 3, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

Ambiguity is a virtue best served with a thick skin, a slice of malice and a propinquity with the devil, writes Minoo Shah I was getting a lot of grief …

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Fafda Files - Felines Can be Bitchieees (Seniors Today)
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Fafda Files: Felines Can be Bitchieees

September 26, 2020September 26, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

Her name is Muki and just like her namesake and other partner in crime Naji, she is a terrorist. She came to us when she was merely three months old, …

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Grandparents for Rent - Seniors Today
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Fafda Files: Grandparents for Rent

September 19, 2020October 16, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

  Grandparents for Rent is now a booming business with exponential growth due to the throes of demand and seniors all over are guffawing with laughter, writes Minoo Shah The …

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Fafda Files -To be a Gujju Gal in the 70s - Seniors Today
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Fafda Files: To be a Gujju Gal in the ’70s

September 11, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

A Gujju gal is born with a seventh sense called a laissez-faire attitude towards life, writes Minoo Shah This would require aplomb, certain savoir faire, a thick skin and pretty …

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How dare you_Seniors Today
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Fafda Files: Spicy Indian Food! How Dare you??

September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

A concerned father threw a fit when he heard that his son was served spicy Indian food at a friend’s home. Minoo Shah plays devil’s advocate and speaks for the …

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Fafda Files: Tryst with Sadhguru

September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

Minoo Shah checks out a Jaggi Vasudev and is intrigued by what he says with his eyes What I like about Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is his sense of humour, while …

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Fafda Files Is Marriage a Defunct Idea - Seniors Today
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Fafda Files: Is Marriage a Defunct Idea?

September 4, 2020September 16, 2020 - by seniorstoday - Leave a Comment

Minoo Shah dedicates this week’s column to rationalise to a sanctimonious society why the institution of marriage is defunct and an idea whose time has lapsed To be or not …

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Fafda Files - The Inimitable Amitabh Bachchan, Tharoor and the Kohinoor
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Fafda Files: The Inimitable Amitabh Bachchan, Tharoor and the Kohinoor

August 22, 2020August 24, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

The next time someone asks me ‘if I am Hindi?’ – I will forcefully make them repeat after me – Hindi is a language, Hindu is the follower of a …

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Fafda Files
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Fafda Files: An Ode to Inheritance

August 15, 2020August 17, 2020 - by seniorstoday - Leave a Comment

In Fafda Files, her weekly column in Seniors Today, Minoo Shah writes on inheritance… in her inimitable style   This ode shall be an anthem for all who have been …

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Letter from US: Have Moolah, Get a Doolah!

August 14, 2020August 24, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

The spotlight may be on Indian matchmaking, but it’s a much deeper game. Minoo Shah has the goods And you thought marriages were made in heaven and that God donned …

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Fafda Files: Gasp! What the Fatakdi?!

August 8, 2020August 24, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

What happens after one marriage party decides to molest another in full view of the guests. Minoo Shah was a fly on the wall and narrates a true story of …

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Reigning Chappals - Fafada Files
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Reigning Chappals

August 1, 2020 - by seniorstoday - Leave a Comment

So how did Mahesh Bhatt go back home after throwing a chappal at Kangana Ranaut, as alleged by the actor, wonders Minoo Shah, tongue firmly in cheek Raise your hand …

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Fafda Files: Howdy, Houston!?

July 26, 2020July 26, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

  Amidst all the sensational news, Houston continues to hold a steady rank as a city with the highest surge of coronavirus and the least available hospital beds, writes Minoo …

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Fafda Files: Bubs and Bai
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Fafda Files: Bubs and Bai

July 18, 2020July 19, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

What has relegated this otherwise shrew of a woman with a soul of a banshee into a cowering shadow of her former self, wonders Minoo Shah Nostalgia of a Mumbai …

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Fafda Files - Life is a Box of Chocolates
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Fafda Files – Life is a Box of Chocolates

July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

At work, the white masters saw us as different shades of brown, a box of chocolates if you will, writes Minoo Shah. To the Anglo-Saxons, white is not just a …

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Staying Safe, Stepping Out
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Fafda Files: Class of ’70

June 27, 2020June 28, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

Where Minoo Shah prescribes attending class reunions and as one plays catch up – each one sounds shrilling louder than the other Class reunions and why I advise them.  Have …

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Fafda Files: Come into my Parlour, said the Spider to the Fly

June 20, 2020July 26, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

As an ‘overwhelmed’ Bollywood mourns the death of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, there are more Sushants, Divya Bhartis and Marilyn Monroes on their way to glamourland, writes Minoo Shah   …

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Communities: Gujaratis - Seniors Today Magazine
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Communities: Gujaratis | The Fafda Files

June 14, 2020July 26, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

Introducing an all-new monthly series in Seniors Today magazine – Communities. We kick it off with Minoo Shah writing on the very enterprising Gujjus, err, Gujaratis. Those elite intellectuals who …

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Bollywood - an NRI Obsession
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Bollywood – An NRI Obsession

June 13, 2020July 3, 2020 - by Minoo Shah - Leave a Comment

Introducing a new weekly column by Minoo Shah where she will present her unique take on life of the Nouveau Riche Indians. Enjoy As a teen, I identified with Jaya …

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