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.
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