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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Zia Modi is an Ideal Baha'i women
Indian firms are now concerned about reputation risk
(Times of India)
(Times of India)
Reeba Zachariah & Boby KurianReeba Zachariah & Boby Kurian, TNN | Aug 6, 2011, 07.12AM IST
It is 7.15 pm and AZB & Partners, a leading corporate law firm on South Mumbai's smartest street, is buzzing with energy. Its founder Zia Mody is flitting between meetings and rushes in twenty minutes late. She apologizes before getting down to business. "Shoot the questions," says the Harvard educated lawyer whose firm has advised on mergers and acquisitions worth $20 billion in the first six months of 2011.
She's just back from a short vacation to Kenya where she rung in her 55th birthday with her businessman husband Jaydev Mody. A gaming-cum-safari club located right on the Equator has been her favourite holiday spot for years.
"We went there for our honeymoon," Mody says with a chuckle.
It was marriage that brought Mody back to India in the early eighties from the US where she was working with a New York law firm Baker & McKenzie. Jaydev and she had met through their lawyer-fathers. Returning to India meant starting her career all over again. The uncertainty of a career weighed on her, but she was here to stay.
Workstartedwithcourt practice. The bias against an Indian woman standing up and arguing in court hadn't disappeared yet. "The fear was how long would one have to keep proving oneself," she recalls. But early success beckoned when "typically hardened businessmen wanted me to argue their case".
Court practice went on for a decade until one day it no longer excited her. Those years also saw her taking up several public interest litigations like Floor Space Index (FSI ) valuation, when, on many occasions, she argued for free. "I didn't like the waiting period. There were constant adjournments. It didn't end," she says. "Most of the fights were silly. I got tired of all that."
And then the big switch happened. She crossed over from court practice to chamber practice, setting aside her father Soli Sorabjee's advice that she should be a judge. The Indian economy was opening up, corporate law was in the making. She was in the right place at the right time. "God moved me with the times, and my career moved with a changed India," Mody, a follower of the Bahai faith, says.
She's just back from a short vacation to Kenya where she rung in her 55th birthday with her businessman husband Jaydev Mody. A gaming-cum-safari club located right on the Equator has been her favourite holiday spot for years.
"We went there for our honeymoon," Mody says with a chuckle.
It was marriage that brought Mody back to India in the early eighties from the US where she was working with a New York law firm Baker & McKenzie. Jaydev and she had met through their lawyer-fathers. Returning to India meant starting her career all over again. The uncertainty of a career weighed on her, but she was here to stay.
Workstartedwithcourt practice. The bias against an Indian woman standing up and arguing in court hadn't disappeared yet. "The fear was how long would one have to keep proving oneself," she recalls. But early success beckoned when "typically hardened businessmen wanted me to argue their case".
Court practice went on for a decade until one day it no longer excited her. Those years also saw her taking up several public interest litigations like Floor Space Index (FSI ) valuation, when, on many occasions, she argued for free. "I didn't like the waiting period. There were constant adjournments. It didn't end," she says. "Most of the fights were silly. I got tired of all that."
And then the big switch happened. She crossed over from court practice to chamber practice, setting aside her father Soli Sorabjee's advice that she should be a judge. The Indian economy was opening up, corporate law was in the making. She was in the right place at the right time. "God moved me with the times, and my career moved with a changed India," Mody, a follower of the Bahai faith, says.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Indian-firms-are-now-concerned-about-reputation-risk/articleshow/9501869.cms
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Lotus Temple to bloom at Lalbagh
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| A replica of the world-renowned Lotus Temple of the Bahai community in New Delhi will be a great draw at the flower show in Lalbagh this time. |
The flower show will be thrown open to the public from August 5 to 15.The Horticulture Department, continuing with the tradition of replicating famous structures and personalities for the flower show, chose the Lotus Temple. Lakhs of flowers will be used to bring alive the temple.
Addressing the media, Director of the Horticulture Department T Hemalatha said: “The flower recreation of the temple will be spread across 36 ft X 36 ft and will be 22 ft high. As many as 200 florists are working to translate the Lotus Temple in flowers.”
Nearly two lakh carnation flowers, 75,000 roses, Cape Jasmine and myriad other variety of flowers and leaves will be used to create the temple, she added. In addition to the floral recreation of the Lotus Temple, several extraordinary and rare flowers will beckon the visitors to the annual flower show. Visitors can also look for sale and exhibition of horticulture seeds, compost and plants at the show.
Tight security will be ensured at the Lalbagh. For elders the entry fee is Rs 30, while for children it is Rs 10.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/181254/lotus-temple-bloom-lalbagh.html
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