Becoming Farah: A Life in Bombay 1943 to 1986

Becoming FarahFarah’s cutting-edge gender reassignment surgery in 1976 the first in India created a sensation as she was already well known as a pioneering lecturer on Western Classical Music Appreciation and a freelance journalist. This is her astonishing frank and unique story honestly and movingly describing her many passions experiences and travels around India. A moving portrayal of life in Bombay until the Eighties belonging to a very special and distinct community little known outside of India namely the Parsis originally from Persia. It is a portrait of a wonderful and very special city in a joyfully creative and fascinating era now sadly gone forever although as every person who grew up in Bombay will attest once the city becomes a part of you it is there forever.