"My life has not changed much… but I do have a nostalgia for the old culture… manners used to be the big thing back then. Maybe people are more practical now,” Mithoo Coorlawala had stated when she turned 100 (see "A blessed centenarian,” Parsiana, July 21-August 6, 2018.) The 106-year old "begum,” as she was referred to, a former Hyderabad/Secunderabad resident, passed away on April 23, 2024.
Her elegance — double string of pearls, diamonds on her fingers, perfectly coiffed hair, stockings and peep-toed shoes — had struck the Parsiana representative during the interview. A few months before that interview, her......