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Author, Nina Godiwalla speaking at Borders Bookstore

suits_book cover high-resNina Godiwalla shares key themes and experiences from her upcoming book, Suits: A Woman on Wall Street, a memoir about her experience at Morgan Stanley best described as Liar’s Poker meets The Devil Wears PradaIt’s an insider’s perspective on investment banking from an outsider’s point of view—woman, second-generation Parsi American, and Texan.  USA Today chose Suits as one of their top books to read.  In addition to discussing her experience as a first-year analyst in investment banking, Nina will talk about women and minorities conforming to corporate cultures, her career path from corporate executive to author, and growing up as a second generation Parsi American. 

Nina will be speaking at the Columbus Circle Borders Bookstore.

Time:   7pm

Date:    Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Borders Bookstore

10 Columbus Circle New York, NY 10019 { map }

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First Newsletter of 2011 Is Here

The first ZAGNY newsletter of the new year 2011 is here !! From Halloween Tales, to Hidden Gems, and the FEZANA Awards, to the upcoming Navroze Function and Election Time, get it all in this wonderfully put together newsletter.

The newsletter is the handiwork of Behroz Dutia, Secretary ZAGNY. Behroz has been compiling the ZAGNY newsletters for the last three years and this is her last one. The current ZAGNY Board term ends in March.

As Behroz writes

This is the last newsletter that I pen to you all. I hope you all enjoyed reading the newsletters as much as I had in writing them. It was most gratifying to me to hear your responses on the newsletter in our 2010 survey.

It was my distinct pleasure in serving you all as the Secretary of ZAGNY. I kindly thank all the members of ZAGNY and the Board for their support and hope someday again I can be of service to you. I wish the new ZAGNY Board further success for the 2011-2014 term!

We take this opportunity to thank Behroz for chronicling the happenings of ZAGNY for the past three years and look forward to her continued involvement and support in ZAGNY activities in the coming years.

You can read the newsletter in PDF Format here.

ZAGNY Stalwarts Bag Three of Five FEZANA Awards in 2010

Below is the complete report of The 2010 North American Zarathushti Community Awards.

These were presented at the Fifteenth North American Zarathushti Congress, hosted by the Zoroastrian Association of Houston, and sponsored by the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America.

History of the Awards

The first North American Zarathushti Community Awards were presented at the Sixth North American Zoroastrian Congress, which was held in Toronto, Canada, in 1988. Since then, North American Zarathushti Community Awards have been presented biennially at each North American Zoroastrian Congress.

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Ervad Soli P. Dastur wins FEZANA 2010 Outstanding Zarathushti Award

ZAGNY is happy to announce that one our long-time meber Ervad (Dr.) Soli P. Dastur was awarded the Rohinton Rivetna Outstanding Zarathushti Award by FEZANA. This was awarded at the recently concluded XV North American Zoroastrian Congress in Houston.

Originally from Tarapur, India, Ervad (Dr.) Soli Dastur is a graduate of Bombay University and Northwestern University in chemical engineering. Now retired, Soli worked in various senior-level and executive positions at Proctor & Gamble for 30 years.

Today, he performs various community services including navjotes, weddings, jashans, Muktad prayers, and obsequies, lectures extensively on the Zoroastrian religion and scriptures, and is working to preserve Zoroastrian literary resources in both printed and audio-visual formats. Soli serves on the board of the Zoroastrian Association of Florida, and is active within various religious and community organizations including FEZANA, the North American Mobed Council (NAMC), and Coming Together Roundtables. He travels all over North America and internationally in his desire to share his religious knowledge.

In all 5 Awards were handed out at the Congress.

Dinyar P. Patel won the Outstanding Young Zarathushti Student Award and Farrokh Namdaran was awarded the Humanitarian Service Award.

ZAGNY members bagged three of the five awards. This was a great year for ZAGNY and confirms our association’s position as one of the pre-eminent Z associations in North America.

Dr. Noshir Langrana and Kayhan Irani Win 2010 FEZANA Awards

ZAGNY’s own Dr. Noshir Langrana and Kayhan Irani were two of the Awardees at the recently announced North American Zarathushti Community Awards.

Dr. Noshir Langrana was awarded in the Excellence in Business or Profession Category.

Kayhan Irani was awarded in the Excellence in Performing Arts, Painting or Literature Category.

These awards were presented during the just concluded XV North American Zarathushti Congress 2010 hosted by the Zoroastrian Association of Houston.

ZAGNY on behalf of the entire community takes this opportunity to congratulate Dr. Langrana and Kayhan and wishes them luck in the professions in the years to come.