UNCENSORED LIFE: Zerbanoo Gifford - Softcover

Zerbanoo Gifford; An Uncensored Life

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. Pradeep Shetty (Photographs) (illustrator). Third printing [stated]. The format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. xii, 227, [1] pages. Illustrated front cover. Illustrations. Cover has slight wear. Double inscription on the title page. The first inscription is by the subject of the book and reads for Frank with love and blessings Zerbanoo. This is followed by Here's to making a difference. Best Farida. Farida Master's desire to build communities of trust extends to her role as a journalist, editor and author for more than 35 years in India and New Zealand. Farida was the editor of 'Society Fashion' magazine, a launching pad for many in the glamour factory. Emigrating to the Land of the White Long Cloud proved to be a turning point in her life as a serendipitous moment won her a job as a Features Editor of `The Aucklander' magazine from the stable of nationally known APN Media. Farida was also instrumental in spearheading the `Botany and Ormiston Times', a community newspaper very close to her heart. In all her years as a journalist it has been the resilience of human spirit that has always fascinated Farida. It's the raison d'être for her taking on the challenge of authoring Dr K. B. Grant's biography, 'The Making of a Legend'. Years later, she authored the incredible Zerbanoo Gifford's biography, 'An Uncensored Life'. The launch of the biography at `TimesFest', opened up new vistas with book readings in India, New Zealand and the US. An Uncensored Life is a compelling biography of a human rights campaigner, philanthropist, women's champion, author and founder of the ASHA Centre - a game-changer who speaks her mind. Born in India, Zerbanoo Gifford moved to London at the age of four. By her early thirties she had become a pioneer for Asians in British public life. She chaired committees, advised political leaders and was the first Asian woman to stand for Parliament, having been elected onto Harrow Council. Overcoming racial attacks, political disenchantment, legal battles against the Government and a near-death experience, Zerbanoo's is a gripping story of a fearless woman who has held fast to the causes of equality and global justice despite all odds. Zerbanoo Gifford is a British writer and human rights campaigner of Indian Zoroastrian origin. She is honorary director of the ASHA Foundation, which she founded, and President of the World Zoroastrian Organisation. Gifford was brought from India to Britain by her parents when she was three. She was educated at Roedean School, at Watford College of Technology, at the London School of Journalism and at the Open University. Her first book, The Golden Thread, was published in 1990. In 1982 Gifford was elected a councillor for Harrow, the first female Asian councillor to be elected for the Liberal Party. She has stood three times for Parliament,Hertsmere in 1983 (Liberal/SDP Alliance) and 1992 (Liberal Democrat), and Harrow East (Liberal/SDP Alliance) in 1987. By standing in 1983, she became one of the first three Asian women to stand for Parliament along with Rita Austin (Labour, St Albans) and Pramila Le Hunte (Conservative, Birmingham Ladywood). In 1986 she chaired the Liberal "Commission of Inquiry into Ethnic Minority Involvement in the Liberal Party". Gifford was twice elected by the party's membership the Liberal Democrats' Federal Executive, the first ethnic minority person to be elected to a major UK party's supreme body. She was a member of the Race Relations Forum set up in 1998 by then Home Secretary, Jack Straw. In 1992 Gifford co-chaired the centenary celebrations for the election of the first non-white MP, Dadabhai Naoroji. Artikel-Nr. 87369

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