Farah Rustom - Becoming Farah: A Life in Bombay, 1943 to 1986

2023, English, Farah Rustom, India,

Full title: "Becoming Farah: A Life in Bombay, 1943 to 1986" by Farah Rustom.

"Farah’s cutting-edge gender reassignment surgery in 1976 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."

"Farah Rustom was born in Bombay in 1943, and currently lives in the US. She was born as Farokh Rustom but always felt that she was in the wrong body. In 1976 she underwent gender reassignment surgery at the Masina Hospital. The surgeon was Dr. M. H. Keswani. This created a sensation, as she was well known by then as a pioneering lecturer on Western classical music appreciation, and also as a freelance journalist.

She is a gold medallist Fellow of the Trinity College of Music, London. She blazed a trail for other transgendered souls trapped in the wrong body with her newspaper, magazine and television interviews and articles. This is her story, which includes her many passions in life, including travel, and portrays life as it was in Bombay in the Nineteen Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties."

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