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'''Roda Homi Mistry''' (16 October 1928 – 8 June 2006) was an Indian politician and the founder of the Roda Mistry College of Social Work and Research Center<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cswhyd.org/index.php/about/the-college/|title=RMCSW :: HOME|last=|first=|date=|website=www.cswhyd.org|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-11-15}}</ref> near Hyderabad, India. She was a [[Member of Parliament]], representing [[Andhra Pradesh]] in the [[Rajya Sabha]] the [[upper house]] of [[Parliament of India|India's Parliament]] representing the [[Indian National Congress]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/m.pdf| title=RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 1952 - 2003 | publisher=[[Rajya Sabha]] | accessdate=22 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/publication_electronic/Women_Members_Rajya%20Sabha.pdf | title=Women Members of Rajya Sabha | publisher=[[Rajya Sabha]] | accessdate=22 November 2017 | pages=147}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Lok Sabha Debates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xrQwAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=22 November 2017|date=7 April 1986|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat.|pages=69–70}}</ref><ref name="Cox-Fill1996">{{cite book|author=Olivia Cox-Fill|title=For Our Daughters: How Outstanding Women Worldwide Have Balanced Home and Career|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UBqr_MEn4m4C&pg=PA110|accessdate=22 November 2017|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-95199-3|pages=110–}}</ref> She was earlier the Minister for Women and Child Welfare and the Minister of Tourism<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.140263|title=India Whos Who 1984|last=Not Available|date=1984}}</ref> in the Andhra Pradesh state government.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/andhra-minister-roda-mistry-creates-a-storm-with-her-poor-hyderabadi-girls-comment/1/434630.html | title=Andhra Pradesh: Angry protests | publisher=[[India Today]] | date=31 October 1978 | accessdate=22 November 2017}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/03/marriage-and-zoroastrian/475467/|title=What It's Like to Have to Date Someone of Your Religion to Save It From Extinction|last=Wecker|first=Menachem|date=2016-03-27|work=The Atlantic|access-date=2018-01-04|language=en-US}}</ref> She died on 8 July 2006 in Hyderabad, India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.meherbabatravels.com/his-close-ones/women-1/roda-mistry/|title=Roda Mistry|website=meherbabatravels jimdo page!|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-04}}</ref> She was [[Zoroastrianism|Zoroastrian]].<ref name=":0" /> Her granddaughter,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/03/marriage-and-zoroastrian/475467/|title=What It's Like to Have to Date Someone of Your Religion to Save It From Extinction|last=Wecker|first=Menachem|date=2016-03-27|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-15}}</ref> Lylah M. Alphonse,<ref>{{Citation|title=Lylah M. Alphonse|date=2019-09-25|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lylah_M._Alphonse&oldid=917721286|work=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=2019-11-15}}</ref> is a U.S. journalist and the author of "Triumph Over Discrimination: The Life Story of Dr. [[Farhang Mehr]]."

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