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Personal life
![Shiavax Chavda with wife, Khurshid Vajifdar soon after their marriage.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6278ef0cea29bf2fca808f93/2d293c48-4401-4905-a55a-cc3c59494c4a/Chavda+03.jpg)
Shiavax Chavda with wife, Khurshid Vajifdar soon after their marriage.
![Chavda posing in his studio with paintbrushes and easel.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6278ef0cea29bf2fca808f93/10aa2c67-759d-48dd-b4be-a7317214ab81/Chavda+11.jpg)
Chavda posing in his studio with paintbrushes and easel.
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![The famous, "Vajifdar Dancing Sisters" during a show. Khurshid (right), wife of Shiavax Chavda. Eldest sister, Shirin (middle), wife of Dr. Mulk Raj Anand (celebrated author). Youngest sister, Roshan (left), wife of Dr. Hiranmay Ghosh (chiropractor a](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6278ef0cea29bf2fca808f93/9a70f31e-4f67-46c8-87a6-3a57375104cb/Chavda+05.jpg)
The famous, "Vajifdar Dancing Sisters" during a show. Khurshid (right), wife of Shiavax Chavda. Eldest sister, Shirin (middle), wife of Dr. Mulk Raj Anand (celebrated author). Youngest sister, Roshan (left), wife of Dr. Hiranmay Ghosh (chiropractor at Northcote Nursing Home).
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![Photo from Anil Relia's book, "The Indian Portrait - XI, Jyoti's Bhatt's Photographs of His Contemporaries."](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6278ef0cea29bf2fca808f93/fa5e98cf-1562-4eda-a699-12910e42d542/The+Indian+Portrait.jpg)
Photo from Anil Relia's book, "The Indian Portrait - XI, Jyoti's Bhatt's Photographs of His Contemporaries."
![Shiavax Chavda holding his completed life sized work of Prophet Zoroaster (1986) commissioned by the Zoroastrian Association of Chicago (ZAC) where this painting currently resides.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6278ef0cea29bf2fca808f93/c3c582f2-2145-4aef-bcf2-9c1c0e2fc2a5/Chavda+07.jpg)
Shiavax Chavda holding his completed life sized work of Prophet Zoroaster (1986) commissioned by the Zoroastrian Association of Chicago (ZAC) where this painting currently resides.
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![The Vajifdar sisters featured on the cover of the March edition of Parsiana (2021).](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6278ef0cea29bf2fca808f93/a7848b14-1005-4233-b53d-a3cabda7489c/Vajifdar+Dancing+Sisters.jpg)
The Vajifdar sisters featured on the cover of the March edition of Parsiana (2021).
![Shiavax Chavda receiving the Artist of the Year Award (1990) by the Maharashtra State Government from the Governor of Bombay at Jehangir Art Gallery.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6278ef0cea29bf2fca808f93/aca95e60-6013-4e15-8eb3-6b8393711e83/Chavda+10.jpg)
Shiavax Chavda receiving the Artist of the Year Award (1990) by the Maharashtra State Government from the Governor of Bombay at Jehangir Art Gallery.
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