Parsi Khabar

Dhoomketu @ 22nd Floor writes a great review on Jimmy Boy the famous Parsi restaurant in Bombay. More on Jimmy Boy here.
Jimmy Boy is located at 11 Bank Street, Fort Bombay 400 001 Tel: (022) 2270 0880

.Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy…
….A restaurant like this one

Won’t somebody help me chase the hunger pangs away!!

(Sung to the [...]

Going to Udvada on Behram Roj is a custom that a lot of Parsis followd. I personally know of a coupleof people who go religiously (pun intended) every single Behraom Roj. The following is an interesting article I got as an email forward. The name of the author is just signed as Neville. Read ahead.

The [...]

Jamshedi Navroze by Ruby Lilaowala
Afternoon Dispatch and Courier Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:15:39 IST

On that day, it was as though all of Nature rejoiced for this good, kind and benevolent king. It was the day of the Vernal Equinox, a day when light and darkness stand equal on the scales of time and space..

What is [...]

Of myths, legends and fabled Parsi gems

SHAPURBAUG: A retired school teacher is trying to cull out fables and legends about the Parsis in a bid to retrace the path trodden by the community and record people’s lives for posterity.

“The Parsi community cannot simply be allowed to forget its culture,” says Ratti Wadia, former principal of [...]

Norouz has been celebrated for at least 3000 years and is deeply rooted in the ritual and tradition of the Zoroastrian religion. Today the festival of Norouz is celebrated in many countries that were territories of or influenced by the Persian Empire: Persia (Iran), Iraq, Afghanistan, parts of the Middle East, as well as in [...]

Anchor and actor Shenaz Treasuryvala talks about her yearning for work and travel.

Self-respect :”I will not be sexually-exploited and would not do a role demeaning to women – crawling on the floor, making lewd faces, wearing nothing but heavy make-up and a bra. I kept getting roles similar to Alisha (‘Ishq Vishq’) or I was [...]

THE Elisabeth Murdoch Sculpture Foundation commissioned a 4m-high nude bronze from sculptor Peter Schipperheyn, to be exhibited in the McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park in Melbourne. It is the largest nude bronze in Australia, says gallery director Simon Ambrose. It was initially named after the prophet Zarathustra, but Zoroastrian members objected, saying the nude denigrated [...]

This is a letter from Shirin J. Mistry, circulated on a newsgroup which sums up the end to the controversey of the sculpture.
These are the views of the author, and not Parsi Khabar
Dear Mr Schipperheyn,

May I add my own small voice to that of the thousands of Zoroastrians who are grateful to find in you [...]

Peter Schipperheyn, the sculptor shot into the Zoroastrian spotlight all of a sudden a few days ago because of his upcoming work
Amidst all the controversey and the mud-slinging, Peter was gracious enough to explain his viewpoint, elaborated here.
Today he has announced that
Name change, This sculpture will no longer be named as originally launched. All reference [...]

NDTV Correspondent
Monday, March 27, 2006 (Lucknow):

The Lucknow High Court and other courts in the city remained shut on Monday to protest against the murder of Meher Bhargava.

Meher, the wife of Congress politician Luv Bhargava, died on Saturday after she was shot in the neck in late February while trying to protect her daughter-in-law from molesters.

She [...]

Post UPDATED since original posting. Read ahead.
Today morning I received a forwarded email from Adil Nariman, from Sydney Australia. It brought to my attention, the events that will lead to the unveiling of Australia’s most imposing bronze nude statue. While this would otherwise be very good news, it rankled me when I read about the [...]

The third annual Persian-Iranian Parade, held along the fifteen blocks of Madison Avenue in New York City on March 19, drew a record cheering crowd of Iranian Americans, curious tourists and mainstream Americans. The colorful parade, with a large number of activities, music bands, dance ensembles, flags and floats, carriages and performers, marchers and dignitaries, [...]

AT 4.56 pm on Sunday, Mehar Bhargava moved into her permanent resting place, Hormuzd Bagh –the Parsi cemetery at Narhi since 1902– alongside her mother Naja Kharas, whose epitaph read: “Tears alone won’t be able to reflect what we feel.”
And sure enough, women came in large numbers to bid a final adieu to the lady [...]

People of Zabol in Sistan va Baluchistan province start the celebration of the New Year from the last five days of the year. Panjak traditional ceremony is held in Khajeh Mountain during these days.
“From the ancient times every 12 months had 30 days throughout the year in Sistan va Baluchistan province. Therefore, 5 extra days [...]

Khaleej Times
Makkah, the birthplace of Islam was a Hijazi trading haven rich from the Red Sea caravan trade between Yemen and Byzantine Syria, a place where a Syrian monk, a Persian Zoroastrian priest’s renegade son and an Abyssinian slave could all exchange ideas of human possibility and witness the seal of prophethood on a young [...]