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The Deep Roots of Nowruz

How a Zoroastrian celebration of the Persian New Year grew into a broad symbol of cultural resilience and political resistanceChildren dance at a Nowruz celebration in Lafayette, ColoradoMaggie Phillips | TabletMark Leffingwell/Digital First...
Where music was the food of love

Where music was the food of love

As a sequel to a recent column, a family romance that celebrates the magic of music in fusing an uncommon bondHomi and Homai Dastoor in Navsari in 1959, the year of their marriageArticle by Meher...

Cricketer Nari Contractor steps into the 90s

Cricketer Nari Contractor steps into the 90s

From ‘hovering between life and death’ after a bouncer fractured his skull at Barbados in 1962, to celebrating his 90th birthday today, India’s oldest Test captain Nari deserves a badge of...

How Parsis Came to Love Western Classical Music

How Parsis Came to Love Western Classical Music

Tracing a tiny Mumbai community’s journey with a niche art form At any Western classical music performance that I attend in Mumbai, the audience is always a sea of elderly Parsis. (Parsis are a tiny...

Ba Humata Lecture Series: March 2024

Ba Humata Lecture Series: March 2024

The March 2024 Ba Humata lecture is on the theme “THE QUALITY OF LIBERALITY IS THE TOTALITY OF IMMORTALITY” Yasna 46.5, Yatha Ahu Vairyo & Zararthushti PrayersSpeakersErvad Parvez Karanjia ...

A forgotten link of Govadia heritage

A forgotten link of Govadia heritage

Going back to the roots: an emotion in motionA forgotten link of Govadia heritageArticle by Adil J. GovadiaOur large 3-tiered family haveli (bungalow), built way back in 1887, is located in a small...

Indian law, after Fali S Nariman

Indian law, after Fali S Nariman

Indira Jaising writes: Indian law, after Fali S NarimanThe thinking of generations of lawyers has been shaped by the cases Fali Nariman arguedWritten by Indira Jaising | Indian ExpressFali Nariman...

Hormusji N Cama Awarded Padma Bhushan in 2024

Hormusji N Cama Awarded Padma Bhushan in 2024

Hormusji N Cama, the Managing Director of the Mumbai Samachar was awarded the Padma Bhushan Award on the eve of the Republic Day 2024Hormusji N Cama, Director, Mumbai Samachar has served as the...

Passing of Dr. Maneck J. Kotwal

Passing of Dr. Maneck J. Kotwal

Maneck Kotwal ObituaryObituary published on Legacy.com by Friedel, Williams & Edmunds Funeral Home - New Hartford on Jan. 15, 2024.Dr. Maneck J. Kotwal passed away peacefully on Sunday, January...

Opera Singer Minoo Golvala Passes Away

Opera Singer Minoo Golvala Passes Away

Minoo Golvala, an opera singer who was called ‘Mario Lanza of Bombay’, passed away in London on Friday. He was 88.Born into a Parsi household in 1936 in Mumbai, Golvala, who studied at St Xavier’s...

Secret Lives of the Wise Men

Secret Lives of the Wise Men

The scene of three ornately dressed potentates handing out the very first Christmas presents has been depicted in countless ways -- in classical paintings, greeting cards and town-square tableaux.We...