Parsi Khabar

The below video is a presentation by ZAGNY and IZA New York.

The Bombay high court on Thursday set aside the joint charity commissioner’s (CC) order preventing the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) from selling the flats it has built in Panthaki Baug in Andheri. The Baug has two buildings comprising 108 flats, of which 74 are yet to be sold. The BPP had planned to sell these [...]

From Amordad News.
 
The sound of Avesta, on 27 Shahrivar (18 September) once again filled Azargoshasb Fire Temple.
In Azargoshasb Fire Temple Zoroastrians recited the Avesta and prayed for a strong unity and cooperation of Zoroastrians of the world.  It is 6 years that this ceremony is being organized, annually, by Yatha Ahu site.  Azargoshasb is [...]

By Andrew Davidson
Take two women: one a City lawyer turned banker, the other a multilingual journalist turned charity boss. Shake gently. And out pops Justgiving, the charity fundraising dotcom that is becoming a seriously profitable business. Just tread lightly when asking about their motivation.
“I didn’t set it up to make money. That’s an [...]

By Nauzer Bharucha, TNN
In the age of the Right to Information Act, the charity commissioner could not refuse to furnish documents under the cover of the
Official Secrets Act, said the Bombay Parsi Punchayat (BPP) on Saturday. Charity commissioner (CC) M K Choure was hearing an application by the BPP, which opposed his decision not [...]

Noted journalist Shernaaz Engineer recently interviewed Dr. Keki Gharda. A small snippet of the interview is below
In recent months, the papers have been buzzing with the news that Gharda Chemicals, the second-largest agro-chemical company in India (Rs. 950-crore turnover), is likely to be sold. Dr. Keki Gharda, Chairman and MD, a veteran chemical scientist, and [...]

UK-based news magazine, The Economist, today named Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata as the winner of the eighth edition of its annual ‘Business Process Innovation Award’ for the successful development and launch of the world’s cheapest car, the Tata Nano. In a statement, the magazine said Tata was selected for “…forging a company that is [...]

By Nauzar Bharucha / TNN
Charity Commissioner (CC) M K Choure, who invoked the Official Secrets Act to deny information to the Bombay Parsi Punchayat (BPP), on Tuesday agreed to give a hearing to the trustees on September 29.
The BPP, which looks after the welfare of Parsis and is the city’s largest private landlord, had [...]

Kobad Gandhi, a top leader of CPI (Maoist), who is in charge of spreading the organisation’s influence in urban areas, was today sent to 14 days judicial custody by a Delhi Court.
Gandhi, arrested here yesterday, was remanded to judicial custody for a day by a duty magistrate. He was produced before chief judicial magistrate Kaveri [...]

By Pradeep Vijayakar, TNN
One of the glamorous teams of Mumbai’s maidan cricket, Parsi Cyclists plan to celebrate their centenary in a unique way on October 10.
There will be a ˜jashan” a prayer early in the morning at their tent at Azad maidan followed by breakfast, then a 10-over match between the past and present [...]

The article below is a little disturbing. It clearly brings out the motives of Percy Patel who has a vendetta and is going to all lengths to get his pound of flesh. It is such people that will bring about the ultimate decline of Parsis, unless we all stand up and say ENOUGH ! ….arZan
Minister [...]

SHERNAAZ ENGINEER peers into the minutiae of life in the Parsi colonies (or our baugs bustling with busybodies) and dishes up some delightfully saucy details. Forget ‘Life in a Metro’. ‘Life in a Parsi  Colony’ should be made into a movie!
In Mumbai, you will unarguably find the largest concentration of Parsis in the community’s many [...]

Parsi Cyclists, one of Mumbai’s oldest clubs, will complete its centenary in early October. The club which has produced some fine cricketers in Nari Contractor, Polly Umirgar, Rusi Surti, Farokh Engineer, to name a few, is now cash-strapped and struggling to produce cricketers who have the potential to play for Mumbai. Contractor lamented that [...]

The below is a Report of FPZAI meeting of Sept. 2009 sent via email by Mr. Marzban Giara.

A meeting of the Federation of Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India was held after a lapse of three years at the Banaji Atash Behram Hall, Mumbai on 5th and 6th September 2009. 49 out of 69 anjumans of [...]

There’s So Much More to ‘Frank’ Behind the Counter
By KELLY BENNETT for Voice of San Diego
At mid-morning on a hot summer day, the customers filing into a convenience store on the edge of downtown San Diego hear an enthusiastic "Hello, boss!" or a "How are you doing?" from the gray-haired man with thick dark eyebrows [...]