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CJI Kapadia calls upon Parsis abroad to help in nation building

Posted 21 June 2010 | By mnaaZ | Categories: News | 4 Comments

Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sarosh Kapadia has urged members of the Parsi community settled abroad to return to India and contribute to national development. “I always believed that it is better to be a first-class citizen in India than a second-class citizen abroad,” said Kapadia, during his felicitation by the Bombay Parsi Punchayat here [...]

Fali Sam Nariman: An Interview

Fali Sam Nariman: An Interview

Posted 21 June 2010 | By mnaaZ | Categories: Individuals, Interview | No Comments

For The Record: Fali Sam Nariman. ‘I have no take on Supreme Court’s verdict on Carbide’ An interview with the Times Of India. At 81, Fali Sam Nariman, elder statesman and conscience keeper of the Indian Bar and former member of the Rajya Sabha, has decided to do some remembering about a life lived amid [...]

The Early Years of Sarosh Kapadia

Posted 22 May 2010 | By mnaaZ | Categories: Individuals | 5 Comments

When a wide-eyed Parsi teenager with a slightly unkempt look first arrived at the plush law offices of Behramjee Jeejeebhoy in the Fort area of Mumbai in the early 1960s, stenographer Perin Driver thought he had probably lost his way. The boy, “a petite little thing” as she now recalls, had come to join work [...]

Chief Justice of India: S H Kapadia: Newsmaker

Chief Justice of India: S H Kapadia: Newsmaker

Posted 14 May 2010 | By mnaaZ | Categories: Individuals | 9 Comments

Single-minded ambition took India’s new chief justice from genteel poverty to the country’s apex court. Article by Aditi Phadnis / Business Week Sarosh Homi Kapadia, Chief Justice of India, has few interests other than the law. One of them is going for walks. As a young man, Kapadia used to drag his younger brother (now [...]

Loose Talk: Parsi Comedy

Posted 30 April 2010 | By mnaaZ | Categories: Theater | 1 Comment

This is a hilarious video clip of famous Pakistani actor Moin Akhtar playing a Parsi bawaji.

Sarosh Homi Kapadia Appointed Chief Justice of India

Posted 30 April 2010 | By mnaaZ | Categories: India, Individuals, News | 8 Comments

Supreme Court Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia has been appointed the new chief justice of India. Kapadia will assume charge May 12. Kapadia takes over from Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, India’s first Dalit chief justice. A press release from the ministry of law and justice stated: “In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (2) of Article [...]

Iran rediscovers value of Persian roots

Posted 01 April 2010 | By mnaaZ | Categories: Iran | 40 Comments

Over the weekend, Iran hosted the presidents of Iraq, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan to celebrate Nowruz, the ancient Persian new year marking the first day of spring that is celebrated by some 300 million people around the world who together form an important cultural bloc. By Kaveh L Afrasiabi / Asia Times Both Supreme Leader [...]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Greets Nation on Navroze

Posted 22 March 2010 | By mnaaZ | Categories: Festivities | No Comments

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today greeted the nation on the eve of Parsi New Year, Navroz. Singh said Navroz brings a message of hope and renewal and it reinforces the values of peace and religious harmony in India. "The festival is a living symbol of the rich diversity and the vibrant composite culture of India," [...]

Thinking Big

Posted 29 January 2010 | By mnaaZ | Categories: Culture, Current Affairs, Events, Opinion | 12 Comments

In the 10th century, a group of Zoroastrians arrived from Iran on the shores of Gujarat, India, and sought refuge in the kingdom of Jadi Rana in Sanjan. An oft-told tale then describes a meeting between the reigning Hindu king and the community chief, Dasturji Nairyosang Dhaval. “My kingdom is like a cup of milk, [...]

Centre will help Parsis to boost count

Posted 19 January 2010 | By mnaaZ | Categories: Issues | 3 Comments

By Vineeta Pandey / DNA Concerned about the dwindling Parsi population in the country, the ministry of minority affairs is trying to come up with a concoction to reverse the trend. Minister Salman Khurshid said that they are soon going to meet Parsi leaders in Mumbai to figure out a plan to stop the extinction [...]

Activist Nergis Irani Takes On Reliance in Dahanu

Posted 17 January 2010 | By mnaaZ | Categories: About | 7 Comments

Activist Nergis Irani speaks with local Dahanu fisherwomen in the shadow of the power plant. by Sara Sidner / CNN Dahanu, India Nergis Irani is like a pit bull; once she sinks her teeth into something she won’t let go. That might explain why at 75 years old she won’t back down from a fight [...]

HC refuses to stay ban on 2 Parsi priests

Posted 16 January 2010 | By mnaaZ | Categories: Issues | 32 Comments

The Bombay Parsi Punchayet got a shot in the arm on Thursday with the Bombay high court declining to stay its ban on two priests from performing religious Zoroastrian ceremonies at Doongerwadi and two fire temples. By Swati Deshpande / TNN Two prominent Parsis in Mumbai Jamsheed Kanga and Homi Khushrokhan said they were taken [...]

For Homi Ghadiyali Every Day is Uttarayan

Posted 16 January 2010 | By mnaaZ | Categories: Events, Festivities, Individuals | 2 Comments

For almost the past eighty years he has been flying kites every day. There are very few people who manage to live their passions. By Yogesh Chawda / TNN Dada, happens to be one of them. Since he was seven years old at a Parsi orphanage in Surat, to this date, Homi Pestonji Ghadiyali, 86, [...]

Godrej Baug Agary Celebrates 10 years

Posted 29 December 2009 | By mnaaZ | Categories: Bombay, Mumbai, fire temple | 1 Comment

More than 2,000 Parsis flocked to celebrate the anniversary of the city’s youngest fire temple last week. The Shapurji Fakirji Jokhi Agiary in Godrej Baug, Malabar Hill, completed 10 years on December 18. The priest performed prayer ceremonies in the afternoon. Youth leaders also spoke to the people about uniting as a community. The celebrations [...]

Parsis have civilization; other Indians don’t

Posted 05 December 2009 | By mnaaZ | Categories: Heritage, India, Opinion | 46 Comments

Culture is our attitude to beauty and ugliness, to power, to religion, and to family. It shows in our music, in what makes us laugh. Civilization is our attitude to mankind By Aakar Patel / Mint Indians have culture but not civilization. Culture is how we entertain ourselves; civilization is how we entertain others. Culture [...]

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