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The State of the Parsi Union: Dinyar Patel

The below is an article written by good friend of Parsi Khabar, and Zoroastrian Scholar; Dinyar Patel.  Dinyar Patel writes:    On this Navroze, I want to share a few of my thoughts about future of our community. To be frank, we are in trouble....

Is It Too Little Too Late

Mahatma Gandhi once said of them, “In numbers Parsis are beneath contempt, but in contribution, beyond compare.” By Nauzer K Bharucha, TNN, Never has the contrast been starker. The community that’s...

A Vegetarian Parsi

By Rakshande Italia / Inside TORONTO DESI DIALOGUES: Turning vegetarian leaves a pleasant taste on the palate The past 15 days have been one of my most testing times. That's because I decided to...

Vadodra Parsis celebrate Navroze

Members of Parsi community celebrated the Pateti (Parsi New Year) with fervour here today. Parsis visited the Fire Temple in traditional dresses and greeted each other with sweets. J H Parabia, a...

Choslo Desai of Navsari

The story about Choslo Desai was received via email. This incident was orally narrated by Late Ervad Saheb Eruchshah Karkaria and Mr.Minoo Tamboli of Navsari. Many decades ago there use to live a...

Irani or Parsi, what’s the difference?

By Meher Marfatia in DNA India Who hasn't smiled at quaint "By Order" instructions written in coloured chalk at Irani restaurant entrances? But walk to your corner café today. The interior will...

Zee News tribute: Rohinton Maloo

By Akrita Reyar The sad news of Rohinton B Maloo being one of the victims of the mindless terror attacks in Mumbai has left me completely cold. Known as one of the avant garde and most charismatic...

A Barbaric Wake Up Call

The terrorist attacks in Mumbai, which ordeal is not over even as I write, is, in my opinion a rude and dastardly wake up call. For Mumbai. For Bombay. That we are world citizens. The world has...

Ancient Blessings Near the Flat-Screen TV

Ancient Blessings Near the Flat-Screen TV

By JAMES ANGELOS for NY Times PERVEZ PATEL, a Zoroastrian priest from Elmhurst, Queens, was wearing a long white robe and a white cotton veil over his mouth that looked something like a surgeon’s...

Enthronement of Pak Iranshah Saheb at Udvada

This is an email forward received from Behram P. Dhabbar on a newslist. Our forefathers had come to India and settled here with the prime objective of keeping the fire of our religion burning...

Marguerite Del Guidice: In conversation

Last week we pointed you to the National Geographic Story on Iran. Below is an interview with the author Marguerite Del Guidice in the Persian Mirror. If you are concerned with all things Iran, you...

Bapsy Sidhwa in Lahore

“Every time I come to Lahore, I find it more beautiful than my previous visit,” said novelist Bapsi Sidhwa during an interview with Daily Times. Sidhwa, who spent her early years in Lahore, said...

A View from Pakistan: Manekshaw’s war

By Commodore (retired) Najeeb Anjum for The Dawn, Pakistan For 36 years now India's first field marshal has been the icon of heroism. "ALL QUIET ON THE EASTERN FRONT", the melodious message...

Minocher Bhandara, Pakistan MP, Passes Away

Former Minorities Minister and member National Assembly Minocher Bhandara (popularly known as M.P.Bhandara) passed away here on Sunday. His one leg and a wrist was broken in an accident on April 23...

Zoroastrian Tower of Silence

A "Tower of Silence" is the place where Zoroastrians laid their dead to rest in the life-giving power of the sun. Zarathustra is the ancient Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism 3500 years...

No Family Planning for Parsis

NCM’s pill for falling Parsi numbers: no family planning CITHARA PAUL Posted online: Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 0034 hrs New Delhi, June 13: Concerned about the dwindling population of the Parsi...

Shehnaz Treasurywala: Big Secret Revealed

Shehnaz Treasurywala: Big Secret Revealed

Shehnaz Treasurywala the new host of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge has her task cutout as she will be seen anchoring a Hindi show for the very first time!! But what exactly motivated her to...

Indian vultures may be gone in 10 years

Despite a 2006 ban on veterinary diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory drug for cattle, vultures are fast vanishing from India. So quick is the decline in numbers that experts say three species could be...

Remembering Russy Karanjia

Remembering Russy Karanjia

Remembering Russy Karanjia, who died yesterday, exactly 67 years after he founded Blitz, India’s greatest tabloid weekly The story of the life of Russy Karanjia is intimately tied up with the story...

Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum

Community treasures The more popular spot off Hughes Road might be a city bookstore but a rewarding experience awaits the curious at the Khareghat Memorial Hall, in the Khareghat Colony a few metres...

Iranian temple under excavations

Iranian temple under excavations

Ruins of a Zoroastrian fire temple in western Iran. A joint Iranian-Polish team has started excavations at the site of the Azar Barzin Mehr fire temple in Sabzevar, northeastern Iran. Iran's...

Pray, atone and feast

That’s what Parsis will do on Pateti today, a day before celebrating Navruz. If you plan to wish your Parsi neighbours “Happy Pateti” on Saturday, don’t. That is, unless, you believe that...

Talking with Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa has become well-known as the author of the novel Cracking India, which was made into the 1998 movie 'Earth', directed by Deepa Mehta. She, however, has been around for a lot longer than...

Perizaad Zorabian gets married to Boman Irani

Perizaad Zorabian gets married to Boman Irani

Saturday was a big day for actress Perizaad Zorabian as the actress got married with her longtime boyfriend Boman Irani. No not the actor Boman but an estate developer based in Mumbai. The couple...

I’m not Semi Girebaal because I’m a Bawa!

I'm not Semi Girebaal because I'm a Bawa! Cyrus Sahukar's second season of spoof has begun, but he has his serious moments as well ... despite being a Parsi, he says! With all due respect to Simi...

Second steely punch from the subcontinent

MONTHS after Lakshmi Mittal took over European steel giant Arcelor in the face of stiff competition and a hostile campaign that bordered on racism, another Indian is bracing to deliver a steely...

Zoroastrians Today

Zoroastrians Today

Tenaz Dubash, a documentary film maker has launched her latest project "Zoroastrians Today" Her website informs This hour-long documentary will focus on the assimilation of the Zoroastrian community...

New things at Parsi Khabar

New things are happening here at Parsi Khabar. First and foremost we have our own domain. Parsi Khabar now resides at www.ParsiKhabar.net The establishment of its own domain was something that was...

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Marriage registrar with no work

30 per cent of Parsi community single, ditto above 60 years of age Three marriages in three years. N.F. Tankariwala, the lone Parsi marriage registrar in the city, has little work. Had registration...

Vulture species threatened

Namibian - Windhoek,Namibia ... Followers of the minority Parsi faith depend on vultures for disposal of their corpses, considering the burial or burning of human remains to defile the ......

The idea of Dimple’s character

The idea of Dimple’s character is to annoy the audience and she ... IndiaFM - Bombay,India ... The backdrop of this movie seems Parsi. Is it a Parsi movie? It’s not at all a parsi movie....

Curry boss in bid to save India’s vultures

nlnews@archant.co.uk 15 March 2006 THE boss of an Archway curry house is helping spice up a new campaign to save India's vultures from extinction. Cyrus Todiwala, who owns The Parsee, in Highgate...

For Iranians, It’s Time To Leave Islam?

One wonders how many intelligent people in Iran, or among the Iranians in intelligent exile, wish that Islam had never arrived, that "gift" from far more primitive people, the gift that for the...

A Busy Locality, A brutal death

Residents of Kakad Estate at Worli, where 73-year-old Adi Kurshetji was murdered in May 2003, on Friday recalled the stormy years when the old Parsi gent and the woman held guilty of his murder...

Woman jumps to death in Court premises

Geeta Soni, who conspired to kill her 72-year-old foster father Adi Kurshedji along with her husband and mother, broke down on hearing the verdict. When she was being taken to jail from the court,...