Parsi Khabar

CHAM, Iran – Thousands of Iranians gathered at dusk against a snowy mountain backdrop to light giant bonfires in an ancient midwinter festival dating back to Iran’s pre-Islamic past that is drawing new interest from Muslims.
By Associated Press / Boston.com
Saturday’s celebration was the first in which the dwindling remnants of Iran’s once plentiful Zoroastrian [...]

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, has been [...]

A decade ago, karate champion Vispi Kapadia (52) lost his five-and-a-half-year-old daughter Fareena. Seven years ago, she appeared in his dreams and asked him to do "something for children" and the annual Zochild Day was born.
By Anahita Mukherji, / TNN
Every year, the Zoroastrian Children’s Foundation (of which Kapadia is a trustee) celebrates the [...]

The Guide drops in at Zamu’s Place to celebrate the Parsi New Year
Today’s Special at the 22-year old Parsi eatery on DP Road is a mouth-watering spread of Kid Gosht, Sali Chicken, Mutton Pulao Dal and Chicken Farcha. The occasion is Pateti or the Parsi New Year and the restaurant is offering sumptuous dishes, including [...]

Parsis plan to celebrate their New Year today with usual fervour despite the pandemic
Swine flu and all the hype  around the virus notwithstanding, Mumbai’s Parsi community is determined to celebrate their New Year today with the usual fervour.
Said Dinshaw Mehta of the Bombay Parsi Panchayat (BPP), "The celebrations might be a little low key, [...]

India’’s Zoroastrian Parsi community celebrated the New Year day, ”Navroz”, with usual fervour here on Wednesday.
Members of the miniscule Parsi community flocked at the Fire Temple to pay respects to their prophet Zarathushtra.
The Parsi New Year is marked by joyous fervour and gaiety.
On this day, Parsis decorate their homes with "torans" or floral garlands and [...]

New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday greeted the nation on the “joyous occasion” of Navroz, the beginning of the Parsi New Year. In his message, the prime minister said Navroz, to be celebrated Wednesday, “symbolises new beginnings to a bright future and is traditionally considered to be a harbinger [...]

!! Saal Mubarak !!
August 19th is the first day of the Parsi New Year. A time of happiness and rejoicing for all members of the small Parsi community in India and worldwide.
This is one of my favorite days of the years. Memories of this day right through childhood included visits to the fire temple, [...]

By Dipti Nagpaul D’souza
For a true foodie, there isn’t a feast bigger than the Parsi New Year. On the day of the feast, you’ll find a non-follower for every Zoroastrian queued up outside city restaurants offering Parsi cuisine to the patrons. With merely a handful of days left for Pateti, Mumbaikars are already [...]

By Firoza Punthakey-Mistree courtesy of Zoroastrian Studies.
On Adar Ruz, Adar Mah, the Parsis of India celebrate the feast of Fire known as the Atash nu parab.  This feast is celebrated largely by the women in the family, who prepare the hearth fire for this festival by cleaning the kitchen and making purchases for the festival.  [...]

Nowruz Festival is a traditional holiday with a long history. In Xinjiang, all national minority believe in Islam celebrate the festival. The word came from Iranian, means “Spring Water“, equating to vernal equinox (4th solar term). It falls on March 22.
Before Uyghur national minority believed in Islamism, they worshiped many gods such as sun [...]

Mumbai: It’s an early start to the day for Nawaz Modi Singhania, wife of industrialist Gautam Singhania, just like when she was younger, she says.

“New Year binds you with family and religion, and it certainly takes me back to my childhood,” smiles Nawaz, recalling her precious moments spent as a child. [...]

By Mark Manuel for the Times of India.
Sahebji, and Navroze Mubarak! I present Boman Irani and Shenaz Treasuryvala, Zoroastrians both; he a blustery and excitable Irani, she a petite

Shenaz Treasuryvala and Boman Irani have a Navroze breakfast exclusively
and pretty Parsi, both making news in Bollywood for different reasons. They met [...]

Mumbai: It’s that time of the year again — a day when every Parsi home will prepare traditional foods in a special lunch, for March 21 that marks the vernal equinox is special to Iranis and Paris everywhere.

Hearty Meal: Pearl and Hafeez Contractor
It’s a time of joy and festivity," state architect Hafeez and his [...]

A Zororastrian celebration of this often-overlooked cuisine is the perfect antidote to Lenten guilt

By Alex Renton
Tonight we’re going to eat Persian: herbed and spiced rice, smoked fish, baklava and wine. For it is the spring equinox, and party time for many people in Iran and across western Asia. They mark the moment [...]