Parsi Khabar

The UN has acknowledged the festival of Navroze as a Heritage of Humanity. The below is an email forwarde by Mickie Sorabjee.

Dear All,
You will be happy to know that finally, after some years of delay, this news of Navroze being awarded the UNESCO award as an Intangible Heritage of Humanity has come through officially. [...]

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 is our [...]

Luxury is now about a different idea, an out-of-the-world experience, not just products and names…
This week I am in Bombay where, between interviewing the Chief Minister and an encounter specialist who survived 26/11 (but still has a bullet lodged in his right elbow), the city helped me remember something unique about luxury I had discovered [...]

When life in a Parsi household was lived at a leisurely pace…
By Silloo Mehta
Indian cities were beautiful a century ago. Bungalows had gardens, leafy parks were well maintained and flowering trees arboured the streets. There was an air of space, tranquillity and wellbeing. We were a joint middle class family, Grandpa the benign patriarch. [...]

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

After 30 years, 100 hawkers evicted from Cross Maidan
It was jubilation on Saturday for local residents, who finally succeeded in ridding the southern tip of Cross Maidan of a major nuisance
By Manoj R Nair
Demolition crews from the City Collectorate removed over 100 stalls that had stubbornly resisted all earlier attempts of eviction
For the first time [...]

Over a thousand years ago, Parsis landed on the shores of Sanjan on the Gujarat coast, seeking shelter and were welcomed by the local raja who allowed them to settle on his land. The descendants of these migrants are now paying back that debt by helping local resP6-2.TIM environmental pollution on the coastline.
Several city [...]

Ervad Marzban J.  Hathiram, a good old friend, editor of Frashogard.com and the Panthaki at the Jogeshwari Daremehr has written a hard hitting post on religious adultery.
Marzban writes
My apologies for not updating the blog for the last few weeks since I was tied up in the Muktad preparations and prayers in our Daremeher at [...]

This is a hilarious forward sent to us by dear family friend and regular Parsi Khabar reader Bakhtavar Mistry.
BE PROUD as After the the British colonies there is only the parsi colonies on which the sun never sets Because ……………
at 2 am old ladies are chasing stray dogs with sticks,
at 3 am somebody’s [...]

Nargol is set to become the first village in the country to host a Parsi festival. This will be similar to government sponsored annual fests like Tarnetar fair, Kutch festival and kite festival.
The historic village was developed by first generation immigrant Parsis who landed on the Arabian Sea coast in Valsad’s Umbergaon taluka bordering [...]

Somewhere in the noisy lanes of Dhobi Talao stands a picturesque shop; a little old fashioned, with a small cosy bench, and loads of memories. The owner is a fourth generation Parsi; but the heavy wooden name board proclaiming the store’s 1887 roots has been recently replaced with a new one. “But the character [...]

Demure and unassuming, Sardar Sorabji Patel Agiary in Nana Peth is quite like the Iranian and Parsi Zoroastrians who worship at this fire temple. And, although the community is arguably among the richest, the temple itself wears an austere look.
The agiary (Gujarati word for house of fire’) was originally built in 1824 by Seth [...]

The rising waters of the Arabian Sea swallowed Girish Tandel’s ancestral home in Danti village of Valsad district some 15 years back. He is left only with memories of that home and a videograph of his uncle’s marriage that was solemnised at the family home in Danti.
- The fire temple of the Parsis in Udwada [...]

By PUSHPA CHARI for the Hindu
Where have the old Parsi garas gone, with their bewitching stitches and magnificence?
How does one describe the sheer perfection of Parsi gara embroidery in which birds take wing with the delicacy of a Japanese Haiku, weeping willows, tendrils and cranes twist and bend with infinite grace and fields studded [...]

Located conveniently between Kolkata’s biggest cemetery and largest morgue, a bone-collecting firm is doing brisk business illegally, an online tabloid reported. And there are many others as well who have hit a goldmine stealing dead bodies in the shadow of the night. But somewhere, these body snatchers seem to have missed the point.
“Don’t publish [...]