Parsi Khabar

An ordinary lady with an extra-ordinary vision: Bai Jerbai Nusherwanji Wadia (1852-1926)
This is a simple story of an ordinary Zarathushti lady, who possessed an extraordinary vision.. Born in 1852, she was reared in the, then, traditional fashion, into a Zarathushti way of life. She was well tutored in the art of knitting, stitching [...]

By Nauzer K Bharucha / TNN
Perhaps for the first time in the more than 1,300-year history of the Parsis in India, the community’s oldest high priest at age 83, was anointed at Navsari in Gujarat on Tuesday. Kaikhusro Navroz Dastoor Meherjirana, a respected scholar priest, is interestingly also an advocate, author of two books on [...]

Anu Aga, the ex-Chairman of Thermax India has been awarded the Padma Shri.
Her name featured on the list of awardees announced by the Government on the occasion of Republic Day 2010.
Here is a short excerpt from a 2005 article on Arnavaz Aga

Aga is always in her trademark cotton or silk saris, whether it’s for [...]

Assume you are the head of a multinational group some of whose leading businesses are weakened by a troubled market and lack of refinance in overleveraged balance sheets. What’s the likelihood that you pull off an overhaul, sustain a pipeline of innovation and yet find time to foster business co-operation between India and another country?
Ratan [...]

There is something very, very real about Boman Irani. It can be felt in the way he gets into the skin of the character — being innocent enough to endear like Oscar Fernandes in Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd. or vile enough to disgust as Farokh Sethna in Being Cyrus—and this is a feeling that stays [...]

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 [...]

Jimmy Engineer is a man with a cause. He stands tall, somber and deep in a thought. His passion to make a difference comes with a style of his own.

Posted in the Khaleej Times
His courage and conviction to pick up critical issues of life and death and campaign for many of them to their logical [...]

“I finally made it and can’t believe it’s over,” beamed a visibly exhausted fitness trainer, Dinaz Vervatwala, after claiming the Guinness Book of World Record for completing 26-hour-long aerobics marathon that ended on Sunday evening at around 8.30 p.m.
Polo Grounds at Secunderabad reverberated with energizing music as the noted fitness trainer took the stage [...]

An ‘eggsceptionally’ talented lady, handcrafts and decorates Faberge-style eggs
By Indira Rodericks / Upper Crust Magazine.
There’s never a dull moment in Mani Cooper’s life. A lady of rare and extraordinary talent, when she’s not dabbling in egg-craft, she paints on silk, specialises in Pergamano which is parchment craft, does quilling and sculpts. But her greatest love [...]

The Indian Air Force announced its latest project: a remote drone plane that is named after its chief designer Dr. Rustom B. Damania.
Here is a link to more information about the drone.
And below is an email from Maneck Bhujwala on this topic.
Friends,
It is a proud event to know that India’s new Drone aircraft [...]

Sculptor Arzan and wife Khushnuma Khambatta along with their two kids Pezanne (14) and Tianna (11) occupy an 850 sq ft apartment with a small garden. “Our home seems small now that the kids are growing up because they want more space,” says Arzan about his cherished space in Dadar Parsi colony.
By Marina Correa / [...]

By PAUL BECKETT / WSJ
MUMBAI—During his 18-year tenure as chairman of India’s venerable Tata Group, 71-year-old Ratan Tata has led a drive to expand internationally, a strategy India’s other sprawling companies seek to emulate.
With annual revenue above $70 billion, Tata Group now derives 65% of its sales outside of India and employs 357,000 [...]

This man saves lives, one click at a time
Abhishek Mande / Rediff
For over ten years now, Khushroo Poacha has stood by the sole belief that to do good work you don’t need money. Poacha runs indianblooddonors.com (IBD), a site that lets blood donors and patients in need of blood connect with each other almost [...]

The junction of Mancherji Joshi Road and Lady Jehangir Road near Five Gardens in Dadar was formally named "Principal Khorshed Maneck Bharucha Chowk" on August 14, 2009. Social worker Mehernosh Fitter had submitted the original proposal to the Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) way back in August 2005.
The invitation for the function was issued by the [...]

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 [...]