Inbred Investment Eyes Genomes

Bangalore-based biotech firm Avesthagen is studying an inbred Indian population.
Bangalore-based biotech company Avesthagen said Wednesday it has launched a genome project to build a genetic database of an inbred India community known as the Parsis.

The Avesthagenome project will study the Parsis people of the Zoroastrian community to gather data for a genealogical and medical database.

Avesthagen launches AVESTAGENOME

Avestha Gengraine Technologies Pvt. Ltd., (Avesthagen) a leading biotechnology company today announced the launch of the AVESTAGENOME TM project, a unique project to build a complete genetic, genealogical and medical database of the Parsis.

In today’s biotechnology driven medical care, the quest for new, more effective therapies and diagnostic tools have become essential to understand linkages [...]

Persepolis Recreated

An amazing video of Persepolis, completely recreated digitally.

The TATA Group

The Tata family has a tiny stake in Tata Sons, the holding company which owns the controlling stake in all the companies under the banner.
Ratan Tata himself is said to own about one per cent stake in Tata Sons. Around 65 per cent of the shares in Tata Sons are held by different Parsi Charitable [...]

Sustainable solutions for plastic problems

Karan Billimoria and Earthsoul’s replacement products for plastics claim to consume less fossil fuels and emit low greenhouse gases.
At a time when the issue of global warming is attracting the attention of big businesses all over the world, some small initiatives are charting the course ahead in India. In one such initiative, Mumbai-based Earthsoul India [...]

A Glimpse of Things to Come

Architect Jimmy Mistry’s daughter’s Navjote is the setting for the Parsi community’s vast and varied cultural heritage serving as a precursor to his May festival

“The Parsi youth today have become much dissociated from their culture; I want to bring it back to them,” is the ambitious and passionate statement of architect Jimmy Mistry.

And so the [...]

Modi, Mody & Co

There are two Mr Modis I know in Gujarat. One spells his surname with an ‘i’, the other with a ‘y’. Narendra Modi is a familiar household name. He is the Chief Minister of a ‘Vibrant Gujarat’, his political constituency’s ‘Hindu Hriday Samrat’ and the BJP’s man-in-waiting. After more than five years in power, [...]