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. [...]

Bombay Parsi Punchayet chairman alleged the institute’s head Meher Master-Moos was indulging in ‘wrongful’ conversion, which is reserved for only sons of priests
By Manoj R Nair and Ram Parmar / Mumbai Mirror
A group of angry Parsis from Mumbai, including chairman of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), stormed a religious institute near Sanjan on the Maharashtra-Gujarat [...]

For 17 years, Parvin Jungalwala, 40, a Parsi widow, allegedly spent her life in home confinement. However, she decided to end her torture and the reason for this his is her daughter’s well-being, who will be appearing for her class X examination next month.
Parvin, who got married soon after her class X exams, has [...]

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 [...]

From Ervad Marzban Hathiram
I am happy to inform readers that the Bhagarsath Anjuman has elected Ervad Kaikhushroo Navroze Dastoor (more popularly known as K. N. Dastoor, or KND) as the 17th Dastur Meherjirana in place of Dastur Meherji Dastur Kekobad, who expired on 23rd January as reported earlier.
It was the written wish of Dasturji Meherji [...]

Parsi Khabar joins all the Parsis in expressing condolences on the passing away of Dasturji Meherjirana.
Ervad Marzban Hathiram has written a wonderful obituary.

It is my solemn duty to inform readers of the sad demise of Vada Dasturji Meherji Dastur Kekobad Meherjirana, the Vada Dastur not only of the Navsari Bhagaria Mobeds but also the [...]

With a new editor taking over Jam-e-Jamshed, the recently acquired reformist views of the 177-year-old Parsi weekly may be toned down
By Manoj R Nair / Mumbai Mirror
On Sunday, readers of Jam-e-Jamshed, a Parsi community weekly and one of the oldest newspapers in the country, were surprised at the sudden change in its editorial line.
For the [...]

By Deena Guzder / The Washington Post
Many of us recently finished celebrating Christmas, Eid, and Hanukkah; however, few of us have heard of the religion that deeply influenced those traditions of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. As the world’s oldest monotheistic religion, Zoroastrianism introduced ideas of a single deity, a dualistic universe of good versus evil, [...]

Residents of the landmark Dadar Parsi Colony, the largest Zoroastrian enclave in the world, have won a six-year-long legal battle to allow only members of this tiny community to live in this ‘reserved area’.
By Nauzer Bharucha | TNN
The city civil court has granted a permanent injunction restraining the builder from selling flats to anyone who [...]

Malabar Hill police are investigating how Byram Jeejeebhoy, who holds a US citizenship, obtained an Indian voter identity card
By Abhijit Sathe & Manoj R Nair / Mumbai Mirror
Byram Jeejeebhoy, great-grandson of Mumbai’s best-known philanthropist, Sir Jamshedji Jeejeebhoy, was detained at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on Wednesday following a lookout notice issued against him by [...]

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 [...]

In an internal meeting this evening, Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata will address staff of the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel and say a short prayer in memory of the guests and employees slain in the terror strike on November 26 last year.
"The Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, Mumbai  will hold a solemn and [...]

This ancient commercial city on the coast of Kerala once played host to a flourishing Parsi community, but all that is now left is a lone family struggling to keep the community’s legacy alive.
Known in history as the land of fabulous King Zamorin, from time immemorial Kozhikode had attracted Arabs and Westerners in search of [...]

Team Flashy consisting of Homiar Hathiram, Farhad Choksi and Eric Mehta won the Annual All – Parsi Quiz contest took place on Sunday Novermber 22, 2009 at the Rustom Baug Pavilion. There were twenty teams in all and the quiz was mainly on History, geography, sports, our religion, hollywood n bollywood. The written qualifying rounds [...]

BNHS says Bombay Parsi Punchayet’s plans to breed vultures at Towers of Silence will not work, as the birds will die from feeding on bodies of those who have consumed diclofenac.
By Manoj R Nair / Mumbai Mirror
In fact, a member of the BNHS – which was initially involved in the breeding programme – has [...]