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Unused Urinal At Cross Maidan Behind Bhikha Behram Well Raises A Stink
Residents want the toilet block – locked in a dispute since 1996 as Parsis fear it would contaminate water in their sacred well, located at Bhikha Behram – demolished By Manoj Nair / Mumbai Mirror With a section of the Cross Maidan showcasing a new, green look, Oval residents want the urinal near Bhikha Behram [...]
Read more →BM Masani passes away
Veteran constitutional expert and noted advocate, BM Masani passed away yesterday at the Parsi General hospital in Mumbai. He was 86. Family sources at Mhow said today that Masani was suffering from lung ailments for the last six weeks and had gone to Mumbai for treatment
Read more →Art films not my scene right now: Jennifer Kotwal
Kannada actress Jennifer Kotwal wants to continue to star in entertainment films and not really looking at art films as of now. “Art films are not my scene right now,” the model-turned actress who is currently working in three Kannada films, she said in Bengaluru. Published in the Indian Express “I love entertaining people,” and [...]
Read more →Bombay Panjrapole
If you aren’t looking for it, you’d probably miss it. Tucked somewhere in the by-lanes of the crowded Bhuleshwar bazaar is the Bombay Panjrapole, a 176-year-old infirmary that primarily looks after 350 cows and other stray animals like donkeys, hens, birds, dogs, goats, parrots and ducks. By Humaira Ansari / DNA The shelter, painted bright [...]
Read more →Pasta on the patra
The Parsi lagan nu bhonu, the last of the purist community wedding feasts in the city,is also going the mishmash way By Mahafreed Irani | TNN When Sam and Freny Satha were preparing to send out the invitations for their son Marks wedding recently, they felt an unstoppable surge of nostalgia. Their own wedding had [...]
Read more →Boman Irani wants to become a singer
Boman Irani, who started life as a photographer, just loves exploring different avenues. After some crackling performances, including in comic roles, the hugely talented actor is trying his voice as a singer. He is touring five Indian cities with music director Shankar Mahadevan but says he does not want to make a career out of [...]
Read more →Bahman – Bestows Divine Wisdom
In the Zoroastrian calendar, the second day of every month as well as the eleventh month of every year is dedicated to Bahman Amshaspand. By Noshir H. Dadrawala Bahman is the Persian form of the Pahlavi word Wahman and the original Avestan – Vohu Manah, a term which most scholars translate as the ‘Good Mind’, [...]
Read more →Artist Jehangir Sabavala goes for record Rs 1.7 cr
The market for India’s modern masters seems to be sizzling. After Raza became the priciest modern by notching up over Rs 16 crore at a London auction recently, another master, 88-year-old Jehangir Sabavala, has set a new world auction record for his work. By Times of India News Network Casuarina Line, a serene landscape, was [...]
Read more →Parsis felicitate new Chief Justice of India
Addressing a large gathering of the Parsi community on Saturday, newly appointed Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice Sarosh Kapadia admitted to being a workaholic and a deeply spiritual person. By Aarefa Johari / Hindustan Times Justice Kapadia was in his hometown Mumbai to attend a felicitation function held by the Bombay Parsi Punchayet in [...]
Read more →Perizad Zorabian, The Monsoon and Chicken Shashlik Sizzlers
The odds that you might catch vivacious actor Perizad Zorabian in cook’s garb are narrow. By Ismat Tahseen / DNA Says the mother of two, “I rarely like to try my hand in the kitchen but my husband Boman believes that that when I cook, I cook very well. I’ve made an omelette quite exotic [...]
Read more →Cama Baug Agiary Varasyaji Pass Away
Ervad Marzban J. Hathiram informs us about the passing away of the holy Varasyaji, and a fascinating primer on the importance of Varsyaji in Zoroastrian religion and culture. It is my sad duty to inform readers of Frashogard that the holy Varasyaji ?Shah Behram?, attached to the Bhagarsath Panth in Mumbai and stationed at the [...]
Read more →CJI Kapadia calls upon Parsis abroad to help in nation building
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sarosh Kapadia has urged members of the Parsi community settled abroad to return to India and contribute to national development. “I always believed that it is better to be a first-class citizen in India than a second-class citizen abroad,” said Kapadia, during his felicitation by the Bombay Parsi Punchayat here [...]
Read more →Fali Sam Nariman: An Interview
For The Record: Fali Sam Nariman. ‘I have no take on Supreme Court’s verdict on Carbide’ An interview with the Times Of India. At 81, Fali Sam Nariman, elder statesman and conscience keeper of the Indian Bar and former member of the Rajya Sabha, has decided to do some remembering about a life lived amid [...]
Read more →Govt scheme to arrest decline in Parsi population
Concerned over the dwindling number of Parsis, one of the five notified national minorities, Government has launched a scheme to arrest the trend of decline in their population. The Central Sector Scheme is one of the four new projects to be implemented by the Ministry of Minority Affairs during the current financial year. The population [...]
Read more →Is it time for an international Zarathushti referendum?
For the last 50 years, at the least, a debate is raging within our Community, between The orthodox and the reformist lobbies, leading to nowhere. By B.T. DASTUR / The Bombay Samachar Zoroastrianism, Reforms & Referendum The bad blood between the two lobbies reached its peak at the time of the last BPP Elections in [...]
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