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Kebab Cuisine
HardNews Magazine – New Delhi,India … Parsi cuisine, which was highly influenced by Persian cuisine, also made its contributions, and kebabs had their distinctive place in this new cuisine. …
Read more →Screen test
Indian Express – New Delhi,India A film on a Parsi boy who went missing during the Gujarat riots won much acclaim at IFFI Goa. His family hopes it will help trace him. …
Read more →Screen test
Indian Express – New Delhi,India A film on a Parsi boy who went missing during the Gujarat riots won much acclaim at IFFI Goa. His family hopes it will help trace him. …
Read more →Don’t mug the lord chief justice
Guardian Unlimited – UK … Arthur is Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes; George Edalji, a Parsee, is a quiet Birmingham solicitor who, in 1903, was found guilty of maiming a horse …
Read more →The hotel that was
The Statesman – Kolkata,India … it. “In the Thirties the hotel was run by three directors, including a Parsee gentleman, HR Billimoria who loved horse racing. …
Read more →Jagannath Temple Ponders Entrance Policy
Similarly, many sevakas of Jagannatha temple belonging to traditional sevaka families have non-Hindu or lower caste origin, such as the Parsi pujaris (still worshiping the Deity of Satya Narayana in Urdu language within the temple) and…. Continue reading at VNN
Read more →Zubin Mehta: Lightning conductor
At almost 70, the Indian maestro Zubin Mehta is still wowing audiences and dividing critics across the globe. Sholto Byrnes meets him As I wait outside Zubin Mehta’s office, Sir Peter Jonas, formerly the general director of the ENO and now Mehta’s colleague at the Bavarian State Opera, tells me the maestro can still stand [...]
Read more →PARZIANA Film Screening
Isabelle Huppert, Ismail Merchant’s films screened in Retro Webindia123 – India … The Naseeruddin Shah-Sarika starrer ”Parzania” about the travails of a Parsi family on the backdrop of the Gujarat riots drew large crowds in INOX screen II. … Film on Godhra leads to fracas at IFFI Outlook – New Delhi,India … Inspired by the [...]
Read more →Trees hacked in Parsi colony
Mumbai, November 28: DADAR Parsi Colony, one of the few residential areas in Mumbai that still enjoys the shade of hundreds of trees, got a taste on Monday of construction frenzy. Three trees were hacked in the upper middle-class locality in the last two weeks. While an Asoka tree on Plot 795, Jame Jamshed Road, [...]
Read more →Zoroastrian Lawmaker faces slander charges
AKI – Rome,Italy … The faith was founded in about 600 BC by the Persian prophet Zarathustra, who believed he had seen visions of a God he called Ahura Mazda. …
Read more →Kiss seals a union in an ancient faith
By Linda Morris November 29, 2005 THE bride wore a delicate sari made of white Indian silk, the groom the ceremonial dress of the dagli or overcoat, also in white. As per the rites of their ancient religion, one of Australia’s smallest, a white sheet, a curtain of separation, hung between them as they sat [...]
Read more →Ex-CU Prof. Takes Lit Hum to Harvard
Columbia Daily Spectator – New York City,NY,USA … Aristophanes’ Lysistrata has been replaced with The Frogs, and the Bhagavad-Gita and The Gathas of Zarathustra appear halfway through the course, adding the …
Read more →The Buddhas the Taliban destroyed
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan … Two great Parsi women have lived in Pakistan. … Roshan’s Parsi parents perhaps never thought that they were naming her after the bigger Buddha of Bamiyan. …
Read more →Taj Mahal Hotel
Mirror.co.uk – UK … Ironically, the hotel is not a legacy of the British Raj at all – it was built in 1903 by a Parsi Indian industrialist, JN Tata, apparently miffed because he …
Read more →My kind of town
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom … I window-shop on Fashion Street, explore the Jewish and Parsee history pealing from the fa?ades of Dhobi Talao, circumnavigate the narrow Catholic by-lanes of …
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