Parsi Khabar is a portal of information about Parsis and Zoroastrians, appearing on the world wide web everyday.
The main objective of the site is to inform the public about news articles referencing Parsis. From time to time, there shall be opinions, commentaries, and announcements.
If you would like to contribute to any of this or involve yourself in any other manner, please get in touch with us via the Contact Us page.
This is a joint endeavor and we are based in both Bombay, India and New York USA.
Our permanent team of editors includes
:+: Arzan Sam Wadia
Arzan Sam Wadia grew up in Bombay, India and moved to New York City to pursue his Masters in Urban Design and Architecture. He currently runs an architecture and a technology practice in the city. Arzan currently serves as the President of the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America. FEZANA represents 27 member associations, 14 small groups and over 25,000 Zoroastrians across USA and Canada.
Arzan is the Program Director of the Zoroastrian Return To Roots Program (RTR), an initiative he has been involved with since its beginning in 2013. He also served multiple terms on the Board of the Zoroastrian Association of Greater New York (ZAGNY) and was integrally involved in all stages of design and building of the New York Dar-E-Mehr.
Arzan is the founding trustee of the Zarathushti Entrepreneurship Development Foundation (ZEDF) a joint venture set up by FEZANA & WZCC.
Arzan has been involved with organizing Congresses over the past decade, playing pivotal roles at the 12th North American Congress (NAZC 2012) in New York and the 7th World Zoroastrian Youth Congress in 2019 (7WZYC 2019). He has actively participated in various North American and World Congress as speaker and panelist. Currently in his capacity as FEZANA President, Arzan is the Co-Chair of the 12th World Zoroastrian Congress 2022 (12WZC2022) in New York City.
Arzan was part of the first World Zoroastrian Youth Leadership Forum (WZYLF) at the ASHA Center in the United Kingdom in 2018.
As the founding editor of Parsi Khabar, the world’s leading online news aggregator of all things Parsi, he has a deep understanding of the pulse of the community worldwide. As a lifelong member of India’s oldest boy scout group, the Sethna’s 18th West Bombay Scout Group (SSS), he credits a lot of his upbringing to the skills learnt as a scout. Riding his motorcycle to work most days is one of the simple thrills of his life
:+: Mehernaaz Shovir Irani
Mehernaaz is a practising lawyer in Mumbai, India. When not fighting legal battles for her clients in the courts of law, Mehernaaz is involved in the Girl Guiding movement. She participates in public forums on matters concerning the Parsi community and expresses strong opinion on the state of our community today. She is also passionate about all things yarn and crochets and knits much less than she would like. She aspires to become a designer of crochet things and generally carry forward the rich legacy of creativity within our family. However, her most important task remains taking care of our youngest and most precious editors, darling Ava & Zal who call Mehernaaz mumma.
:+: Ava Shovir Irani
Ava is eight years old, full of life, with the biggest smile known to mankind. She’s growing up to be an amazingly smart, intelligent and caring child. And now takes her elder sister role and duties very seriously :-) . She and her brother Zal play the most important role here on Parsi Khabar.They and their generation are the reason why we run this website. The hope is that when Ava grows up, she will have a ready reference about her identity, culture and ethnicity in a rapidly evolving global village.
:+: Zal Shovir Irani
We welcomed our newest team member the day he was born in July 2021. As a toddler Zal is just getting to know the world and is surrounded by all the love and happiness that his family can give him. He and his sister Ava and their generation will one day take on the mantle of continuing to preserve and nurture our faith, community, culture and ethnicity. The hope is that this website will play a small role in empowering them with the knowledge and history they need to lead us into the future.
From time to time we invite guest bloggers to write here on Parsi Khabar. If you know someone you would want to recommend, do drop us a line.
Hi,
You people are doing an awesome job here! And the information you passionately share everyday, day after day, is fascinating.
In Delhi we’ve just started our own little endeavor to share with the world a little bit about ourselves, and a whole lot about our community – so I know the amount of effort it takes!
How you do it, I don’t know… but keep it coming!
Best Wishes
Like to add to what Mehernosh said. Great job guys….cant imagine how u do it…given yr day jobs and all. May Ahura Mazda give u the strength to keep up this noble effort…. Thank you for a job really well done…everyday !
Hey, I wonder if anyone here is aware of Avesthagen, a company who’s CEO is a woman called Viloo Morawalla-Patel. They collected 9 testubes of blood from unassuming parsees promising information and reports about their predisposition to certain medical conditions. They also gave consent forms AFTER drawing the blood samples and completely duped the 4,000 odd parseesfrom whom they illegally collecd blood. This was sanctioned by the BPP. After numerous letters back and forth, and promises on a report/ investigation into the matter by Ms.Morawalla Patel, I am still to receive any word at all.
If anyoen else has gone through this horrid experience, then please get in touch with me.
PARSI KHABAR ZINDABAD.
Great communication system and very well organised for the benefit of the community and the world at large.
Keep up with the good work.
Thanks.
Love reading Parsi Khaber <3 keeps me updated to the Khaber of us Parsis all over the world. Parsi Khaber has posted many very interesting background articles on Zarathustra / The Parsis / Persepolis and and and …
Thank you for all these wonderful KHABER!
<3 Jeannie <3
As an Iranian origin, I’m facinate it with Parsis’ sucess, contribution in every phase of life around the world.
I was searching for Rashid Byramji who is India’s leading race horse trainer with over 3,000 wins to date and the only Indian to have won 11 derbys including 3 hat tricks. We talk about so many parsi achievements but there is nothing on him who is such a distinguished name in India’s racing circle or nothing about Dolly Byramji (Nazir) who was India’s first parsi swimmer to represent India at the Helsinki Olympics and a national swimming champion at 11. My mother too was India’s Western Indian Squash Champion for couple of years and a professional squash player later on but nothing of their achievements. Only the Godrej and Tatas and Wadias.
Parsis should be very skeptical of the Bahai’s: Despite the nice image they portray with their public relations advertising, they have been instrumental in helping to destroy the Zoroastrian community. They will try to convert your children even if you object. Most people don’t know about the real damage Bahai’s have done or what the movement is really about. Just a tip to Parsis.
ours is an upcming telugu news channel, we are interestd in planning a story on Vulchers – CCMB project. Is there any contact person in hyderabad so that we can discuss it further. regards Nagendra Sai, CVR news, Hyd
I am not a Parsi, but having grown in Bombay have a deep appreciation of their rich culture and contributions to the institutions in Bombay and India. I now live in the US. Thank for you for providing me a way to connect with the community from afar.