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Parsi Legend Quoted in the World Bank 2023 World Development Report

The annual World Development Report, 2023 by the World Bank quotes a Parsi legend, points to human migration for several thousand years and advocates policy changes to deal with migrants and refugeesAboutMigration is a development challenge. About...
Remembering Sherna Gandhy

Remembering Sherna Gandhy

Bachi Karkaria writes about her friend Sherna Gandhy the legendary journalist and editor who passed into the ages on April 28 after a long battle with cancer.Of forgetting and  RememberingTwice...

Memoirs of a Parsi daughter: Book review |

Memoirs of a Parsi daughter: Book review |

THE STORY OF MY LIFEby Dosebai Cowasjee JessawallaSPEAKING TIGER ₹799; 344 pagesArticle by Shabnam Minwalla | India TodayIn 1842, Meheribai, a widow, enrolled her daughter in Mrs Ward's Seminary in...

Who was Muncherji Cowasji Murzban?

Who was Muncherji Cowasji Murzban?

The Esplanade area was still a blueprint when Muncherji Cowasji Murzban arrived in Bombay in 1863MUMBAI: The Esplanade area was still a blueprint when Muncherji Cowasji Murzban arrived in Bombay in...

Ba Humata Lecture Series: May 2023

Ba Humata Lecture Series: May 2023

The May 2023 Ba Humata Lecture is scheduled for Sunday May 7, 2023The month’s topic is: Life is an Expression of Our Deepest Realization… Yasna Ha 51.22 & Yenghe-HatamSpeakers:Ervad Rustom...

Monnock Parsee, Pendia Pattell & The British Flag

Monnock Parsee, Pendia Pattell & The British Flag

How an early version of UK’s national flag helped Bombay merchants grow their businessA pass for ‘Monnock Parsee’ and ‘Pendia Pattell’ sailing aboard the Tiger was issued at Fort Bombay carries an...

The Fire That Never Goes Out

The Fire That Never Goes Out

What can we learn about long-term thinking from millennia-old Zoroastrian fire rituals? By Richard Fisher | Long NowApr 13, 02023 At some point in the late fifth century, as the Western Roman empire...

Zoroastrian Museum in Kerman, Iran

Zoroastrian Museum in Kerman, Iran

Zoroastrians anthropological museum is located in Kerman province, Iran. The museum is comprised of different sections and each section deals with one of the customs of Zoroastrians.Article By...

Pastailo Pappo: How to unravel this cine mystery ?

Pastailo Pappo: How to unravel this cine mystery ?

The long history of the Parsi community in the city has another interesting page added to its chapters. The Film Heritage Foundation (FHF) recently recovered a lost 1951 film, Pastailo Pappo, from...

Ba Humata Lecture Series April 2023

Ba Humata Lecture Series April 2023

The April 2023 Ba Humata Lecture series shall be on the topic “ ME-NESS & WE-NESS IN CONSCIOUSNESS “Yasna Ha 51.22 & Yenghe-HatamSpeakers: Moobadyar Dr. Nooshin Jahangiri, MD (Iran...

Happy Jamshedi Navroz Mubarak 2023

Happy Jamshedi Navroz Mubarak 2023

Dear readers of Parsi KhabarWe wish you a very Happy Jamshedi Navroz. May this day and the new year usher in happiness, peace, health, and prosperity for all mankind. Below is the Haft Seen table...

Alexander the ‘Accursed’ and Zoroastrianism

Alexander the ‘Accursed’ and Zoroastrianism

In his epic the Shahnamah (Book of Kings), the poet Firdawsi (940–1019 or 1025) vividly describes how Alexander (Iskandar/Sikandar) came upon the Persian emperor Darius (Dara) as he fled north after...

Ba Humata Lecture Series March 2023

Ba Humata Lecture Series March 2023

The March 2023 Ba Humata Lecture will be on the topic “LIFE IS FOR-GIVING AND FORGIVING Ushtavaiti  Gatha Yasna Ha 43.1”SpeakersErvad Poras T. Balsara (United States)Ervad Farhan Panthaki...

Book Launch: WHO WANTS TO MARRY KAI JUICEWALLA

Book Launch: WHO WANTS TO MARRY KAI JUICEWALLA

This Valentine month author, former flight attendant and columnist, Kainaz Jussawalla’s fun, crazy and action packed memoir “ Who wants to marry Kai Juicewalla?”( one life, many loves, endless...

Chaos and Nuisance Reign Outside JJ Agiary in Pune

Chaos and Nuisance Reign Outside JJ Agiary in Pune

Devout Parsis visiting the Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Agiary on Dastur Meher Road in the Pune Camp area have been sending up a silent prayer for freedom from the chaos prevailing outside their sacred...

Zan Zendegi Azadi: A Zoroastrian legacy

Zan Zendegi Azadi: A Zoroastrian legacy

The slogan of “Zan Zendegi Azadi” meaning women, life and freedom is being raised aloud by protestors in Islamic Republic of Iran, after Mahsa Amini, a 22 year old Iranian Kurd was pronounced dead...

The champion hotelier

The champion hotelier

Byram D Avari will be remembered for his business acumen, love of sailing and philanthropy Article here Byram D Avari, who passed away in Karachi on January 22 at the age of 81, was more than a...

Byram Dinshawji Avari Passes Away

Byram Dinshawji Avari Passes Away

The Parsi community of Karachi and Pakistan lost one of its great stalwarts on January 22nd, with the passing away of Byram D. Avari. Parsi Khabar offers its deepest condolences to the Avari family...