Below is the video recording of the function to inaugurate the F D Alpaiwala Museum after the full restoration.
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F D Alpaiwalla Museum Opens after Restoration
The Parsi community has reason to be pleased as FD Alpaiwalla Museum near Hughes Road opened after a spell of...
Life without Parsis would be like bun without maska
And for the last Saturday before Parsi New Year, the fifth without Busybee, a few stray thoughts. by Farzana Contractor | Saturday, March 18, 2006 11:11:0 IST Without doubt, life without Parsis...
Humata Hukhta Hvarashta strikes a century
The only serial based on Zoroastrian religion and culture, completed 100 episodes recently Funded only by donations, Humata Hukhta Hvarashta — the only serial on air based on Zoroastrian religion —...
Joy Ride
As the Parsi couple in their jalopy who often gave a lift to the troubled heroine, Dinesh Hingoo and Piloo Wadia immortalized the quintessential Parsi eccentricity on-screen. Piloo in her...
New Things Coming to Parsi Khabar
The blog has completed six months and now is heading in a new direction. As the blog evolves, we thank all the people who have taken the time and effort to send us their suggestions and criticism...
Bombay’s Opium Past
... The bungalows of Malabar and Cumbala Hills, of Breach Candy and Walkeshwar were mostly Parsi-owned and unexceptionally lent out to Europeans. ... Read On...
The Magi of the East
‘the Magi’. Now, historically, the magi were well known as astronomers, interpreters of omens and dreams, even kingmakers whose duties included electing the king. But more importantly, they were the...
Naoroji and Jinnah
....Parsi leader Dadabhai Naoroji, a leading Indian nationalist, ran for the English Parliament, Jinnah and other Indian students worked day and night for him. Their efforts were crowned with...
Eagle Brigade of Dadar Parsi Colony
.....group comprises 12 to 14 boys, some his age, some older, and they form the Eagle Brigade of Dadar Parsi Colony. Their task is to patrol the Five Gardens area, keeping an eye out for any...
Commemoration of Zoroaster held in Tehran
Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - ©2005 IranMania.com LONDON, December 27 (IranMania) - Zoroastrian Association in Tehran held a ceremony in commemoration of Prophet Zarathustra (Zoroaster) in Tehran on...
Pilgrim Painter: Jehangir Sabawala
With his impeccable social graces, his dandy deportment and his luminous painterly style a la Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956), Jehangir Sabavala, 83, hovers between the problematic and the passe. Ever...
..Till the cows come home
“The Parsi baba is an animal saviour, the police do not even listen to us.” Read on
Challenge of religious conversion and Hindu response
Thus, when the Dwarka Mutt Shankaracharya gave the arriving Parsi refugees in Sanjaan [Kutch coast] a five-point requirement for settling in the country, they readily accepted and have not deviated...
The first female to smooch Dev Anand onscreen
The only thing that people are talking about Dev Anand's latest release Mr. Prime Minister is his onscreen smooch with an NRI actress in the film. And while Dev Anand is known for the skin-show in...
Dhansak at the Tea Center
Occasionally, there is mutton dhansak, supplied by a Parsi lady, it is known as Mrs. Cooper's dhansak. I have not tried it yet, when I do, I will let you know. Read On...
Boomla: The Parsi Bombil
My thali had two bombils (Bombay ducks), crisp fried. Not as crisp as Gajali's, perhaps, which are like biscuits, but still crisp. What they do is slit the fish and remove the single bone, unlike in...
Valley’s first East Indian restaurant keeping tables full
One week’s menu featured the “Melting Pot of Gujarat,” focusing on India’s northwest coast. The four entree selections included Parsi Chicken with Organic Turkish Apricots, Sarka Dhhal (a red lentil...
Pravasi award winners
Rusy M. Shroff is managing director of Ruttonjee Estates Continuation Limited, a company admired for its integrity in business. He was appointed a member of the Most Excellent Order of the British...
Plans to woo Parsi Students
CONCERNED over the number of Parsi students leaving the country to pursue higher studies abroad, the Ministry of Social Justice and ... Read on here technorati tags: parsi, study
Vulture species threatened
Namibian - Windhoek,Namibia ... Followers of the minority Parsi faith depend on vultures for disposal of their corpses, considering the burial or burning of human remains to defile the ......
The idea of Dimple’s character
The idea of Dimple’s character is to annoy the audience and she ... IndiaFM - Bombay,India ... The backdrop of this movie seems Parsi. Is it a Parsi movie? It’s not at all a parsi movie....
Curry boss in bid to save India’s vultures
[email protected] 15 March 2006 THE boss of an Archway curry house is helping spice up a new campaign to save India's vultures from extinction. Cyrus Todiwala, who owns The Parsee, in Highgate...
Agiaries will go high-tech
'Parsi Resource Group' (PRG) aims to strengthen pillars of Parsi community - its Agiaries, priests and youth.. Jimmy Mistry, an architect by profession and owner of Della Tecnica, has launched...
Zoroastrians use Internet dating to rescue religion
Zoroastrians use Internet dating to rescue religion MUMBAI, India -- After trying for four years to have a baby, Khorshed Bulsara called on her fellow Zoroastrians for help. She tapped into a new...
Indian Cowboy
Throughout Indian Cowboy, performer and playwright Zaraawar Mistry asks us to "connect the dots" of his narrator's life. Yet the dots don't necessarily add up in this premiere production at Mixed...
Dadabhai Naoroji on British currency notes
The image of Dadabhai Naoroji, the first ever Asian MP to enter the House of Commons in 1892, may soon be printed on British currency notes, if the recommendation of an influential Labour Party...
Gender, Race, and Spectatorship in Early Indian Cinema
These are the choice of men to play women's parts, and the use of European or 'white' actresses posing as Indian. Both these masquerades can be located in prior theatrical traditions of western...
Old pacemakers win hearts
Most families at the rally had cars that had been in the family for years, like AR Dadachanji, a Parsi priest, who took his family for a spin in their 1939 Morris-8. "It's from the same year that I...
Kurshetji murder puts spotlight on Parsis
The Adi Kurshetji murder case of May 2003, which culminated in the conviction of the accused on Friday, has exposed the soft underbelly of the Parsi community. With an increasing number of aging...
The Truth About Secret Societies
Parsi (Persian Zoroastrianism) influence is also seen in the Kusti ritual where each day they would tie a sacred cord around their waist. The fact that the Templars were accused of holding a ritual...
“Farsi” or “Persian” ?
"Farsi" or "Persian"?: Persian (Iranian) people in the English-speaking countries are the only community who use two different terms to refer to their language, "Farsi" and "Persian." This behavior...
Love, death and adjectives in Mumbai
Two for one, three for two: no noun without an adjective, never a single adjective where two or more will do. Silence is "utter", hatred "raw and naked", puddles "brown, murky and stagnant". The...
The Space Between Us;
A new novel by Thrity Umrigar; WHEN was it that you last thought of your household help as human? More importantly in a crunch who would you trust -- the help or your own family? Sera Dubash, a...
Originality is my forte
He is 34 and says that originality is his forte. Homi Adajania's debut feature film, Being Cyrus (English), hits theatres soon. "The story was rejected by publishers but I thought of making a film...
Cursetjee’s Rs 35-cr property has no heir
Two weeks after the suicide of 73-year-old Adi Cursetjee's adopted daughter Geeta Soni (35), no one knows who will inherit Cursetjee's Rs 35 crore wealth. Legally, though, the property should end up...
Minoo Pirojshah ‘Dada’ Mistri : Rock solid architect…
Rock solid architect of Teen Talwar leaves this earth KARACHI: Karachi has many landmarks, but none stands out more in the popular imagination as Clifton's Teen Talwar. The Three Swords, as their...
Boman’s secular choices of roles!
Boman's secular choices of roles! Of late probably there is one actor who has been very secular in his choice of roles. He has played a catholic in Home Delivery. He plays a Parsi in Being Cyrus. He...
India through her eyes
At 92, India's first and most famous woman photojournalist, remains as active as ever. HOMAI VYARAWALLA, 92, seems fuelled by some benign supernatural energy. She rustles up gourmet chicken and...
Parsi History: Objective documentation or hagiography?
Enduring Legacy: Parsis of the 20th Century Edited and published by Nawaz B. Mody 4 volumes Pages: 1,168 In my early years at school, I was frequently embarrassed by the clannish appeals of my Parsi...
Pleasure palace
... Its walls have seen so much, heard so much, kept so many secrets, shared so many memories - built in 1903 by the Parsi industrialist Jamsetji Tata (his Tata ... Read on...
Going, going, gone?
Only four of these rare trees, popularly known as branching palms, remain in the city. They are found in an open plot between buildings A and B at Godrej Baug in Hanging Gardens. But they may cease...
For Iranians, It’s Time To Leave Islam?
One wonders how many intelligent people in Iran, or among the Iranians in intelligent exile, wish that Islam had never arrived, that "gift" from far more primitive people, the gift that for the...
A Busy Locality, A brutal death
Residents of Kakad Estate at Worli, where 73-year-old Adi Kurshetji was murdered in May 2003, on Friday recalled the stormy years when the old Parsi gent and the woman held guilty of his murder...
Woman jumps to death in Court premises
Geeta Soni, who conspired to kill her 72-year-old foster father Adi Kurshedji along with her husband and mother, broke down on hearing the verdict. When she was being taken to jail from the court,...
Sooni Taraporewala reminisces about the Oscars
Sooni Taraporewala, prolific screen writer and photographer, writes about the time SALAAM BOMBAY was nominated for the Oscars. This was in the days before the media explosion in India, so nobody was...
Intermarry Me
Like other aspects of globalization, social integration threatens cultural uniqueness. And Jews aren't the only ones sounding the alarm. Among Parsis living in the West, intermarriage rates are...
Going with the flow
"Very risque," says our tour guide, Jasmine Kotval. She's a Parsee, a follower of Zoroastrianism that claims to be the world's oldest religion, having originated in Persia (contemporary Iran) 3500...
Why was land worth Rs 147 cr sold off for
Surat, February 14: A huge piece of land measuring 2.06 lakh square metres sold for just Rs 3 crore when its market value is Rs 147 crore? The issue has become a bone of contention among Parsis in...
Another one bites the dust
Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India ... The fact that Maleika comes from a Hindu family and Zayed is the son of an Irani Muslim father and a Parsi mother made no difference in a family that has a ...
‘Being Cyrus’ director to film Vikas Swaroop’s novel
Mumbai Mirror - India The dark comedy, about a Parsi family whose routine is interrupted by the arrival of a young man called Cyrus (Saif Ali Khan), proceeds to reveal the dark ...
voice over
Screen India - India ... poor. One such upcoming Parsi actor, who initially struggled, was Kurush Deboo, who was cast as Dr. Rustom Pavri, in Munnabhai MBBS. ...