Today is the Vohuxshathra Gatha, the fourth Gatha day of this year’s muktad. And in the 2025 Everyday Parsi series we...
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Everyday Parsi: Roshan Rivetna
Today is the Spentamainyu Gatha, the third Gatha day of this year’s muktad. And in the 2025 Everyday Parsi series we...
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. ...
WZO helps Parsis and others grow
Mumbai, Dec. 7: The Zoroastrian community which is conspicuous by its small size and its enormous contribution to the country came together on Wednesday evening to celebrate 25 years of the World...
Parsis know how to party
By Anish Trivedi I first met Parvez in my investment banking days. Getting a grip on different sectors in the economy. At that time Parvez was a man who could count his chickens before they hatched,...
Why offer space to Ismat Chughtai?
Milli Gazette - India ... best whether she died as a Muslim) complimenting the facts that Ismat Chugai's daughter is married to a Hindu, another daughter is married to a Parsee and her ...
Veeranis more popular than the Batliwallas
agencyfaqs.com - New Delhi,India ... She says, "'Batliwala: House No. 43' could not perform as per expectations because it featured a Parsi family, which didn't quite have national appeal. ...
Ratan Tata felicitated at United Nations
On December 05, 2005, Ratan Tata was awarded the "Quality of Life Award" at the United Nations in New York. AU's College of Human Sciences launched the International Quality of Life Awards as an...
Labour of love
This book has a little bit for everybody. City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore, edited by Bapsi Sidhwa, Penguin, Rs.395. AN anthology is like a Jack of all Trades -- it has a little bit for...
A film man’s life without the gossip!
Hindu - Chennai,India ... We get fascinating accounts of the upper middleclass Parsi life in the country and, excellent pen portraits of some of the author's favourite persons, grandpa ...
Author plans holiday home for street kids
Delhi Newsline - Delhi,India New Delhi, November 30: As a seven-year-old Indian migrant in London, Zerbanoo would sell tiny flags outside a hotel run by her Parsi parents. ...
Adopted daughter repays with murder
Mid-Day Mumbai - Bombay,India On Wednesday afternoon, the last evidence in the infamous murder case of senior citizen Adi Cursetjee was examined at the sessions court. Cursetjee's close friend and...
Parsi Boy In A Red T-Shirt
So they were not Muslims. That little boy who loved cricket and who vanished in that post-Godhra carnage, belonging to a perfectly hardworking, reasonably honest middle class locality, was not a...
Proudly Indian
Hindu Business Line - India ... reputation and all relatives and friends were told to take care of me!" Almost half his salary went towards the PG accommodation he had with a Parsi family in ...
Jaipal Reddy promises co-prod treaties with Italy, UK
Screen India - India ... Focussing on a Parsi family trapped in strife-torn Gujarat where their 10-year-old-son comes up missing, the film stars Naseeruddin Shah, Sarika and Emmy award ...
Mandirs for devotees or tourists?
Organiser - New Delhi,India ... Even Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, personally a very devout Hindu, was denied entry to the Puri temple because she married a Parsi and thereby shared that ...
Capturing the magic
Pune Newsline - Pune,India ... twin sons. This Parsi lady made history when when she was elected as the first non-white woman Liberal councilor in 1982. The founder ...
Meal Ticket
Pune Newsline - Pune,India ... There is more for all those who dote on the traditional Parsi specialities like Salli marghi, Tarapori rawa fry, Bhatia-nu-ghosh and Dhandal Patio. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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,...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Whirlwind Of Spices
feBusiness Traveller - Mumbay,India ... Farm Lamb Chops with Sweet & Sour Pear Chutney, Curry Leaf Potatoes, and Jackfruit Biryani; Turkey Kaa Keema with Mint and Spinach and Parsi Halibut "Paatra ...