Shelley Subawalla sells Parsi spices not just for business, but to keep her community’s...
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Reviving Heritage Through Fashion: A New Zoroastrian-Inspired Brand by Xenia Byramji
In a bold and beautiful effort to bring Zoroastrian culture to the global fashion scene, Xenia Byramji, a designer...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sonia assures help for father-in-law’s grave
Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has assured financial support for the uplift of her father-in-law Feroze Jehangir Gandhi’s grave here. The work is expected to start within...
Thai crown princess denied entry into famous Hindu temple
Thai crown princess denied entry into famous Hindu temple in eastern India BHUBANESHWAR, India — Thailand’s Crown Princess Sirindhorn was denied entry to a famous Hindu temple in eastern...
The Parsi’s jagpot in Gujarat
They are as coveted as priceless jewels. And lording over this treasure chest is the dwindling Parsi community. When realty prices in cities are hitting the roof as land becomes increasingly scarce,...
A fine Balance: Theater
London’s Tamasha theatre will unveil its long anticipated adaptation of the Rohinton Mistry novel A Fine Balance in January next year. The highly acclaimed novel, which was published in 1995...
Indian faith based organisations commit co-operation for development
Over twenty organizations representing different faiths – including Art of Living, Brahmakumaris, Ramakrishna Mission, Sant Nirankari Mandal, Diocese of Agra and Church of North India,...
“Being Cyrus,”
As the director Homi Adajania, whose first film, “Being Cyrus,” is being released in December, put it: “After all, India is not just Bollywood and a Punjabi wedding.”...
Six yards of Style
“…Too many too mention. I collect sarees which are regarded as heirlooms like Parsi gharas, patolas, etc….” Read on at DNA
Indian clothes boutique in Lahore
“…stock of designer-wear by Manish Malhotra, Rohit Bal and Satya Paul; an exclusive range of handmade parsi gara saris, kashmiri kurtis, phulkari suits, lehngas with Swarovski crystals,...
Parsis decide to marry early
Indian Parsis decide to marry early to stem their declining population
K. F. Rustamji: I was Nehru’s shadow.
Book on police icon who protected a national icon released among distinguished gathering of policemen last evening.
Gujjus to the fore, again
Come November 25 and Sony’s Batliwala’s House No 43 has a new family moving into the famous address. A set of orthodox but flashy Gujaratis, the Kudkudiyas are all set to tickle your funny bone....
The Possibility Of An Island: Book Review
If you’re not familiar with the name, Michel Houellebecq is the French novelist, now living in Ireland, who invited the ire of Islamists with his novel Platform in 2001, and whose work is peppered...
Engaging his People – The Story of MKPB
‘Is he still a bachelor?’ This was Nari Rustomji remembering MKPB in June 1984 at the Shillong Club when I was introduced to him by a friend as somebody from Manipur. Nari Rustomji of the infamous...
Leaving a mark on the BSE
“…As a CA and MBA in Finance from Mumbai in 1984, it was quite a task to find a suitable match for Ms Deena A. Mehta, who went on to become the first and only woman president of the...
Fascist and Taliban Trends: SOLI LOQUIES
Fanaticism has escalated alarmingly. Freedom of expression is under siege. One cannot express heterodox opinions except on pain of legal penalties, persecution and social ostracism. Movie star...
The amazing story of Tata Motors’ success
The amazing story of Tata Motors’ success Kausik Datta and Prabodh Chandrasekhar | November 19, 2005 His table in the corner office on the first floor of Bombay House is full of papers, giving...
RTI celebrates 75 years
Going platinum Frilly frocks and flaky dal poris–RTI celebrates 75 years Parizaad Khan Mumbai, November 16: THE Sir Ratan Tata Institute supplied the snacks to my school canteen. On the pizza...
Couple ties the knot twice in a day
For the first time ever in The Bahamas, a couple tied the knot twice in one day! Bahamian and Indian cultures merged a few weeks ago in Nassau, when Darius Unwala exchanged vowes with Rashmi Prakash...
Amazing Parsees; A personal view
Pratik Bhandari writes on his blog I have always been fascinated by Parsi people, their loving demeanor, their lore, of how their ancestors landed on the coast of Gujrat and eventually got asylum...
Wind Towers of Yazd
A very traditional and interesting technology is making a comeback, in Iran and in the UK. Architects fascinated by Yazd’s wind towers An architect couple is working on a project on the use of...
Our own ‘ Sheikh Speare’
Indian Express – New Delhi,India … Khusro Kabrazi, who founded the Parsee Nataka Mandali in 1853, presented Rustom and Sohrab at the Grant Road Theatre (the only theatre in Mumbai those...
Iranians, Founders of the World Empire
They are unaware of the fact that Iran enjoys a 9,000-year-old civilization which, based on historical accounts and what historians believe, shines so brilliantly in the world that such false talks...
Zoroastrians mass graveyard: National monument
“The mass graveyard, in which the Zoroastrians laid the bodies of their lost ones in old days, was endowed to the cause. Therefore, it was taken by Zoroaster’s disciples as a sacred...
Encyclopedia of Iranian traditional art published
MehrNews.com – Tehran,Iran … s legendary animals, the gods and goddesses, motifs and designs in ancient Iran, and the era of Avesta (a collection of sacred Zoroastrian writings,...
Khajeh mountain, biggest unbaked mud architecture of Parthian era
Khajeh Mountain Complex, the biggest model of unbaked mud architecture remaining in Sistan area, is one of the most remarkable relics of the Parthian, Sassanid and Islamic eras. It is the only...
Waking up with Pheroza Godrej
Daily News & Analasys – Mumbai,India … Many books and papers followed but perhaps her crowning glory was co-editing “A Zoroastrian Tapestry – Art, Religion and...
Parsi Food in Jamshedpur
The Telegraph For those curious about Parsi food, here is the place that will quench the thirst for great food. Hormazd M. Mehta has been attending to the culinary quests of people for quite...
Bavarian Rhapsody
Zubin Mehta will enthrall audiences in New Delhi and Chennai next month Nitya Rao New Delhi, November 2: Classical music connoisseurs in the Capital are in for a special treat this winter. The word...
Death of Yazdgerd
Georgia Straight – Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada … in the seventh century. A Zoroastrian priest and a military commander come across their ruler’s body in a mill. His skull has...
Parsi Ingenuity
An airplane is flying over the United States at night. The pilot says “Ladies and Gentlemen, we have lost an engine, and need to lighten our load, we have dumped all excess fuel, but the plane...
Editor of Parsi weekly in trouble over bounced cheques
Afternoon Dispatch & Courier – Bombay,India Says creditor wants to extract more money than is due to him.. The Metropolitan Magistrate at the Ballard Pier Court, after hearing the bounced...
Chaos Paradox
… The temple is as tranquil as the market is chaotic, and at the Hanging Gardens she points out a low wall behind which the Parsee sect allow their dead to be … Continue reading at...
Tata’s: A gem among corporates
In today’s world of cut-throat competition, corporate ruthlessness, global economy and free markets, it is heartening to note that there are still a few companies which value “corporate...
Blog QUAKE Day
DesiPundit has sent out a “call to arms” to raise awareness about the recent quake in Kashmir. They are running a continuously updating sticky post on the various ways and means that...