The world premiere from Chicago-based playwright Ike Holter begins previews June 2. Article by Adam Hetrick | Playbill Behzad Dabu (How to Get Away with Murder), Linda Libby (Ether Dome), and Shannon Matesky (The March) have been cast in the La Jolla Playhouse world premiere of Ike Holter’s Put Your House in Order. Holter turns… Continue reading How to Get Away With Murder’s Behzad Dabu to Star in Put Your House in Order at La Jolla Playhouse
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The dancer’s guide to hitchhiking: Astad Deboo
Celebrated Indian contemporary dancer and choreographer Astad Deboo on his 50-year career, hitchhiking across the world and more Article by Samira Sood | CNN Traveller Astad Deboo in flow. Photo: Amit Kumar Astad Deboo is no stranger to accolades: from a Sangeet Natak Akademi award to a Padma Shri, he has them all. But perhaps… Continue reading The dancer’s guide to hitchhiking: Astad Deboo
Toxy Cowasjee Steps Down as Editor of Hamazor After 17 years
Earlier this year Toxy Cowasjee, the editor of the Hamazor magazine reached out to me asking if I would cover a local NYC event for her to go in the next issue of Hamazor. I, of course said yes. You can’t say no to Toxy. Little did I realize that this article would be in… Continue reading Toxy Cowasjee Steps Down as Editor of Hamazor After 17 years
Batasas and the Parsi Bakery: Not Just Dhansak Ep 02 Featuring Cyrus Dotiwala
On this episode, Bawi Bride Perzen Patel is in conversation with the sixth generation owner of the very famous Dotivala Bakery in Surat, Cyrus Dotivala. Cyrus shares the story of how bread traveled from Dutch settlers to Parsis and how the famous Parsi Batasas and Nankhatai were invented. Together they talk about multi-generational businesses and… Continue reading Batasas and the Parsi Bakery: Not Just Dhansak Ep 02 Featuring Cyrus Dotiwala
A Bid to Maintain One of the World’s Oldest Culinary Traditions
For the ever dwindling Parsi community of western India, food is both pleasure and heritage — and a secret language in danger of dying out. TO TASTE DHANSAK at the Ripon Club in Mumbai — whose version of the slow-cooked, densely spiced lentil, vegetable and meat stew is one of the city’s greatest pleasures —… Continue reading A Bid to Maintain One of the World’s Oldest Culinary Traditions
Chairman, trustees in battle over BPP’s place in all-India Parsi body
Yazdi Desai’s idea of keeping BPP out of the Federation of Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India’s affairs led to a heated exchange of words between trustees Noshir Dadrawala and Yazdi Desai With the tension between the trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) growing over the past couple of months, an ‘extraordinary general meeting’ of… Continue reading Chairman, trustees in battle over BPP’s place in all-India Parsi body
Irani Cafes: A fading love story
The little culinary revolution that Mumbai’s tiny Iranian diaspora began a 100 years ago is now quickly dwindling “Agar teer e aalambejombad be jay. Na barradragi, gar nakhwaahadkhodaay (Even if the world shoots all its arrows at you, not even a vein will be pierced if God protects you),” gushes 97-year-old Aqa Boman Kohinoor, digging… Continue reading Irani Cafes: A fading love story
What is Parsi Food, Really: Not Just Dhansak Ep 01 Featuring Kurush Dalal
On the first episode of our Parsi food show, Not Just Dhansak, our host Perzen Patel, popularly known as the Bawi Bride, is in conversation with archaeologist and food historian, Kurush Dalal. When he is not digging and teaching, Kurush runs a boutique catering company, Katy’s Kitchen. They reminisce about their childhood food memories and… Continue reading What is Parsi Food, Really: Not Just Dhansak Ep 01 Featuring Kurush Dalal
The opium trader who became one of India’s richest men
On his fourth trip to China, Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy was captured by the French. It was the middle of the Napoleonic Wars and hostilities between the British and the French had carried over to the Indian Ocean. Jejeebhoy was on a British ship called the Brunswick when, off the coast of Point de Galle in present-day… Continue reading The opium trader who became one of India’s richest men
