On a typical-looking stretch of southwest Houston — down the street from Kwik Kar Lube and Storage Choice, across from a privacy fence hiding cookie-cutter McMansions — a Zoroastrian fire temple opened last week: a brand-new, sparkling-white place where priests from one of the world’s oldest religions tend a holy flame. By Lisa Gray, www.houstonchronicle.com… Continue reading Zoroastrian ‘fire temple’ opens in Houston
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It’s There To Stay: Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal On The Vagina Monologues
“Let’s just start with the word “vagina.” It sounds like an infection at best, maybe a medical instrument: “Hurry nurse, bring me the vagina.” “Vagina.” “Vagina.” Doesn’t matter how many times you say it, it never sounds like a word you want to say. It’s a totally ridiculous, completely unsexy word. If you use it… Continue reading It’s There To Stay: Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal On The Vagina Monologues
The Forever Bike by Adil Jal Darukhanawala: Book review
This near-300-page volume is an encyclopaedic account of Ideal Jawa and Yezdi’s history and is overflowing with insights. Book reviewed by Ruman Devmane | Autocar India That The Forever Bike makes you huff, puff and grunt every time you attempt to lift it off the coffee table, is itself an exciting premise for anybody with… Continue reading The Forever Bike by Adil Jal Darukhanawala: Book review
Hong Kong-based Parsi couple renew pledge to donate $22.5 mn to hospital at Breach Candy
A Hong Kong-based Parsi tycoon and his wife on Saturday renewed their pledge to donate $22.5 million (Rs 160 crore) to the financially-ailing Parsi General Hospital (PGH) at Breach Candy in south Mumbai. The couple, Jal and Pervin Shroff, had earlier set a March 31 deadline to resolve the fierce opposition by some Parsi activists… Continue reading Hong Kong-based Parsi couple renew pledge to donate $22.5 mn to hospital at Breach Candy
Ban on Parsi newsletter shows an old press tradition
The ban on the distribution of the newspaper in community housing estates, which houses nearly 5,500 families, was ordered by the BPP’s chairperson Yazdi Desai Last week, HT had reported that a newsletter, which was critical of the management of the Bombay Punchayet (BPP) – the largest Parsi-Zoroastrian representative body – was banned from some… Continue reading Ban on Parsi newsletter shows an old press tradition
Houston Inaugurates The Bhandara Atash Kadeh
Jamshedi Navroze 2019 and the subsequent days shall long remain etched in the memory of the hundreds of Zarathushtis who gathered here to witness the inauguration of North America’s latest place of Zoroastrian worship. What makes this place an Atash Kadeh and a first in many a ways is that it designed to have a… Continue reading Houston Inaugurates The Bhandara Atash Kadeh
The Story of Sir Hormusjee N Mody and Hong Kong University
Our dear friend and the resident dasturji of the Hong Kong Anjuman Ervad Homyar Nasirabadwala speaks about the amazing contribution of Sir Hormusjee N Mody, a distinguished Parsi businessman and a renowned philanthropist and benefactor. Sir Hormusjee N Mody made a major donation towards the founding of HKU. Without his generosity, the University’s existence may… Continue reading The Story of Sir Hormusjee N Mody and Hong Kong University
Celebrating the Persian New Year in Mumbai
Every year in the third week of March, Manijeh Irani, 64, makes a tour of the markets of her adopted city, Mumbai—grocery stores, stalls of fresh and dried fruit, sweet shops, even an aquarium—for goods to adorn her festive table for Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Article by Chandrahas Choudhury | Wall Street Journal Nowruz… Continue reading Celebrating the Persian New Year in Mumbai
A play in Mumbai on Parsis called Geedra of Thrones
A play that imagines a world with no Parsis reminds us why we need them more than ever There are people outside of Mumbai, who think Parsis are a figment of our imagination. “You can’t blame them,” says theatre director Meherzad Patel. “Sixty thousand is literally the crowd in this area. But, we are so… Continue reading A play in Mumbai on Parsis called Geedra of Thrones
