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Intermarry and be damned 2 Parsi women challenge bias

India’s Parsis are so respected because they alone have never been involved in communal skirmishes. Ironic then that our own ugly wars are hurtling us to our doom. The most divisive issue is intermarriage, now a malignant obsession. One radical change could robustly alter our critical demography: 57,000, and shrinking by the day. But what… Continue reading Intermarry and be damned 2 Parsi women challenge bias

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Parsi Dairy Farm: Mumbai’s Gold Standard in Milk & Milk-Based Products

I was at a modern food superstore in Bandra, Mumbai’s swish suburb, the other day. I walked past rows of imported gourmet cheeses, pastas and meats when I suddenly spotted a group of blue coloured packs which looked as if they were cheerfully waving at me. A closer inspection showed that they were packs of… Continue reading Parsi Dairy Farm: Mumbai’s Gold Standard in Milk & Milk-Based Products

The little-known history of how Zoroastrian merchants helped create the old Silk Route

China’s designs to build a massive network of land and sea links connecting four continents have revived popular interest in the old Silk Route, whose success was in small part owed to Zoroastrian merchants carrying goods from China across Central Asia and, often, all the way to Europe. Article by Anvar Alikhan |Scroll A recent… Continue reading The little-known history of how Zoroastrian merchants helped create the old Silk Route

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In Conversation With Darius Chinoy, Director-JETRO and Actor, Screenwriter/Director

Darius Chinoy works as a Director with Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) , New Delhi and manages the ‘Invest Japan’ program and communications for CHief Director General and agency in India with the Government of India. Darius follows an alternate career in Directing/Screenwriting in English and Hindi. He has done a few TV commercials and… Continue reading In Conversation With Darius Chinoy, Director-JETRO and Actor, Screenwriter/Director

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A Year’s Membership To J N Petit Library in Fort Mumbai Only Costs INR 1,000

Eminent Parsi historian and our dear friend Marzban Giara informs us that the J. N. Petit Library Fort was started in 1895 and not 1856 (as stated in the article below) in memory of Jamsetjee Nusserwanji Petit who died at young age of 32. If you’re a book-lover and haven’t yet set foot inside SoBo’s… Continue reading A Year’s Membership To J N Petit Library in Fort Mumbai Only Costs INR 1,000

Vada Dasturji Khurshed K Dastoor & Lord Karan F Bilimoria on board INS Tarkash launch HMS Trincomalee Bicentenary

Vada Dasturji Khurshed K Dastoor, High Priest of Iranshah Atash Behram, Udvada, ZTFE patron Lord Karan F Bilimoria CBE DL and ZTFE President Malcolm M Deboo led the the ZTFE delegation on board the Indian Navy Ship Tarkash, for the launch of the bicentenary commemorations of HMS Trincomalee and Make in India, on Tuesday 9th… Continue reading Vada Dasturji Khurshed K Dastoor & Lord Karan F Bilimoria on board INS Tarkash launch HMS Trincomalee Bicentenary

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