Globally, the Parsi community is shrinking so fast from an ever- declining birth rate that India is now campaigning for Parsis to make childbearing a duty. One such campaign advertisement earlier this year went: “Be responsible. Don’t wear a condom tonight. Our numbers dwindle… Which is why, if you’re married, maybe you should think about… Continue reading The Parsi community is shrinking but not in Singapore
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A Mistri gift to A Singapore Hospital
In the third instalment of a five-part series on Singapore’s oldest communities, The Straits Times looks at the warm, laughter-loving Parsis. Here, Noshir Mistri explains why his philanthropist uncle Navroji Mistri, who died in 1953 , left most of his fortune to the needy Article by Cheong Suk-Wai | straitstimes.com Mr Noshir Mistri, seen here… Continue reading A Mistri gift to A Singapore Hospital
Challenges of being Parsi in a mixed marriage
At 20, India-born Dilnawaz Zaveri nee Bharucha was gasping to see the world. The daughter of a retired engineering company manager and a doctor, she was looking for a ticket out of India. Now 46, she recalls: “My mother wanted me to be a doctor, but I wanted to do something that was not academic.”… Continue reading Challenges of being Parsi in a mixed marriage
Vote With Care 02: Parsis For Harmony
With the impending Parsi Punchayet elections….here is advertising guru Sam Balsara’s take. Spot on ! Click image to see enlarged copy.
Kemas Dara Wadia: Know Your Candidate
The upcoming elections for the position of Trustees of the Bombay Parsi Panchayat are nearly upon us. At Parsi Khabar we are hoping to provide an unbiased platform to the candidates to put forth their thoughts, ideas and a little bit about themselves so that the discerning voter can make up their mind and exercise… Continue reading Kemas Dara Wadia: Know Your Candidate
India’s Parsis search for new funeral arrangements
India’s Parsis search for new funeral arrangements as there are not enough vultures to dispose of bodies by Leila Nathoo | Independent UK Katy Gundevia spent her final days in an apartment in one of Mumbai’s designated Parsi colonies, a few hundred yards away from the cavernous, circular wells where her community traditionally disposes of… Continue reading India’s Parsis search for new funeral arrangements
Vote With Care 01: Parsis For Harmony
With the impending Parsi Punchayet elections….here is advertising guru Sam Balsara’s take. Spot on ! Click image to see enlarged copy.
There’s something about Parsis
Hindi films that churn the box-office mill have never been known to be kind to the diversity of the country’s culture. Without losing much sweat you will find the money-minting Gujarati, the loud-mouthed Punjabi, the bookish Bengali, the drunken Christian, the nasal accented ‘south Indian’, the Nepalese ‘bahadur’. Article by Usri Basistha | Tehelka And… Continue reading There’s something about Parsis
Heroes forgotten: Searching for the Dinshaws of Karachi
This is the story of a Parsi father and his son; their services for the city of Karachi long forgotten by the non-Parsi community of the city or the country. The father was Edulji Dinshaw, and the son Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw. The city today has hospitals, educational institutes and residential colonies that are products of… Continue reading Heroes forgotten: Searching for the Dinshaws of Karachi
