Colonial India condemned Indians as a people without history, often quoting John Stuart Mill who argued that for “rude nations”, like India, “fable stands in place of fact” and “the times over which memory has any influence are rejected, and the imagination riots in those in which it is unrestricted”. By Inidra Chowdhury | Indian… Continue reading The Empty House: Jehangir and Meherbai Bhabha’s “Meherangir”
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A Treasure Chest For An Opera House
Jamshed Bhabha’s NCPA will remain on song thanks to a generous endowment. Until a few years ago, at most concerts held at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Mumbai, two plum seats were sacrosanct. A few minutes before the curtains went up, a diminutive man would take his place in that seat… Continue reading A Treasure Chest For An Opera House
Bombay Parsi Punchayet Halts Coversion of Tehmulji Lying-In Hospital to Medicine Centre
Plans to convert the defunct Parsi Lying-In Hospital in Fort into a super-specialty orthopaedic and sports medicine centre has been rejected by the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), the lease-holder of the century-old property. By Manoj Nair | DNA India In March, the hospital’s managing committee had signed a memorandum with Krimson Healthcare, a health services… Continue reading Bombay Parsi Punchayet Halts Coversion of Tehmulji Lying-In Hospital to Medicine Centre
Parsi Author Rohinton Mistry wins $50K Neustadt Award
Toronto-area writer Rohinton Mistry has won the $50,000 US Neustadt International Prize for Literature, awarded for outstanding achievement in poetry, fiction or drama. Published on CBC News An international jury representing nine countries selected Mistry for the biennial prize. Mistry is the author of 1991’s Such a Long Journey, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize… Continue reading Parsi Author Rohinton Mistry wins $50K Neustadt Award
Authentic Parsi Cuisine: Part 1
What constitutes authentic Parsi cuisine is a matter of great debate. One of our colleagues who hails from a blue blooded Parsi family contends that any vegetable ma gosht and any vegetable pur eendu, is, not authentic. By Bergis Desai | Mumbai Samachar In Navsari, they would excommunicate her for this blasphemy. Perhaps she is… Continue reading Authentic Parsi Cuisine: Part 1
Authentic Parsi Cuisine: Part 2
This columnist’s maternal grandfather, Behramji Baria of Navsari, was a bad businessman but a great cook. He ran a catering business between the two World Wars. Article by Berjis Desai | Mumbai Samachar He made no money but gained countless admirers including Lady Navajbai Tata and her family. The Jame, in his obituary, noted, in… Continue reading Authentic Parsi Cuisine: Part 2
The Movie Shooting Controversey and Doongerwadi: An Open Letter.
The below is an open letter by Arzan J. Ghadially, regular reader of Parsi Khabar, on the recent incidents about the movie shooting at Khareghat Colony and the subsequent parking of vehicles, etc at the Doongerwadi premises. To The Trustee of the Bombay Parsee Panchayat Funds and Properties Kind Attn: Mr Yezdi Desai – Trustee… Continue reading The Movie Shooting Controversey and Doongerwadi: An Open Letter.
For a Zarathushti, there is no alternative but to go the dokhma way
Ervad Marzban J. Hathiram, editor of Frashogard.com and a good friend of Parsi Khabar shares a letter the editor of Jame-Jamshed. Ervad Marzban J. Hathiram writes The Editor Jame-Jamshed Mumbai. Dear Sir, I have been following with interest the ongoing debate about Dokhmenashini in your paper. As one who has done a little study… Continue reading For a Zarathushti, there is no alternative but to go the dokhma way
Clouds and Multiple Perspectives: A Jehangir Sabawala Retrospective
Jehangir Sabavala will be remembered for bringing Cubism to Indian art He stood silently in a corner of the huge hall at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, delighted with the paintings that surrounded him. In a crisp shirt with a matching cravat and perfectly polished shoes, he seemed to come from another… Continue reading Clouds and Multiple Perspectives: A Jehangir Sabawala Retrospective
