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Parsi Community Fails To Stop Sale Of Sanjan Sanatorium
The meeting, held on Tuesday at the office of a prominent law firm in Mumbai, saw Mehta offering Rs 2.9 crore to keep...
Refresher Program for Ervads, Ostas, Behdins and Pasbaans at the Cama Athornan In Mumbai
Below is a public service announcement received via email. WITH THE BLESSINGS OF LATE SETH MERWANJI MUNCHERJI CAMA – OUR BENEFACTOR, The EX-STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION of THE M.F. CAMA ATHORNAN INSTITUTE...
Call for Award Nominations: 10th World Zoroastrian Congress
The Parsi/Irani Zoroastrian community has always excelled in every field of endeavour. There have been a host of industrialists, businessmen, professionals and others who have been honoured either...
So, what is on your plate today?
For the fun-loving Parsi community, one of the most integral elements of a good life is a grand, tasty meal. By Rachel Fernandes, TNN Think Parsi food and there are some trademark dishes that are...
Bhicoo Manekshaw: A Tribute
Bhicoo Manekshaw, the food writer has passed away. She wrote really excellent, professionally done and well researched cookbooks, like her book on the food of her Parsi community. By Vikram Doctor |...
Frohar Foundation Presents A Zoroastrian Odyssey
EXHIBITION TIMINGS Thursday 18th April 2013, from 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm Friday 19th, Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st, April 2013 from 11.30 am to 8.30 pm EXHIBITS Story of Asho Zarathushtra The...
Bhicoo Manekshaw Passes Away
We are saddened to inform the passing away of Bhicoo Manekshaw. She was one of the best known names in the world of gastronomical delights. Her cookbooks on Parsi cooking are some of the best...
The Lord Family: Parsi Musicians in Hindi Movies
The Human Factor is a documentary that shall premiere at the 2013 New York International Film Festival. The screening is on May 01, 2013 at the Tribeca Cinemas Independent filmmaker Rudradeep...
Parsi Punchayet dangles carrots to lure children into priesthood
The title of the article by DNA India sets a very negative tone. That’s our opinion here at Parsi Khabar. To save the community’s rituals from becoming extinct, the Bombay Parsi Punchayet...
Parsis offer better benefits for more priests
The dwindling number of priests within the Parsi community has set the alarm bells ringing as the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), the community’s apex body, has introduced a first-of-its-kind...
Shiamak Davar: The Mumbai/New York Photo Project: Music and Dance
In the sixth edition of the Mumbai/New York photo project, Nisha Sondhe photographs some of the musicians and artists building bridges between the two cities. In Mumbai, one of India’s...
Dinshaw Vimadalal: Cathedral School Alumni
Below is some more information on the “most eligible Parsi” these days…a.k.a Dinshaw Vimadalal. From Seventh Heaven….a site for Cathedral School Alumni Mexican Cathedralite Just had this, hot on the...
Lonely Community Elders Beware: BPP Press Release
We were all told in our youth that relationships are pre decided in heaven and that we are born in a family and continue in that family till our very end. Unfortunately today we are facing a...
Mumbai to Get a Drama School
City to get its first private drama school; Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw’s grandson Jehan is co-convener. An hour before Jehan Sam Manekshaw is to meet Dr Bal Bhalerao, chief secretary of the...
Lady Jehangir Kothari Memorial Hall: Bangalore's own Tudor Taj Mahal
For those who regularly cross the Queens Road-Cunningham Road junction in the heart of the city, this stone building, halfheartedly bordering the road leading towards Shivaji Nagar, is not a rare...
Sam Balsara: Madison is much more important than money
It was in the mid-nineties that India started showing up on the global business radar, and multinationals started looking at India with renewed interest. Advertising was no exception. It was the...
The Cyrus Cylinder Arrives in the USA
CNN’s Amanpour and the British Museum’s MacGregor – Complete Cyrus Cylinder Interview from Iran Heritage Foundation on Vimeo. During the launch event of the Cyrus Cylinder Tour of...
Revisit The Parsi Natak
The city’s Gujarati speakers of an older vintage will fondly recall the plays of Adi Marzban, the playwright and director who was synonymous with Parsi nataks from the 1940s to the 1980s. by Pronoti...
WZOT India Senior Citizen Center Navsari: An Overview in 2013
The Senior Citizen Center run by the WZO Trust Funds India is one of its most important activities. Below is a preface of a detailed brochure describing in text and photographs, the various...
Indian millionaire takes out advert looking for “slim, childless, meat-eating wife”
An Indian multi-millionaire has spent £15,000 on a full-page advertisement in The Times of India’s matrimonial section to spell out just how rich he is in an attempt to find a wife. By Dean...
World Zoroastrian Organisation Trust India: 2012 Overview of Activities
Dinshaw K. Tamboly, Chairman of WZO Trust India and a good friend of Parsi Khabar, sends us an overview of the Welfare Activities of WZOT for the year 2012. You can download the entire report here ....
Iranian Anjuman Trust Ousts President and is Opposed to Palghar Land Deal with Bhai Thakur
Mehrwan Irani was against selling the community’s 963-acre plot to a company owned by the family of the Vasai-Virar strongman with a long criminal record The Iranian Zoroastrian Anjuman,...
Outside the homeland, inside the community?
From Mumbai to Toronto, Parsi identity is no simple matter The Parsi story starts with an exodus. My ancestors left Persia a thousand years ago, fleeing religious persecution, and finding a new home...
Forgotten by Sanjay Dutt,Kersi Adajania faces year in jail for helping him
Some flowers strewn outside his room and a few dim candles were the only trappings of an otherwise muted birthday for an ailing Kersi Bapuji Adajania, who turned 83 by the Parsi calender on Tuesday....
80-year-old priest jumps to death from south Mumbai building
An 80-year-old Parsi priest, residing in south Mumbai’s Dhobi Talao area, allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the balcony of his fourth floor flat at Trinity Apartments. The incident...
Remembering Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw on his 100th Birthday
Col LK Anand (Retd) sends us a compilation of information about Field Marshal Sam HFJ Manekshaw. Sam Bahadur as he was known to his soldiers would have turned 100 years today. Compiled by Col LK...
Dinshah Vimadalal: Who wants to marry a Millionaire ?
Mirror reporter poses as a candidate to meet Dinshah ‘Din’ Vimadalal, a Mexico resident who paid top money for a matrimonial ad that he wrote himself. (Click here to see the advertisement) By Pooja...
Meet Headmistress Parvin Rabadi of Mama Parsi School in Karachi
Parveen Rabadi left Lahore in 1974 to join the Mama Parsi Girls’ High School in Karachi – little did she know that the love and affection of being part of the school’s legacy would not let her go...
Dinsha: Want To Marry Him ?
This is probably the most outlandish matrimonial advertisement you will ever see. Dinsha or Din! is a Parsi NRI from USA. And is looking for a bride. And no it’s not an April Fool’s Day joke. It...
Godrej and Tata Institute of Social Sciences Renew Bids for Irani Trust Land in Dahanu
Godrej Properties and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) have renewed their offers to develop a 963-acre sprawl in Palghar owned by the Iranian Zoroastrian Anjuman Trust. By Nauzer K Bharucha,...
Ashdeen Lilaowala highlights Parsi Gara work at Lakme Fashion Week
The Indian Textile Show that opened Day Four at Lakmé Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2013 began with Ashdeen Lilaowala, a graduate of the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad, who started his label...
Nowroz Baug may turn into luxury towers
Over a century ago, his great-grandmother JerbaiWadia built the first of Parsibaugs for middle-income and weaker sections of her community. On Sunday, industrialist NusliWadia, along with son Ness,...
Sooni Taraporevala: Salaam Bombay! is contemporary in content and style
Salaam Bombay! that is being re-released today marked the beginning of Sooni Taraporevala’s screenwriting career and a momentous association with filmmaker Mira Nair twenty-five years ago....
From Mumbai to Los Angeles: Norouz Highlights Persistence of Persian Traditions
On March 20 Iranians and the Persian diaspora will celebrate Norouz , the Persian New Year. Norouz has its roots in the second century AD, when the founder of the Zoroastrian religion, Zoroaster,...
Chikita Cafe: Meherwan Jamshedian
Memory isn’t the most reliable repository for facts, of course. Nor is Google. But, when one talks of a South Mumbai snack bar that has a history dating back to the time when Malabar Hill was still...
Navroze Mubarak 2013
From all of us at Parsi Khabar, we take this opportunity to wish all our dear readers a very Happy Navroze, Norouz, Norooz mexican pharmacy online Pirooz. May the spring and the coming year be one...
Sassanian Boulangerie hits a 100
It has been in existence for 100 years, pampering palates and occasionally modifying the menu to gel with the changing food habits taking care to not camouflage its original flavour. By Annanya...
Almitra Patel: Kothanur’s Own Renaissance Woman
“Mrs. Almitra H. Patel, Parsi Zoroastrian, 70 years young,” reads the first line of Almitra’s biodata on her 2006 website. By Deepika Sarma | The Hindu Scroll down and you’ll be stunned to find that...
Bapsy Sidhwa: Their Language Of Love
Author Bapsi Sidhwa met Sikander Khan at a party in Houston. They began swapping memories of Lahore, which was when Sidhwa realised they’d been neighbours as kids. Book Review by Joanna Lobo | DNA...
President Obama Greets Iran on Nowruz 2013
President Obama sends best wishes to the Iranian people as they celebrate Nowruz. In his video message, the President speaks directly to the people and leaders of Iran about the opportunity to begin...
Neil MacGregor on the Cyrus Cylinder: A great moment for the Middle East
A DECLARATION of human rights, written 2,600 years ago in Persian, is touring America. The director of The British Museum explains the many roles the cylinder has played through history ...
4 Parsi Women Among Top 50 in Marketing, Media and Advertising
Four Parsi women are amongst the Top 50 Most Influential Women in the Indian Marketing, Advertising and Media realm. Leading the pack at No. 4 is Tanya Dubash. Tanya is on the Board of the...
Vistasp Karbhari officially named President of University of Texas at Arlington
The University of Texas System Board of Regents has named Dr. Vistasp M. Karbhari president of The University of Texas at Arlington effective June 1. The Board unanimously approved the appointment...
Ancient Persian blueprint for Middle East peace touring U.S.
An ancient Persian symbol of freedom, tolerance and coexistence has joined documents like the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Emancipation Proclamation in Washington. By Tara...
Sassanian: Legendary Irani Restaurant Turns 100
There was a time when you could do an Irani café crawl in the Dhobi Talao area. by Pronoti Datta | Mumbai Boss You could start with chai at Edward Restaurant behind Our Lady of Dolours Church, hoof...
Jimmy Engineer: A Pakistani painter’s passion for people
Given a second chance to at life, Pakistani painter Jimmy Engineer repaid the miracle by living four different lives, as an artist, social worker, human rights and peace activist. By Novia D....
How religious beliefs influence home decor
For a country like India, where religious diversity is an undeniable part of the basic social fabric, religions and faiths influence home decor. Often, getting the absolutely perfect sanctum...
Sooni’s Salaam to Parsis
Right away, I have to admit that I’ve never felt as elated as I did at the opening of the exhibition of photographs on Parsis at the Chemould-Prescott Gallery on Tuesday. By D.K. Bose | Asian Age...
Bapsi Sidhwa: Those who adore Pakistan are hurt
Bapsi Sidhwa is one of the most celebrated English writers of our times from this part of the world and she is the daughter of Lahore who has introduced Pakistan and made it proud across the world...
Chennai Parsis: A tale of grit and hardwork
Though they have always been a small number, from the time the first group of Parsis came to the city from Coorg in 1795, the community has had a major role in shaping the history of the city from...
Film debut at 92: The Making of a Documentary on the Dadar Parsi Colony
Max and Rohinton Unwalla see no reason for public display of affection to be tagged as nuisance. In one quick swoop, love meets devotion when Max’s candy tongue flutters across Unwalla’s face,...