nlnews@archant.co.uk 15 March 2006 THE boss of an Archway curry house is helping spice up a new campaign to save India’s vultures from extinction. Cyrus Todiwala, who owns The Parsee, in Highgate Hill, is helping promote the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) initiative – which aims to persuade the Indian government to… Continue reading Curry boss in bid to save India’s vultures
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Agiaries will go high-tech
‘Parsi Resource Group’ (PRG) aims to strengthen pillars of Parsi community – its Agiaries, priests and youth.. Jimmy Mistry, an architect by profession and owner of Della Tecnica, has launched ‘Parsi Resource Group’ (PRG), a charitable organisation that seeks to intensify growth of the Parsi community, by aiming at three areas – agiaries (fire temples),… Continue reading Agiaries will go high-tech
Zoroastrians use Internet dating to rescue religion
Zoroastrians use Internet dating to rescue religion MUMBAI, India — After trying for four years to have a baby, Khorshed Bulsara called on her fellow Zoroastrians for help. She tapped into a new fertility clinic whose mission is to save one of the world’s oldest religions. Her doctor waved off concerns that Parsis, as Zoroastrians… Continue reading Zoroastrians use Internet dating to rescue religion
Indian Cowboy
Throughout Indian Cowboy, performer and playwright Zaraawar Mistry asks us to “connect the dots” of his narrator’s life. Yet the dots don’t necessarily add up in this premiere production at Mixed Blood Theatre. Mistry’s story of an immigrant Indian actor’s drift through modern America has moments of insight and brilliance, but those are tempered by… Continue reading Indian Cowboy
Dadabhai Naoroji on British currency notes
The image of Dadabhai Naoroji, the first ever Asian MP to enter the House of Commons in 1892, may soon be printed on British currency notes, if the recommendation of an influential Labour Party think-tank is accepted. Naoroji was elected for the Liberal Party from Central Finsbury in London on July 1892. A Parsi, he… Continue reading Dadabhai Naoroji on British currency notes
Gender, Race, and Spectatorship in Early Indian Cinema
These are the choice of men to play women’s parts, and the use of European or ‘white’ actresses posing as Indian. Both these masquerades can be located in prior theatrical traditions of western India, especially the Parsi theatre. The spectatorial pleasures that such performances divulged will be illustrated through a series of slides from the… Continue reading Gender, Race, and Spectatorship in Early Indian Cinema
Old pacemakers win hearts
Most families at the rally had cars that had been in the family for years, like AR Dadachanji, a Parsi priest, who took his family for a spin in their 1939 Morris-8. “It’s from the same year that I was born,” he smiled. He added that he had been participating in the rally for the… Continue reading Old pacemakers win hearts
