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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...
The Exodus
She calls it the U-Trip. Setting out from Karachi, 15-year-old Rosheen Birdie plans on visiting every major hub of Zoroastrians in the world, just so she can find one to marry. It’s not so easy to...
Can Zoroastrians save their faith?
By Deena Guzder / The Washington Post Many of us recently finished celebrating Christmas, Eid, and Hanukkah; however, few of us have heard of the religion that deeply influenced those traditions of...
Mumbai Parsis divided on intermarriage
With numbers dwindling, young Parsis turn to organized social events to meet, and hopefully marry, others of their cultural group. By Hanna Ingber Win — GlobalPost A group of about a dozen young...
9th World Zoroastrian Congress 2009 Opens in Dubai
World Zoroastrian Congress Opens in Dubai Today 28 December 2009 DUBAI - The global Zoroastrian diaspora will converge in Dubai for a four-day congress, starting today. The 9th World Zoroastrian...
Mani Cooper: Faberge Eggstraordinary
An ‘eggsceptionally’ talented lady, handcrafts and decorates Faberge-style eggs By Indira Rodericks / Upper Crust Magazine. There’s never a dull moment in Mani Cooper’s life. A lady of rare and...
Baug flats won’t be a burden on Parsis
The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) and the Alert Zoroastrian Association (AZA) on Friday resolved the flat allotment issue for poor Parsis at Panthaky Baug, Andheri (East). The AZA had challenged the...
Of An Edwardian India
When life in a Parsi household was lived at a leisurely pace... By Silloo Mehta Indian cities were beautiful a century ago. Bungalows had gardens, leafy parks were well maintained and flowering...
Dorabjee & Sons: Flavours of the Past
Going to Dorabjee’s is like stepping into the pages of a Farrukh Dhondy short story (many of which were set here, in the gullies of Sarbatwala Chowk). In fact, looking around, we could swear we...
Lone family left to guard Parsi legacy in Kozhikode
This ancient commercial city on the coast of Kerala once played host to a flourishing Parsi community, but all that is now left is a lone family struggling to keep the community's legacy alive....
Parsis Seek Seat in Maharashtra Assembly
The Parsis have decided to ensure that, like other communities, they too have a representative in the Maharashtra assembly. Members of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) and BJP legislator Mangal...
Free flats for Parsis on the anvil
By Nauzer Bharucha, / TNN In a city where a decent two-BHK apartment within 30 km of the business district is the exclusive domain of crorepatis, the Bombay Parsi Punchayat (BPP) will sell almost 75...
Tata Chairman Doesn’t Sweat the Timing on Global Expansion
By PAUL BECKETT / WSJ MUMBAI—During his 18-year tenure as chairman of India's venerable Tata Group, 71-year-old Ratan Tata has led a drive to expand internationally, a strategy India's other...
Neville Wadia: World’s Oldest T20 Centurion
He is a grandfather and yet Neville Wadia's passion for cricket at the age of 63 is never-ending. He has been playing cricket for over 40 years now. Some six months ago, he achieved something...
A Vegetarian Parsi
By Rakshande Italia / Inside TORONTO DESI DIALOGUES: Turning vegetarian leaves a pleasant taste on the palate The past 15 days have been one of my most testing times. That's because I decided to...
“Parsis exude no sense of victimisation”
By Farrukh Dhondy / DNA India Sitting next to the grandson of a late great English writer, himself a writer, at a dinner party in Exmoor, I am asked if I am a practising Zoroastrian. I say 'not...
Murree Brewery Still brewing in a dry land: Pakistan’s Parsi Brewery
Still brewing in a dry land: Pakistan's only beer and whisky firm After 150 years, business is booming at Pakistan's only beer and whisky firm. Andrew Buncombe finds out why On the walls of...
Parsi athletes shine at World Masters Games
The rough football ground of Dadar Parsi Gymkhana is cultivating rare laurels. Two middle-aged neighbours have won India a gold and a silver medal at the prestigious World Masters Games held in...
Charity Commissioner Clears BPP of any wrongdoing
In a reprieve for Bombay Parsi Punchayat chairman Dinshaw Mehta, the charity commissioner's office recently dismissed a complaint seeking his removal for alleged irregularities and nepotism in...
Akuri: Eggsciting recipes
One of my favourite breakfast preparations is scrambled eggs, even higher on the scale of delicacy, is the akuri, a much underrated dish. Akuri means egg curry in its most basic sense.It is like...
Indian filmmaker unveils her own minuscule Parsi Minority
Men in PLO T-shirts march through noisy, chaotic streets; their leader, all in white, stands before the wrought iron gate of a Zoroastrian fire temple urging followers to pledge purity and denounce...
Parsi Memories: Ideal Restaurant
By Rusi Sorabjee IDEAL RESTAURANT ….a gastronomic heaven (Still there in 2009,But shifted about 100 mtrs away and inside from main road.) (The IRANI Restaurant… quintessentially Zarathushti...
Parsi Memories: Chom-e-shvaa
By Rusi Sorabjee In our scriptures there is a mention that 'it was obligatory, as thanks-giving' to save a bit of the meal at the end for the dog - during Sassanian times, it was called the...
Parsi Memories : Daily Loban Ritual
By Rusi Sorabjee One of the daily ritual in a Parsi/Irani homes in India of the early 20th Century, that brings back happy memories of our childhood, of a bygone era, when the days had morehours,...
Religious Education and the Future of Young Mobeds in North America and Beyond
In early summer 2009, Jim Engineer, one of the founders of NextGenNow got in touch with me to see if I would like to write an article for the Fall 2009 FEZANA Journal. NextGenNow as an organisation...
Khushru Poacha: Founder of Indianblooddonors.com
This man saves lives, one click at a time Abhishek Mande / Rediff For over ten years now, Khushroo Poacha has stood by the sole belief that to do good work you don't need money. Poacha runs...
Parsi body plans vulture breeding to help death rites
The Parsi community of the city -- who leave their dead out in the open to be consumed by vultures and were facing problems with disposing their dead with the dwindling number of vultures in the...
Bombay Parsi Punchayet goes for a new logo
Singed by accusations of corruption, BPP replaces trusts fire logo, which they felt was symbolic of the 'trial by fire they recently faced from community groups By Manoj Nair / Mumbai Mirror...
Punchayet Meet at Dadar Parsi Gym Goes Silent
The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) meet, which was called at Dadar Parsi Gymkhana last evening to mark one year of existence, was left without a voice, literally. The loudspeakers were switched off...
Khorshed Maneck Bharucha: Tribute to a Teacher
The junction of Mancherji Joshi Road and Lady Jehangir Road near Five Gardens in Dadar was formally named "Principal Khorshed Maneck Bharucha Chowk" on August 14, 2009. Social worker...
Back To The Vulture
The population of vultures in the subcontinent has been decimated over the last two decades, but it may yet rise from the ashes with support from human hands. At end-September, bird watchers from...
Paris Bakery
The opening line from an old and much loved nursery rhyme buzzed around my ears, as I walked to the romantically named Paris Bakery recently. The origin of the name of this perennially crowded shop,...
Rehan Pocha: In Conversations
It was in the winter of 2004 when Rehan Poncha had decided to quit what he did best. At 18, with four junior national titles and a handful of international medals at the Asian Age Group meets and...
The Zorastrian Journey
The below video is a presentation by ZAGNY and IZA New York.
Punchayet can sell Panthaki flats at market rates: Court
The Bombay high court on Thursday set aside the joint charity commissioner's (CC) order preventing the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) from selling the flats it has built in Panthaki Baug in Andheri....
Prayers Offered at ancient Azargoshasb Fire Temple
From Amordad News. The sound of Avesta, on 27 Shahrivar (18 September) once again filled Azargoshasb Fire Temple. In Azargoshasb Fire Temple Zoroastrians recited the Avesta and prayed for a...
Zarine Kharas Chief Executive of Justgiving
By Andrew Davidson Take two women: one a City lawyer turned banker, the other a multilingual journalist turned charity boss. Shake gently. And out pops Justgiving, the charity fundraising dotcom...
India’s Parsis use new technology to keep ancient religion alive
India's Parsis, the modern-day descendants of migrants who fled persecution in Iran more than 1,000 years ago, are turning to new technology to keep their ancient Zoroastrian religion...
Charity Commissioner can’t deny info in age of RTI
By Nauzer Bharucha, TNN In the age of the Right to Information Act, the charity commissioner could not refuse to furnish documents under the cover of the Official Secrets Act, said the Bombay Parsi...
Dr. Keki Gharda: In Conversation with Shernaaz Engineer
Noted journalist Shernaaz Engineer recently interviewed Dr. Keki Gharda. A small snippet of the interview is below In recent months, the papers have been buzzing with the news that Gharda Chemicals,...
Ratan Tata bags award from The Economist
UK-based news magazine, The Economist, today named Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata as the winner of the eighth edition of its annual ‘Business Process Innovation Award’ for the successful development...
BPP no to charity chief’s demand of Rs 1.2 crore fee
By Nauzar Bharucha / TNN Charity Commissioner (CC) M K Choure, who invoked the Official Secrets Act to deny information to the Bombay Parsi Punchayat (BPP), on Tuesday agreed to give a hearing to...
Kobad Gandhi: Maoist Leader Sent to 14 Days Judicial Custody
Kobad Gandhi, a top leader of CPI (Maoist), who is in charge of spreading the organisation's influence in urban areas, was today sent to 14 days judicial custody by a Delhi Court. Gandhi, arrested...
Parsi Cyclists to celebrate centenary in unique way
By Pradeep Vijayakar, TNN One of the glamorous teams of Mumbai's maidan cricket, Parsi Cyclists plan to celebrate their centenary in a unique way on October 10. There will be a ˜jashan” a prayer...
For Helping the BPP, Minister accused of code violation
The article below is a little disturbing. It clearly brings out the motives of Percy Patel who has a vendetta and is going to all lengths to get his pound of flesh. It is such people that will bring...
Life in a Parsi Baug
SHERNAAZ ENGINEER peers into the minutiae of life in the Parsi colonies (or our baugs bustling with busybodies) and dishes up some delightfully saucy details. Forget 'Life in a Metro'. 'Life in a...
Nari Contractor on the Decline of Parsi Cricket
Parsi Cyclists, one of Mumbai's oldest clubs, will complete its centenary in early October. The club which has produced some fine cricketers in Nari Contractor, Polly Umirgar, Rusi Surti, Farokh...
Report of FPZAI meeting of Sept. 2009
The below is a Report of FPZAI meeting of Sept. 2009 sent via email by Mr. Marzban Giara. A meeting of the Federation of Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India was held after a lapse of three years at...
Farrokh “Frank” Yazdani Behind the Counter in San Diego
There's So Much More to 'Frank' Behind the Counter By KELLY BENNETT for Voice of San Diego At mid-morning on a hot summer day, the customers filing into a convenience store on the edge of downtown...
On the road in rural Iran
Rural Iran has startlingly beautiful landscapes that are largely unexplored by outsiders By Jini Reddy The Guardian, Saturday 12 September 2009 [Hat Tip: Jim Engineer via NextGenNow@Linkedin] I...
Law Department seeks details of notice to Parsi Punchayet
By Naresh Kamath / HT MUMBAI: On the heels of the Charily Commissioner issuing n show-cause notice to the trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) the stale's law department has intervened and...