The bank, hailed as the country's first Swadeshi bank wholly owned and managed by Indians, is considered as much a...
arZan Articles
India is no longer seen as outsourcing destination: Lord Karan Bilimoria
With the India-UK Free Trade Agreement being signed, Bilimoria asserts that India and UK will soon be supporting each...
Banaji Limjee Agiary Repair Fund
Below is an appeal sent to us by the trustees of the Banaji Limjee Agiary. This is Bombay's and perhaps India's oldest agiary. BANAJI LIMJEE AGIARY Appeal for contribution to Repair Fund Dear...
Nari Contractor: ‘I don’t mind living it all over again’
Nari Contractor is enjoying one of the greatest comebacks. The former India captain, who was hit on the head by a Charlie Griffith bouncer 47 years ago (March 22, 1962), turns 75 today. The crushing...
Sohrab Wadia: Jihad The Musical
Sorab Wadia sings the part of Hussein Al Mansour in the Edinburgh Fringe Production of JIHAD THE MUSICAL. Costumes by Deb O. Choreography by Bethany Samuelson. See...
Nari Contractor to visit the Caribbean
Four decades after suffering a near-fatal skull injury while ducking into a bouncer in a tour game, former India captain Nari Contractor will visit the Caribbean later this month as a special...
Business big shot: Ratan Tata of the Tata Group
When big decisions have to be made, Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, walks his dogs along the Mumbai foreshore by his beachfront home. The animals are likely to be in for a lot of exercise...
Green Rich List: Anu Aga of Thermax
Anu Aga (India) Anu Aga was born into an upper middle-class Parsi family in Mumbai. She graduated in economics and later did postgraduate studies in medical and psychiatric social work at the...
A tribute to Rustom Tirandaz
The email below was circulated on a email list. From: Mr. Jimmy and Mrs. Pervin Mistry Tribute to our friend Rustom Sheriyar Tirandaz: The sudden demise of Rustom Sheriyar Tirandaz (January 27th)...
Warnings From Vanishing Vultures
KARACHI, Feb 25 (IPS/IFEJ) - "The thought of my carcass being pecked at by vultures isn’t at all pleasant," said Bapsi Sidhwa, a leading Pakistani diasporic writer now living in the United States....
Prof. Jamshedji Chinoy: First Among Equals
IRST AMONGST EQUALS By Dina Bilimoria Our Zoroastrian Community is rather famous for firsts in many fields. Our men and women have excelled in whatever they do and this quality prevails even today....
Zidane and Little Zizou: A close miss
French soccer legend Zidedine Zidane might have had a Parsi connection. Had things gone according to plan, the soccer star would have done a cameo in Sooni Taraporewala's award winning film Little...
A Thousand and Counting
Over the weekend, Parsi Khabar crossed a small milestone. We had our 1000th post up on the website. The website began as a labour of love way back in August 2005 and still remains one. On August 19,...
Gustadji Ghode Chadhya
Surprise is the spice of drama. "Don't think Gustadji is going to ride a horse in the play as a groom," director of Gustadji Ghode Chadhya' Yazdi Karanjia tells the audience, "one rides different...
A towering icon of India stumbles, raising alarms
In this Nov. 29, 2008 file photo, people sit next to the waterfront in the backdrop of the Taj Mahal hotel, owned by the Tata group, after the completion of an operation against terrorists in...
Norouz 2009 event at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Norouz 2009 event at Philadelphia Museum of Art on March 8th Silk Road Dance Company - click here for high resolution image The fourth annual Norouz (Persian New Year) event will be held at the...
Kushti Prayers: The Correct Protocol
Prescribed Method of doing Paadyaab-Kushti Originally featured in Dini Avaz, Mar.-Apr. 1999 PAADYAAB The Paadyaab is an important step while performing the Kushti. The Kushti is incomplete without...
Firdaus Shroff to offer Sports Consultancy Services
Firdaus Shroff, father of teenage Indian tennis star Kyra & under-13 national football player Porus has launched his own Sports Consultancy service to guide parents on how to convert a sporting...
Persia: The Lost World
Eric Lurio writes a wonderful three part travelogue on modern day Iran. Titled Notes on the Iran/Persia Conflict: A Travelogue it runs on the famous Huffington Post website. Below is an excerpt from...
Daddy’s Deli: Parsi Cuisine in Bangalore
Daddy A combination of Persian and Gujarati food, Parsi cuisine is interesting and flavourful Zarine and Nozer Daroga are both passionately fond of food, so they decided to open a restaurant...
Zoroastrians Observe Sadeh Festival in Iran
Iran's Zoroastrian community held the Jashn-e-Sadeh Festival for celebrating the discovery of fire on the 10th of the Iranian month of Bahman (which coincided this year with Jan. 29). Considered one...
Vadodara Parsis break path, allow all to have a glimpse of Agiyari from inside
In A path-breaking development, the Parsi community in Gujarat will open the Agiyari to people from other communities. This is for the first time in the state that the Parsis have shed their...
Porus Shroff: Football Wonderkid
As an youngster — he’s still only 12 — Campion School student Porus Shroff had told his father Firdaus that since the Sr Shroff had played club cricket in England, he should end up playing his...
Ratan Tata Industrial (RTI) Institute
The below is an article by Kayezad Adajania on his blog slashfundas. Where is my Ratan Tata Industrial (RTI) institute? If you are a Parsi, then the words RTI shouldn't be Greek and Latin to...
In conversation with Nargish Rabadi a.k.a Shammi
From Screen India All of eighty years, Shammi Aunty as she is lovingly called, has lost count of the films in which she has acted. Starting off playing heroine in her earlier films, Shammi switched...
TOI Obituary of Tirandaz
Former Congress corporator and sitting trustee of the Bombay Parsi Panchayat (BPP), Rustom Tirandaz, died of a heart attack on Tuesday morning. He was 68. Tirandaz was declared dead on admission to...
Controversial Renovations at Iranshah in Udvada
We have received a note from Geve Eruch Narielwalla regarding the recent renovations at the Iranshah Atashbehram in Udvada. Geve has put up a website about the same issue The most sacred Zoroastrian...
Parsis and Vintage Cars
This is a lovely video clip about Parsis and our love for vintage cars. Are you a vintage car/bike owner. Would love to hear your sentiments and stories.
Rustom Tirandaz Passes Away
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 The following is a post by Shernaaz Engineer. The late Rustom Tirandaz, on the day he won the BPP election (October 2008), elated and determined to forge ahead... On...
NZ Parsis : Battle to beat obesity
Members of the Indian community are fighting obesity and have the second highest rate of diabetes after Pacific Islanders. JACKIE RUSSELL reports. THE obesity rate for South Asians living in...
Inside the young Parsi mind
Cosmopolitan or confused? Liberal or conservative? For almost every term that can describe the Parsi youth, the opposite also holds true. To understand the mindset of the young Parsi, Lata Narayan,...
Iran Re-opens Restored Bam Barracks
Iran is set to reopen the restored structure of the country's historical city of Bam, which was devastated by an earthquake in 2003. According to the cultural heritage office of Kerman Province, the...
Parsi Contribution to Academics in Western India
Did you know that Bai Avabai Petit Girls' School, an elite Bandra institution, was once an orphanage for destitute Parsi children? Or that JB Petit High School for Girls was not a Parsi institution...
A secret Painting of J R D Tata
Location: Tata Museum , Jamshedpur. In the first pic, you can see a painting. This was a gift to JRD Tata on his Birthday by a street artist. Nobody was able to understand his art. Unfortunately,...
Bejan Daruwalla makes some Obama predictions
A widely respected Indian astrologer living in Mumbai predicts that Barack Obama will be better for peace and prosperity in the world than American Presidents of the past four decades. He will...
The Parsis of Delhi
The below is an article titled "Being Parsi" that appeared in the Indian Express. We would also like to give a shout-out to our friends at DelhiParsis.com. They have a very informative and wonderful...
List of Agiaries in Mumbai
The below is a complete list of all the Agiaries in Mumbai with some interesting statistics. Area Full Name Short Name Grade Sect Roj Mah Yz. dd mm...
BPP Roundtable Discussion on Education Policy
The below is a report by Zubin Madon. In an unprecedented move, the BPP trustees called a brainstorming meeting to discuss the education program for Parsi youth at Jimmy Mistry's Della Technica....
Of Dhansak and Nan Khatai
During the sixties, the city had over 3,000 Parsees. Today, there are just 650, and the community is counting every birth and death. Thus, when the Parsee Club on the Maidan recently completed its...
The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture: Nerina Rustomji
Islamic conceptions of heaven and hell began in the seventh century as an early doctrinal innovation, but by the twelfth century, these notions had evolved into a highly formalized ideal of...
Calcutta Parsees: Christmas Show as Part of Centenary Celebrations
The Calcutta Parsee Club, founded in 1908, will have the last of its centenary celebrations during the Christmas week. The 100-year-old club will organise a big show on December 25 night, followed...
Shame on Godrej Baug!
This is a note sent to us by Zubin Madon. While the whole city is sill trying to come to terms with the horrible tragedy that struck us barely a month ago, and all the new year celebrations across...
The Parsi Connection
The below article appeared in the Spanish press, in the aftermath of the Mumbai terrorist attacks of 26/11. Parsi Khabar's Editor Mehernaaz Sam Wadia was interviewed for this article. The original...
Vulture Conservation Project in Surat
The following text and pictures were forwarded to Parsi Khabar by Goldi Gandhi BCSG Surat chapter and Nature Club Surat have taken up a project of Vulture Conservation. Many activities are...
The Last of the Zoroastrians
Postcard from Yazd By Deena Guzder Tuesday, Dec. 09, 2008 Far removed from Tehran's bustling tin-roofed teashops and Isfahan's verdant pomegranate gardens, the deserts known as Dasht-e Kavir and...
By Shanaya Lalkaka for DNA India Sooni Taraporevala’s Little Zizou is busy making the rounds of film festivals and will hit Mumbai theatres soon, reports Shanaya Lalkaka Sooni Taraporevala’s...
Bombay Parsi Punchayat fails to release list of homes
After promising the charity commissioner twice that they would present a list of people they examined since assuming office on October 23, 2008, the Bombay Parsi Punchayet failed to release the list...
City-born clothier will outfit Obama: Homi Patel
Barack Obama has ordered his first new tuxedo in 15 years for his inaugural celebration on January 20, 2009. And Homi Patel, the Mumbai-born chairman and CEO of the leading American suit maker...
Sooni Taraporewala: In conversation post – Little Zizou
Sooni Taraporevala, who wrote the screenplay for Salaam Bombay, Mississippi Masala and The Namesake, turns director with Little Zizou. Her stories dredge up the darkness in society, yet her...
Face-to-face with chef Kaizad Patel
By Prachi Sibal “It's laced with a flavour of mint and coriander, and a little hint of other spices that go into our regular cooking," he explains with careful attention laid on every spice,...
Zee News tribute: Rohinton Maloo
By Akrita Reyar The sad news of Rohinton B Maloo being one of the victims of the mindless terror attacks in Mumbai has left me completely cold. Known as one of the avant garde and most charismatic...
Steel amid adversity: Tata after Mumbai
Ratan Tata was at home in south Mumbai late on November 26 when the call came. On the line was a frantic R K Krishna Kumar, head of the Tata group unit that owns the city's luxury Taj Mahal Palace...