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Zerbanoo Gifford Receives the Emmeline Pankhurst Award at Women of the Year 2026

MANCHESTER: Zerbanoo Gifford, human rights campaigner, author and founder of The ASHA Centre in the Forest of Dean, has been honoured with the Emmeline Pankhurst Award at the Women of the Year Luncheon & Awards, held at Manchester's Etihad...

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Rare Finds: Exhibition

Rare Finds: Exhibition

Dec 9, 2008 | ,

Rare Finds is an exhibition that is held irregularly. In the last nine years it has been organised only four times-in 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2006. Each time Dilnavaz Mehta thought it would be the last...

Tribute: Kersy Katrak

Tribute: Kersy Katrak

Dec 9, 2008 | , ,

Poet of the soul By KEKI N. DARUWALLA As a poet Kersy Katrak did not get his due, but his poetry had yet to be fully explored and articulated when he died. Katrak’s poetry blends the serious with...

Rebuilding the House of Tata

Dec 8, 2008 | , ,

By Richard Orange When Vehran Irani, a senior staff member, stepped for the first time into the central stairway of the Taj Palace hotel on Saturday, what he saw broke his heart. The walls were shot...

Mr. Terrorist, What A Coward You Are!!!

Nov 29, 2008 | ,

By Noshir H. Dadrawala I had flown in from Hong Kong around 4:00 a.m. on Wednesday 26th November and had planned to leave for Sri Lanka the same night. I had broken journey in Mumbai only so that I...

Lots of Parsis Feared Dead in the Attacks

Nov 28, 2008 | ,

TMYZ readers are reporting that at least two Parsis are confirmed dead. A third unidentified lady is also believed to be a Parsi. Parsi Khabar and all the Parsi community pray for the families of...

Terror Attacks in Mumbai

Nov 27, 2008 | ,

We at Parsi Khabar express our utter condemnation towards the events of last nite and early today. The terror attacks against the citizens of this city is something that is to be abhored. We hope...

For some Parsis, the wait just got longer

Nov 16, 2008 |

Several Parsi families that were allotted flats by former trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) this year have now been put on the waiting list again. On Friday, they were present at the...

He willed for street kids, but sons came in way

Nov 5, 2008 |

Before his death in March 2007, Dr Shapoor Behram Badshah, a rich Parsi living in Germany, wanted to do something for the welfare of Mumbai’s street children. He executed a will, which provided for...

Ancient Blessings Near the Flat-Screen TV

Ancient Blessings Near the Flat-Screen TV

Nov 3, 2008 |

By JAMES ANGELOS for NY Times PERVEZ PATEL, a Zoroastrian priest from Elmhurst, Queens, was wearing a long white robe and a white cotton veil over his mouth that looked something like a surgeon’s...

After Parsis, Sikhs most prone to breast cancer

Oct 24, 2008 |

Disclaimer: This article was published in the Indian Express. The doctor makes a statement about Parsi women being the most prone to breast cancer. I am posting this article hoping that someone...

First to Vote

Oct 21, 2008 |

Jamshed Adrianvala gets a thrill out of being the first to vote at any election. He was there, before anyone else, at the booth during the recent Parsi Panchayet polls too By Mahafreed Irani An...

Big Fight In Small Community

Oct 21, 2008 |

By Neenaz Ichaporia There's a quiet revolution underway in one of Mumbai's most well recognised minority communities. Over the past two weeks, Parsis have been coming out to vote for whom they'd...

Review: Personal Score – Zubin Mehta

Oct 21, 2008 |

Don't look for cheap thrills in Zubin Mehta's autobiography By Rekha DixitI thought it would be hypocritical to write about how good I am, so I've been very candid in my autobiography," said Zubin...

Gieve Patel: Mister Behram

Oct 21, 2008 | ,

Mister Behram and Other Plays puts the spotlight on Gieve Patel, the dramatist Decades have passed since the talented cast and crew of Princes, Savaksa and Mister Behram took a bow. Their stage run...

Parsick Politics

Oct 16, 2008 |

Elderly patients from the Parsi ward of Sir J J Hospital were taken to Colaba on October 11 to vote for elections to the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trust by a candidate without the permission of...

I didnt pull girl off chair: Jehangirji

Oct 15, 2008 |

MUMBAI: On October 5, The Times of India reported a quarrel that took place on the first day of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet elections. The daughter of Khojeste Mistree, who is one of the candidates,...

Parsi Panchayat’s tryst with democracy

Oct 12, 2008 |

By H P Ranina A new chapter has opened in the 300-year-old history of the Bombay Parsi Panchayet (BPP) with the first round of elections having started last Saturday. After years of apathy, the...

Ring in the Symphony

Oct 3, 2008 | , ,

By Anil Dharker Zubin Mehta will be in Mumbai again this month and whichever orchestra he brings with him and whatever music they play, the frenzy is always the s ame. For a lot of Mumbaikars (and...

Parsi Landmarks of SoBo

Parsi Landmarks of SoBo

Oct 2, 2008 | ,

Clamber on for a tour of three Parsi landmarks in the heart of SoBo, each with an interesting story to tell. Mithila Mehta gets you the details Cusrow baug and its interiors The Parsi community in...

Zubin Mehta in Conversation

Sep 29, 2008 | , ,

Interview by Noopur Tiwari Sunday, September 28, 2008: (Zurich) : NDTV's Noopur Tiwari got talking to music maestro, Zubin Mehta about his personal life, his Indianness and his love story with...

Zubin Mehta: The Scores of My Life

Zubin Mehta: The Scores of My Life

Sep 29, 2008 | ,

Zubin Mehta, one of the greatest conductors of western classical music of all times has come out with his autobiography titled The Scores of My Life, published by Roli books. In the book, he writes...