How Mumbai-based Parsi Dairy Farm built a 109-year legacy of trust and purityDebolina BiswasFourth generation...
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Timelessness Is at the Centre of Our Aesthetic and Practice: Ashdeen Lilaowala
Known for reviving and reimagining the intricate art of Parsi Gara, designer Ashdeen Lilaowala now extends his craft...
Migrants are Mumbai’s shapers, not its shame
By Bachi Karkaria, Jug Suraiya's Second Opinion (January 4) may be dead-on in blaming India's ersatz modernity for what happened in Mumbai , but it is way off the mark in also damning the city's...
Parsi Bike Rally in Mumbai
Watch out for the Parsi bikers as they criss-cross through the city on January 6 for peace. Organised by the Parsi Resource Group, the rally will begin from the Dadar Parsi Gymkhana. The...
Tata Pulls Ford Units Into Its Orbit
LONDON — When Ratan Tata visited the home of the designer Ralph Lauren last autumn, the two auto enthusiasts spent much of their time in the garage, admiring Mr. Lauren’s extensive car collection,...
Godrej is all set to unlock greater value in Mumbai
The Godrej business group recently commissioned a London marketing agency to redesign its brand image. The aim was to dust down the dowdy Godrej of Almira cupboards to something smarter befitting...
Faces of enterprise: Ratan Tata
After celebrating his 70th birthday on Friday, Ratan Tata would in the normal course of affairs be facing mandatory retirement from the Tata Group. Two years ago, however, India's most respected and...
UP Parsis Have only One Mobed
The Parsi community is facing a unique problem. With only one Parsi priest left in the state, the community is facing difficulties in performing religious rituals. Such is the situation that now...
Wish You a Great New Year 2008
Shirrin, Mehernaaz and Arzan, the three contributors at Parsi Khabar wish all our readers a very happy, healthy, prosperous, peaceful and safe New year 2008. We would like to take this opportunity...
4th WZYC: Small in number but big in spirit, Zoroastrians lay claim as the original greens
IT IS one of the world's oldest major religions, and certainly the smallest, but according to its followers its impeccable "green" credentials make it the ideal religion for the 21st century. About...
4th World Zoroastrian Youth Congress, Ballarat, Australia
Parsi Khabar is proud to say that one of our very own authors, Mehernaaz Sam Wadia shall be in attendance at the 4th World Zoroastrian Youth Congress. She forms part of a large bunch of youth from...
Tower of Silence, Zoroastrian charnel house
A Tower of Silence is the place where Zoroastrians laid their dead to rest in the life-giving power of the sun. Zarathustra is the ancient Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism 3500 years ago....
Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum
Community treasures The more popular spot off Hughes Road might be a city bookstore but a rewarding experience awaits the curious at the Khareghat Memorial Hall, in the Khareghat Colony a few metres...
Sanaya Ichhaporia: On The Right Track
Her favourite subject is history and she has already made history. Sanaya Ichhaporia, a VIII standard student from Christ Church school, is the only athlete to have ever set two records in the MSSA...
Ratan Tata: Top 25 Powerful People of 2007
In Fortune Magazine?. and on BusinessWeek?.as one of the Top 25 most important people and the Tata Car as one of the Top 25 Trends of 2007 This is Ratan Tata's year truly Technorati tags: Tata,...
Among the Zoroastrians
The Washington Post has a great feature titled “Among the Zoroastrians” Jackie Lyden vividly brings out the culture and lives of the few Zoroastrians still living in the desert plateau of Yazd,...
Resurrecting Feroze Gandhi
Bharuch, a bustling town in south Gujarat known for its peanuts, may not be an Allahabad or Amethi for the Gandhi family, but it is getting special treatment from the Congress. The party is going...
Farzeen Daver: A ‘Sari’ affair!
Not just popular in its traditional avatar, the Parsi gara with a 'contemporary twist' is also making waves today, finds Ismat Tahseen MUMBAI: A Tag Heuer watch, Jimmy Choo suede boots and Kenneth...
Zarina Mehta: An Interview
Founder Member UTV & CEO bindass 11:00 am Wake up time! I love to sleep as late as possible on a Sunday. My idea of a terrific Sunday is to laze, eat and spend time with my family. 11 am -12.30 pm...
Indian Parsis seek NCM’s help to dispose of dead
NEW DELHI: India's official National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has come to the rescue of the tiny Parsi community, which is worried over the disposal of their dead because of the dwindling...
Spinning the yarn
Perveez Aggarwal tells story behind her creation: the traditional Parsi gara embroidery MUMBAI: She wears her years as gracefully as she does her saris. Parveez Aggarwal became a model by chance, at...
Khada Parsi statue at Flora Fountain set to get facelift
The Khada Parsi, the statue of Shet Cursetjee Manockjee erected in the memory of the illustrious Parsi in the 1860s, was made to order after his youngest son Manockjee Cursetjee shelled out Rs...
Giving up the Ghosts
By Farrukh Dhondy My twenty something daughter refused to sleep in her own room the other night. She had memories of the room at the back of the house on the first floor not far from where the other...
Tanaaz plays mom to hubby
Tanaaz and hubby Bakhtyaar Irani love to have fun. In fact, "we are both mad" is how they describe themselves. Now the two are set to do something even more crazy. Tanaaz will play Bakhtyaar's...
Iranian temple under excavations
Ruins of a Zoroastrian fire temple in western Iran. A joint Iranian-Polish team has started excavations at the site of the Azar Barzin Mehr fire temple in Sabzevar, northeastern Iran. Iran's...
Faithful few embrace Zoroastrian ideals
CHICAGO -- When a group of young Zoroastrian people gathered around a bonfire in a Chicago suburb to pray for their religion's survival, they sang a modern hymn of their adopted homeland with a...
We Are Getting Wiped Out
[Note: The following article expresses the views of Dr Fredie Mehta, the well known executive in the Tata house Are we imparting any religions knowledge to our children? Dr Fredie asks. Every other...
Doctor prescribes kadak pao-er
For consumer knowledge expert, Vispy Doctor, cooking is destressing. "He wooed me with this dish that you'll taste today," says his wife. The dish is akuri, essentially a Parsi breakfast dish made...
Dwindling numbers: Parsis at the fire temple in Secunderabad.
HYDERABAD: In a bid to understand the genetic factors, which are apparently leading to high incidence of various kinds of ailments among members of the Parsi community, a project named...
With courage let us all combine
Friyana Billimoria - Friyana Billimoria, in year 11 at Kingswood College, Box Hill, is Youth Ambassador for the Metropolis Migration works if everyone embraces it wholeheartedly. MANY centuries ago,...
Bawas of Bambai rejoice!
The objective of the event was to bring the youth together, put the community resources to use and give the young blood a platform to a world of opportunities. Architect Jimmy Mistry's NGO Parsi...
Lunch with Karan Bilimoria
Cobras eventually get their prey and that's what's keeping this successful UK brewer going despite limited luck in India and none in the US or China. "Kingfisher." Karan Bilimoria's ears perk up in...
Shayan Italia in Top 10 of Britain’s popular music chart
A young Indian has made a dazzling debut in the international music market, whizzing to the top ten of Britain's popular TV Airplay Music Chart even before his album is officially launched....
Experts to determine fate of Naqsh-e Rustam
Experts to determine fate of Naqsh-e Rustam TEHRAN, Sept. 23 (MNA) -- A week-long study by experts will determine the fate of the Achaemenid site of Naqsh-e Rustam in southern Iran's Fars Province....
I’m basically shy of attention: Boman
Actor Boman Irani, who played a disgruntled dean in the medical satire "Munnabhai M.B.B.S." to perfection, says he is the "luckiest guy" on the planet as Bollywood is offering him specific and...
Sons And Other Flammable Objects By Porochista Khakpour
Sons And Other Flammable ObjectsBy Porochista Khakpour. 398 pages. $24. Grove Press. By Judy Budnitz In the opening scenes of Porochista Khakpour's novel "Sons and Other Flammable Objects," we meet...
Kangelu Fortress waterproofed for Anahita rituals
Archaeologists surmise Kangelu Fortress waterproofed for Anahita rituals A team of Iranian archaeologists working on the Kangelu Fortress in northern Iran's Mazandaran Province have put forward the...
100 years since Jamshedji Tata met Charles Perin
Chronicling the journey of Tata Steel KOLKATA: The door to a small, crowded office in New York opened. At a table covered with books sat Charles Page Perin, a geologist and metallurgist, renowned...
Railway Construction near Naqsh-e Rostam Stopped
Following strong oppositions made by Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) with construction of railway near Naqsh-e Rostam, security guard of ICHHTO has stopped...
Powai’s ‘Parsi’ Connection
Originally published on PLANET POWAI [Article Link] The renowned site where Powai Lake stands known as Framaji Kavasji was Powai Estate. It was in 1890 that the Britishers dug out the lake at a cost...
A World Of Silence
A friend recently attended the last journey of a Parsi friend and noted how a Parsi funeral was so peaceful, had a sense of calm, but in the same breath she wondered whether this kind of 'quiet'...
Ancient Persian influence on Hinduism
Ruby Lilaowala | Friday, August 17, 2007 10:28:58 IST The Aryan settlers who lived in Persia and later, in India, had a lot in common by way of phonetics, language, spirituality and reverence for...
Zoroastrian Fires and Temples
Standing before a sacred fire, Zoroastrians pay homage to a creation that represents life and the power of Ahura Mazda. There are three kinds of sacred fires in Zoroastrianism, each standing for one...
Stalwarts of Our Past: Dadabhai Naoroji
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917) At some point, his picture stared out from our history textbooks. A bespectacled man with a stiff Parsi hat, Dadabhai Naoroji was the Grand Old man of India. He was the...
FTII Award for Parsi Themed Film
Parsi Wada, Tarapore -- Present Day, a film that talks about the present and future of the Parsi community in Mumbai, has won cameraman Paramvir Singh the award for Best Cinematography (Rajat Kamal...
Stereotyping Parsis
It's often the quirks of a community that become its identity and set it apart from the rest. But with India becoming so globalised, are we still that ethno-centric? Yes, says Homi Adjania, the...
Trueroots: TATA Launches Long Distance Calling Service to India
Parsis celebrate ‘Pateti’ with fervour
Mumbai, Aug. 20 (PTI): Parsis in the metropolis heralded the Parsi New Year (Pateti), with traditional gaiety and fervour today. Besides visiting friends and relatives, preparation of sweets like...
Young keepers of the flame
Parsi Food Hub In Bandra
With a municipal vegetable market (Pali Market) nearby and lined with grocery stores, this road is also rather active during the day. After a hard day's shopping for groceries, people often like to...
Why gatecrash a Bawa lagan? Parsi bhonu…
The minute you told someone you were Parsi, they'd crib about how they never got invited to Bawa weddings, their only chance at nirvana after downing Patra ni Machchi. The load on our conscience is...
Pateti Mubarak
A celebration of Zoroastrians and their lip-smackers Mumbai, August 19: It may not be accompanied by public ceremonies or street dancing, but Pateti or Parsi New Year is a 'Mumbai' kind of day. It's...