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Sheroo Kanga: St. Jude Walk/Run
No Child Should Die in the Dawn of Their LifeEach September, when the days turn crisp and summer gives way to fall,...
Bringing up the mediums: Parsi Mobeds
Parents make the heartbreaking decision to send their children to residential schools for various material reasons. It's seldom for a cause. But last year, parents of 30 Parsi children decided that...
Parliamentarians and media to view ‘Parzania’ soon
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Parliamentarians and members from the media would soon get to view Rahul Dholakia's controversial film 'Parzania' depicting the plight of a Parsi family during the 2002...
Tehmulji Parsi Lying-In Hospital May be Demolished
Parsi maternity home on the block Tucked away in a quiet lane off D N Road is one of the city's oldest infirmaries--the charmingly named Dr Tehmulji's Parsi Lying-in hospital. Built more than a...
Parsis Are Australia’s most diligent workers
AT last the question on everybody's lips has been answered: The hardest working believers in Australia are are Zoroastrians. With just two religious holidays a year, the followers of the prophet...
Separate religion from politics, pleads Pakistan lawmaker
A Parsi lawmaker in Pakistan pleaded that religion be kept away from politics, creating an uproar in the country's National Assembly and forcing the speaker to switch off his microphone. M.P....
Perin Ferrao: Activist refused to accept a woman’s lot in India
Even as a youngster Perin Ferrao never accepted the conventional view in her native India that women were subordinate to men. Committed all her life to the emancipation of women, the Montreal...
The Song of Kahunsha
Canadian novelist and playwright Anosh Irani pulls back that iconic image of his home city of Mumbai, India -- malnourished and deformed beggar children -- to reveal the tender heart of human need...
The Paintings of Jimmy Engineer
Jimmy Engineer, a Karachi-based artist, has launched prints of his selected paintings. The set includes about two dozen prints of his selected work. The prints include Jimmy Engineer's artistic...
K B Grant: Pune’s ‘Young’ Medical Architect
Pune's 'Young' Medical Architect Despite braving many odds, Dr KB Grant, Founder and Managing Trustee of Pune's Ruby Hall Clinic never dithered from his purpose of providing the latest medical...
“Memoirs of Zarir” in Tehran
Iranian director and actor Qotbeddin Sadeqi plans to stage "The Memoirs of Zarir" at the Chaharsu Hall of Tehran's City Theater Complex in the near future. His troupe, consisting of Mikaiil...
Zoroastrianism dying out in modern times
Many young boys being trained as priests will instead follow other careers Like most 12-year-old boys, Rayan Dastoor watches movies, goes to school and surfs the Internet for the latest tunes by...
Parsis in world can become members of Bombay Parsi Punchayet
In a significant ruling, the Bombay High Court cleared the decks for over 1.25 Parsis in the world to gather under one roof. Justice AM Khanwilkar ruled on Thursday that any Parsi in any corner of...
A war is but a loser’s game
by Farrukh Dhondy I can't remember which teacher it was who ventured to tell us about the Battle of Thermopylae all those years ago. Three hundred Spartans held the pass at the aforesaid place...
Microphones, Planes, and Stereotypes: Those behind the Making of 300
Microphones, Planes, and Stereotypes: Those behind the Making of '300' By Touraj Daryaee and Warren Soward, California State University, Fullerton I have been following reactions to the movie '300'...
Bistoun Complex: Tourist Destination
Bistoun mountain with its world famous myths is annually visited by a great number of tourists from around the world at the beginning of spring. According to cultural heritage experts, the tablet of...
Discovering the Zoroastrian Temple of Yazd
The historic city of Yazd in central Iran is home to a Zoroastrian temple built nearly 1,500 ago. The holy fire which the Zoroastrians hold sacred is ritualistically preserved in the temple. Its...
The Islamization of Europe
Excerpt from a longer article here Mary Boyce, Emeritus Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of London, has confirmed the external validity of Bat Ye'or's analytical approach in her...
Persepolis Today
Two videos showing Persepolis today and a glimpse of the grandeur of what it was in its day.
The King of Cobra is in town
HYDERABAD: It's not exactly the return of the prodigal, because Karan Billimoria has been coming home to Hyderabad every year from London, the city that he has made his own for the past two decades....
Apropos of absolutely nothing at all
Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, I would like to say that whereas the Parsis laid the foundation of Mumbai and gave it some of its most beautiful buildings and colonies, the Gujaratis gave us...
300 Evil-Doers
It's been said that the movie "300" draws certain analogies about the US and its fight for freedom. People say that the Spartan's fight with the Persian armies is a lot like the American struggle...
Inbred Investment Eyes Genomes
Bangalore-based biotech firm Avesthagen is studying an inbred Indian population. Bangalore-based biotech company Avesthagen said Wednesday it has launched a genome project to build a genetic...
Avesthagen launches AVESTAGENOME
Avestha Gengraine Technologies Pvt. Ltd., (Avesthagen) a leading biotechnology company today announced the launch of the AVESTAGENOME TM project, a unique project to build a complete genetic,...
Ardeshir Cowasjee – The Grand Old Man of Karachi
Ardeshir Cowasjee is a renowned newspaper columnist in Pakistan, whose weekly columns appear in the nation's oldest English language daily Dawn. A man of very few words (as the reader will...
Persepolis Recreated
An amazing video of Persepolis, completely recreated digitally.
A Small but Mighty Religion; What we Believe: Zoroastrianism
Mehlli Bhagalia and his wife, Perin, tend a small flame in their home in Carlsbad. Bhagalia said the flame, safe in the fireplace, has been consecrated by the couple's prayers and is only...
Mumbai: Parsi community celebrates Navroze
The Zoroastrian community in India, particularly those in Mumbai, is all set to celebrate the beginning of the New Year or Navroze. For Mehrad Faroudi, this day is special as his grandmother Audokht...
Iranians Celebrate the New Year 1386
Right after midnight on Wednesday, 21 March, Iranians will be celebrating Norouz (new day), the start of 1386, the new Iranian year - a celebration which is at least 2,500 years old. The new year is...
Avesthagen initiates Parsi genome project
Avestha Gengraine Technologies (Avesthagen), a Bangalore-based integrated biotech company, has launched 'Avestagenome', a project to build a complete genetic, genealogical and medical database of...
The Persian king who is remembered every year
He was one of the most illustrious kings of ancient Iran (then called Persia) On 21st March, Parsis and Iranis the world over celebrate Jamshedi Navroze named after the Persian king Jamsheed of the...
300 Reasons To Get Mad
By Firoze Hirjikaka Parsis (Zoroastrians) - in India and abroad - are up in arms over the unflattering portrayal of ancient Persians in the recently released movie '300'. The cause of all this...
Jamshedi Navroze Mubarak
On the occasion of Navroze, we wish all our readers worldwide, a very happy, healthy and prosperous Jamshedi Navroze. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our readers for their loyal...
Persian king a barbarian: Parsis are not amused
Unknown to many, Hollywood's biggest blockbuster of the year 300 , which has caused a major uproar in Shia Iran because of its depiction of a historical battle, denigrates a much-revered Persian...
Rusi Lala writing book on 100 yrs of Tata Steel
It is a history of the makers of steel. Make that Tata Steel. RM Lala, the official biographer of JRD Tata, Beyond the Last Blue Mountain, may be pushing 80 but he is busy with his latest work, The...
The TATA Group
The Tata family has a tiny stake in Tata Sons, the holding company which owns the controlling stake in all the companies under the banner. Ratan Tata himself is said to own about one per cent stake...
Sanaya Ichhaporia: Promising Athlete
Not many athletes can boast of bagging 30 gold medals in their first year of running. But 13-year-old Sanaya Ichhaporia has not only done that but she even goes on to tell all about the 50 others...
Flaunting Dominion in Ancient Iran
The opening of Asia Society's glinting and glowing show of pre-Islamic art from Iran turned into something of a cliffhanger late last week when dozens of objects coming from Paris were held up by...
Persian Festival in Mumbai
As a prelude to eight-day Persian festival in Mumbai, the grandeur of the Persian empire is being re-awakened by the city architect Jimmy Mistry in the heart of the metropolis. It intends to...
JRD Tata and The Infosys Story
It was probably the April of 1974. Bangalore was getting warm and gulmohars were blooming at the IISc campus. I was the only girl in my postgraduate department and was staying at the ladies' hostel....
Vote For Parsi Khabar
We are very happy to inform you that Parsi Khabar has been nominated in the "Best Topical Blog" for the Indibloggies Award. The Indibloggies are the Filmfare Awards of the blogging world. If you...
Parsi theatre academy to come up in Surat
To breathe a new life into Parsi theatre in the state, the first ever Parsi theatre academy in the country will start functioning soon in Surat. The academy is expected to play a crucial role in...
HC verdict on Parsi trust row soon
Come Thursday and the Parsi community will know whether most of the trustees including chairperson Minoo Shroff can continue on the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) board. The Bombay high court will on...
Dwindling Numbers in India
Concerns for dwindling numbers. Seminars on how to save their race. In 1940, when their number in India was a sizeable 1.14 lakh, the community probably never imagined that 67 years later, it would...
Parsi Punchayet trustees can continue to hold posts
The Bombay high court on Thursday ruled that the withdrawal of resignation of the four trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) was valid and they still continue to be trustees. Justice Roshan...
Air India Symbol Undergoes Change
“People trust Air India to carry those nearest and dearest to them, even when they themselves might fly on another airline!†Recognising from carriers like Singapore Airlines how valuable a...
Rebel Parsis ready with agiary plan
A group of reformists acquires land at Malad to build a fire temple that will be open to even spouses of community members married outside the fold It could be an event quite unprecedented in the...
Independent, but serious contenders
From unlikely parties like the AIADMK to the various rebels and activist-independents contesting the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the top brass of every major political party is scanning the...
Tata – integral part of Indian life
We also make steel. This was the triumphant punch line of a happy Tata Steel television commercial not very long ago. The commercial wasn't wide of the mark. If you wake up in India, you are likely...
Zo Child Day for Zorastrian children only!
Organised by Vispy Kapadia, the event saw over 2,600 children from India and abroad participate in the event The fourth Zo Child Day, which took place recently at Shanmukhananda Hall, saw 2,600...
Sorabji Byramji Sanatorium residents allege harassment from BPP…
The 46 Parsi families residing there live in deplorable conditions and according to them the BPP Trust does nothing about it. Instead they want them to vacate the premises, they declare The Parsi...