Imagine standing up at the podium at NASA’s Goddard Space Centre in Washington DC, USA, and lecturing to some of the world’s best brains on leadership, sustainability, conflict and peace? Well, Aucklander Farida Master did just that this year and while admitting to some pre-nerves, this Indian-born Kiwi journalist has heaps of chutzpah and believes… Continue reading Book journey leads to NASA
Category: Books
A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena
A timeless exploration of high-stakes romance, self-discovery, and the lengths we go to love and be loved. Tanaz Bhathena debuts her first novel A Girl Like That recently. About A Girl Like That Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk taker. She’s also the kind of girl… Continue reading A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena
Italian photojournalist Majlend Bramo tells the story of Mumbai’s Parsis
Why did a photojournalist from Florence choose to repeatedly return to Mumbai to document a community of 40,000? Article by Kusumita Das | Mid-Day After the Navjote ceremony of Sara and Azita. This is like a baptism, when a young Parsi becomes a full Zoroastrian. A long ceremony is performed and the child is given… Continue reading Italian photojournalist Majlend Bramo tells the story of Mumbai’s Parsis
Like Sugar in Milk By Majlend Bramo: Pre-Order Now
We are happy to inform our readers about a new book on Parsis, “Like Sugar in Milk” is now available for pre-order. The book by Majlend Bramo shall be launched around Jamshedi Navroze 2018. WHAT: The story of a migration. This is a story that many people might not know. The story of the Parsis,… Continue reading Like Sugar in Milk By Majlend Bramo: Pre-Order Now
Daily Prayers of The Zoroastrian: A Prayer Book
Jiloo Billimoria writes in informing us about a book that she has reprinted. I have recently reprinted the prayer book shown in the picture above. It is a wonderful translation & transliteration of the Daily Zoroastrian prayers into simple English with meanings and insightful explanatory notes which, when read along with the daily prayers, gave… Continue reading Daily Prayers of The Zoroastrian: A Prayer Book
Clouds By Chandrahas Choudhary: Book Excerpt
Two Parsis walk into a bar. And that is (almost) the beginning of a remarkable new novel In Chandrahas Choudhury’s ‘Clouds’, the newly single Mumbai psychotherapist Farhad Billimoria meets Zahra, a vivacious visitor from San Francisco. Zahra giggled. “What a strange lot we Indians are, don’t you think?” “I’ll confess, after years of study I’ve… Continue reading Clouds By Chandrahas Choudhary: Book Excerpt
The Vultures of the Parsi Cemetery
‘The vultures of the Parsi Cemetery’ is from a collection of stories called The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told. The stories are translated by Muhammad Umar Memon. The story has an interesting beginning where all the vultures suddenly stopped visiting the Parsi cemetery one particular day. It says, It was all so unexpected. They were… Continue reading The Vultures of the Parsi Cemetery
