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Containing Multitudes: Exhibition ‘Hearts On Fire’ Explores Evolving Parsi Identities

Mumbai’s culture has been enriched and entwined with the Parsi community for centuries now. From the Parsi gara to the nataks to business, the community has contributed immeasurably and been appreciated in return.By Ava Gilder | HomeGrownShantanu...
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A secret Painting of J R D Tata

A secret Painting of J R D Tata

Jan 20, 2009 | ,

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,...

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...

How our own Nadia whipped Bollywood

Feb 26, 2008 | ,

FORGET about GI Jane, Xena: Warrior Princess and Wonder Woman. Cinema's first ass-kicking chick was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Australian who spoke Hindi as she tussled with lions and performed live...

Of Parsi and modern Hindi theatre

Aug 18, 2007 | , ,

PATNA: When it comes to setting standards in theatre, every Bihari Hindi theatre artist or director invokes the lessons learnt at the National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi. Ironically,...

Penaz Masani: Crooning Glory

Jun 22, 2007 | ,

A Parsi who didn't know Urdu, Penaz Masani went on to carve a niche for herself in the male-dominated ghazal domain. The singer talks about her over 25-year-old musical journey For ghazal lovers,...

The Paintings of Jimmy Engineer

Apr 25, 2007 | ,

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...

“Memoirs of Zarir” in Tehran

Apr 20, 2007 | ,

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...

Flaunting Dominion in Ancient Iran

Flaunting Dominion in Ancient Iran

Feb 16, 2007 | ,

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...

Air India Symbol Undergoes Change

Feb 12, 2007 | ,

“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...

Astad Deboo Awarded Padma Shri

Astad Deboo Awarded Padma Shri

Jan 29, 2007 | ,

The phone hasn't stopped ringing at the Antia residence in Parsee Colony for a couple of days. Not that anybody minds. After all, one of their kin, noted choreographer Astad Deboo, has just been...

Kayhan Irani: Artivist with a cause

Kayhan Irani: Artivist with a cause

Jan 26, 2007 | ,

Kayhan Irani's play, 'We've Come Undone,' has been playing to audiences around the nation since 2003. From Harlem to the streets of Baghdad, all the world's a stage for actress, playwright and...

First Iranian Kings of Persian Poetry

Dec 4, 2006 | ,

By Manouchehr Saadat Noury, PhD - Persian Journal INTRODUCTION: According to a great number of eminent scholars and highly respected experts in Persian Literature and Poetry, there are many Iranian...

City’s at the heart of art mart

Dec 4, 2006 |

This was fuelled initially by the wealthy community of Parsis who were known not just for the acquisitions of art, but their appreciation of the arts and promotional activities," an art market...

Lily Don’t be Silly

Sep 30, 2006 | ,

For Parsis, the New Year play is an annual family tradition...and there's one enthusiast who's giving out 500 free tickets! August 18: Philandering husband Savak finds it tough to manage with wife...

Capturing golden moments

Capturing golden moments

Sep 30, 2006 | ,

Meet Armaity Bamanbehram, the first Parsi lady to have completed 25 years as a videographer Armaity Bamanbehram is no stranger in the world of videography. And is quite a renowned name among the...

Shayan Italia: Music Sensation

Shayan Italia: Music Sensation

May 20, 2006 | , ,

Shayan Italia, a new musician in the mainstream music world is all set to release his album Deliverance. As his press release notes My name is Shayan Italia and I am the artist/songwriter of the...

Iranshah in 1909

Iranshah in 1909

Apr 30, 2006 | , ,

This is a photograph of the Iranshah Atashbehram in Udwada, shot in 1909. The photograph is part of the National Geographic archives and was taken by William Thomas Fee. Image source here More info...

The Ghost in the Baghdad Museum

The Ghost in the Baghdad Museum

Apr 3, 2006 | ,

NYTimes FOR the director of a shuttered museum in a country at war, the imaginary can be a welcome refuge. Condemned to contemplate his own and his country's fate in great halls emptied of visitors,...

Heralder of the New Age

Apr 3, 2006 |

Mid-Day Mumbai - Bombay,India... He talks of the musical soirees he attended, travelling far and a field to watch Parsi plays, listening to Tara Bai and takes us to the world of popular music...

Pilgrim Painter: Jehangir Sabawala

Mar 16, 2006 | ,

With his impeccable social graces, his dandy deportment and his luminous painterly style a la Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956), Jehangir Sabavala, 83, hovers between the problematic and the passe. Ever...