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Massiah Foundation challenge gift to fund UCI chair in Zoroastrian studies
$1.5 million endowment will establish first chair of its kind in the U.S. The University of California, Irvine has...
Davar’s College : Unassuming heroes
For more than a century, Davar’s College of Commerce and Secretarial Studies and Practices at Fort has been an affirmative force behind the empowerment of Mumbai’s womenPassing through the Fort area...
Fall from glory: Prof Pithawala holds up a mirror to India’s oldest law college
Prof. Pithawalla, who has been teaching at the GLC for 46 years, says lax attendance, poorly-paid teachers are among its sore spots Prof. Homiar Pithawalla has been witness to the peaks and troughs...
University of Leiden Seeks PhD candidate in Iranian Studies-History of Religions
PhD candidate in Iranian Studies/History of Religions (2 positions of 1.0 FTE) University of Leiden – Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion Qualification type:...
Dr. Jamshed Bharucha to Lead SRM University in Amravati Andhra Pradesh India
In the heart of one of the world’s leading economies, a major transformation is underway. A recent redrawing of state boundaries has named Amaravati the new capital city of the Indian state of...
A school of our own: Mama Parsi School in Karachi
I REMEMBER the wooden floor. It makes sense, as little children are closer to the floor, and I was at the time just that. It was my first foray into the world, my first time without my mother,...
Zoroastrian Faculty Network Formed
Announcing Formation of the Zoroastrian Faculty Network (ZFN) - A Joint Project of the GWG and WZCC Dr. Farrokh Mistree has been a long term advocate for WZCC to develop a Zoroastrian Faculty...
SOAS awarded £5million gift to create world-leading Institute of Zoroastrian Studies
SOAS University of London has secured a £5 million donation to create the world-leading SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies. The donation will enable the creation of the SOAS...
Pourdavoud Center for ancient Iranian studies to launch spring quarter
UCLA established a new interdisciplinary center focused on the study of ancient Iran and its influences on contemporary Iran. The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is the first...
Sanaya Bharucha Speaks at United Nations Youth Panel for Financing Global Education
Sanaya Bharucha, 28 years old, from Pune, India; works as Senior Manager - Training and Support with Teach for India, was selected as part of the United Nations Youth Panel for Financing Global...
Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina To Be Yarshater Lecturer At University of Toronto
The University of Toronto will now offer Avestan and Pahlavi language courses at the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, thanks to a $250,000 USD...
Lord Karan Bilimoria and Bahram S. Bekhradnia Awarded Honorary Doctorates from University of East Anglia
Lord Karan Bilimoria and Bahram S. Bekhradnia, two distinguished Zoroastrians in the United Kingdom were awarded honorary Doctorates from the University of East Anglia. In an announcement...
With 95 candles on cake, Mama Parsi still going strong
UPDATE: This article was erroneously published again. The original publication date is April 2013. Mama Parsi Girl’s High School was decorated with garlands of marigold, rangoli and handmade posters...
Funding Parsi Higher Education in India
The US based non-profit Foundation for Excellence (FFE www.ffe.org) has developed a financially sustainable method for higher education for the smart and talented youth in India. The San...
Lord Karan Bilimoria Named Chairman of Cambridge School’s Board
Indian-origin British entrepreneur Lord Karan Bilimoria has been appointed as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the prestigious Cambridge Judge Business School. Bilimoria, 54, Founder and...
Zarin Malva: Montessori Teacher Extraordinaire
Here are some things that, in all probability, you have been doing completely wrong all your life. Thinking that your child is averse to what is around them; considering them a ball of fluff that is...
Shaheen Mistri’s Teach for India: Read, Baby, Read
It’s 5 p.m., but even at this late hour, the 50-some sixth-graders in Rushali Daga’s Mumbai classroom are bopping in and out of their seats. It’s the last class of the day; the kids belong to the...
Surat’s Garda College’s lost glory to be restored
A new governing body in S B Garda Trust, one of the oldest Parsi educational trusts in south Gujarat, has brought to an end differences simmering for two decades and also controversies involving its...
Cooper Union’s President Jamshed Bharucha Quits
The fight over the future of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, an arts and engineering college in New York City, came to a head this week as five members of its Board of...
Parsis Want Courses in Zoroastrianism at University of Bombay
The Parsi community wants the government to encourage universities to start courses on Zoroastrian studies. At a recent meeting with the National Minority Commission, the Parsis put forward their...
Tata Hall at Harvard: A new jewel along the river
Harvard Business School dedicates Tata Hall, which will support executive education program Harvard Business School (HBS) officials marked the completion of the campus’ executive education quad with...
Dr. Mehroo Bengalee Mumbai University’s first lady VC, dies at 84
TNN reports: As sunlight would stream in through the rose window, it would illuminate the face of a prominent figure seated in the first row of the Neo-Gothic convocation hall of Mumbai University....
Lord Karan Bilimoria named Birmingham University Chancellor
LONDON: Prominent Indian-origin entrepreneur Karan Bilimoria has been appointed as the new Chancellor of the UK's prestigious University of Birmingham. Lord Bilimoria, the 52-year-old India-born...
Celebrating Sheryar Ookerjee
What is remarkable is the ability of a community to laugh at itself and allow others to laugh at them: Ookerjee has done just that in his book Altamount Road and Other True Stories. Article by...
The Everlasting Flame Exhibition SOAS London UK
The Everlasting Flame Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination Kirdir inscription at Naqsh-e Rajab. Photograph – Khojeste Mistree One of the world’s oldest religions, Zoroastrianism originated...
Meet Headmistress Parvin Rabadi of Mama Parsi School in Karachi
Parveen Rabadi left Lahore in 1974 to join the Mama Parsi Girls’ High School in Karachi – little did she know that the love and affection of being part of the school’s legacy would not let her go...
Vistasp Karbhari officially named President of University of Texas at Arlington
The University of Texas System Board of Regents has named Dr. Vistasp M. Karbhari president of The University of Texas at Arlington effective June 1. The Board unanimously approved the appointment...
Patuck College: Mumbai's innovative school for the poor
From Newsx.com In our Good News section, we have a heartwarming story that makes schools a welcome prospect instead of a scary one. Even as the youth of the nation engages in heated debates about...
Jamshedi Navruz: A Detailed Explanation of the Calendars
Jamshedi Navruz, March 21st and thereabouts: Zarathushtis have been celebrating Navruz, which falls around March 21st since time immemorial, since our Peshdad King Jamshed celebrated it first and...
Innovator Educator Jamshed Bharucha Inaugurated As 12th President of The Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ushered in a new era for the esteemed 152-year-old institution with the inauguration of its 12th president, cognitive neuroscientist Jamshed...
Patuck Polytechnic Trust: Educational Institute
How many of us Parsis know that there is a reputed school and college of commerce and management in Mumbai, which provides free education to Parsi students? As a minority community institution 50%...
Aspi Damania: Home-Tutor Par Excellence
School students in Powai and particularly in Hiranandani are well familiar with the name of 'Damania Sir'. He has been giving private tuitions and guiding youngsters in Powai for the last twelve...
BMC show cause notice to unrecognised school in Dadar: Ranina Day Nursery
J.M. Ranina School, in Parsi Colony, Dadar which has more than 100 students received a show cause notice from the local civic authorities on April 11, for not getting the school approved by the...
Jamshed Bharucha Named President of Cooper Union in New York
Cooper Union, the highly selective Manhattan college known for its free tuition, plans to announce on Monday that it has chosen the provost and senior vice president of Tufts University to be its...
Deena Mistri, former principal of BVS Parsi High School, dies
Deena Mistri, the great-granddaughter of the founder of Bai Virbaijee Soparivala (BVS) Parsi High School, and its former principal, passed away on Thursday at the age of 85. She had taught there for...
Khorshed Maneck Bharucha: Tribute to a Teacher
The junction of Mancherji Joshi Road and Lady Jehangir Road near Five Gardens in Dadar was formally named "Principal Khorshed Maneck Bharucha Chowk" on August 14, 2009. Social worker...
BVS Parsi High School Karachi celebrates 150 years: Postal Stamp Issued
KARACHI - On the eve of completion of hundred and fifty years of Bai Virbaiji Soparivala Parsi High School, Karachi, the Pakistan Post has issued the commemorative stamps of Rs. 5 each. The stamps...
Faith-building lessons for Parsi children
By Naomi Canton for the Hindustan Times, Mumbai, April 26 VOLUNTEER TEACHER Sethari Irani (26) asked a group of 20 Parsi children why bad things happened to good people. "Because Ahriman (the...
Kushti Prayers: The Correct Protocol
Prescribed Method of doing Paadyaab-Kushti Originally featured in Dini Avaz, Mar.-Apr. 1999 PAADYAAB The Paadyaab is an important step while performing the Kushti. The Kushti is incomplete without...
Parsi Contribution to Academics in Western India
Did you know that Bai Avabai Petit Girls' School, an elite Bandra institution, was once an orphanage for destitute Parsi children? Or that JB Petit High School for Girls was not a Parsi institution...
BPP Roundtable Discussion on Education Policy
The below is a report by Zubin Madon. In an unprecedented move, the BPP trustees called a brainstorming meeting to discuss the education program for Parsi youth at Jimmy Mistry's Della Technica....
Parsis too seek reservation in govt jobs
All these years they have never asked for any favour from the government. In fact, they favoured the government by building hospitals, colleges and research institutions in the city. However now,...
Sam Eruch Irani Educational Trust.
SAM ERUCH IRANI MEMORIAL EDUCATIONAL TRUST is founded on June 13, 2006 with a view to advance some charitable objects like encouragement and spread of education, research and other charitable...
New class at Stanford explores Zoroastrianism
New class explores ancient religion Popular faiths rooted in Zoroastrianism Zoroastrianism, the world’s oldest revealed religion, is the focus of an introductory course this quarter taught by...