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Madagascar’s Enigmatic Rock-Cut Architecture may have been of Zoroastrian origin
An international team of researchers found an enigmatic rock-cut architecture at Teniky, a site in the remote Isalo...
The Ghost in the Baghdad Museum
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,...
Going to UDVADA on Behram Roj
Going to Udvada on Behram Roj is a custom that a lot of Parsis followd. I personally know of a coupleof people who go religiously (pun intended) every single Behraom Roj. The following is an...
Norouz in Sistan va Baluchistan Province
People of Zabol in Sistan va Baluchistan province start the celebration of the New Year from the last five days of the year. Panjak traditional ceremony is held in Khajeh Mountain during these days....
Makkah, the birthplace of Islam was a Hijazi…
Khaleej Times Makkah, the birthplace of Islam was a Hijazi trading haven rich from the Red Sea caravan trade between Yemen and Byzantine Syria, a place where a Syrian monk, a Persian Zoroastrian...
Udvada Where The Fires Are Always Burning
CYRUS H. MERCHANT describes and FARZANA CONTRACTOR photographs Udvada for the UpperCrust. A tribute to the Holy City of the Zoroastrians on the occasion of Jamshedi Navroze today. The 20th day of...
The palaces of Iran
Iranian Ben Sarjhi has been photographing the architecture of his homeland for many years. The whole collection is found here
The Magi of the East
‘the Magi’. Now, historically, the magi were well known as astronomers, interpreters of omens and dreams, even kingmakers whose duties included electing the king. But more importantly, they were the...
Agiaries will go high-tech
'Parsi Resource Group' (PRG) aims to strengthen pillars of Parsi community - its Agiaries, priests and youth.. Jimmy Mistry, an architect by profession and owner of Della Tecnica, has launched...
Pleasure palace
... Its walls have seen so much, heard so much, kept so many secrets, shared so many memories - built in 1903 by the Parsi industrialist Jamsetji Tata (his Tata ... Read on...
Capturing the magic
Pune Newsline - Pune,India ... twin sons. This Parsi lady made history when when she was elected as the first non-white woman Liberal councilor in 1982. The founder ...
The Buddhas the Taliban destroyed
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan ... Two great Parsi women have lived in Pakistan. ... Roshan's Parsi parents perhaps never thought that they were naming her after the bigger Buddha of Bamiyan. ...
Iranians, Founders of the World Empire
They are unaware of the fact that Iran enjoys a 9,000-year-old civilization which, based on historical accounts and what historians believe, shines so brilliantly in the world that such false talks...
Zoroastrians mass graveyard: National monument
"The mass graveyard, in which the Zoroastrians laid the bodies of their lost ones in old days, was endowed to the cause. Therefore, it was taken by Zoroaster's disciples as a sacred site. "Up to a...
Death of Yazdgerd
Georgia Straight - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada ... in the seventh century. A Zoroastrian priest and a military commander come across their ruler's body in a mill. His skull has ...
25 Years Ago: Hotels in Bombay
Mid-Day Mumbai - Bombay,India One is patronized by Hindi film heroes, the other by affluent Parsi widows, and both have a fair share of Arab guests, who are their bread, their butter and ......
1939: Bombay then..
Mid-Day Mumbai - Bombay,India ... The development of the suburbs and the opening of new Parsi "colonies" are rapidly relieving the terrible congestion from which the city has suffered for ......
Ancient parsi coins unearthed
Madikeri Karnataka | October 05, 2005 4:45:44 PM ISTA copper vessel containing 190 ancient coins, was dug out from a coffee estate at Kelakodli village here recently, police said today. Continue...
The Mehregan Feast Persian Journal – Iran …
Persian Journal - Iran ... after Norouz .Though most Iranians have heard about Mehregan, unlike Norouz it is not celebrated by all and is mainly regarded as a Zoroastrian festival. ...
A brand-new tribute to mark an ancient ‘new day’
San Francisco Chronicle - United States ... Azerbaijan's capital. "It's said that Zoroaster (the religion's prophet) traveled in the Caucasus. I believe he actually was here. The ...
In Sam’s honour
Mid-Day Mumbai - Bombay,India ... Mahableshwar and Mumbai. He (Sam Tata) visited and photographed whatever was left of many old Parsi homes, also the Ripon Club. "On a personal ...
The Parsi in the Presidio
The Sepia Mutiny reports "...Following up on their account of South Asians in the American Civil War, Francis C. Assisi and Elizabeth Pothen describe the life and times of one Conjee Rustumjee...
First human settlement identified at Jaam
IranMania News - Iran ... Dashti said that she studied the Zoroastrian scripture Avesta, the Holy Qur?an as well as the Jewish Torah and came to the conclusion that the earliest human ...
Karan Bilimoria’s father passes away
HindustanTimes.com UK edition - India ... Amongst other awards, he was given the Federation of Parsi Zoroastrian Anjuman of India's Colonel Adi B. Tarapore Award for Excellence in the Military Field...
Pasargadae Will Never Drown
Recently we posted about The Islamic Republic of Iran having embarked on the finalizing stages of a dam construction in south of Iran that would have ultimately drowned the archeological sites of...
Exhibition: The World of Ancient Persia.
CHN.com the 80-odd works that are the centrepiece of the museum’s next show, opening on Friday, called Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia.
Fairgrounds of Faith
Mumbai Newsline But long before Lalbaug became the official host of Ganapati celebrations in the city, it was home to rich Parsis, mainly the Wadias, who were allotted vast lands in the...
Cyrus The Great could teach the US something about war!!
Guardian Unlimited Present-day US fears about an Iranian-dominated super-state embracing southern Iraq and the Gulf have a basis in historical fact, according to an exhibition charting the exploits...
The genius of Sam Tata
Mid-Day.com An unabashed admirer of the Parsi community, I am often bedazzled by the exploits — in many cases, unknown and unheralded — of sons of that faith, who have brought name and glory to...
Remembering Freddie Mehta
Express India Dr F.A. Mehta, Freddie to friends, got his PhD in economics from LSE and was the first recruit to the now famous Tata Administrative Service. The year was 1956. They kept the candle...
Save Persepolis
The Islamic Republic of Iran has embarked on the finalizing stages of a dam construction in south of Iran that will ultimately drown the archeological sites of Pasargad and Persepolice, the ancient...
Persian Fire: The first world empire and the battle for the west
Independent - London,England,UK ... to the Lord Ahura Mazda: god of light and life, implacable enemy of the Lie, whose worship - founded by the prophet Zoroaster (Zarathustra) - centred on ...
Come September and it’s Bandra feast time
Afternoon Dispatch & Courier - Bombay,India ... By now everybody knows that the link between Mahim and Bandra was courtesy two Parsee individuals, Sir and Lady Jamshetjee Jeejeebhoy. ...