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Parsi Wells in Navsari become Rainwater Harvesting Tanks

News 18 Gujarat has a video segment on the topic Parsi's foresight, wells became rainwater harvesting tanksThe segment is in Gujarati, but explains the historic nature of the wells in Parsi Mohollas100 years ago the entire Navsari district had a...
Buy Vs Rent: In Conversation with Boman Irani

Buy Vs Rent: In Conversation with Boman Irani

On this episode of #PaisaVaisa, Anupam meets the real estate giant Boman Irani- President-Elect, CREDAI and Chairman & MD at Rustamjee. Boman shares his thoughts on the real estate market, its...

Sisters in struggle

Sisters in struggle

Madam Cama first fluttered the Indian flag to the world in August 1907, paving the path for Bombay Presidency’s feistiest women patriotsBhikaiji Cama, the early catalyst for free India. Pic...

The Irani Aviator And His Flying Machine

The Irani Aviator And His Flying Machine

The Irani doctor of Dahanu and his flying machineDr. Behramshah Mazda, MBBS, was on the phone. Talking to me from Dahanu. Hometown of the Zoroastrian Iranis. About 120-km from Mumbai by road. I was...

Part and Parsi of Madras

Part and Parsi of Madras

This Madras Day, members from one of the oldest communities in the city speak through their traditions, roots, cuisines and culture.Amid the clamour of a bustling Royapuram lies the Parsi fire...

Feroze Gandhi’s grave lies forgotten

Feroze Gandhi’s grave lies forgotten

Feroze Gandhi may be the patriarch of the Congress's first family, but the party as well as his family members seem to have neglected his cemetery in Allahabad, now rechristened as Prayagraj.As per...

Remembering the Parsi community of Amritsar

Remembering the Parsi community of Amritsar

The Parsi community, known for its entrepreneurial and philanthropic activities, has been a significant part of the history of Amritsar. The city, known for its open heart and the ability to...

The Delhi Parsi Aramgah

The Delhi Parsi Aramgah

Walking through any cemetery is bound to stir feelings. And perhaps even more so in this secluded graveyard in central Delhi that belongs to the rapidly dwindling Parsi community, descendants of a...

The Mahatma’s Parsi connection

The Mahatma’s Parsi connection

The nation remembered its Mahatma - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - on his 148th birth anniversary on Monday. Gandhi had great respect for people of all communities and religions, including the...

Senior Citizen Day Celebrated at Navsari Center

Senior Citizen Day Celebrated at Navsari Center

October 1st is Senior Citizen’s Day. 100 school children from the Sett RJJ High School in Navsari visited the WZO Trust Funds Senior Citizen’s Centre to meet our Senior Citizens. The students had...

Jiyo Parsi Phase 2 to focus on counselling

Jiyo Parsi Phase 2 to focus on counselling

The second phase will be launched on July 29 by the Union Minister of minority affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who will be in Mumbai for it After a successful 20 per cent increase in the birth rate in...

101 babies in 3 years – Jiyo Parsi

101 babies in 3 years – Jiyo Parsi

Studies conducted by the National Commission for Minorities, and other joint studies conducted by Parzor and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, have identified several reasons for the decline in the...

Return To Roots 2017 Trip Applications Open

Return To Roots 2017 Trip Applications Open

Parsi Khabar has been associated with the Zoroastrian Return To Roots Program since its inception in 2013. Over the last three trips over 45 Zoroastrian youth from all over the world have had an...

The Parsi Caregivers of Kolkatta

The Parsi Caregivers of Kolkatta

I have a dreaded fear that I am sharing in the open. When I grow old, I may become feeble. When I become old, my children may be far from me. When I grow old, I may become lonely. In perhaps no...

Kolkata’s Parsi community on the wane

Lesser known in the city than in Mumbai, the community arrived here from Surat in the late 18th century Their rise here parallelled the consolidation of British power in eastern India and the rise...

Debate on Navjote ceremony in Delhi

Debate on Navjote ceremony in Delhi

Even as the debate of rights of children from Parsi mother to non-Parsi father and Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is being debated in the community, a case of a Navjote ceremony on a boy born to Parsi...

Where Did All The Vultures Go ?

Where Did All The Vultures Go ?

Raghav Mandava takes the disappearance of the vultures in India head on. In a hard hitting video he lays the problems out head on.   Written & Performed by - Raghav Mandava Director -...