This fascination with the British monarchy is not just limited to Bomanbehram, 75. Every Zoroastrian Parsi and Irani...
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Century-old Parsi Dharamshala: A point of convergence for Kolkata foodies
Did you ever have Sali Marghi -- tender chicken wrapped in fiery masala and topped off with shredded fried potato?...
Farishte Irani wins Copywriter Of The Year at Cannes Festival 2022
Indian creative professionals have made the industry proud, yet again. They bagged top ranks at the Lions Creativity report, which was released yesterday. The annual report is a definitive ranking...
Lord Karan Bilimoria’s Tribute to Queen Elizabeth II
My Lords, I was in Boston yesterday and at lunchtime, Boston time, I came out of a meeting with one of my Harvard Business School professors, looked at my phone and saw the sad news about Her...
Cyrus Mistry (1968 – 2022): An introvert bruised by Tata battle, took knocks on the chin
The long, messy legal battle was also a fight for his reputation. Cyrus wanted to tell the world that he was doing the right thingWritten by Coomi KapoorAn introvert who shied away from public gaze,...
Arzan Sam Wadia In Conversation with With Hrishi K Radio One 94.3 FM
FEZANA President & Parsi Khabar founder Arzan Sam Wadia on India’s largest English radio station Radio One 94.3 FM speaking with the legendary Hrishi K on Parsi New Year Day. The interview was...
Former Tata Sons chair Cyrus Mistry dies in road accident
Parsi Khabar is saddedned to hear about the passing away of Cyrus Mistry, past Chairman of Tata & Sons and head of the SP Group. He was in a car along with three others returning to Mumbai from...
Rati Cooper’s Memory Honoured at Rajkumar College Rajkot
Rati Cooper was a legendary educator and teacher at the Rajkumar College in Rajkot. Over the decades she taught and made an impact on thousands of students who studied under her. Rati passed away a...
Ba Humata Lecture Series: September 2022
The September 2022 Ba Humata Lecture series Honors Asho Zarathushtra With the Special Theme of Communion in Religion a Zarathushti Perspective The Zarathushti PrayersPlease Join Us For This Amazing...
120-year-old Masina Hospital gets ₹22 crore facelift
The historic Masina Hospital—city’s second oldest healthcare centre, is all set to complete the ₹22 crore revamp of its patient facility in the next two monthsMasina Hospital at Byculla, in Mumbai,...
‘To honor our forefathers’: Replicas of Pestonshahi Siccas mark 175th anniversary of fire temple
The replicas of a few hundred Pestonshahi Siccas were recently created by Kayarmin F. Pestonji, the president of the Old Parsi Fire Temple Trust, on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the Seth...
Ba Humata Lecture Series: August 2022
The August 2022 Ba Humata Lecture Series will be on the topic “Being Human Transforms a Human Being”.SpeakersErvad Kaivan Antia (Australia)Ervad Farzin Yazeshani (Pakistan, India And Iran)Payam And...
The Parsi Nose Project documents a salient feature
Vimadalal’s project took shape during a chat in March about Parsi noses with his husband, stylist Prayag Menon, and a friendThe Parsi nose or the Persian nose, often described as large, with a...
Meet the 2022 World Zarathushti Community Awards Winners
The World Zarathushti Community Awards are held in conjunction with the World Congress every 4 years. The Awards are administered by the Global Working Group who worked with the 12WZC 2022 for this...
‘Jiyo Parsi’: Govt Encourages The Community Members To Get Married And ‘Restore’ Population
The Minority Affairs Ministry has developed a plan to "restore" the Parsi population in India, which apparently has been seen to be dwindling because of little interest in marriage among the...
Ba Humata Lecture Series: July 2022
The July 2022 Ba Humata Lecture Series will be on the theme “Serve and You Shall Be Served” Ushtavaiti Gatha Yasna Ha 43.1This month’s speaker list includesErvad Darayesh Katrak (India)Mobed Dr....
Construction pioneer Pallonji Mistry who took building blocks overseas
MUMBAI: In a congested lane off Girgaum Road in south Mumbai, a nondescript old man dressed in simple white clothes would be seen frequently walking into the city’s oldest Parsi Atash Behram, the...
Buy An Afarganyu Glazed Tea Light
The peace, tranquillity and oneness with Ahura Mazda that we experience when we gaze upon an atash is an inexplicable feeling. The silhouette of the aesthetic Afarganyu with the warm burning pile of...
Modi launches stamp for 200th anniversary of Mumbai Samachar:
Modi launches stamp for 200th anniversary of Mumbai Samachar: Look back at history of Asia's longest-running newspaper The Gujarati newspaper was first published in 1822 as a weekly by Parsi scholar...
2022 Father’s Day Transformational Special MANIFESTATION IN MEDITATION: Part 2
Our friend Meher Amalsad writes in…..FATHER'S DAY 2022 TRANSFORMATIONAL SPECIAL This M&M Show Is Dedicated To All The Fathers Of Humanity And Specially To My Son Arash For His First Father's Day...
Kainaz Amaria named Washington Post national visual enterprise editor
Announcement from National Editor Matea Gold, Deputy National Editor Philip Rucker and Senior Editor for Visual Enterprise Ann Gerhart:We are delighted to announce that Kainaz Amaria is joining The...
Bridging the Opportunity Gap | Freyaz Shroff | TEDxChandivali
As we extend our efforts to address inequity one step at a time, is a society with no economic discrimination in education attainable? This talk by Freyaz K. Shroff focuses on the certainty of it....
Ba Humata Lecture Series: May 2022
The May 2022 Ba Humata talk shall be on the theme Atarsh Niyayesh, Yasna Ha 43.3 And Related PrayersSpeakers: Ervad Solicitor Zerick Dastur from IndiaDr. Dolly Dastoor from CanadaMobedyar Sarvar...
Huban Gowadia named to State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame
LLNL's Huban Gowadia named to State of Alabama Engineering Hall of FameLawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Huban Gowadia has been inducted into the state of Alabama’s Engineering Hall of...
Bombay Parsee Association Celebrates 165th Birth Anniversary of Sir Hormusji Cowasjee Dinshaw (Adenwalla)
THE BOMBAY PARSEE ASSOCIATION PAYS HOMAGE TO SIR HORMUSJI COWASJEE DINSHAW (ADENWALLA) ON HIS 165th BIRTH ANNIVERSARYThe Bombay Parsee Association paid homage to Sir Hormusji Cowasjee Dinshaw...
Roshan Bharucha Felicitated With Pakistan’s Sitara-i-Imtiaz And Balochistan Excellence Award
On March 23, 2022, Pakistan-based Roshan Bharucha – the only Zoroastrian in Pakistan to have been elected as both – Senator and Minister in the Federal Government – was felicitated with the...
Ba Humata Lecture Series: April 2022
The April 2022 Ba Humata Lecture series will featureVada Dasturji Khurshed Dastoor, High Priest of IranShah, Udvada, IndiaHonorable Senator And Minister Roshan Bharucha from PakistanMobedyar Maneck...
Dr. Jasmine Medhora: Extreme Medics
Rescue: Extreme Medics shows how lives are saved in remotest Scotland after injuries on mountains and oil rigsDr Jasmine Medhora trained in London but at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary she is often faced...
First Parsi and Zoroastrian museum opens in Singapore
Singaporeans now have a chance to learn more about the Parsi community, numbering about 350 here, with the opening of a museum on Monday (March 14).Based in Zoroastrian House in Desker Road in...
Mani Clubwala : Obituary
Mani Jehangir Clubwala passed away in Chennai, India on March 10, 2022, at the age of 92 with her sons, Astad and Kaikhushru by her side. She was adored by all and will be missed a great deal by...
Zarine Damri: Meet The Girl Who Rode A Harley
Meet The Girl who Rode a Harley. 102-year-old Zarine Damry tells us about her love for motorcycles. When asked what people thought of her riding a Harley-Davidson up and down Ahmednagar road 80...
Ba Humata Lecture Series March 2022
The March 2022 Ba Humata Lecture Series will feature the following speakersErvad Kaiwan Turel (Hong Kong)Ervad Varzavand Dadachanji (India)Sanaya Master (Canada And New Zealand)Farida Master (New...
Meherangan Celebrated by the Zoroastrian Association of California.
A Jashan was performed on Sunday, February 27th, Meher roj at the ZAC Atashkadeh by Zerkxis and Zarrir Bhandara, which was well attended by a strong crowd of 84 Zarthostis. This Jashan was arranged...
Centre, Parsi community agree on protocol for handling Covid victim bodies, Supreme Court told
Supreme Court accepted tweaked protocol for cremation of dead bodies of Covid patients from Parsi community, after Centre and the community mutually agreed on adopting a standard operating...
Parsee General Hospital Gets New Dialysis Unit
The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital in Mumbai inaugurated a new Dialysis unit on February 10, 2022. The facility was established from the donations Neville Sarkari made to honour his late mother...
Parsi Community welcomes Supreme Court’s new protocols for last rites of Parsi Covid-19 victims
Parsis in Mumbai and Gujarat have hailed the Supreme Court’s approval of a revised protocol for disposing of bodies of Parsi Covid-19 victims that re-allows for last rites as per the Zoroastrian...
Caretaker, son held for ignoring 77-yr-old Parsi man’s sickness causing his death
The case was registered on December 15, over a year after the man, identified as Yezdiar Edel Behram, died, after which the police arrested the duo as the investigators ascertained that the they...
Professor Mahzarin Rustum Banaji will receive a 2022 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has awarded the 2022 Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences to Mahzarin R. Banaji, the 2010–2011 APS President and an APS William James Fellow...
SII CEO Adar Poonawalla calls for faster vaccination at World Economic Forum
Adar Poonawalla made the statement as a panelist during the ‘Meeting the Challenge of Vaccine Equity’ session organised by the WEF.MoneyControlThe vaccination rate needs to be faster worldwide for...
Dr. Cyrus S. Poonawalla to be conferred with Padma Bhushan 2022
Parsi Khabar is thrilled to announce that Dr. Cyrus S. Poonawalla has been awarded the Padma Bhushan Award by the Government of India. This is India’s third highest civilian award and Dr. Poonawalla...
Covid-19: Bombay Parsi Punchayet backs usual funeral; priest says can’t silence rules
The BMC has barred the Parsi practice of letting the bodies of community members dying of Coronavirus decay naturally saying traces of the virus could spread through pallbearersMost Parsis are...
Zerbanoo Gifford: Remembering Bishop Desmond Tutu
Our dear friend and mentor Zerbanoo Gifford pays tribute to the great humanitarian of our times, Bishop Desmond Tutu, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his work fighting the inhuman...
Noted advertising and theatre personality Burjor Patel dies at 91
Patel was the former vice-president of marketing, Khaleej TimesArticle By Nithin Belle | Khaleej TimesEminent advertising and theatre veteran Burjor Patel has passed away early Tuesday morning. The...
Kersi Deboo Appointed as Member in National Commission of the Minorities India
Parsi Khabar is happy to share the news that Kersi Deboo has been appointed as the Parsi Zoroastrian representative on the National Commission of the Minorities India. Kersi is a lifelong resident...
Dina Homi Sethna: Oldest member of Karachi Parsi community celebrates her 107th birthday
KARACHI: The geriatric ward at the infirmary of the Bomanshaw Minocher-Homji (BMH) Parsi Medical Relief Association was decorated with pink, white and gold balloons. You could see flowers everywhere...
Ba Humata Lecture Series: November 2021
The November 2021 Ba Humata Series will feature Ervad Brigadier Behram Panthaki (USA)Ervad Farmaan Dastoor (India)Zariab Karkaria (New Zealand)Dr. Merezban Katrak FRCS. (UAE)Dr. Karishma Koka;...
Why Air India going back to Tatas could be an example of successful privatisation
Tata’s management efficiency will allow Air India to better exploit operating assets like the lucrative routes to South east Asia, Latin America and Australia. With simple improvements in...
Return of the prodigal son: Air India back in founder Tata fold after 68 years
The prodigal son has returned. The government on Friday announced Tata Group as the winning bidder for Air India, clearing the way for the cash-strapped Maharaja going back to the founder exactly 68...
They Helped Build Modern India but Are Shrinking as a People
Parsis have supported many of the country’s institutions and nurtured business and the arts. But their numbers have dwindled at an alarming pace.Khurshed Dastoor, a Parsi priest, at his house in...
Ba Humata Lecture Series: October 2021
The October 2021 Ba Humata Series will present Ervad Cyrus Darbari (India) Mobedyar Omid Mehrayin (Iran & USA) Dina McIntyre (USA) Sanaya Khambatta (United Kingdom) Moderated by Dr....
Farida Master: In Hunt of the Elusive MIQ Lottery to Return To New Zealand
MIQ’s Hunger Games begin Former Times news editor Farida Master shares her experience from Canada of an anxious four-hour wait in the new MIQ Virtual Lobby with 22,909 desperate Kiwis ahead of her...
Parsi population in India is certainly dwindling’ says veteran Indian journalist Coomi Kapoor
A Parsi herself, Kapoor has penned a book about her community, Veteran Indian journalist Coomi Kapoor, who herself is a Parsi, has penned a definitive book about her community, The Tatas, Freddie...