Opinion Articles

Aapro Fali: The Parsi Community’s Pride and Constitutional Authority With a Twinkle in His

"Aapro Fali", the Parsi Community's Pride and the Constitutional Authority With a Twinkle in His EyeFali Nariman always had time for good causes, even for reporters looking for free advice.Fali Nariman (1929-2024). Photo: X/@RahulGandhiArticle by...

Open Letter to the Editor of Jame Jamshed

Below is a reader submitted open letter to the Editor of Jame Jamshed. Dear Ms Shernaz Engineer, I am a reader and well-wisher of Jame Jamshed our grand 184 year old newspaper. The 5 pages dedicated...

A Parsi Trupti, please

A Parsi Trupti, please

Parsi women have tolerated discrimination for over a century, and there's no-one to fight for them. Trupti Desai's efforts to seek equality between the sexes in matters of worship have been on the...

Speaking Tree: Ahura Mazda Ahura Mazda

Speaking Tree: Ahura Mazda Ahura Mazda

Threads of Continuity — an exhibition on philosophy and culture of Zoroastrians in India is currently on in Delhi. MONA MEHTA reports on what she learnt about the Parsis from the show Half way...

The Achaemenids At Ankleshwar

The Achaemenids At Ankleshwar

As the Everlasting Flame exhibition gets ready to make its India debut on March 19th in New Delhi, we bring you a critique of the original exhibition in London in 2013.   The Achaemenids At...

Dara Rivetna: My Sojourn At Navsari

Dara Rivetna: My Sojourn At Navsari

My dear wife Dinsoo passed away at the WZO Trust Funds Senior Citizens Centre at Navsari on 24th December 2015 around 7 am. EXPERIENCES OF MY SOJOURN AT NAVSARI  By Dara M. Rivetna, Chicago. I...

We’re Zoroastrians first

Often, during first-time meetings with non-Zoroastrians, when I identify myself as a ‘Zoroastrian’, I get a puzzled look in response. When I say ‘Parsi’, they ease up and smile and promptly quote a...

Parsi beloved community of India

Parsi beloved community of India

Man, I love Parsis. And director and photographer Sooni bawaji, the term of respect for an older Taraporevala in her charming lm Little Zizou. Bombay, the city I was born and raised in, was built on...

Nisaba Godrej: The ‘ovarian lottery’

Nisaba Godrej: The ‘ovarian lottery’

Why you don’t need to wait till you’re a grandparent, to start passing it forward Disclaimer: I’m not a philanthropist. Not by the conventional definition anyway—that to fit (and foot) the bill, you...

There’s something about Parsis

There’s something about Parsis

Hindi films that churn the box-office mill have never been known to be kind to the diversity of the country’s culture. Without losing much sweat you will find the money-minting Gujarati, the...

Nat Geo Parsi: Rahul Da Cunha

Nat Geo Parsi: Rahul Da Cunha

And so I’m sitting in Albless Baug at a Navjote — (for the unintiated, that’s the Parsi thread ceremony to initiate little Perizaads and Khushrus into Zoroastrianism). In this case, my hearty,...

Dear Najmaji, I have a plan to save Parsis

The below is an article written by Farrukh Dhondy. Unlike the Dodo, we are not being killed and eaten. Parsis are probably the only species on Earth who are doomed to extinction through our own...

Opposing forces find each other: Jim Taylor

Ancient Zoroaster got a few things right. Zoroaster, whose name was probably closer to Zarathustra before the Greeks tinkered with it, lived in eastern Persia about 2,000 years before Christ. He’s...

Outside the homeland, inside the community?

From Mumbai to Toronto, Parsi identity is no simple matter The Parsi story starts with an exodus. My ancestors left Persia a thousand years ago, fleeing religious persecution, and finding a new home...

Jerry Pinto: The Parsis

In the 1970s, Victoria High School, Mahim, was a melting pot, as state-aided Roman Catholic schools tended to be. The majority of the students were Hindu, the second largest group was the...

Parsis and Jews, Exile and Return

At the turn of the 16th century, the Portuguese discovered an eastern passage to India that afforded them easy access to well-priced goods and to India’s natural wonders and human curiosities. ...

A Wish List for 1380 Yz

The following is an article by Ervad Marzban J. Hathiram on Frashogard.com On 16th June, 632 AD, Yazdegard, son of Shaharyar ascended the throne of Iran as the 29th King of the Sassanian dynasty. As...

Ta-Ta to TATA

When Apro Ratan goes, can doom be far behind? By Bachi Karkaria / TNN Bomsie surveyed the pall of gloom which hung over Mumbai's Dadar Parsi Colony. "Eh, Kawsie," he said, "Soo...

Two eyes, two ears, one mouth

There needs to be a willingness among people of every faith to sit with someone of a different religion and listen. By Cyrus Bahrassa /Student Life I am going to be skeptical and assume you’ve never...

The Zarathushtra Effect

His admirers claim he was the first to teach monotheism, the existence of heaven and hell and the final triumph of good over evil. Plato and Aristotle revered his wisdom. Raphael included him among...

Small Yet Significant

The Parsi community in the city continues to play a vital role in the field of education and business Indian Express While the dictionary defines them as members of Zoroastrian origin who came to...

Thinking Big

In the 10th century, a group of Zoroastrians arrived from Iran on the shores of Gujarat, India, and sought refuge in the kingdom of Jadi Rana in Sanjan. An oft-told tale then describes a meeting...

The Exodus

She calls it the U-Trip. Setting out from Karachi, 15-year-old Rosheen Birdie plans on visiting every major hub of Zoroastrians in the world, just so she can find one to marry. It’s not so easy to...