Actress and singer Khushi Sadry, who is a Parsi by nativity, says she made a Punjabi debut in singing because of her...
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Observing Pateti: A Day Of Reflection And Repentance In Parsi Community
Pateti signifies the final day of the Parsi Calendar year before Navroz, the Parsi New Year. "Pateti" originates from...
A new Iranian cookbook puts the spotlight on yogurt and whey
Two weeks before the launch of Homa Dashtaki’s book “Yogurt & Whey,” she threw a party at the California Zoroastrian Center in Westminster, southeast of Los Angeles. For several days she and her...
Bhonu to pick: An RTI effort is reviving lost Parsi recipes
At Mumbai’s Sir Ratan Tata Institute, dishes from the distant past are being archived and served up on seasonal and monthly menus. These include British-era Continental desserts and unlikely...
The Bangalore Parsee Tower of Silence
Those days while travelling on Bellary Road, the highway to Bellary/Hyderabad began at huge Mekhri Circle and few buildings along the highway like the UAS, Kirloskar Factory, AMCO Batteries, Larsen...
Rati Wadia and homemaker Dinoo Damania: We still eat dinner together every single evening
Educationist Rati Wadia and homemaker Dinoo Damania on nurturing a rare 75-year friendshipRati Wadia, 80, teacher & former principal Dinoo Damania, 80, homemakerOver seven decades of meeting...
Job Posting for Associate Professor: FEZANA Professorship in Zoroastrian Languages and Literature
FEZANA is happy to announce that the job posting for the position of Associate Professor: FEZANA Professorship in Zoroastrian Languages and Literature is now online. Share the word amongst academic...
New startup Della Leaders Club set to raise $7 million in maiden round
Newly launched startup Della Leaders Club (DLC), the world’s first technology-enabled global platform for CEOs and entrepreneurs with nearly 2,000 members, is set to raise $7 million (Rs 52 crore)...
Woven In Time: The Story Of The Parsi Gara Sari
They hide within their folds the story of voyages at sea, the old trading routes and the rise and blossoming of an entire community Article By Shaeroy Chinoy | Elle Traditional Indian textiles...
Zarine Viccajee: Parsi community bonded with Awadh via trade and lifestyle
Parsi community may constitute a small section of the city’s population but its contribution to Lucknow in trade and commerce has been immense, said Zarine Viccajee, the fifth generation descendant...
Marzy Parakh Launches 24/7 Outreach To Make Hospital Beds, Ambulance Available
Marzy Parakh, 36; Restaurateur And Founder Of Live To GiveIndia has just five hospital beds per 10,000 Indians, according to a study by the Human Development Report. The results show that out of 167...
Who are the Parsis? – Sarah Stewart and Juan de Lara
Dr Sarah Stewart, Shapoorji Pallonji Senior Lecturer in Zoroastrianism and co-chair of the Institute of Zoroastrian Studies at SOAS, explores the exciting history of the Parsis, from relgious...
Vahbiz Dorabjee on Navroze celebrations: To curb Coronavirus, it will be a simple affair
Vahbiz Dorabjee says, "Every year is usually a nice lavish celebration for us, but right now due to the home quarantine implement to curb the ongoing coronavirus, we are being safe and taking...
I cannot live without Parsi food: Amyra Dastur
When Amyra Dastur walked the ramp in a pant suit for designer Vanessa Pandita at Golfer’s Shot, Good Life Soiree at Morbagh farms in Delhi, it was hard to believe that the new-age actress is...
Dikra, this is how you woo a woman
Editors Note: Recently the hugely successful and fantastically run initiative Jiyo Parsi teamed up with one of India’s oldest newspapers, and the bastion of Parsi news Jam-e-Jamshed; to have a...
Tycoon may withdraw Rs 150 crore donation offer to Parsi hospital
Hong Kong-based Parsi tycoon Jal Shroff may withdraw his offer to donate Rs 150 crore to Parsi General Hospital (PGH) after March 31 if challenges to a controversial agreement are not resolved by...
South Mumbai Zoroastrian Heritage Walk for Children by Team Empowering Mobeds
Yesterday was a sunday of different sorts- the snarling traffic of South Mumbai which has become more painful with the ongoing Metro works seemed to be lesser. Is it the Lagan Navjote season that...
South Bombay varsity to be named after Homi Bhabha
The new cluster university in south Mumbai is set to be called Dr Homi Bhabha University after the notable alumnus of the Institute of Science, the lead college in the cluster. A notification from...
Parsi dadgah in Dadar to complement nearby agiary
It will be situated in the lobby of Della Tower and have an exhibition centre in the adjoining section displaying the history of Zoroastrianism A dadgah — a lower grade fire temple — at Della Tower...
Navroze Mubarak: Make Good News
On the occasion of Jamshedi Navroze 2011 Parsi Khabar would like to wish all its readers and commenters a very Happy and Prosperous Jamshedi Navroze Mubarak 2011. We would like to leave you with a...
Ex-communicated Parsis Get their own Fire Temple
The Rs 2.5-crore shrine was funded by donors like top lawyer Fali Nariman, corporate head honcho Cyrus Guzdar, ex-advocate general Darius Khambhata, industrialist Anu Aga and Pirojshah Godrej...
Zinia Lawyer: Storming the male bastion
THERE'S been a solitary instance in the history of the Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC) when a lady member was elected to its managing committee. Interestingly, Zinia Lawyer, of London Pilsner...
Chalo Jamye: A Food Tour of Udvada
Instead of booking a table at a city Bawa eatery on Parsi new year, drive to Udwada for boi, dal-chawal and patio It's the oldest story of amalgamation, and if Zoroastrian history in India has a...
Banning Priests Controversey: Dinshaw Tamboly Further Clarifies
From Dinshaw Tamboly to Parsi Times with c.c. to BPP July 28. 2014 Editor, Parsi Times, 102, Vikas Building, 11, Bank Street, Fort, Mumbai 400 001. Madam, This is in response to the write up by...
Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia
The Parsis, or Zoroastrians, are an ethnoreligious community unusually invested in the colonial legal system of British India and Burma. In this interactive slideshow, Mitra Sharafi, the author of...
In Conversation with Dinshaw Tamboly
Below is a candid interview with Mr. Dinshaw Tamboly. He speaks to Parsi Times. Parsi Times Reporter Mehrzaad Mogrelia speaks with Mr. Dinshaw K. Tamboly, Chairman of the WZO Trust Funds, and brings...
Parsis confront threat to existence at Mumbai gathering
The world's tiny but hugely successful Zoroastrian community will confront a demographic crisis which threatens its very existence when it gathers en masse in its spiritual home of Mumbai this week....