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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 the Iranian term "Patet," signifying repentance. Ashutosh M ShuklaPatet Pashemani | Similar to many Parsis, when Hanoz Mistry...
The Bangalore Parsee Tower of Silence

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...

Dikra, this is how you woo a woman

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...

Navroze Mubarak: Make Good News

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...

Zinia Lawyer: Storming the male bastion

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

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...

Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia

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

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...