In 1935, Khurshed Maneckji Bharucha, the first Indian chief cashier of Tata Steel in Jamshedpur, borrowed ₹3.5 lakh from a friend who owned an island near Bombay. Soon, on an open ground at Bistupur junction, arose a four-storey building with partition walls made of surkhi, a burnt clay and limestone mix. Article by Sharmila Ganesan… Continue reading Echoes in a Parsi attic: How a box of keepsakes opens story of early Jamshedpur via Mumbai
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Alpaiwala Museum: Of opium, fire temples, and sarees: A peek into the world of India’s dwindling Parsis BBC
Tucked away in a lane in the southern end of India’s financial capital, Mumbai, is a museum dedicated to the followers of one of the world’s oldest religions, Zoroastrianism. The Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum documents the history and legacy of the ancient Parsi community – a small ethnic group that’s fast dwindling and resides largely… Continue reading Alpaiwala Museum: Of opium, fire temples, and sarees: A peek into the world of India’s dwindling Parsis BBC
Maharukh Chichgar & Mahazarin Variava: Parsi mum, daughter team up for rare Bharatanatyam debut
A Parsi mother-daughter duo is set to perform their ‘arangetram’ together after years of training in Bharatanatyam. Arangetram, a Tamil word, which means ‘ascent to the stage’, marks a dancer’s graduation to a professional performer on stage. When motivational speaker Maharukh Chichgar, 58, takes the stage at Surat’s Rang Bhavan on Jan 13, it will… Continue reading Maharukh Chichgar & Mahazarin Variava: Parsi mum, daughter team up for rare Bharatanatyam debut
Zarathushti Women’s Herstories: An Oral History Project
The ZXX study was created as a tribute to Zarthusti women and as a way to celebrate their lives. Our aim was to interview Zarthusti women about their lives in order to gain insight and contribute to the gap in literature surrounding this topic. We also wanted to create an insider participatory action project. Most… Continue reading Zarathushti Women’s Herstories: An Oral History Project
The Parsi in history, imagination, life and culture
A series of events in the capital seeks to demystify the fast-dwindling community who migrated to India more than a millennium ago. By Shailaja Paramathma VoN, viewsonnewsonline.com In the Zoroastrian faith, a spiritual force called “Fravashi”, is a guardian angel watching over every man, woman, child, plant, animal, and even the sun and the moon.… Continue reading The Parsi in history, imagination, life and culture
Pallavi Shroff: An Introduction in to Zoroastrianism
This video by Pallavi Shroff is an attempt to inform people about the basic customs, traditions and beliefs of one of the world religions – Zoroastrianism
Parsi Nicknames
From time to time we invite readers to contribute. This article is by Havovi Govadia. The occasion was my brother’s children’s Navjote. Parsis celebrate this “initiation into the Zoroastrian faith” or thread ceremony for their children with a lot of gusto and festivity. The family was sitting down to write down the invitation cards. The… Continue reading Parsi Nicknames
