London’s Tamasha theatre will unveil its long anticipated adaptation of the Rohinton Mistry novel A Fine Balance in January next year. The highly acclaimed novel, which was published in 1995 and described by the Guardian as “a masterpiece of illumination and grace” will be on stage for the first time. The book is set in… Continue reading A fine Balance: Theater
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Our own ‘ Sheikh Speare’
Indian Express – New Delhi,India … Khusro Kabrazi, who founded the Parsee Nataka Mandali in 1853, presented Rustom and Sohrab at the Grant Road Theatre (the only theatre in Mumbai those days) on …
Bavarian Rhapsody
Zubin Mehta will enthrall audiences in New Delhi and Chennai next monthNitya Rao New Delhi, November 2: Classical music connoisseurs in the Capital are in for a special treat this winter. The word is out that the Parsi musical maestro Zubin Mehta will wield his magical baton while conducting the Bavarian State Orchestra in Delhi… Continue reading Bavarian Rhapsody
The Parsis of Navsari
Architectonics has an excellent set of pictures on Navsari. Go to the Flickr Set here
Here a Gandhi, there a Gandhi
Mid-Day Mumbai – Bombay,India … The business of baniya (also known as vaniya) or traders. You have Bohri Gandhees and Parsi Ghandys and then there are those abroad who spell it as Ghandi. …
A slice of Lahore in Kolkata
Kolkata Newsline – New Delhi,India … poet, Nabaneeta Dev Sen. The bookstore will also invite eminent Parsi citizens, many of whom have roots in Lahore. Once the book …
Little princesses conquer Persia
The Times Online UK “…After what had seemed an eternity, we arrived at the ancient city of Yazd. Exotic with domes and strange towers, plus a fully functioning Zoroastrian fire temple, it looked — as Katy pointed out delightedly — like something out of Aladdin….”
First Iranians who introduced the art of Poetry
Persian Journal – Iran …are the oldest part of the text, containing the Gathas (poems and songs), the only remaining direct testimony of the religion taught by Zoroaster. …
Many Facets of Iran
The Tribune – Chandigarh,India … Iranians don’t really hate America, they love hamburgers, which are available at every corner, and flush them down with Parsi Cola while scrutinising the …
