A report on the anniversary of the Cusrow Baug Agiary filed by Marzban Jamshedji Giara on the TZML email group Seth Nasserwanji .Hirji Karani Agiary located in sylvan surroundings of Cusrow (Khush Raho) Baug at Colaba, Mumbai has the unique distinction of perhaps being THE ONLY AGIARY IN THE WORLD that serves the Parsi Zoroastrian… Continue reading 159th Salgreh of Karani Agiary
Category: Culture
Kiss seals a union in an ancient faith
By Linda Morris November 29, 2005 THE bride wore a delicate sari made of white Indian silk, the groom the ceremonial dress of the dagli or overcoat, also in white. As per the rites of their ancient religion, one of Australia’s smallest, a white sheet, a curtain of separation, hung between them as they sat… Continue reading Kiss seals a union in an ancient faith
A fine Balance: Theater
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
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. …
