Month: October 2005 Articles

Parsi Ingenuity

An airplane is flying over the United States at night. The pilot says "Ladies and Gentlemen, we have lost an engine, and need to lighten our load, we have dumped all excess fuel, but the plane is losing altitude. All baggage is being jettisoned." A...
Blog QUAKE Day

Blog QUAKE Day

DesiPundit has sent out a "call to arms" to raise awareness about the recent quake in Kashmir. They are running a...

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. ...

Oilfields in Iran

MehrNews.com - Tehran,Iran The oilfields include Ahvaz , Paznan, Rag-Sefid, Toranj, Parsi, Gachsaran, Aghajari, and Mansuri, which are among the country's important oilfields. ...

MSUM bans suspected cult leader

In-Forum (subscription) - Fargo,ND,USA Feroze Golwalla, a 42-year-old man who professes to be a Christian missionary to the Parsee people of Southeast Asia, was recognized near Bridges Hall on Sept....

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 ...

In Sam’s honour

Mid-Day Mumbai - Bombay,India ... Mahableshwar and Mumbai. He (Sam Tata) visited and photographed whatever was left of many old Parsi homes, also the Ripon Club. "On a personal ...  

Naming the good bay

Mid-Day Mumbai - Bombay,India ... Atop of all is a Parsi tomb lately reared; on its declivity towards the sea, the remains of a stupendous Pagod, near a tank of fresh water, which the Malabars ...

Infertile laws

Hindustan Times - India This is an anomaly that arises out of the personal laws of minority communities (Muslims, Christians, Jews and Parsis) that don't recognise adoption. ...

Times of India – India … Should the…

Times of India - India ... Should the right to adopt a child, currently restricted to Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs, be extended to Muslims, Christians, Jews and Parsis as well? ...