At almost 70, the Indian maestro Zubin Mehta is still wowing audiences and dividing critics across the globe. Sholto Byrnes meets him As I wait outside Zubin Mehta’s office, Sir Peter Jonas, formerly the general director of the ENO and now Mehta’s colleague at the Bavarian State Opera, tells me the maestro can still stand… Continue reading Zubin Mehta: Lightning conductor
Month: November 2005
PARZIANA Film Screening
Isabelle Huppert, Ismail Merchant’s films screened in Retro Webindia123 – India … The Naseeruddin Shah-Sarika starrer ”Parzania” about the travails of a Parsi family on the backdrop of the Gujarat riots drew large crowds in INOX screen II. … Film on Godhra leads to fracas at IFFI Outlook – New Delhi,India … Inspired by the… Continue reading PARZIANA Film Screening
Trees hacked in Parsi colony
Mumbai, November 28: DADAR Parsi Colony, one of the few residential areas in Mumbai that still enjoys the shade of hundreds of trees, got a taste on Monday of construction frenzy. Three trees were hacked in the upper middle-class locality in the last two weeks. While an Asoka tree on Plot 795, Jame Jamshed Road,… Continue reading Trees hacked in Parsi colony
Zoroastrian Lawmaker faces slander charges
AKI – Rome,Italy … The faith was founded in about 600 BC by the Persian prophet Zarathustra, who believed he had seen visions of a God he called Ahura Mazda. …
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
Ex-CU Prof. Takes Lit Hum to Harvard
Columbia Daily Spectator – New York City,NY,USA … Aristophanes’ Lysistrata has been replaced with The Frogs, and the Bhagavad-Gita and The Gathas of Zarathustra appear halfway through the course, adding the …
The Buddhas the Taliban destroyed
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan … Two great Parsi women have lived in Pakistan. … Roshan’s Parsi parents perhaps never thought that they were naming her after the bigger Buddha of Bamiyan. …
