SHAPURBAUG: A retired school teacher is trying to cull out fables and legends about the Parsis in a bid to retrace the...
Month: March 2006 Articles
Norouz in Kyrgyzstan
Norouz has been celebrated for at least 3000 years and is deeply rooted in the ritual and tradition of the Zoroastrian...
Curry boss in bid to save India’s vultures
[email protected] 15 March 2006 THE boss of an Archway curry house is helping spice up a new campaign to save India’s vultures from extinction. Cyrus Todiwala, who owns The Parsee, in...
Agiaries will go high-tech
‘Parsi Resource Group’ (PRG) aims to strengthen pillars of Parsi community – its Agiaries, priests and youth.. Jimmy Mistry, an architect by profession and owner of Della Tecnica,...
Zoroastrians use Internet dating to rescue religion
Zoroastrians use Internet dating to rescue religion MUMBAI, India — After trying for four years to have a baby, Khorshed Bulsara called on her fellow Zoroastrians for help. She tapped into a...
Indian Cowboy
Throughout Indian Cowboy, performer and playwright Zaraawar Mistry asks us to “connect the dots” of his narrator’s life. Yet the dots don’t necessarily add up in this...
Dadabhai Naoroji on British currency notes
The image of Dadabhai Naoroji, the first ever Asian MP to enter the House of Commons in 1892, may soon be printed on British currency notes, if the recommendation of an influential Labour Party...
Gender, Race, and Spectatorship in Early Indian Cinema
These are the choice of men to play women’s parts, and the use of European or ‘white’ actresses posing as Indian. Both these masquerades can be located in prior theatrical...
Old pacemakers win hearts
Most families at the rally had cars that had been in the family for years, like AR Dadachanji, a Parsi priest, who took his family for a spin in their 1939 Morris-8. “It’s from the same...
Kurshetji murder puts spotlight on Parsis
The Adi Kurshetji murder case of May 2003, which culminated in the conviction of the accused on Friday, has exposed the soft underbelly of the Parsi community. With an increasing number of aging...
The Truth About Secret Societies
Parsi (Persian Zoroastrianism) influence is also seen in the Kusti ritual where each day they would tie a sacred cord around their waist. The fact that the Templars were accused of holding a ritual...
“Farsi” or “Persian” ?
“Farsi” or “Persian”?: Persian (Iranian) people in the English-speaking countries are the only community who use two different terms to refer to their language,...
Love, death and adjectives in Mumbai
Two for one, three for two: no noun without an adjective, never a single adjective where two or more will do. Silence is “utter”, hatred “raw and naked”, puddles...
The Space Between Us;
A new novel by Thrity Umrigar; WHEN was it that you last thought of your household help as human? More importantly in a crunch who would you trust — the help or your own family? Sera Dubash, a...
Originality is my forte
He is 34 and says that originality is his forte. Homi Adajania’s debut feature film, Being Cyrus (English), hits theatres soon. “The story was rejected by publishers but I thought of...
Cursetjee’s Rs 35-cr property has no heir
Two weeks after the suicide of 73-year-old Adi Cursetjee’s adopted daughter Geeta Soni (35), no one knows who will inherit Cursetjee’s Rs 35 crore wealth. Legally, though, the property...
Minoo Pirojshah ‘Dada’ Mistri : Rock solid architect…
Rock solid architect of Teen Talwar leaves this earth KARACHI: Karachi has many landmarks, but none stands out more in the popular imagination as Clifton’s Teen Talwar. The Three Swords, as...
Boman’s secular choices of roles!
Boman’s secular choices of roles! Of late probably there is one actor who has been very secular in his choice of roles. He has played a catholic in Home Delivery. He plays a Parsi in Being...
India through her eyes
At 92, India’s first and most famous woman photojournalist, remains as active as ever. HOMAI VYARAWALLA, 92, seems fuelled by some benign supernatural energy. She rustles up gourmet chicken...