Month: March 2007 Articles

Mumbai: Parsi community celebrates Navroze

The Zoroastrian community in India, particularly those in Mumbai, is all set to celebrate the beginning of the New Year or Navroze. For Mehrad Faroudi, this day is special as his grandmother Audokht has come visiting all the way from Yazd, Iran....

300 Reasons To Get Mad

By Firoze Hirjikaka Parsis (Zoroastrians) - in India and abroad - are up in arms over the unflattering portrayal of ancient Persians in the recently released movie '300'. The cause of all this...

Navroze Celebrations

Navruz: An evening crammed with joy For Zorastrians, Navruz is a time to eat, drink and celebrate. But in recent times, the festival has lost its zest as people leave celebrating to those precious...

Parsi Demographic Statistics

This article was sent to us by our regular reader Dilnaz Mory Indian census data (2001) records 69,601 Parsis in India, with a concentration in and around the city of Mumbai. There are approximately...

Warring over ‘300’

In a scathing attack on the producers of the movie 300, Maneck Bhujwala comments Barry Koltnow's article, the "Mighty Spartans" [Entertainment, March 9]quotes comic-book artist Frank Miller saying,...

Scrapbooking Projects

Although the Iranian government has condemned " Scrapbooking Projects 300" as insulting to the Persian civilization, the film has been packing them in at movie houses across the country. This is...

JRD Tata: Man of steely values

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata is an easy man to write about. With his iconic status and corporate accolades, JRD the businessman could have overshadowed JRD the man and yet the book 'Forever Jeh'...

Parsee Matrimony in Poem

A funny poem forwarded by a friend. Read on We are all somehow related Often times even belated. At reproduction they're not the best By working in banks they get their rest. The community is...