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Month: December 2007 Articles
Pentangular cricket in Calcutta
Celebrating its 100th year this season, the Calcutta Parsee Club is going to conduct the Jiji Irani Parsee Pentangular...
4th WZYC: Small in number but big in spirit, Zoroastrians lay claim as the original greens
IT IS one of the world's oldest major religions, and certainly the smallest, but according to its followers its impeccable "green" credentials make it the ideal religion for the 21st century. About...
4th World Zoroastrian Youth Congress, Ballarat, Australia
Parsi Khabar is proud to say that one of our very own authors, Mehernaaz Sam Wadia shall be in attendance at the 4th World Zoroastrian Youth Congress. She forms part of a large bunch of youth from...
Tower of Silence, Zoroastrian charnel house
A Tower of Silence is the place where Zoroastrians laid their dead to rest in the life-giving power of the sun. Zarathustra is the ancient Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism 3500 years ago....
Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum
Community treasures The more popular spot off Hughes Road might be a city bookstore but a rewarding experience awaits the curious at the Khareghat Memorial Hall, in the Khareghat Colony a few metres...
Sanaya Ichhaporia: On The Right Track
Her favourite subject is history and she has already made history. Sanaya Ichhaporia, a VIII standard student from Christ Church school, is the only athlete to have ever set two records in the MSSA...
Ratan Tata: Top 25 Powerful People of 2007
In Fortune Magazine?. and on BusinessWeek?.as one of the Top 25 most important people and the Tata Car as one of the Top 25 Trends of 2007 This is Ratan Tata's year truly Technorati tags: Tata,...
Among the Zoroastrians
The Washington Post has a great feature titled “Among the Zoroastrians” Jackie Lyden vividly brings out the culture and lives of the few Zoroastrians still living in the desert plateau of Yazd,...
Resurrecting Feroze Gandhi
Bharuch, a bustling town in south Gujarat known for its peanuts, may not be an Allahabad or Amethi for the Gandhi family, but it is getting special treatment from the Congress. The party is going...
Farzeen Daver: A ‘Sari’ affair!
Not just popular in its traditional avatar, the Parsi gara with a 'contemporary twist' is also making waves today, finds Ismat Tahseen MUMBAI: A Tag Heuer watch, Jimmy Choo suede boots and Kenneth...
Zarina Mehta: An Interview
Founder Member UTV & CEO bindass 11:00 am Wake up time! I love to sleep as late as possible on a Sunday. My idea of a terrific Sunday is to laze, eat and spend time with my family. 11 am -12.30 pm...
Indian Parsis seek NCM’s help to dispose of dead
NEW DELHI: India's official National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has come to the rescue of the tiny Parsi community, which is worried over the disposal of their dead because of the dwindling...
Spinning the yarn
Perveez Aggarwal tells story behind her creation: the traditional Parsi gara embroidery MUMBAI: She wears her years as gracefully as she does her saris. Parveez Aggarwal became a model by chance, at...
Khada Parsi statue at Flora Fountain set to get facelift
The Khada Parsi, the statue of Shet Cursetjee Manockjee erected in the memory of the illustrious Parsi in the 1860s, was made to order after his youngest son Manockjee Cursetjee shelled out Rs...
Giving up the Ghosts
By Farrukh Dhondy My twenty something daughter refused to sleep in her own room the other night. She had memories of the room at the back of the house on the first floor not far from where the other...
Tanaaz plays mom to hubby
Tanaaz and hubby Bakhtyaar Irani love to have fun. In fact, "we are both mad" is how they describe themselves. Now the two are set to do something even more crazy. Tanaaz will play Bakhtyaar's...