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Month: February 2008 Articles
Decoding the longevity DNA of Parsis
The Avestagenome project, that seeks to plot the genetic and medical database of the Parsi community, expects to start...
Parsi fascination
I first went to Bombay when I was 14 or 15. An uncle worked for an antique store inside the Taj, then the grandest hotel in India, and lived in a rented flat in Bandra. The journalistic offerings of...
Vultures on the brink
The Indian government has a big job on its hands. It is accused today of ‘overseeing’ the decline of tigers. Another iconic creature, the vulture, is also on the brink of extinction and the...
Sooni Taraporevala to direct Little Zizou
John Abraham has added another feather to his hat with his presence in the directorial debut of the internationally acclaimed photographer and screenplay writer, Sooni Taraporevala. The film titled...
Adaptable cooks
Indian Parsis, originally from Persia, absorbed various cultures' cuisines and made them their own On a cool, gray San Francisco morning, Niloufer Ichaporia King, the author of My Bombay Kitchen:...
Jeroo Mulla: Change Through Films
Interview by Mahafreed Irani for DNA India. Jeroo Mulla is the head of department of Social Communications Media at Sophia Polytechnic. She has taught film appreciation for the last 24 years. She...
Jeroo Mulla: Change Through Films
Interview by Mahafreed Irani for DNA India. Jeroo Mulla is the head of department of Social Communications Media at Sophia Polytechnic. She has taught film appreciation for the last 24 years. She...
The battle of Mumbai
Original article by Deepak Lokhande in the Mid-Day Should I be wasting another 400 words on what went on in our city during the last week? I should. For over two weeks, the city remained hostage to...
Nauheed Cyrusi Actor
My taste buds are truly blessed for having inherited both, Iranian and Parsi blood. I get to eat the usual Parsi fare every day, and also get the opportunity to devour the not-so-common Iranian...
Narrow escape for Parsi priests, their families
It was sheer luck that saved three Parsi priests and their family members when the earth caved in the adjoining land where construction work was in progress on Thursday killing a labourer. The roof...
Migrants, your grunts, everyone’s stunts
by Bachi Karkaria in the Times of India I cannot promise to raise a statue of Shivaji in Dadar Parsi Colony. But, in the ultimate cultural surrender, I hereby change my surname to Karkare. Many...
Bombay central
by Haseena Jethmalani in the Indian Express. Come December and I await invitations from our Parsi friends with bated breath. For me, it’s more about the food, though the bhonu is to die for and the...
Boeing partners with Tata for plane parts
Airplane maker creates partnership with India's Tata to make more than $500 million in aerospace components. Boeing and Tata have formed a joint venture for $500 million in aerospace components....
No identity crisis
There was a time when Parsi businessmen and industrialists from Mumbai preferred to employ the ‘Marathi manoos’ in their offices, for he was hard-working, sincere and honest. He had respect for...
Open up to world, Zoroastrians told
Original article published in the TOI He is a man of peace. But whenever he dwells upon the crisis that has begun to loom large over the Zoroastrian community in terms of their dwindling numbers,...
Karanjia and his Blitz
by Vir Sanghvi in the Hindustan Times When my mother phoned on Friday to tell me that Russy Karanjia had died, I was both sad and worried. I was saddened by his passing: I had, after all, grown up...
Orthodox Parsis heckle liberal’s talk
This article appeared in the TOI. The controversy over acceptance of Parsis from mixed marriages into the Zoroastrian fold blew up on Saturday as the orthodox sections of the community disrupted and...
Parsi community caught in contradiction
Paris community is caught in a contradiction, a community whose numbers are fast dwindling but is adamant on shutting its doors on the children of mixed marriages. It is an old debate that has...
Report: 4th World Zoroastrian Youth Congress
Back to the future? this oxymoron was the tag line, the usp for the 4th World Zoroastrian Congress at Ballarat this Australian summer. I was there. And I went back to the future. When I heard the...
Remembering Russy Karanjia
Remembering Russy Karanjia, who died yesterday, exactly 67 years after he founded Blitz, India’s greatest tabloid weekly The story of the life of Russy Karanjia is intimately tied up with the story...
Veteran journalist Russy Karanjia passes away
Veteran journalist Russy Karanjia, the powerful and dynamic editor of the fearless tabloid Blitz, passed away in Mumbai today. He was father of Rita Mehta, editor of Cine Blitz, and brother of noted...
Liberal Parsis take on the orthodox
The Parsi community is set for a showdown with liberals taking on the orthodox, demanding that non-Parsis who have married into the community — and their children — be allowed to convert to the...
Why Blame Ratan Tata for the Nano?
That is the title of a wonderful article by Govindraj Ethiraj. It is the only sensible arguement I have read amongst all the people who are gunning for Ratan Tata for creating more traffic and chaos...