The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Parsi Punchayet to file an affidavit stating the number of flats under...
Month: April 2009 Articles
The Origins of Zoroastrian Priesthood in India
By Ervad Marzban J. Hathiram, Panthaky, Ustad Saheb Behramshah N. Shroff Daremeher, Jogeshwari, Mumbai. All...
Oldest Fire Temple Turns 300
By Nauzer Bharucha I tnn Miunbai: For the 45,000 Parsis in Mumbai, Friday is a special day - not only will they celebrate the birthday of fire, considered to be the son of god, but will also observe...
Dilshad Ukaji: Make-up Artist
'My work instills self-confidence in people' Meet young makeup artist Dilshad Ukaji. At the age of 25, she is assisting one of the biggest names in the Indian makeup industry -- Cory Walia -- and...
Funeral procedures for Parsis Deceased Abroad.
By Ervad (Dr.) Hoshang J. Bhadha The following funeral procedure for shipping the mortal remains to India is prepared for the Zoroastrian community in the United States. The given procedure and...
300th Anniversary of Banaji Limji Agiary Celebrations
More than 1,000 Parsis flocked to the city’s oldest fire temple to celebrate the Zoroastrian Feast of Fire, which fell on the agiary’s 300th anniversary. The Banaji Limji Agiary, in Banajit Street...
An Overview on Zoroastrianism
This is a very well compiled overview on Zoroastrianism by Khushnaz Bode. Life before birth of Zarathushtra Thousands of years ago a race called the Aryans settled near the Middle-Asian Valleys....
Celebrating the Atash nu Parab
By Firoza Punthakey-Mistree courtesy of Zoroastrian Studies. On Adar Ruz, Adar Mah, the Parsis of India celebrate the feast of Fire known as the Atash nu parab. This feast is celebrated...
Decades later, split wide open
It is seen as a landmark case. After 40 years as man and wife, a Parsi couple is fighting a bitter divorce battle. Roshan Cooper, all of 74, has dragged her 80-year-old husband Dadi Eruchshaw to the...
150 years of the Thoothi Agiary
Shernaaz Engineer informs us of the 150th anniversary of Sorabji Thoothi Agiary at Walkeshwar, Mumbai People have birthdays, and places do too. Sacrosanct places that are awash with a vibrancy which...
BPP Elections: Looking Forward
This is an Op-Ed piece by Arzan Ghadially, a frequent contributor to Parsi Khabar. Finally The Bombay Parsee Panchayat elections are over and time for the Trustees to get back to some more fights in...
Parsi Khabar on Twitter
We are happy to announce that Parsi Khabar is now on Twitter. If you are on twitter, please add us to your follow list Our twitter handle is @parsikhabar or you can easily find us here...
India, Iran to hold seminar on Iran and Zoroastrianism
The Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) and India’s Cama Oriental Institute are to hold a seminar on Iran and Zoroastrianism on April 27. ICRO International Department Director Khalaj...
Cinema in India and Iran: Will past open the doors for future?
We have same beginning, same memories and same cultural roots. Yes this is the story of India and Iran, at the beginning of past century. When first Persian talkie Dokhtar-e-Lor (Lor Girl) produced...
Armaity Tirandaz Wins BPP Trustee Elections
Parsi Khabar has been informed from various sources that Armaity Tirandaz has won the elections for the 7th Trustee position at the Bombay Parsi Punchayat. She won with a clear majority of 650...
Understanding Tata in the UK Business Scenario
IT is six months since we revealed that Tata, the owners of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), had asked the government to help the struggling British carmaker. Since then things have moved slowly – so slowly...
No more Farzins
Concerned community comes together for last prayers for shunned half-Parsi child who died of starvation By Manoj R Nair in the Mumbai Mirror Neglected in life, Farzin Batlivala - the seven-year-old...
Was Homi Bhabha’s plane hit by Italian aircraft?
On January 24, 1966, Air India flight AI 101 Mumbai-Paris crashed on Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps on the border of France and Italy. Amongst the 117 passengers killed was noted nuclear...
A Taste of Persia, and Old Bombay: Irani Chai Restaurants
By Kavitha Rao MUMBAI | As Mumbai’s classical architecture gives way to skyscrapers, the curious traveler needs to be quick to see those parts of old Bombay that still remain. There were once...
Parsi couple seeks divorce after 40 years of marriage
A Parsi couple, married for 40 years, is fighting a legal battle for divorce in the Bombay High Court which has asked both life partners to settle their dispute amicably without any further...
Parsi Punchayet bypoll an expensive affair
The electorate is a measly 9,000, but the expenditure being incurred by two of four candidates in a Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) by-election is an eye-popping Rs40 lakh. The irony is, Rustom...
India’s Youth Vote Rises From Ashes Of Mumbai Attacks
MUMBAI -- Before the November terrorist attacks on this city left three of his friends dead, Kaizad Bhamgara, 19, spent his evenings jamming with his hipster goth-rock band or chilling on the...
Mumbai’s Parsi Restaurants: Get It While It’s Hot
TIME Magazine: Deena Guzder With the warmth of an endearingly eccentric relative, 86-year-old Boman Kohinoor of Britannia Restaurant, tel: (91-22) 2261 5264, in south Mumbai, exclaims, "You...
BPP Says It Tried to help Ferzin Batlivala’s Mother.
Yesterday we reported about the really tragic story of little Ferzin Batlivala who died due to starvation. Here is a follow up article. In a case before the Bombay High Court on housing for poor...
Farzin Batlivala: 7 year old found starved to death
When neighbours broke open the door of Farzin Batlivala’s house and rushed the inert child to the hospital, doctors were horrified to find not a single particle of food in her body By Manoj R Nair...
Parsis and National Politics of India
We Parsis have had a long tradition with politics at the national, state and city level. Dadabhoy Navroji was one of the founding fathers of the Indian National Congress in the late 19th Century. He...
NYC Persian Day Parade 2009: New York City
Here are some great images from the recent Persian Day Parade held in New York City. These pics are from flickr user Sepideh! photo stream
Maneck Engineer: An Interview
Shernaaz Engineer interviews Maneck Engineer, one of the front runners in the election for the lone seat left vacant by the passing away of BPP Trustee Rustom Tirandaz Today the community is split...
Armaity Rustom Tirandaz: An Interview
Shernaaz Engineer interviews Armaity Tirandaz, wife of recently deceased BPP Trustee Rustom Tirandaz. What does one call you – Rabri Devi (as you have recently been rechristened) or Armaity Rustom...
Bangalore Dasturji in Critical Condition
Received via email on a newsgroup It is unfortunate that Ervad Jamshed Unvalla, younger brother of our departed Bangalore High Priest Nadirshah Unvalla has suffered burns to 70% of his body....
Dokhmenshahi in UK: A contrarian view
Farrukh Dhondy, noted writer, talks about religious funeral practises in a recent article in the DNA India. It talks about a petition filed by a Hindu UK resident to be allowed in death to be...
Iran: The Forgotten Glory: DVD
Iran: The Forgotten Glory is a two part DVD Movie about the Persia of yore. "Shot in over 60 locations in the province of FARS and 5 years in the making, “IRAN, The Forgotten Glory” is the first...
Vispy Kapadia Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award
Noted karate coach Vispy Kapadia was recently awarded Lifetime Achievement award by Union home minister P Chidambaram for his service to various wings of the police force, including the special task...
Nowruz Celebrations in China: Xinjiang Uyghur
Nowruz Festival is a traditional holiday with a long history. In Xinjiang, all national minority believe in Islam celebrate the festival. The word came from Iranian, means “Spring Water“, equating...