The Parsis have been in the news for the wrong reasons. The fractious case which arose from the Bombay Parsi Punchayet’s 2009 ban on two priests continues to make headlines. Earlier this month, a Harvard researcher reminded his Mumbai audience that there are only 69,601 Parsis left in India. Actually, this alarming figure belongs to… Continue reading Bachi Karkaria: Blindly into the abyss
Month: May 2011
Parsi election to be an expensive affair
The election for a single vacant seat for the position of trustee of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) is set to be an expensive affair. With no code of conduct in place, estimates are that the poll expense could be close to Rs1 crore — well over the Rs25 lakh limit set for Lok Sabha… Continue reading Parsi election to be an expensive affair
BPP or Desai Mistry Mistree & Associates
The below is an Op-Ed by regular reader and good friend of Parsi Khabar, Mickie Sorabjee. After baiting and rubbing him the wrong way during the watershed 2008 Bombay Parsee Punchayet elections and after, PTA editorial appears to be the first unbelievable quarter to sua sponte support the sitting Chairman Dinshaw Mehta, and pro bono… Continue reading BPP or Desai Mistry Mistree & Associates
Bombay Parsi Punchayet bypolls from June 19
The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) will hold its by-elections for filling an empty position on its six-member board of trustees on the weekends between June 19 and July 3. The position has been vacant since March 31, when philanthropy consultant Noshir Dadrawala resigned from the board citing reasons of incompatibility with the other trustees. The… Continue reading Bombay Parsi Punchayet bypolls from June 19
HPY: Grooming Parsi youth for college life
Dubai resident Mahfrin Wadia could have travelled anywhere for her summer holidays, but the 16-year-old Parsi had decided months ago that she would spend all of May in Mumbai. Wadia finished her Class 10 exams last month, and is now in the city for the Holiday Programme for Youth (HPY) — an annual month-long activity… Continue reading HPY: Grooming Parsi youth for college life
Understanding Parsi Population Decline: Video and text now available
Below is an email received from Dinyar Patel. Dinyar writes As many of you know, I recently gave at talk at the Nehru Centre in Mumbai on the topic of "Understanding Parsi Population Decline: A Historical Perspective." This talk, similar to the talk that I gave in Houston in December 2010, consults the scholarship of… Continue reading Understanding Parsi Population Decline: Video and text now available
Cyrus Pishevar: Teen Web Innovator in Silicon Valley
Palo Alto’s Cyrus Pishevar, 13, is one of Silicon Valley’s second generation of Web innovators—teens who grew up online, watching and feeding the rise of Facebook and other nearby ventures By Douglas MacMillan | Business Week (Bloomberg) — The Facebook application High School Memories lets people share recollections of their teenage years. It might surprise… Continue reading Cyrus Pishevar: Teen Web Innovator in Silicon Valley
