Month: December 2013 Articles

How Perizaad Zorabian Left Bollywood And Turned Her Family’s Poultry Business Into A Rs 120-Crore Enterprise

Perizaad Zorabian made her mark in Bollywood with memorable performances on the big screen in the early 2000s. In her relatively short career in the movies, the actress shared space with some of the industry’s biggest names, including Amitabh...

Day 03 at the 10th World Zorostrian Congress 2013

Dec 30, 2013 | 10WZC

Day 03 of the 10th World Zoroastrian started bright and early at the NSCI Complex in Worli, Mumbai. The attendance at...

Day 02 at the 10th World Zoroastrian Congress 2013

Dec 29, 2013 | 10WZC

Day 02 of the 10th World Zoroastrian Congress started bright and early at the NSCI complex in Worli, Mumbai. About...

Day 01 at the 10th World Zoroastrian Congress 2013

Dec 28, 2013 | 10WZC

Finally after weeks of yes and no, the 10th World Congress took off today, 27th December 2013 at the NSCI Complex in Worli, Mumbai India. Over 1200 (not official) delegates gathered from 8:00 AM...

Parsis confront threat to existence at Mumbai gathering

Dec 26, 2013 | Uncategorized

The world’s tiny but hugely successful Zoroastrian community will confront a demographic crisis which threatens its very existence when it gathers en masse in its spiritual home of Mumbai this...

Can India save its Parsi community with assisted reproduction?

Dec 24, 2013 | India, Issues

The size of the Zoroastrian population is in sharp decline, reports Jeetha D’Silva, so the federal government has decided to fund advocacy and in vitro fertilisation in the hope of bucking the trend...

Modern classics: MAZDA Designs

Dec 9, 2013 | Art

Everything in the world is designed. Some consciously, but much of it unconsciously. If design helps and enhances the use and purpose of the object or being, therein lies its success. In day-to-day...

Boman Irani as brand ambassador for Parsis

Dec 9, 2013 | Film, Individuals

Celebrity endorsements are always bound to get the desired attention of the brand they’re promoting. Cashing in on that, the Ministry of Minority Affairs plans to rope in celebs from the...

Caught in a moment : Exhibition of Photography by Shirin Kumaana-Wadia

Dec 7, 2013 | Art, Individuals

To Eternity and Back is the debut photo exhibition by New York-based interior designer and photographer Shirin Kumaana-Wadia. The images encapsulate fleeting-yet-timeless moments in New York City...

Divine Songs of Zarathushtra by Dr. Irach J. S. Taraporewala On FEZANA website

Dec 3, 2013 | Books, Heritage

Dear friend of Parsi Khabar and senior member of the Zarathushti community in North America, Ervad Soli P. Dastur writes in Hello all FEZANA friends: In 1951, Dr. Irach J. S. Taraporewala, an...

Brigadier Furdoon Mehta Meets with Prince Charles

Dec 1, 2013 | Bombay, Individuals

The Prince of Wales met some of India’s last surviving Second World War veterans as he paid his respects to the country’s war dead on Remembrance Sunday. The Prince and The Duchess of...

CONGRESS .. NO CONGRESS…FINALLY CONGRESS!!

Dec 1, 2013 | 10WZC

The 10 th World Zoroastrian Congress is now declared to be on schedule, to be held from the 27th to the 30 th of December 2013. Parsi Times speaks to some Trustees, present and others linked...