Reticent author Cyrus Mistry on Saturday beat off stiff competition from five other writers to become the fourth...

Reticent author Cyrus Mistry on Saturday beat off stiff competition from five other writers to become the fourth...
Parsis don’t have the reverence for the dead that other Indians do and their irreverence is extreme, as shown by...
Die-hard nature lover and ecologist Mehr Fardoonji talks to P. Sujatha Varma about reversing the bio-diversity crisis We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever; the goal is to create something that...
Reclusive writer Cyrus Mistry, whose book Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer has been nominated for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, prefers the classics to the contemporary — books as well as...
In the opening chapter of Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke, Bahram Modi of Navsari, recently married into the Mistrie family of Bombay, is trying to persuade his wealthy fatherin-law to let him get...
As yet another Irani café announces its closure, we revisit the history of the Irani’s popular staple, the humble ‘mawa’ cake By Pooja Vir | Livemint The year 1981 saw the release of Manmohan...
Recently the news about B. Merwan the iconic Irani cafe with the best Mava cakes in the world, shutting down; has brought a sense of gloom over all those who love the restaurant and in fact the...
ZOROASTRIANISM : THE WAY FORWARD 10TH WORLD ZOROASTRIAN CONGRESS – KEYNOTE ADDRESS 28TH DECEMBER 2013 Darius J.Khambata Senior Advocate, LLM (Harvard) [NOTE : This is the written version of the...
10th World Zoroastrian Congress, Mumbai, December, 2013 WRAPPING UP 38 hours of speeches and discussions, 45 sessions, 121 speakers, and I have just 20 minutes to wrap-it-up. So, at best what I can...