Reticent author Cyrus Mistry on Saturday beat off stiff competition from five other writers to become the fourth...
Month: January 2014 Articles
Death and bawdiness from the Parsi tongue
Parsis don’t have the reverence for the dead that other Indians do and their irreverence is extreme, as shown by...
Mehr Fardoonji: A greenie with gusto
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...
Parsis walk from outside to take my story forward: Cyrus Mistry
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...
How Bombay’s Parsis cracked the opium trade
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...
How the Bombay cupcake survived
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...
B. Merwan and the Irani Cafe: A Fading Icon
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 by Darius J. Khambata
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...
Sam Bulsara: Retrospective on 10th World Zoroastrian Congress 2013
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...