India’s Parsis search for new funeral arrangements

India’s Parsis search for new funeral arrangements as there are not enough vultures to dispose of bodies by Leila Nathoo  | Independent UK Katy Gundevia spent her final days in an apartment in one of Mumbai’s designated Parsi colonies, a few hundred yards away from the cavernous, circular wells where her community traditionally disposes of… Continue reading India’s Parsis search for new funeral arrangements

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There’s something about Parsis

Hindi films that churn the box-office mill have never been known to be kind to the diversity of the country’s culture. Without losing much sweat you will find the money-minting Gujarati, the loud-mouthed Punjabi, the bookish Bengali, the drunken Christian, the nasal accented ‘south Indian’, the Nepalese ‘bahadur’. Article by Usri Basistha | Tehelka And… Continue reading There’s something about Parsis

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Heroes forgotten: Searching for the Dinshaws of Karachi

This is the story of a Parsi father and his son; their services for the city of Karachi long forgotten by the non-Parsi community of the city or the country. The father was Edulji Dinshaw, and the son Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw. The city today has hospitals, educational institutes and residential colonies that are products of… Continue reading Heroes forgotten: Searching for the Dinshaws of Karachi

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An adventure 40 years in the making: Noshir Mistry

Regular readers of Parsi Khabar will remember Noshir Mistry and his amazing video motorcycling in Ladakh. This month Nosh and his dad are on an epic motorcycle ride through North India, on two different motorcycles. Below is his first post. Nosh writes I was born in the Indian state of Bihar. Today it is one… Continue reading An adventure 40 years in the making: Noshir Mistry

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