Month: March 2016

Zoroastrian Americans of New York Inaugurate their Newly Built Cultural Community Center

As the rising morning sun shone down to provide its soothing warmth, enlightening light and nurturing energy to the dedication of the newly built Arbab-Rustm Guiv Dar-e-Mehr Zoroastrian Temple (DMZT) in Pomona New York, the procession of the whitely attired Zoroastrian cloaked Magi, the Mobads, congregated from temples all over the world, entered the prayer… Continue reading Zoroastrian Americans of New York Inaugurate their Newly Built Cultural Community Center

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Want to get an insight into the Parsi way of life?: The Everlasting Flame International Program

We know them as dressed in mostly white, with prayer caps, cooking great food and very industrious. We romanticise them, their descent, make movies about them and make them interesting characters in our novels. But the Parsi community is slowly vanishing with dwindling numbers and sooner or later will be limited to the romanticism we… Continue reading Want to get an insight into the Parsi way of life?: The Everlasting Flame International Program

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What It’s Like to Have to Date Someone of Your Religion to Save It From Extinction

Anna Irani, 29, greets a friend at a Nowruz event hosted by the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Washington at Kamran Dar-e Mehr on Saturday, March 26, 2016. Irani attended the event with her father.

When Parsi Zoroastrians, having fled Persian persecution, arrived on Indian soil sometime between the 8th and 10th centuries, the story goes, an Indian ruler sent a cup full of milk. The intention, clearly, was to convey that India was filled to the brim. The Zoroastrian king inserted either sugar—or in some tellings, a ring—and sent… Continue reading What It’s Like to Have to Date Someone of Your Religion to Save It From Extinction

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A New Dar-E-Mehr is Born in New York !!

The facade of the new Dar-E-Mehr

March 26th will henceforth be remembered as a momentous day in the life of the Zarathushti community not only in the Tristate area but for all Zoroastrians worldwide. The new building of the Arbab Rustam Guiv Dar-E-Mehr was inaugurated on this Khordad Saal Day (Fasli Calendar) in Pomona, New York. Home to both the Zoroastrian… Continue reading A New Dar-E-Mehr is Born in New York !!

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The Story of Air India’s Very First International Flight

Arrival of the inaugural flight at London Airport. Mr B.W Figgins, then General Manager; Mr & Mrs J.R.D. Tata; Mr V.K. Krishna Menon, then High Commissioner for India in the UK; and Sir Fredrick James, then Managing Director Tata Ltd London.

June 8, 1998 marked the 50th anniversary of Air India’s maiden international flight – a milestone in the history of Indian civil aviation. His Highness, the Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, Rajpramukh of Saurashtra, looked at his watch. The golden dial caught the light and the bejewelled hands indicated the hour. The time has finally come!… Continue reading The Story of Air India’s Very First International Flight

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