Month: April 2016 Articles

Pakistan Parsi community’s migration alarming

KARACHI: As you enter the Parsi Colony from MA Jinnah Road you experience a strange feeling. You are truly taken away by the architecture of beautiful bungalows and houses. But then you are taken aback to find that their owners have long gone and...

Recalling history

When people talk about the Parsi community, it is inevitable that the conversations turn to Fire Temples and the Parsi...

The forgotten characters of Tata Steel

The forgotten characters of Tata Steel

IN SEPTEMBER 1945, E. M. Forster, who had been hired by George Orwell to host a literary programme for BBC’s India service, chose to discuss a slim book called “A Steel Man in India”. It was a...

Zubin: Just another Parsi boy

Zubin: Just another Parsi boy

A nervous, awestruck gentleman had been granted fifteen precious minutes of the Maestro's time. My friend, the gentleman in question, had spent a sleepless night memorising what to say to the great...

Pheroza Godrej: Mumbai’s art queen

Pheroza Godrej: Mumbai’s art queen

One of Mumbai's leading art historians, Pheroza J Godrej, updates Ornella D'Souza about her commitments as editor, collector, curator and member on various cultural boards Article by by Ornella...

Hamlet No Omlette: A time for Natak

Hamlet No Omlette: A time for Natak

Parsi theatre was the first to realise the full commercial potential of Shakespeare’s works. The result was King Lear as comedy and a farce called Hamlet No Omelette. The curtains of the spare,...

Dubai Pravasi Yatra 2016

Dubai Pravasi Yatra 2016

The World Zoroastrian Chamber of Commerce Middle East Chapter is organizing the Dubai Pravasi Yatra from October 7 – 11, 2016. Meher Bhesania, the powerhouse Zarathushti in Dubai informs us about...

Check in to vintage Mumbai with Simin Patel

Check in to vintage Mumbai with Simin Patel

This evening, Mumbai historian Simin Patel will discuss the hotel trade in Bombay from 1860 to 1903. Excerpts from an interview Article By Anand Benegal | Mid-Day Q. What interests you about the...

Zubin Mehta launches his biography

Zubin Mehta launches his biography

World-renowned orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta launched a biography based on his life and work on Friday. Titled Zubin Mehta: A Musical Journey by Bakhtiar Dadabhoy, the book narrates the story of...

Go beyond wearing a sari

Go beyond wearing a sari

After the interest generated by #100SareePact, three women set up The Registry of Sarees to focus on Indian weaves and help set up looms Kausalya Satyakumar, Apoorva Sadanand and Ally Matthan share...

Udvada: A town on the verge of being forgotten

Udvada: A town on the verge of being forgotten

The Majestic Hotel at Udvada in Gujarat was a popular destination for tourists until it shut down in the 1990s. A hub of Parsi merry-making in the 1950s and 1960s, it has become a mere shadow of its...

Parsi kids revive Monajats at event

On Saturday evening, the Parsi community of Mumbai saw the recital of MonaJat songs, or religious Parsi songs, during a competition at Allbless Baug in Charni Road. This was for the first time that...

The indomitable Parsis

The indomitable Parsis

The Parsi story seen through three very different exhibitions in Delhi that chronicle their art and aesthetics, their early history and their unique brand of spiritualism Pestonji Bomanji’s ‘Feeding...

Nadir Maneckjee: The Hatter of Bangalore

Nadir Maneckjee: The Hatter of Bangalore

Through a gateway leading off Cunningham Road stands the Hatworks Boulevard, one of the few colonial era mansions that have survived the turn of the century. The structure, now home to about 12...

Book Launch: My Mother Used To Say

Book Launch: My Mother Used To Say

FEZANA Announces the launch of a new book My Mother Used To Say Parsi and Persian Quotations and Vignettes of their Inimitable Language and Lifestyle by Roshan Rohinton Rivetna and Dinaz Kutar...

Will the Royal family visit Britannia?

Will the Royal family visit Britannia?

Known for his love for Queen Elizabeth and the royal family, owner of Mumbai’s Britannia restaurant Boman Kohinoor is excited about the #WillKat visit to the city this month. This is Boman Kohinoor,...

Architecture Beyond Platitude: Aspi H. Patel

Architecture Beyond Platitude: Aspi H. Patel

Architecture Beyond Platitude is the title of a new coffee table book by Aspi Patel. Readers of Parsi Khabar will remember Aspi’s 2014 exhibition at the Jehangir Art Gallery by the same name. The...

Tracing a way of life from the Bronze age

Tracing a way of life from the Bronze age

Tracing a way of life from the Bronze age Jaideep Deo Bhanj For a micro-minority community with a population of just 69,000 persons living in India according to the 2011 Census, the Parsi community...

Peenaz Masani: Naaz-E-Peenaz

Peenaz Masani: Naaz-E-Peenaz

Bestowed with the title ‘Queen of Ghazal’, Penaz Masani has enthralled audiences around the world for quite a while now with her extensive concerts, which left audience mesmerised. The stalwart...