In lieu of Independence Day on August 14, all of August, the Daily Times will highlight individuals who continue to...
Month: August 2016 Articles
Almost 150 yrs later, Cowasjee’s noble cause still prevails
A meeting on September 22, 1852, between friends of Framjee Cowasjee collected sizeable fund which was used used to...
Surrogacy bill bother for Parsis
The country’s Parsi community is in a bind over a proposed law to regulate surrogacy, a little over a year after it had successfully negotiated resistance from within to this assisted...
Most divorces among Parsis due to adultery
Jury trials came to India with the British and were abolished after the now infamous 1959 Nanavati murder trial, not many know that matrimonial disputes among the Parsi community is still tried by a...
Portraits, Dreams And Quirks Of Nine Young Parsis In Mumbai
There’s nothing quite like observing a creature in its natural habitat. Fortunately for us, India is one of the few places a particularly rare specimen are still fairly common. So, for the avid...
Parsis sweetening rich Canadian diversity, like sugar in milk
One small community that has continued to punch way above its weight and even today sweetens the rich cultural diversity that is India is the Parsi community. And just as Indians started immigrating...
Tanka Water Harvesting System of the Parsi Community
Dr. Shernaz Cama informs us… We at Parzor have been working on Ecology since the beginning of our UNESCO Parzor Project . Zoroastrianism has been called ‘ the world’s first ecological...
Maharukh Chichgar: A Parsi Woman Taking On The World
During 8th to 10th century, when Parsi community migrated from Greater Iran to Gujarat, nobody imagined how beautifully this community will adopt the land of India and the people of this region....
Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina To Be Yarshater Lecturer At University of Toronto
The University of Toronto will now offer Avestan and Pahlavi language courses at the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, thanks to a $250,000 USD...
Tanaz Godiwalla: Queen of Parsi Catering
Parsis love food. We’re always talking about it. At breakfast, we discuss what’s for lunch; at lunch, we discuss what’s for dinner; at dinner, we discuss the next day’s menu. While Mumbai’s many...
The Art of Parsi Cooking: How one woman is reviving an ancient cuisine
Top chef Niloufer Mavalvala’s quest to share Parsi cuisine to an international audience is one step closer with the launch of her first cookbook “The Art of Parsi Cooking : Reviving an ancient...
How did Parsi food become cool again?
Berry pulao to salli chicken: How did Parsi food become cool again? Until a few years ago, there were only two ways to experience an authentic Parsi bhonu (meal). You either plead a Parsi friend to...
Dr. Roshni Rustomji and the Diversity of Karachi
Dr. Roshni Rustomji-Kerns, a renowned author, was nine years old in 1947. She lived in a building full of diverse tenants, in a Parsi family that espoused the ideals of acceptance, integration and...
Happy Parsi New Year 2016 Saal 1386 Y.Z.
Today marks the beginning of a new year according to the Shehenshahi Parsi calendar and we would like to take this opportunity to wish each and every single one of you a very Happy New Year….Navu...
How To Make Parsi Sev: Eat In Style by Feritta
In just a few hours it will be Parsi New Year all over the world. And to celebrate, we bring you the quintessential Parsi sweet dish to be made on all auspicious occasions. The video below is by our...
How To Clean a Ses: Good Parsi Wife
Our friend Shaz Kha… a.k.a. Good Parsi Wife links us to a video that is very pertinent today. How to Clean Your Ses. Just in time for Parsi New Year in a day (or two) To get step by step...
Meet the man whom Mahatma Gandhi called ‘the Father of the Nation’
The back story to Dadabhai Naoroji’s insistent demand for swaraj or self-rule. Article by Dinyar Patel | Scroll.In In 1892, when he became the first Indian elected to the British House of...
Hormazd Narielwalla: becoming a UK citizen before Brexit feels bittersweet
The artist on how discarded tailoring patterns, a lost garden of his boyhood in India and his new British citizenship inspired a very personal new exhibition When I was a boy, I used to visit a...
Shiavax Jal Vazifdar sworn in as Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court
Justice Shiavax Jal Vazifdar, Acting Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, was Saturday evening sworn in as permanent Chief Justice of the High Court by Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh...
Dadi Balsara: Billionaire who stayed at Taj Mansingh Hotel for 36 years
The curious story of Dadi Balsara, the Parsi billionaire who stayed at Taj Mansingh Hotel for 36 years Article by by Poulomi Das, businessinsider.in Taj Mansingh Hotel situated in Lutyens Delhi...
Niloufer Mavalvala’s Art of Parsi Cooking Book Launched in London
Notting Hill’s famous cookbook shop “Books for Cooks” was a hive of activity last night as Niloufer Mavalvala hosted the launch for her first cookbook, “The Art of Parsi Cooking: Reviving an...
Uncrowned Queen of Parsi Cuisine: Tanaz Godiwalla
India is a melting pot of diverse cultures and religions. Amongst all these diverse people lies a little group that I belong to, called the Zoroastrians. Though Zoroastrians are in a dwindling...
Kaizin Pooniwala: Celebrating Two Sides Of The Same Coin
Give her a paintbrush, and she can paint the most evocative painting; give her a bike and she will ride the world on her sleeves. This isn’t a line from any song; this is Kaizin Pooniwala’s reality...
Oldie But A Goodie: Creamy Kulfi and Fresh Chhaas at Parsi Dairy Farm
Ten-second Takeaway A much-loved Mumbai favourite, Parsi Dairy Farm has been proudly standing on Princess Street in Marine Lines since 1916, which makes it a century-old establishment here. Article...
Jame Jamshed and Parsi Times Under Same Management Now
The coming together of the Parsi community’s oldest newspaper—Jam-e-Jamshed— and its youngest one — Parsi Times — have created a stir in the community. Members have not taken kindly to this...
Roda Mehta: Redefining role of Media In Indian Advertising
Not Just Admiration – Awe Article by Vibha Desai | KULZY Although one usually looks up to their bosses, seeing them as role models, emulating them and of course learning from them, in the case...
Jamshed Irani Films the Everlasting Flame Exhibitions
Jamshed Farhad Irani was one of a handful of Parsi youth who visited New Delhi to see the seminal exhibitions under The Everlasting Flame Program put together by PARZOR. The video link was sent to...
‘Unwelcome visitor’ mars BPP press meet
High drama ensued yesterday at Churchgate Garware Club’s fifth floor party room during a Bombay Parsi Panchayat (BPP) press conference. BPP chairman Yezdi Desai and others trustees had...
Bombay Parsi Punchayet: Plot thickens in tussle between BPP trustees
The issue began back in 2013 when Musharraf Yusuf Kader wanted to purchase the sale of tenancy rights of a property which falls under the ‘pagdi’ system. THE LEGAL spat between trustees of the...
Dinaz Vervatwala: A Superwoman Who Challenged Life And Made Her Mark
Dinaz is India’s fitness expert, a Guinness Book of World Record holder, 3rd runner’s up of the Miss Fitness Universe pageant, an accomplished baker, a successful entrepreneur and a supermom who...