‘Jiyo Parsi’ – the Government of India’s undertaking which supports our community’s efforts in arresting the declining...
Month: December 2018 Articles
Aryenish Birdie: People in the Movies Aren’t Parsi Like Me, Except in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Flaws aside, the Freddie Mercury biopic was “deeply personal” for writer and activist Aryenish Birdie...
Support Ava Irani’s Kickstarter Campaign
Ava Irani is an 8th grader living in the Bay Area, where she also volunteers to teach Sunday School at the Zoroastrian Association of Northern California. Ava has started a Kickstarter campaign...
Dr Cyrus Poonawalla congratulated for life-long commitment to boosting vaccine coverage in the world’s poorest countries by the GAVI
Serum founder wins inaugural ‘vaccine hero’ award ABU DHABI, 10 December 2018 – Dr Cyrus Poonawalla, Founder of Serum Institute of India (SII) and Chairman of Poonawalla Group, has been given the...
Parsis of Pakistan "The Silent Server"
The Parsis are the descendants of the Zoroastrian community who fled from Iran during 8th to 10th century to escape the persecution of the Fanatical Muslim invaders who invaded Iran. They fled and...
From Candles To Turkeys – How Zoroastrians Celebrate Thanksgiving In Style In Karachi
Karachi has always gone out of its way to pay respects to its Zoroastrian community. We have been blessed with a home here, given opportunities to self-actualize and to nurture our future...
Parsis last joined Mumbai police 21 years ago
The dwindling numbers of the Parsi community has cast a long shadow on its representation in the Mumbai police force, over the past five decades. The brick-red tiles of the Police Gymkhana on Marine...
Ahya Yasa Nemangha: The Gathas
We are happy to provide a downloadble copy of the Ahya Yasa Nemangha. This book is a study of the Gathas of Prophet Zarathushtra containing the Text with Literal Translation into English, and an...
Architect Sarosh Anklesaria Wins 2019 Richard Rogers Fellowship
Sarosh Anklesaria is one of the six winner of the 2019 RIchard Rogers Fellowship. Announced by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Sarosh will will spend three and a half months completing an...
South Mumbai Zoroastrian Heritage Walk for Children by Team Empowering Mobeds
Yesterday was a sunday of different sorts- the snarling traffic of South Mumbai which has become more painful with the ongoing Metro works seemed to be lesser. Is it the Lagan Navjote season that...
Zerbanoo Gifford Enters the Honorable Society of Knights of Round Table
We are thrilled to learn that our dearest friend and mentor Zerbanoo Gifford has been welcomed into the Honorable Society of the Knights of the Round Table. Zerbanoo Gifford is the founder of the...
Meet Chef Delzad Khurshed Avari whose signature dish is the barbecued pulled pork
Chef Delzad Avari’s pulled pork is one for all seasons: it can be cuddled between breads, bundled in rotis or tucked in with rice. Delzad Avari, 30, wanted to cook since the time he...
Parsis in Mumbai move SC to realign Metro-3 tunnel below Atash Behrams
A special leave petition was filed challenging the HC order, which was mentioned before Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi. Article by Yesha Kotak | Hindustan Times Three days after the Bombay high court...
Sale to non-Parsi stokes society’s 25-yr legal battle to expel member
A cooperative housing society formed exclusively for Parsi community members in Sanjan town of south Gujarat has been fighting a legal battle for more than 25 years to expel a member. The main...
Could a Tower of Silence For Zoroastrian Funerals Be Built in Texas ?
Khushbu Solanki, a Rutgers Law graduate makes a compelling arguement for a Dokhma in Texas. Khushbu writes… Traditional Zoroastrian funerals require stone structures called Dakhmas — “Towers of...
Bombay High Court Permits Mumbai Metro 3 tunnelling under two fire temples
Senior Journalist and friend of Parsi Khabar, Nauzer Bharucha writes A COMMUNITY SCARRED “The Bombay High Court today allowed a metro rail tunnel to run under one of the most venerated Fire Temples...
JIYO PARSI: CARE OF ELDERLY DEPENDANTS
Our dear friend and mentor Dr. Shernaz Cama write in the Jame Jamshed newspaper The Jiyo Parsi Scheme was set up to arrest the decline in our community’s population. However, over time, it has been...
Arzan Nagwaswalla Plays Cricket For Gujarat: First Parsi in Decades to Play at State Level
Parsis have played an important part in Indian cricket history. Parsis were the first Indian side to visit England in 1886. And around 12 Parsis, such as Farrokh Engineer, Polly Umrigar, Nari...