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Month: May 2019 Articles
Mobed Bhandara Urged Clergies to Interpret scriptures to Spread Peace, Love & Harmony
On Thursday May 16th, our very own Mobed Zarrir Bhandara along with clergies of different faith were invited to speak...
Cookbooks and Documenting Our Food: Not Just Dhansak Ep 04 Featuring Niloufer Mavalvala
On this episode, Bawi Bride Perzen Patel discusses documentation of the Parsi Food with author and food blogger, Niloufer Mavalvala. Niloufer shares her journey of starting a blog, creating a...
Home Chefs – The Parsi Food Custodians: Not Just Dhansak Ep 03 Featuring Gulrukh Irani and Furrokh Regina
On this episode, Bawi Bride Perzen Patel talks to home chefs Gulrukh Irani and Furrokh Regina and discusses why people like them are the true custodians of Parsi food. They discuss their childhood...
Vada Dasturji Jamasp Asa Passes Away
Earlier today news broke of the passing away of Dasturji Jamasp Asa in London, U.K. The high priest of the community, Vada Dastur Saheb Kaikhusroo Dastur Minocher Jamasp Asa, of the 124-year-old...
How To Build A Multi-Million Dollar Business Empire – The Jimmy Mistry Story
Our dear friend and brilliant designer and entrpeneur Jimmy Mistry in conversation on the “The Ranveer Show”. For the latest and today’s episode, we have another crazy motivational and inspirational...
Remembering Soli Batlivala
It was a scene out of a film. The young patriot supporting the Quit India struggle heard the police knock on the door of his Parel home. Though no stranger to jail, alerted by his mother Bachoobai,...
Cooking with the Time & Talents Club
The smell of dried Bombay duck infiltrates the air. Mum is making the Parsi dish Tarapori Patio, a ruddy pickle made from the quintessentially Bombay fish, the curiously-named Bombay duck,...
The Parsi burial ground is a sign of Rawalpindi’s rich heritage
On Murree Road, in the heart of the city, a lane leads towards a heavy iron gate that opens out on an era of Parsi history Article by Ammad Ali | Daily Times Pakistan Resting place of a WWII soldier...
A Parsi Mother Shares How The True Spirit Of Motherhood In Her Community Lies In Strong Camaraderie
“I keep telling my children, ‘You are my real wealth.’ My husband always makes fun of me at this by saying, ‘Great then you must have the BSES bills and all of that covered’,” says Shernaz Mehernosh...
WZCC Global AGM And Awards Gala 2019 in Orlando
The week of May 1-5, 2019 became ground zero in the Zoroastrian world as three major events coincided in Orlando, Florida. The Central Florida Zoroastrian Community played host to the multi-day...
Dadar boy Jehan Daruvala drives to F3 glory in Spain
20-year-old survives multiple safety car disruptions to lead from start to finish in the second race of the junior single-seater series Jehan Daruvala at the winners’ podium in Barcelona,...
The men from Mumbai who cycled around the world
Between 1923 and 1942, a handful of young Parsi men took off on three expeditions from Mumbai to cycle around the world. A photo exhibition tells their story. Written by Parth Khatau | Indian...
The Collected Scholarly Writings of Dastur Firoze M. Kotwal
Our dear friend and eminent author and Zoroastrian researcher Firoza Punthakey Mistree informs us about the limited edition book on the life of Vada Dasturji Firoze M. Kotwal A Must for Everyone...
Prominent south Mumbai dentist, hurt in Bhau Daji Lad Museum lift crash, dies
A prominent south Mumbai dentist, who was injured in an elevator crash at the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum (BDL) on April 28, died on Thursday at Masina Hospital. Dr Arnavaz Havewalla, 63, suffered a...
JRB Jeejeebhoy: Mumbai has forgotten the ‘leading historian’ who once highlighted its forgotten past
JRB Jeejeebhoy, who wrote numerous pieces on the city and its heritage from the 1920s to the 1950s, has met the fate of his subjects. History unfortunately has been superseded in favour of flighty...
Chennai’s Parsi community looks back on its ties with the metropolis
The city’s Royapuram fire temple stands on the brink of turning 110 In Royapuram, heavy with humidity and the sharp tang of sea salt, stands a white building that has sheltered an undying flame for...
How to Get Away With Murder’s Behzad Dabu to Star in Put Your House in Order at La Jolla Playhouse
The world premiere from Chicago-based playwright Ike Holter begins previews June 2. Article by Adam Hetrick | Playbill Behzad Dabu (How to Get Away with Murder), Linda Libby (Ether Dome), and...
The dancer’s guide to hitchhiking: Astad Deboo
Celebrated Indian contemporary dancer and choreographer Astad Deboo on his 50-year career, hitchhiking across the world and more Article by Samira Sood | CNN Traveller Astad Deboo in flow. Photo:...
Toxy Cowasjee Steps Down as Editor of Hamazor After 17 years
Earlier this year Toxy Cowasjee, the editor of the Hamazor magazine reached out to me asking if I would cover a local NYC event for her to go in the next issue of Hamazor. I, of course said yes. You...
Batasas and the Parsi Bakery: Not Just Dhansak Ep 02 Featuring Cyrus Dotiwala
On this episode, Bawi Bride Perzen Patel is in conversation with the sixth generation owner of the very famous Dotivala Bakery in Surat, Cyrus Dotivala. Cyrus shares the story of how bread traveled...
A Bid to Maintain One of the World’s Oldest Culinary Traditions
For the ever dwindling Parsi community of western India, food is both pleasure and heritage — and a secret language in danger of dying out. TO TASTE DHANSAK at the Ripon Club in Mumbai — whose...
Chairman, trustees in battle over BPP’s place in all-India Parsi body
Yazdi Desai’s idea of keeping BPP out of the Federation of Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India’s affairs led to a heated exchange of words between trustees Noshir Dadrawala and Yazdi...
Irani Cafes: A fading love story
The little culinary revolution that Mumbai’s tiny Iranian diaspora began a 100 years ago is now quickly dwindling “Agar teer e aalambejombad be jay. Na barradragi, gar nakhwaahadkhodaay (Even if the...
What is Parsi Food, Really: Not Just Dhansak Ep 01 Featuring Kurush Dalal
On the first episode of our Parsi food show, Not Just Dhansak, our host Perzen Patel, popularly known as the Bawi Bride, is in conversation with archaeologist and food historian, Kurush Dalal. When...
The opium trader who became one of India’s richest men
On his fourth trip to China, Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy was captured by the French. It was the middle of the Napoleonic Wars and hostilities between the British and the French had carried over to the...
Not Just Dhansak: A New Parsi Podcast
Our dear friend Perzen Patel a.k.a Bawi Bride writes in... What is the first thing that comes to your mind when someone tells you they are Parsi? Is it Dhansak? Well, no one would blame you!Over the...
Shayaan Oshidar: My music will tackle wrong notions of beauty
Music runs in the family of Cyrus Oshidar, the man who made MTV and VH1 cool. His daughter Shayaan is topping the dance charts and planning her Indian invasion Article by Asatha Atray Banan | Mid...
Nawaz Merchant’s ‘The Rajabai Tower Mystery’ wins Mystery Writers of America’s prize
Our dear friend and first time novelist Nawaz Merchant who writes under the pseudonym Nev Merch informs us... At the Edgar Awards last week, my historical novel 'The Rajabai Tower Mystery' won the...