After five remarkable decades, Zubin Mehta is retiring from music directorship of the IPO and says a touching and moving farewell to his orchestra and audience
Month: October 2019
Vispi Speaks: Simple Solutions for Healthy Aging
We are happy to start a new regular column on health, skin care, personal care and wellness by our dear friend Vispi Kanga. This is his first column for Parsi Khabar Healthy aging was defined as including an absence of disability, depressive symptoms, cognitive impairment, respiratory symptoms and chronic diseases including cancer, coronary artery disease… Continue reading Vispi Speaks: Simple Solutions for Healthy Aging
PROPHET OF THE ATOMIC AGE: DR. HOMI JEHANGIR BHABHA
A tribute on his 110th birth anniversary by Marzban Jamshedji Giara He was born on 30th October 1909 at Bombay in a Parsi family. He studied at Elphinstone College,, Bombay and at Cambridge University, U.K. He had the Isaac Newton Studentship. He studied in Copnhagen, Zurich and Rome. He lectured at Cambridge for four years… Continue reading PROPHET OF THE ATOMIC AGE: DR. HOMI JEHANGIR BHABHA
Zubin Mehta – so soon?
It is really hard to imagine Israel Philharmonic concerts without Zubin Mehta’s figure on the podium at the opening of the season. Love of music, Israel and the Jewish people came together in one genius. Article by Jack Engelhard | Israel National News Fifty years — the times zipped by so fast. What’s the rush?… Continue reading Zubin Mehta – so soon?
From A Mobed’s Heart To Mobeds’ Hearts: Ervad Zarrir Bhandara
A fantastic event is being planned by our dear friend and mentor Dr. Mickey Mehta on November 2, 2019. “From A Mobed’s Heart To Mobeds’ Hearts” will feature the amazing Shihan Ervad Zarrir Bhandara. Readers of Parsi Khabar are familiar with Ervad Bhandara’s regular updates of Zarathushti activities from Southern California. He is a dear… Continue reading From A Mobed’s Heart To Mobeds’ Hearts: Ervad Zarrir Bhandara
Did Noshir Dadrawala’s presence force Yazdi Desai to stay away?
The BPP president had earlier sent a mail to the Bhikha Behram well trustees to not invite Dadrawala for a prayer meet, as he was a reformist Noshir Dadrawala speaks during the 10th anniversary celebrations of Ava Roj Article by Gaurav Sarkar | Mid-Day The rift between BPP trustee Noshir Dadrawala and BPP president Yazdi… Continue reading Did Noshir Dadrawala’s presence force Yazdi Desai to stay away?
Adi Pherozeshah Marzban – Doyen of Indian theatre who modernized Parsi theatre in the second half of 1900s
Adi Pherozeshah Marzban, also known as Adi Marzban (1914–1987) was a doyen of Parsi theatre in the post-independent period. Though he has directed and stage plays in English and Gujarati languages in the early 1950s, he later fully switched over to Parsi theatre, and played a magnificent role in revolutionizing, modernizing and popularising it. Padma… Continue reading Adi Pherozeshah Marzban – Doyen of Indian theatre who modernized Parsi theatre in the second half of 1900s
