The British Library is fortunate in having an unparalled collection of over 100 Zoroastrian works ranging from the...
Month: January 2020 Articles
Vispi Speaks: How Much Water Do You Really Need To Drink
Hydration is important, especially in hotter regions where people lose more water from sweating and exhalation. There...
Karachi’s first elected mayor Jamshed Nusserwanjee remembered
Celebrating the 134th birth anniversary of Jamshed Nusserwanjee (1886-1952), a philanthropist and the first elected mayor of Karachi, speakers at a gathering on Sunday stressed the dire need to...
Bawas Got Talent: One for the community
Bawas Got Talent is a chance for the Parsi community to showcase their skills in the performing arts The Parsi community may be small and dwindling in number but that hasn’t proved to be a deterrent...
Meher Marfatia: The adventure lies in finding out
ONCE UPON A TIME book launch on Saturday February 8, 2020 at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival Four years after Meher Marfatia started an essay series in this paper that explored the forgotten bylanes...
The Global Iranshah Initiative
The ‘Global Iranshah Initiative’ is a worldwide endeavor of love and devotion to our holiest of holy, Pak Iranshah, in Udvada gaam (Gujarat), with an aim to support and perpetuate its legacy and our...
In Kolkatta Dharmashala stands, but not many travellers as the community shrinks
A leftover of time but living testament to the Parsis in Kolkata. “Manackjee Rustomjee Dharmashala for Parsi travellers” — the inscription in an old-fashioned font on the doorway transports one to...
Yazdi Karanjia Awarded Padma Shri
Our dearest friend, mentor and legendary theater artist Yazdi Naoshirwan Karanjia has been conferred the Padma Shri Award in the list of names that were announced on the eve of Republic Day 2020 in...
Order Of Australia Conferred on Dr. Sabar Rustomjee
She has spent a lifetime listening to people’s stories with empathy, compassion and respect. In a career spanning over 50 years, Melbourne-based psychotherapist Dr. Sabar Rustomjee has helped people...
Kermin Kakalia: Recipes to the rescue
A Parsi snack kiosk in Bandra is as much about a community’s culinary treats as the resilience of a woman fighting a turn of fate An assortment of cutlets, kebabs and snacks. Pics/Anurag Ahire...
Shanaya Patel: ALONE
Parsi Khabar has featured Shanaya Patel before, and today we are happy to share the launch of her new single ALONE. You can stream Shanaya’s single: https://lnkfi.re/ShanayaPatel About Shanaya As...
In Conversation With Ayesha Billimoria, The Ultimate Fit Girl India
Meet Ayesha Billimoria, a three time 200-metre national champion, Olympic aspirant, sports trainer, model, TedX speaker, and now the author of Run! She is the ultimate Fit Girl India. Catch her...
Sumptuously Persian
India’s pioneering Persian chef Afshin Kohinoor unlocks his culinary treasure chest for Krishnaraj Iyengar Welcome my dear welcome,” he gushes over his galla counter as a mixed international crowd...
Startup Culture Stories: Shireen Mistree & The India Climate Collaborative
Our dear friend Shireen Mistree was recently featured on SHORTLIST. Read her interview below. “Culture isn’t just one aspect of the game – it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more...
India’s brilliant Bombay duck
When I was a little girl growing up in Bombay, June was the month I looked forward to the most. It was the month when the charred, inky monsoon clouds, clipped with streaks of lightning, brushed...
ZYNG Relaunches on January 25th at Rustom Baug
On Saturday January 25, 2020; the widely successful ZYNG: Zoroastrian Youth for the Next Generation is being resurrected in its 2.0 avatar. In a mega event planned for the relaunch of ZYNG, the...
Review: A Murder at Malabar Hill is a new kind of crime novel
Sujata Massey kicks off the decade with the first book in a fresh new crime series – the historical, award-winning whodunnit A Murder at Malabar Hill. She introduces Perveen Mistry, in 1921 Bombay’s...
Areez Katki: Bildungsroman at the Otago Museum
Otago Museum is thrilled to host Areez Katki’s acclaimed textile-based art exhibition, Bildungsroman, at the H D Skinner Annex opening on Saturday 11 January. The embroidered works explore Katki’s...
Freddie Mercury’s ‘trick’ that helped him win over Live Aid crowd
Rock band Queen’s performance at Live Aid in 1985 has often been hailed as one of the greatest gigs seen at Wembley Stadium. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has heaped praise on Queen’s...
Soli Sorabjee: We celebrate the life and legacy of Nani Palkhivala
Due to sensational events that seem to happen almost daily these days, we tend to forget legendary personalities. One of them was Nani Palkhivala, whose 100th birthday was on Thursday, January 16....
What’s a Zoroastrian? I’m One! | Dr. Zubin Damania on Zoroastrianism
Parsi Khabar readers will remember us featuring ZDOGG MD a while ago. Well, aapro Dr. Zubin Damania….aka ZDOGG MD has come up with a new video Zubin writes…. From Freddy Mercury to ZDoggMD, the...
Nusli Wadia battled Ambanis and Tatas and lived to tell the tale
The $7 billion Nusli Wadia Wadia, who was once called as the epitome of South Bombay’s old money and genteel respectability, has been a part of many corporate brawls during 1970s and 1980s. One of...
Rustom Siodia: A Forgotten Master
Art in India has largely been a niche world, with few artists being known beyond the rather small circle of connoisseurs. But even within this small world, some brilliant artists and their work have...
Portrait of Darius Forbes
A portrait of a special man Writers and dramatists have a saying: ‘Show, don’t tell.’ It means to convey a thought or emotion through dialogue or action, rather than telling the audience directly....
Adil Jal Darukhanawala In Coversation on BRR
Our good friend and India’s ace automotive journalist Adil Jal Darukhanawala on a podcast at Biker Radio Rodcast 2020 is here and our golden milestone of episode 50 is out there with a guest who is...
Nusli Wadia withdraws defamation suit against Ratan Tata
Tata told the Supreme Court that he did not intend to defame Wadia Wadia Group Chairman Nusli Wadia has withdrawn a defamation suit against Ratan Tata. The decision by the Indian-born British Parsi...
I cannot live without Parsi food: Amyra Dastur
When Amyra Dastur walked the ramp in a pant suit for designer Vanessa Pandita at Golfer’s Shot, Good Life Soiree at Morbagh farms in Delhi, it was hard to believe that the new-age actress is...
A navjote that divided the Parsi community
Parsi businessman holds ceremony for nephew and niece over objections of community members A navjote – the ritual through which a Parsi is inducted into the Zoroastrian religion – of the...
Colaba agiary cancels navjote for two kids of non-Parsi father after backlash
A week after news of the proposed navjote or religious initiation of two children born to a non-Parsi father, sparked a debate in the Parsi-Zoroastrian community, the Jeejeebhoy Dadabhoy Agiary at...
CJ Mody runs for Superior Judge in San Diego California
Cawas Jehangir (CJ) Mody is running for the Superior Judge elections in San Diego county in California, USA. CJ shares the following information with Parsi Khabar… CJ Mody writes… I was born in...
Iranshah Udvada Utsav 2019 closes with a flourish
The second day of the Iranshah Udvada Utsav began on Saturday December 28, 2019 to bright blue skies and a slight chill in the air. The morning was dedicated to various activies. A treasure hunt...