The Iranshah Initiative is a youth-driven initiative and they are launching their newest project. Zarathushthi youth from the world over are invited to submit a 1 minute video clip answering some of the questions below: Have you had a chance to visit Iranshah? What is your fondest experience of visiting Iranshah and Udvada? What emotions,… Continue reading A Video Time Capsule for the Iranshah
Month: June 2020
Coronavirus Vaccine Types Explained In Simple Terms
One of the many unknowns about SARS-CoV-2 is how we might become immune to it. When you get infected with viruses, your immune system fights back by producing proteins called antibodies. These stick around for the long haul, and your body is prepared to churn out more of them if you encounter the pathogen again.… Continue reading Coronavirus Vaccine Types Explained In Simple Terms
Perzen Patel Starts a Kiwi Foodcast Podcast Series
Our dear friend and amazing chef, entrepreneur and mom Perzen Patel a.k.a The Bawi Bride starts a new podcast series titled “Kiwi Foodcast With Perzen Patel” Perzen informs us…. We are finally up and running and I am happy to announce that @kiwifoodcast is officially launched. . Stories, the interesting tidbits of information we share about the… Continue reading Perzen Patel Starts a Kiwi Foodcast Podcast Series
Bapsi Nariman: In memory of Fali’s better half
Fali was her universe and she was his. They were a couple where the whole was larger than the sum total of its parts. I think it was on the occasion of Fali’s ‘50 years at the Bar’ that Ashok Desai began his speech by saying, “Behind every great man, it is said, there is… Continue reading Bapsi Nariman: In memory of Fali’s better half
The world’s first Freddie Mercury museum is on an African island
Freddie Mercury Museum Zanzibar Stone Town, Zanzibar (CNN) — Down a small, narrow alley in the historic Stone Town neighborhood of Zanzibar, an old building beckons to visitors. Faded photographs are pinned outside the door while inside, a gallery of glossy pictures and old newspaper clippings lead the way to the room’s centerpiece: a black… Continue reading The world’s first Freddie Mercury museum is on an African island
Byram N. Jeejeebhoy, land baron and developer, dies
Byram N. Jeejeebhoy, one of Mumbai’s largest private landlords and descendant of the 19th century philanthropists Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and Byramjee Jeejeebhoy, passed away at his Worli residence in Mumbai on Tuesday morning. He was 75. The funeral at the Worli crematorium later in the day was attended only by a small group of friends and… Continue reading Byram N. Jeejeebhoy, land baron and developer, dies
Exile and the Nation: Afshin Marashi
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran By Afshin Marashi Connecting oft-disparate fields, this book explores the Zoroastrian diaspora living in India and its role in using antiquity to bolster twentieth-century Iranian nationalism. In the aftermath of the seventh-century Islamic conquest of Iran, Zoroastrians departed for India. Known as the Parsis,… Continue reading Exile and the Nation: Afshin Marashi
