Month: September 2022 Articles

175 years after Parsis flocked to Karachi, glimpses of the community’s fading history

On April 22, 1847, Parsis from across India assembled in Karachi as the foundation for the city’s first Tower of Silence was laid.Article by Ammad Ali | ScrollPhotos of long-time Parsi residents of Karachi. | Ammad Ali On the spring morning of...
Composer Profile: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Composer Profile: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was born Leon Dudley in Essex, England. He was an English composer with a mixed race background, born to a Parsi father and an English mother said to have been of Spanish...

Aur, Irani chai

Aur, Irani chai

Zoroastrian, Shia Muslim (Yazdi and Shirazi) and Baha’i Iranian migrants, and of course the Palanpur-hailing Cheliyas, have been feeding this city for over a century with cheap eats and colourful...

Ashdeen’s New Garden of Gara

Ashdeen’s New Garden of Gara

At his Mumbai store launch, designer Ashdeen Lilaowala talks of the Parsi gara’s evolving fanbaseThis year, Ashdeen Z. Lilaowala, founder of label ASHDEEN, marks a decade of working with the...