Category: Festivities

Parsis celebrate the struggle of good over evil with food, revelry

After a week of remembrance and mourning, Parsis will awake in a festive mood on Thursday to celebrate Pateti. Most Parsis had already cleaned and readied their homes by Wednesday night. By Ashutosh Shukla / DNA Tehmtan Dhumasia, a resident of Godrej Baug, helped his children decorate their home. “We try to have chalk purvana… Continue reading Parsis celebrate the struggle of good over evil with food, revelry

You Cannot Wish Pateti Mubarak

Ervad Marzban J. Hathiram clears a very common misnomer…that of wishing “Pateti Mubarak” on Parsi New Year. On 19th August, we Parsis will celebrate our New Year with traditional gaiety, visiting Agiaries and Atash Behrams, going to see comic theatricals, eating Pulao Dal, sali boti, patra-ni-machhi and wishing one another ‘Pateti Mubarak’. Newspapers will diligently… Continue reading You Cannot Wish Pateti Mubarak

Chennai Parsi Fire Temple Celebrations: 100 Year Anniversary

There are just 250 of them in the city, so it’s no surprise that all members of the Parsi community here have their demographics at their fingertips. By Kamini Mathai / TNN No one seems to need to riffle through history books for specifics. For instance, they can tell you offhand that there were no… Continue reading Chennai Parsi Fire Temple Celebrations: 100 Year Anniversary

Hyderabad Parsis: Occasion to revel, relish and reconnect

Bright rangolis, colourful ‘torans’, chilled ‘faluda’ and a divine aroma of ‘patrani machi’, greeted all those who walked into the Seth Viccajee Seth Pestonji Meherji Agiary, in Secunderabad, on Sunday where hundreds of Parsis, from across Hyderabad, came together to usher in the season of spring — the first day of the Parsi new year.… Continue reading Hyderabad Parsis: Occasion to revel, relish and reconnect

Navroz Mubarak from Bollywood

Good morning, Mumbai — and Navroze Mubarak! The Irani New Year and first day of spring began at 11.02 and 13 seconds last night. But BT invited the ‘Bawajis of Bollywood’ (actually, two Parsis, two Iranis and one half-breed) for a pow-wow on Saturday morning itself to the Rustam Faramna Agiary standing serenely in dappled… Continue reading Navroz Mubarak from Bollywood

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