!! Saal Mubarak !! August 19th is the first day of the Parsi New Year. A time of happiness and rejoicing for all members of the small Parsi community in India and worldwide. This is one of my favorite days of the years. Memories of this day right through childhood included visits to the fire… Continue reading Saal Mubarak: Happy Parsi New Year 2009
Category: Festivities
Chef Farrokh Khambata: Eat Drink and Be Merry
By Dipti Nagpaul D’souza For a true foodie, there isn’t a feast bigger than the Parsi New Year. On the day of the feast, you’ll find a non-follower for every Zoroastrian queued up outside city restaurants offering Parsi cuisine to the patrons. With merely a handful of days left for Pateti, Mumbaikars are already making… Continue reading Chef Farrokh Khambata: Eat Drink and Be Merry
Celebrating the Atash nu Parab
By Firoza Punthakey-Mistree courtesy of Zoroastrian Studies. On Adar Ruz, Adar Mah, the Parsis of India celebrate the feast of Fire known as the Atash nu parab. This feast is celebrated largely by the women in the family, who prepare the hearth fire for this festival by cleaning the kitchen and making purchases for the… Continue reading Celebrating the Atash nu Parab
Nowruz Celebrations in China: Xinjiang Uyghur
Nowruz Festival is a traditional holiday with a long history. In Xinjiang, all national minority believe in Islam celebrate the festival. The word came from Iranian, means “Spring Water“, equating to vernal equinox (4th solar term). It falls on March 22. Before Uyghur national minority believed in Islamism, they worshiped many gods such as sun… Continue reading Nowruz Celebrations in China: Xinjiang Uyghur
Nawaz Modi Singhania on Navroze
Mumbai: It’s an early start to the day for Nawaz Modi Singhania, wife of industrialist Gautam Singhania, just like when she was younger, she says. “New Year binds you with family and religion, and it certainly takes me back to my childhood,” smiles Nawaz, recalling her precious moments spent as a child. “I remember my… Continue reading Nawaz Modi Singhania on Navroze
Brun Pav Bun Maska and Chai
By Mark Manuel for the Times of India. Sahebji, and Navroze Mubarak! I present Boman Irani and Shenaz Treasuryvala, Zoroastrians both; he a blustery and excitable Irani, she a petite Shenaz Treasuryvala and Boman Irani have a Navroze breakfast exclusively and pretty Parsi, both making news in Bollywood for different reasons. They met over breakfast… Continue reading Brun Pav Bun Maska and Chai
There is nothing like Parsi Bhonu
Mumbai: It’s that time of the year again — a day when every Parsi home will prepare traditional foods in a special lunch, for March 21 that marks the vernal equinox is special to Iranis and Paris everywhere. Hearty Meal: Pearl and Hafeez Contractor It’s a time of joy and festivity," state architect Hafeez and… Continue reading There is nothing like Parsi Bhonu
