Only four of these rare trees, popularly known as branching palms, remain in the city. They are found in an open plot between buildings A and B at Godrej Baug in Hanging Gardens. But they may cease to exist if the Bombay Parsi Panchayat allows construction on the land. “The panchayat is contemplating a highrise.… Continue reading Going, going, gone?
Category: Heritage
The hotel that was
The Statesman – Kolkata,India … it. “In the Thirties the hotel was run by three directors, including a Parsee gentleman, HR Billimoria who loved horse racing. …
Sonia assures help for father-in-law’s grave
Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has assured financial support for the uplift of her father-in-law Feroze Jehangir Gandhi’s grave here. The work is expected to start within a fortnight and Sonia might pay a visit to the place as she did five years ago. ”He is not dead. Who lifts thy glorious mind… Continue reading Sonia assures help for father-in-law’s grave
Zoroastrians mass graveyard: National monument
“The mass graveyard, in which the Zoroastrians laid the bodies of their lost ones in old days, was endowed to the cause. Therefore, it was taken by Zoroaster’s disciples as a sacred site. “Up to a half century ago, according to the Zoroastrian rituals, dead bodies were laid at the site in order to be… Continue reading Zoroastrians mass graveyard: National monument
Waking up with Pheroza Godrej
Daily News & Analasys – Mumbai,India … Many books and papers followed but perhaps her crowning glory was co-editing “A Zoroastrian Tapestry – Art, Religion and Culture” published by Mapin Publishers …
First Iranian words that made their way into English
… 70. PARSI or PARSEE (a member of a religious group found mainly in western India, whose religion, Zoroastrianism, started in ancient Iran): From Persian PARSI. … More on PersianJournal
When Mannat was Villa Vienna
Mid-Day Mumbai – Bombay,India … Having no heirs, she wrote it off to her sister Goolbanu and it went onto her son Naryman Dubash, known for promoting the cause of Parsi priests. … Continue reading at Mid-Day
“Much before the modern five-star hotels
“Much before the modern five-star hotels came up in Mumbai, the city’s swankiest hotel was ‘The Grand’. It is today a fraying three-star hotel, but the Parsee family that owns it still boast of how they held out to overtures by the Reliance Group to buy them out.” Continue reading at Economic Times
Love and Longing in Lahore
Kolkata Newsline – New Delhi,India … can remember. Even after partition, I would trot along with my mother who had an entire brood of Parsee relatives in Mumbai. If …
