Heritage Articles

Echoes in a Parsi attic: How a box of keepsakes opens story of early Jamshedpur via Mumbai

In 1935, Khurshed Maneckji Bharucha, the first Indian chief cashier of Tata Steel in Jamshedpur, borrowed ₹3.5 lakh from a friend who owned an island near Bombay. Soon, on an open ground at Bistupur junction, arose a four-storey building with...

Parsis: Pioneers of Cricket in India

Business Standard – India … It is also interesting to learn that it was the Parsis who first took to cricket, which was followed by the Hindus and Muslims. …  

Naming the good bay

Mid-Day Mumbai – Bombay,India … Atop of all is a Parsi tomb lately reared; on its declivity towards the sea, the remains of a stupendous Pagod, near a tank of fresh water, which the...