Heritage Articles

Karachi: Water Trough in Soldier Bazaar

In 1878 a group of revered noble citizen of Karachi such as Sir William Lee Warner, Khan Bahadur Hassanally, Beg Effendi. Messrs lagget Price, Sayed Hassan Mediru, Tance Denso and Mr. Framroze founded Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to...

“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...

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 ...

West Bengal starts missing its vultures

Rediff - India ... But urban development and ac9;The Renegade Diet'>The Renegade Dietcidental poisoning have almost wiped out the birds, leaving Parsis divided on how best to treat the dead.

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 Malabars ...