The name is bond. Sacred bond. And it is licensed to send a warm thrill up the spine of every Kolkata Parsi. Not just of only the 550 who still remain, but all of us who had grown into our Zoroastrian faith there. By Bachi Karkaria | TNN The city’s only fire temple, the DB… Continue reading Bachi Karkaria on the Kolkata Agiary Turning 100
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Dababhai Naoroji’s House in utter disrepair
Fellow Zoroastrians, Is this how we remember one of the greatest Zoroastrians of recent times, by letting his ancestral house fall into ruins and then be sold off to a builder? http://videos.sify.com/DadaBhai-Naorojis-House-SIFY-watch-jeivLTageac.html Note that this video is a few years old, and that it is incorrectly referred to as Naoroji’s birthplace (he was born in… Continue reading Dababhai Naoroji’s House in utter disrepair
Tata Group’s Russi M Lala want exiting top managers to write memoirs
As India’s largest business conglomerate prepares for a change of guard at Tata Sons — the main holding company for the Tata Group — Russi M Lala, the chronicler of the 143-year-old group, is keen that the retiring generals pen their memoirs, lest stories from the trenches on the pinnacles of success and troughs of… Continue reading Tata Group’s Russi M Lala want exiting top managers to write memoirs
Migration bringing down Parsi population in Kolkata
They number 600-odd in a city with a population of nearly 4.5 million. That nearly half of this 600 are senior citizens may have been a cause for concern for any community but the Parsis of Kolkata. ‘Think Positive’ is their mantra and it came as little surprise that they turned up in large numbers… Continue reading Migration bringing down Parsi population in Kolkata
Mumbai’s original transformers: 5 superheroes you should know
Dadabhai Naoroji As I walk down the road past the maidans, at Flora Fountain Dadabhai Naoroji, book held open in his hand, asks me in Parsi Gujarati, “Are you going to Kala Ghoda? That’s where I used to teach.” And he points to Elphinstone College. The college has been restored well, I inform Mumbai’s preeminent… Continue reading Mumbai’s original transformers: 5 superheroes you should know
A Lifetime Quest to Finish a Monumental Encyclopedia of Iran
Ralph Ellison wrote for 40 years without finishing his novel “Juneteenth.” Antoni Gaudí labored 43 years on the Sagrada Família basilica in Barcelona, but construction continues today. And in the annals of grand quixotica, Ehsan Yarshater also deserves a prominent chapter. By PATRICIA COHEN | New York Times At 53, he embarked on his magnum… Continue reading A Lifetime Quest to Finish a Monumental Encyclopedia of Iran
Jeejeebhoy Senior Citizen’s Centre Navsari
Here are two video clips about the Bai Manechbai P. B. Jeejeebhoy Senior Citizen’s Centre situated in Navsari Gujarat. Part 01.
