Built by Bai Jerbai Wadia in memory of her late son, the residential colony, continues to be a ‘self-contained’ thriving community centre for 330 families Rustom Baug boasts of a library, gymnasium, canteen, kindergarten and club house, where families meet and residents gather to celebrate festivals and cermemonies. By Linah Baliga | Hindustan Times Parsi… Continue reading Rustom Baug in Byculla celebrates centenary year
Category: History
Carrom and camaraderie in the colony
With Rustom Baug just hitting a century, we revisit other Parsi enclaves founded by the community’s visionaries It’s a privilege I haven’t had. Of living in a baug, that quaint yet quintessential bastion of Parsidom, whose clusters house over half of the approximately 37,000 members of my community left in the city their ancestors brilliantly… Continue reading Carrom and camaraderie in the colony
Streetwise Kolkata: Parsee Church Street, named after Kolkata’s 183-year-old Parsi fire temple
A significant part of the lane and the larger neighbourhood’s documented history starts during the 19th century when the Parsi and Jewish communities began settling here. Written by Neha Banka | Indian Express A significant part of the lane and the larger neighbourhood’s documented history starts during the 19th century when the Parsi and Jewish… Continue reading Streetwise Kolkata: Parsee Church Street, named after Kolkata’s 183-year-old Parsi fire temple
175 years after Parsis flocked to Karachi, glimpses of the community’s fading history
On April 22, 1847, Parsis from across India assembled in Karachi as the foundation for the city’s first Tower of Silence was laid. Article by Ammad Ali | Scroll Photos of long-time Parsi residents of Karachi. | Ammad Ali On the spring morning of April 22, 1847, when the Siberian migratory birds were singing a… Continue reading 175 years after Parsis flocked to Karachi, glimpses of the community’s fading history
Streetwise Kolkata: Parsi Bagan Lane, a neighbourhood that played important role in freedom struggle
What is less well known is the lane’s association with the development of psychoanalysis in the subcontinent. Article by Neha Banka | Indian Express Parsi Bagan Lane in Kolkata. (Express Photo by Shashi Ghosh) Not very far from the Sealdah railway station in Kolkata and just a short walk from the 108-year-old Raja Bazar Science… Continue reading Streetwise Kolkata: Parsi Bagan Lane, a neighbourhood that played important role in freedom struggle
How Parsi-Irani Oral History Project is documenting the community
An aural archiving initiative records big-hearted Parsi-Iranian stories to inform the future of oral traditions Freny Daruwalla with Mani Bhagat They are a community of stories. They understand life, and learn and share its teachings through tales they remember to tell. Mani Bhagat’s 106-year-old memory reaches for fuzzy, warm accounts; when done recounting, she hopes… Continue reading How Parsi-Irani Oral History Project is documenting the community
Memories We Carry: Migration Stories of Zoroastrian South Asian Americans
The South Asian American Digital Archive announces This collection of oral histories represents the living and lived histories of Zoroastrians from South Asia who’ve migrated to the United States in the past fifty or so years. In 1965, after many migration quotas were abolished, the number of South Asian-born migrants increased, which contributed to Zoroastrian… Continue reading Memories We Carry: Migration Stories of Zoroastrian South Asian Americans
