At the cusp of Old and New Delhi stands Delhi Parsi Anjuman, complete with North India’s only fire temple, a canteen that offers Parsi food by Dhun Bugli, one of the 750 Parsis in the city, writes Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty Down the Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, towards Dilli Gate, having just passed the Maulana Azad… Continue reading Dhun Bugli: Portrait of a life less known
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Can India save its Parsi community with assisted reproduction?
The size of the Zoroastrian population is in sharp decline, reports Jeetha D’Silva, so the federal government has decided to fund advocacy and in vitro fertilisation in the hope of bucking the trend By Jeetha D’Silva | BMJ A select team of doctors from throughout India will soon be working on an initiative that is… Continue reading Can India save its Parsi community with assisted reproduction?
A Will To Live
By six in the evening, dozens of senior citizens assemble on concrete benches across the seven-acre vicinity of Cusrow Baug, the queen of Parsi colonies. Sprawled by the sea in South Mumbai’s posh Colaba neighbourhood, a steady breeze wafts past the colony’s arrangement of three-storey buildings. By Ranjita Ganesan | Business Standard Some elders exchange… Continue reading A Will To Live
Uttar Pradesh government inflating Parsi numbers, says activist
A media activist here has accused the Uttar Pradesh government of falsely showing an increase in Parsi population in the state to siphon off educational scholarships meant for minority communities’ students. The minority welfare department website of the state government lists around 60 Parsi families in the district, and claims that many of these live… Continue reading Uttar Pradesh government inflating Parsi numbers, says activist
JRD Tata: The father of commercial aviation in India
Hardelot is a beach town in the north of France. It is in the Pas de Calais, a region along the English Channel where the distance to Britain is short and, unlikely as it may seem, this is why it has a link to the development of commercial aviation in India. Author: Vikram Doctor |… Continue reading JRD Tata: The father of commercial aviation in India
Concert will happen, let music speak for itself: Zubin Mehta
The call made to his Munich hotel, as agreed, at 10.30 am, is aborted. The receptionist will not transfer the line to Zubin Mehta unless we specify the room number. "There are security concerns," we are told. The caution has roots in a controversy brewing 4,000 miles away in Kashmir, where he is to perform… Continue reading Concert will happen, let music speak for itself: Zubin Mehta
The Marshalls keep the Parsi flame alive in Kozhikode
Though Marshalls, the lone family of Kozhikode keeping the lineage of the Parsi tradition, seems to have embraced the rhythm of Malabari culture, they remain intact in Zoroastrian beliefs and customs. Author: Fluent in regional tongue one can hardly distinguish Darius P Marshall or his sons Zubin and Farzan from the local people here apart… Continue reading The Marshalls keep the Parsi flame alive in Kozhikode
