Amongst the communities whose study has suffered an eclipse are the Parsis. The reason lies in the decline of business studies, but also in the decline of Parsis as a business community. Parsi enterprise played a significant part in the rise of modern Indian industry and services. By Ashok V. Desai | The Telegraph, India… Continue reading Parsi Vicissitudes: Of vision and hard work
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My Father Was Manmohan Singh’s Inspiration: Zareer Masani
Charismatic politician Minoo Masani, founder-leader of the pro-Western, free-market Swatantra Party, is acknowledged by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as his ideological inspiration rather than Jawaharhal Nehru, his son and biographer-historian Zareer Masani says. Article in Outlook India In an unflinchingly candid memoir And All is Said: Memoir of a Home Divided, Zareer draws on the… Continue reading My Father Was Manmohan Singh’s Inspiration: Zareer Masani
Highlights of FPZAI Meeting in Mumbai in February 2012
Below is a report of the recent Federation of Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India meeting held in Mumbai on February 11 and 12, 2012. This report is written by Mr. Marzban Giara and was sent out via email, and was also published in two installments in the Jame Jamshed weekly newspaper The Federation of Parsi… Continue reading Highlights of FPZAI Meeting in Mumbai in February 2012
From Persia to Bangalore
Dinshaw Cawasji, President of The Bangalore Parsee Zoroastrian Anjuman narrates the history of Parsees; how they took refuge in a small coastal town in Gujarat after agreeing to several conditions laid down by the then Maharaja of Sanjan. By Sudha Narasimhachar | Citizen Matters In the mid-eighties when I used to travel on Bellary Road… Continue reading From Persia to Bangalore
Bachi Karkaria on the Kolkata Agiary Turning 100
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
CJI Kapadia’s court revives activism, rattles power elite
The unseating of central vigilance commissioner PJ Thomas is the latest breakthrough made by the Supreme Court in the course of a resurgent judicial activism under the leadership of Chief Justice SH Kapadia. By Manoj Mitta | TNN The ouster of Thomas, who was earlier telecom secretary, comes close on the heels of resignation of… Continue reading CJI Kapadia’s court revives activism, rattles power elite
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
