With every Avestan letter I mastered, I felt like I was securing a piece of Zoroastrian culture’ Perin Pudumjee Coyaji is the only person in the world to have written a book of Kusti prayers in Avestan calligraphy, a rare script as ancient as Zoroaster himself By Mrunmayi Ainapure | Pune Mirror Centuries after Avestan… Continue reading Perin Pudumjee Coyaji And Avestan Calligraphy
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The Dreamers: Gallery Chemould Celebrates 50 Years on the Art Scene
UNTIL THE 1940S, art in Bombay was an occasional pleasure for the city’s European and Indian elite, displayed most prominently at an annual exhibition sponsored by the Bombay Arts Society that was more a social event than an artistic initiative. By Shanoor Seervai | Caravan With India’s impending independence offering an opportunity for radical political… Continue reading The Dreamers: Gallery Chemould Celebrates 50 Years on the Art Scene
A comedy of errors finds favour with audience: Dinyar Tirandaz
When Parsi actors get together to stage a comedy, you can be sure of a laugh riot. Harish Chandra Bijo, staged at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival on day one on Saturday, sent audiences back home with large grins on their faces. The comedy of errors about amateur Parsi actors trying to put together a… Continue reading A comedy of errors finds favour with audience: Dinyar Tirandaz
Sooni Taraporevala and Keki Daruwalla Bestowed Padma Shri in 2014
Good friend of Parsi Khabar, and amazing script writer, film maker and photographer Sooni Taraporevala was one of the two Parsis bestowed with the Padma Shri on the occassion of the 65th Republic Day of India. This award is bestowed by the President of India and is the fourth highest civilian national award. The second… Continue reading Sooni Taraporevala and Keki Daruwalla Bestowed Padma Shri in 2014
Cyrus Mistry wins DSC Prize for 2014
Reticent author Cyrus Mistry on Saturday beat off stiff competition from five other writers to become the fourth winner of the $50,000 DSC prize for South Asian literature on Saturday for his book “Chronicles of a Corpse Bearer”. The prize, is given to the best work or translations of a work on or about the… Continue reading Cyrus Mistry wins DSC Prize for 2014
Death and bawdiness from the Parsi tongue
Parsis don’t have the reverence for the dead that other Indians do and their irreverence is extreme, as shown by numerous Parsi sayings By Aakar Patel | Livemint The Parsis are my favourite Indian community, followed by the Christians. Both give and have given many times more to this country than they take. And both… Continue reading Death and bawdiness from the Parsi tongue
Mehr Fardoonji: A greenie with gusto
Die-hard nature lover and ecologist Mehr Fardoonji talks to P. Sujatha Varma about reversing the bio-diversity crisis We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever; the goal is to create something that will.’ Mehr Fardoonji lives by this maxim by leading a simple life that yields great inner riches. Born in 1930 in Lahore… Continue reading Mehr Fardoonji: A greenie with gusto
Parsis walk from outside to take my story forward: Cyrus Mistry
Reclusive writer Cyrus Mistry, whose book Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer has been nominated for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, prefers the classics to the contemporary — books as well as movies. In an interview with Amrita Madhukalya, he talks about moving to Kodaikanal from Mumbai and the two titles he is working… Continue reading Parsis walk from outside to take my story forward: Cyrus Mistry
How Bombay’s Parsis cracked the opium trade
In the opening chapter of Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke, Bahram Modi of Navsari, recently married into the Mistrie family of Bombay, is trying to persuade his wealthy fatherin-law to let him get into the opium trade with China. By Dibyendu Ganguly | Economic Times He starts with a philosophical construct on how the greatest… Continue reading How Bombay’s Parsis cracked the opium trade
