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Diana Pundole from Pune to Make History as First Indian Woman to Race a Ferrari Internationally
The 32-year-old from Pune will compete in the Ferrari Club Challenge Middle East, driving the Ferrari 296 Challenge...
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....
Film shoot turns nightmare for Khareghat Colony
For 4 nights residents of Khareghat Colony have been kept awake; film crew say they have Parsi Panchayat permission By Lata Mishra | Mumbai Mirror Nowadays, if you drive by Pedder Road at night, you...
Z-Meds: Zoroastrian Doctors Without Borders
A note from Parimah Irani: I am involved with a Zoroastrian group called Z-Meds. This group is the Zoroastrian version of Doctors without Borders and its mission is to gather a directory of...
Prince Philip ‘delighted’ to attend Harrow Zoroastrian association’s 150th anniversary
PRINCE Philip was wrapped in a shawl - the highest honour for a guest - while celebrating 150 years of the South Harrow-based Zoroastrian association. By Ian Proctor | Harrow Observer The Duke of...
Calcutta Agiary Celebrates 100 years
The centenary celebrations of Calcutta’s only fire temple or agiari in operation at 91 Metcalfe Street, or Bandook Gali, began with a ceremony both warm and colourful early on Tuesday. The city’s...
Tehmulji Hospital: Parsi Lying-In Hospital caught in revamp row
Talks about revamping the century-old Tehmulji Parsi Lying-in Hospital has led to sparks flying between the managing committee of the hospital and a section of the Parsi community. By Ananya...
Freddie Mercury To Be Honoured At Asian Awards
The Queen star will be given a special Founders Award… Paying tribute to Freddie Mercury on what would have been his 65th Birthday this year, The Asian Awards will honour Freddie's life and...
Rustom Mazda : NID Student to Design For Ferrari Maker
A graduate from the National Institute of Design, Paldi has landed a job in world's leading automobile design house Pininfarina as a consultant designer. Rustom Mazda, who graduated from NID's...
Mumbai’s Parsis helped pave way to Mount Mary
hat Mumbai's Parsi community has a connection to the Bandra fair is a fact known to few. Fr Francis Correa, a local historian, tell of how one of the most famous Parsis of the city Sir Jamshedji...
A chronicle of Parsi theatre’s heyday
For Parsis growing up between the 1950s and 1980s, social life was defined by weekly visits to the theatre, to watch, re-watch and enjoy Parsi plays. Directors like Adi Marzban and Pheroze Antia...
World’s Biggest Aviary Built So World’s Oldest Religions Can Feed Corpses To Vultures
The biggest aviary in the world is set to be built in Mumbai so that followers of one of the world's oldest religions can have their corpses fed to vultures after their deaths. Published on MyFoxDC....
Sandalwood and Money at the Fire Temple
When we go to the Agiary or Atash Behram to pray, we sometimes do things involuntarily without knowing if our actions are right or wrong. One such example is when offering money along with the...
Britannia Restaurant in Mumbai Serves Up Nostalgia on a Plate
For Nowruz, the Parsi New Year, which this year fell on August 19, a particularly long queue spilled out of Britannia Café’s doors and onto the wide boulevard of Mumbai’s elegant Ballard Estate. A...
Artist Jehangir Sabavala passes away
Jehangir Sabavala, an artist whose career spanned over 60 years, passed away on Friday morning after battling lung cancer for two years. The end came at Breach Candy hospital due to respiratory...
Ratan Tata readies plan to enter aviation business
Ratan Tata may have given up plans to get into civil aviation but the chairman of the $72 billion Tata Group is putting pieces together to be a major player in the general aviation space. Tata, a...
MLA funds Doongerwadi repairs
Malabar Hill MLA Mangal Prabhat Lodha, who spent Rs10 lakh from his funds to repair three pavilions inside the Parsi Towers of Silence in Malabar Hill, seems to have hurt the sentiments of the...
Parsi Food at Heathrow Terminal 5
Continuing the Indian theme, Cyrus Todiwala, the chef behind one of the City’s favourite restaurants, Café Spice Namasté, is bringing his pan-Indian cuisine to Heathrow. The Hilton hotel at the...
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...
Elvis and a fasting Parsi
In this Parsi New Year one hoped that things would pan out differently. No major miracles, of course, like India beating England in a Test match or Anna Hazare becoming the Prime Minister of India....
Rustomjee Group promotes cricket at city’s Parsi Gymkhanas
Former Indian Cricket Captain, Nari Contractor today distributed cricket kits to young cricket players of Parsi gymkhanas across the metropolis. At a function ahead of the Parsi New Year, Contractor...
Mumbai Without Parsis Would Be A selfish and sick city
In honor of Parsi New Year, take a moment to consider the religious community's outstanding contributions to Mumbai Parsis are members of a small religious community that exists largely in Mumbai....
Why Parsi girls won’t pick Parsi boys for marriage
At a posh venue in Dadar Parsi colony, the glass doors open to a scene that’s something between a promising party and a formal social gathering. The music is loud enough to drown the voices of the...
Marking Navroz with a ‘naatak’
On Friday, Parsis celebrated Navroz, the Zoroastrian new year. The day is traditionally spent eating, praying and, in the evenings, watching a play. The Navroz naatak is a longstanding custom. The...
Parsis Of Calcutta Celebrate New Year
At the last count — and that was some time ago — there were 565 Parsis in this city, a once-thriving Westernised community known for its industriousness, integrity and love of the good life. So as...
Parsis ring in their new yearin Mumbai
After a solemn ten days dedicated to praying for the souls of the departed, the Parsi community celebrated Navroz or new year with faith and fervour on Friday. In the run-up to the festival, veteran...
Parsis of Pune Celebrate New Year
Wishing each other 'Sal Mubarak,' the city's Parsi community celebrated the Navroze or the Parsi New Year on Friday. Warm family gatherings, a visit to the fire temple or agiary, Parsi delicacies...
Ahmedabad Parsis Bring in New Year
The Parsi community in the city is gearing up to celebrate their New Year- Navroze on Friday. The 1800 plus Parsis population living in the city plans to celebrate the day with great vigour and...
Nagpur Parsis Usher in New Year
Known for their philanthropic disposition, peaceful existence and financial well being, the Parsis observe Navroz or New Year with these very traits firmly imprinted upon the celebrations. In the...
Parsis of Karachi to mark Navroz today
The Parsi new year Navroz celebrations started in Karachi on Thursday night. It differs from the Iranian new year, also referred to as Jamshedi NovRuz, which was commemorated towards the end of...
Happy New Year 2011 | Saal Mubarak Y.Z. 1381
On the occasion of the Shehenshahi New Year (Y.Z.1381) Parsi Khabat takes the opportunity to wish you, our dear reader a very happy new year. Our wishes extend to your loved ones, families and...
100th Year of B.D. Petit Parsee General Hospital
On this happy occasion we are proud to inform you that on 27th March, 2011 our Hospital entered its 100th year of caring for our sick and less fortunate community members. Having reserved 53.6% of...
Late Lt. Cdr. Firdaus Darabshah Mogal awarded Shaaurya Chakra
President Pratibha Patil has approved gallantry medals for 137 security personnel, including 14 for the country's third highest peacetime bravery award, the Shaurya Chakra, on the occasion of the...
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...
The story of India through Powerful leaders: Ratan Tata
Ratan Tata was born to Naval Tata and Soonoo Commisariat in the Tata family, a prominent family belonging to the Parsi community. He is the great-grandson of Tata group founder Jamsedji Tata. After...
Condolences from a former Pakistan Air Force pilot to Jahangir Engineer’s kin
In an unusual heart-warming gesture, some five-decades after Pakistan Air Force shot down a civilian aircraft in Gujarat, the pilot sent a note of condolence to the daughter of the Indian pilot...
Laughter, the worst medicine
Parsi theatre has been in decline thanks to its audience’s refusal of watching anything other than comedies and the language divide Coffee table books scare me for two reasons. I don’t have a coffee...
K. D. Sethna: A colossus passes on
To many of us, K.D. Sethna was the foremost mystic poet of our generation, next only to Sri Aurobindo. He has left behind nearly a thousand splendid poems and several volumes of prose. Future will...
High priests to run affairs of Doongerwadi
Affairs at the Doongerwadi or Tower of Silence will soon be under the direct purview of the high priests of the Parsi community. The decision was taken at a meeting of the trust on July 19. For the...
BawaTips
This is a hilarious and very astute collection of tips about Bawajis. Below are just 3 of more than 50 such tips…and more are being added all the time. It’s a facebook page, hence you need to be a...
Who can stop woman from entering agiyari ?
The hearing of the case seeking confirmation of rights to the Parsi woman, who was prevented from worshipping at the Agiyari after she married a non-Parsi, came up before a larger bench of High...
Iran’s New Currency May be named Parsi
Preliminary results show name of currency will change and four zeros will be removed from value On Saturday, the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran launched a website allowing the public...
Minoo Driver Wins Case Against Air-India in UK Court
Air India has been ordered by a UK court to pay a whopping 252,000 pounds towards outstanding employment claim with accrued interest to one of its former London-based catering managers. Source PTI |...
Endearing Memories Of the Parsi New Year
The Kadmi New Year went by a few days ago. The Shehenshai New Year is less than a month away. The Parsi New Year has traditionally been a day of celebration. Visits to the fire temple, new clothes,...
Is Karachi step a Game Changer for Indian Parsis?
It has recently been reported that two years ago, Pakistan's top Zoroastrian trust explicitly declared that children with at least one Parsi parent can enter the faith. This means that even children...
Malabar Hill : From Jungle to the Most Sought After Address in Town
In 1883, James Douglas, author of several books on Mumbai said: “Malabar Hill seems, like Clive and Carnac, born to command.” Two years later, the governor of Bombay moved to Malabar Point, sealing...
Will Bombay Parsi Panchayat Go The Karachi Way
A recent decision by the Karachi’s apex Parsi trust to give children of women married to non-Zoroastrians the right to adopt their mother’s religion has generated interest in Mumbai where the...
Rohinton Nariman To Be Appointed Solicitor General of India
Senior advocate Rohinton Nariman is all set to be appointed as the new solicitor general of India, the second senior most law officer of the country, in place of Gopal Subramanium, who quit...
What is the Zarathushti Identity ?
The Parsi diaspora in North America has a long history and presence. The Zoroastrian Association of Greater New York [ ZAGNY ]has been one of the first Zarathushti community associations in North...
Full House: A Parsi-Owned Pizzeria
Edul and Hanoz Mahudawala run Full House, a new eclectic pizzeria in Juhu, Mumbai. Below is a review of the restaurant in Time Out Mumbai In the world of Amercian sitcoms, the story of Full House’s...
Preaching Through The Media
Last month, a senior Vatican official said that Catholic bloggers are an extraordinary reality in the life of the church. As if acknowledging the power and reach of the new social media, the Pope,...