By Nauzer Bharucha, / TNN In a city where a decent two-BHK apartment within 30 km of the business district is the exclusive domain of crorepatis, the Bombay Parsi Punchayat (BPP) will sell almost 75 flats in Panthaky Baug, Andheri (East), to low-income community members at a rock-bottom rate of Rs 2,400 a square foot.… Continue reading Free flats for Parsis on the anvil
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All Parsi Quiz Results Announced
Team Flashy consisting of Homiar Hathiram, Farhad Choksi and Eric Mehta won the Annual All – Parsi Quiz contest took place on Sunday Novermber 22, 2009 at the Rustom Baug Pavilion. There were twenty teams in all and the quiz was mainly on History, geography, sports, our religion, hollywood n bollywood. The written qualifying rounds… Continue reading All Parsi Quiz Results Announced
Parsi Memories: Ideal Restaurant
By Rusi Sorabjee IDEAL RESTAURANT ….a gastronomic heaven (Still there in 2009,But shifted about 100 mtrs away and inside from main road.) (The IRANI Restaurant… quintessentially Zarathushti Restaurant of old.) It was an old building standing guard –resolute and proud – on Hornby Road, a street that was and still is the main artery of… Continue reading Parsi Memories: Ideal Restaurant
Paris Bakery
The opening line from an old and much loved nursery rhyme buzzed around my ears, as I walked to the romantically named Paris Bakery recently. The origin of the name of this perennially crowded shop, located halfway down the narrow Our Lady of Dolours Church lane, off Princess Street, is shrouded in rather vague and… Continue reading Paris Bakery
Hawkers Evicted from around Bhikhabehram Well
After 30 years, 100 hawkers evicted from Cross Maidan It was jubilation on Saturday for local residents, who finally succeeded in ridding the southern tip of Cross Maidan of a major nuisance By Manoj R Nair Demolition crews from the City Collectorate removed over 100 stalls that had stubbornly resisted all earlier attempts of eviction… Continue reading Hawkers Evicted from around Bhikhabehram Well
Authentic Irani Food in Bombay: Cafe Universal
It’s funny that the only Irani features in an Irani cafe are black tea and its owner. The menu usually has Parsi food, which has more in common with Lucknow than Tehran. It’s ironic that the city’s fair-sized population of Iranis-both Muslims and Zoroastrians who migrated to India from Iran several centuries after their Parsi… Continue reading Authentic Irani Food in Bombay: Cafe Universal
The Parsis in Colonies
This is a hilarious forward sent to us by dear family friend and regular Parsi Khabar reader Bakhtavar Mistry. BE PROUD as After the the British colonies there is only the parsi colonies on which the sun never sets Because …………… at 2 am old ladies are chasing stray dogs with sticks, at 3 am… Continue reading The Parsis in Colonies
Parsis refuse to do the poll dance
See corporator’s attempt to include representatives of the community in the upcoming Assembly elections as a gimmick A proposal from a Malabar Hill corporator to include representatives from the Parsi community in the upcoming state Assembly elections has not found favour with the community. The letter by BJP Corporator Mangal Prabhat Lodha to Governor S… Continue reading Parsis refuse to do the poll dance
Parsis seek apology from Arjun Rampal over ‘hurtful’ remark
Arjun Rampal should apologise to the Parsis. This is the demand from sections of the Parsi community who are scandalised with the actor for stating in a recent interview to a men’s magazine that he had visited a Parsi fire-temple or agiary. "I must be one of the few people who has gone into the… Continue reading Parsis seek apology from Arjun Rampal over ‘hurtful’ remark
