Honoured recently with the prestigious Padma Vibhushan award by the President, India’s first woman photographer Homai Vyarawalla has decided to give the medal to New Delhi-based Parsi Heritage Trust. Vyarawalla lives alone at Nizampura area of Vadodara after quitting photography nearly 37 years ago. With no descendants after her, the 98-year-old photographer fear that the… Continue reading Homai Vyarawalla to deposit Padma Vibhushan Award with Parsi Heritage Trust in New Delhi
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Udvada residents oppose heritage notification
Residents of Udvada, a holy place for Parsis, met on Sunday to oppose a government notification which they say virtually seeks to freeze any development in the town to protect its heritage value. By Hardik Shah | TNN The importance of Udvada in Parsi history and religion centres around the Atash Behram (sacred fire) housed… Continue reading Udvada residents oppose heritage notification
Udvada Atash Behram : Fire temple will now warm up inter-faith love
For Parsis, all roads will soon lead to Udvada in Gujarat. Udvada, a small town in South Gujarat, where the Parsi community consecrated the first fire temple of Gujarat in 1742 after their arrival to Sanjan, is to be conserved as a Parsi Heritage site and developed as a global centre for inter-faith peace, love… Continue reading Udvada Atash Behram : Fire temple will now warm up inter-faith love
Dilnaz Boga wins AFP prize for work in Kashmir
Dilnaz Boga, an Indian photojournalist and reporter, has won the Agence France-Presse Kate Webb Prize for her courageous work in Indian-administered Kashmir, the AFP Foundation announced Wednesday. Boga, 33, spent a year in Srinagar working for the respected news portal Kashmir Dispatch as well as a number of international publications and websites, the culmination of… Continue reading Dilnaz Boga wins AFP prize for work in Kashmir
Gujarat Government to form Udwada Area Development Authority
The Gujarat government has decided to form the Udwada Area Development Authority in order to “protect” one of the most important holy Parsi sites in south Gujarat. Times News Network The state urban development department issued a notification on Saturday declaring its intention to form the authority, whose main purpose would be ensure that the… Continue reading Gujarat Government to form Udwada Area Development Authority
HC upholds liberal view in Parsi community
The trustees of the Bombay Parsi Panchayat (BPP) cannot arrogate powers to themselves in a mistaken belief that they are custodians of religion, the Bombay High Court today ruled while lifting a ban imposed by the Panchayat on two Parsi Zoroastrian priests barring them from performing religious rites and ceremonies. In a face-off between the… Continue reading HC upholds liberal view in Parsi community
Parsi businesswoman abducted in Pakistan
A Parsi businesswoman, the wife of a former provincial minister who was abducted 10 years back and is still missing, has been kidnapped in Pakistan’s Quetta city, said an official. Originally published in SIFY Nilofar Abadan, wife of former provincial minister Faridoon Abadan, was kidnapped by armed men Tuesday, Dawn reported Wednesday. Faridoon had been… Continue reading Parsi businesswoman abducted in Pakistan
