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Rhea Mogul: A century-old rule shuts my daughter out of her own community. A court case could change that
Burning sandalwood thickens the air in a room that’s so exclusive only a vanishingly small number of people are...
Dossabhai Oliaji: RIP
We are sad to inform the passing away of Dossabhai Oliaji one of the legends of Parsi Hospitality. Good friend and reader of Parsi Khabar Zarir Oomrigar informed us of this sad news. Image...
Administrator appointed by HC to safeguard estate of Purvez Dalal in Rs 200 crore dispute
Two sides-'heirs' and 'confidantes'-are in tussle over properties of Purvez Dalal, who died in 2011. In a dispute pertaining to two wills, both of which list properties worth around Rs 200 crore and...
Jiyo Parsi Workshop: Family Life in the 21st Century
Dear friend of Parsi Khabar, Dr. Shernaz Cama informs Dear All, I would be grateful if this Notice could be given wide publicity. It is the 1st in a series of Workshops in the Advocacy section of...
PARZOR Exhibition in Chennai
Preserving the grand ethnic culture Parzor Foundation, a non-governmental organisation that works towards preserving the Parsi culture, will be organising a crafts exhibition for the first time in...
Udvada and Navsari Atashbehrams: A Report by Berjis Desai
Our annual pilgrimage to the Navsari and Udvada atash behrams made us pensive. Although it was not one of the "big days” of the Parsi calendar, there was no sitting space at Iranshah. Occupancy...
Mumbai Samachar: Going strong at 192
On July 1, Mumbai Samachar, the city's second most circulated Gujarati paper, will reaffirm its position as the oldest surviving newspaper in Asia. When copies of the Mumbai Samachar (MS) hit the...
Parsis to meet Heptullah in July over reservations
The trustees of the Bombay Parsee Punchayet (BPP) will meet minority affairs minister Najma Heptullah in the first week of July to discuss reservations for the community in medical and engineering...
Billionaire NRI Dadi Balsara found dead in his Taj room
One of the richest NRIs from Singapore, 71-year-old Dadi Balsara, who had been living in a suite of Taj Mansingh Hotel, died late Wednesday. Prima facie, it appears that he had suffered cardiac...
Hvovi Minocherhomji: Chennai halts traffic to save life
When a human heart was being loaded into an ambulance at the General Hospital around 6.40pm on Monday, 6km away, at Light House, traffic inspector Uday Kumar's walkietalkie crackled to life. He had...
Kainaz Amaria Accepts Innovation Award from White House NPA
Good friend of Parsi Khabar, Kainaz Amaria recently received an award at the the hands of President Obama on behalf of her team. Earlier this year Kainaz Amaria, supervising editor for the NPR...
Ex-CJI backs out of case against ‘rebel’ Parsi priests
Rejection of request to mediate is a blow to the community which has already spent over Rs 3 crore in litigation Former chief justice of India, Sarosh Kapadia, has rejected a request to mediate in...
An extraordinarily ordinary man laid to rest: Russi Mody
It was the wish of Russi Modi, a former chairman and managing director of Tata Steel, to be laid to rest beside the tomb of his mother, Lady Jerby Mody, at the Parsee cemetery in the city, and so...
SH Kapadia to see action as mediator between ‘renegade’ Parsi priests and BPP
ROW OVER 'RENEGADE' PRIESTS: Bombay Parsi Punchayet says Sarosh Kapadia is also Parsi, will click with community while pointing to depleting coffers and huge litigation costs. The Supreme Court on...
Colaba Metro Wont Affect the Atashbehrams at Princess Street: MMRDA
There is a possibility of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) not disturbing the century-old Parsi fire temple at Princess Street near Dhobi Talao during the construction of...
Dr. Zinobia Madan and The Jiyo Parsi Scheme: Interview with BBC
Dr. Zinobia Madan spearheads the Jiyo Parsi Scheme that the Government of India has put together with UNESCO Parzor Project. Here she speaks to the BBC on the issue of raising the Parsi population....
Ratan Tata Conferred Knight Commander Rank by Queen of England
The Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday conferred the rank of Knight Commander (KBE) on former chairman of the Tata group Ratan Tata. The KBE is one of the highest honours given by the queen to...
Thousands willing to donate salaries to save Dr Homi Bhabha’s bungalow in Mumbai
Thousands of people are willing to shell out money from their pockets to preserve Dr Homi Jehangir Bhaba's legacy. With Dr Bhabha's sprawling bungalow, Mehrangir, situated in the posh Malabar Hill...
Prince Charles Visits the Godrej Mangroves
The HRH Prince Charles was recently in India. Below is a small write up by Dorab E. Mistry of UK. Dorab Mistry writes: I am sending you 2 remarkable photographs of HRH Prince Charles visiting the...
After 23 Years World Zoroastrian Congress returns to Mumbai
The Parsi community laid the metaphorical building blocks that made the city of Mumbai. On December 27, the World Zoroastrian Congress — a conference that brings together Parsis from across the...
Kaum Banegi Crorepati
An entire community's hopes seem pinned on a man called Marzi Bhesania. Its networks have gone viral over this hitherto unheard of fellow-Parsi. By Bachi Karkaria | Times of India He's not from...
Bombay Parsi Punchayet trustees cry Rs 45 lakh swindle, put chief in a spot
Four trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) on Wednesday filed a complaint with the joint commissioner of police against their chairman, Dinshaw Mehta, for misappropriation of funds, cheating...
Marzi Bhesania: First Zoroastrian on Kaun Banega Crorepati
Marzi Bhesania of Navsari, Gujarat; India is slated to be the first ever Parsi contestant on Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version of the original Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. In the long run...
Ignoring community’s help, Parsi family lives on footpath
They were given monetary assistance and put up at a dharamshala, yet the family of three have, for four years, been embarrassing the community by living outside the Petit Sanatorium at Cumballa...
13 years after judge’s death, ex-pilot in the dock over threat calls
Thirteen years after the death of a former Bombay High Court judge, the court is likely to frame charges against an ex-pilot accused of criminally intimidating him and his family over a property...
Zoroastrian Research Group Online
Bakhtyar Taila of Boston, USA writes: I have started a Zoroastrian Research Group on Yahoo. This group is Dedicated to research and inquiry about Zoroastrianism and about everything Zoroastrian. If...
WZO Trust Funds Launches New Website
Good friend of Parsi Khabar, and Chairman of the WZO Trust Funds, Mr. Dinshaw K. Tamboly informs us: Dear Friends, Donors, Well Wishers, The website of World Zoroastrian Organisation Trust / WZO...
Zoroastrian Return To Roots Program
The Zoroastrian Return to Roots Program is a new initiative launched by a group of 4 young Zarathushtis resideing all over the world. It is a fantastic program and comes with the oversight of...
Mumbai's Zoroastrian Anjuman sells 963 acres of land to Viva Homes
The tiny Parsi-Irani community is one of the largest land owners in and around Mumbai. The Wadia, Godrej and Jeejeebhoy families are some of the big landlords while the Bombay Parsi Punchayat...
Bhicoo Manekshaw Passes Away
We are saddened to inform the passing away of Bhicoo Manekshaw. She was one of the best known names in the world of gastronomical delights. Her cookbooks on Parsi cooking are some of the best...
Parsis offer better benefits for more priests
The dwindling number of priests within the Parsi community has set the alarm bells ringing as the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), the community’s apex body, has introduced a first-of-its-kind...
Dinshaw Vimadalal: Cathedral School Alumni
Below is some more information on the “most eligible Parsi” these days…a.k.a Dinshaw Vimadalal. From Seventh Heaven….a site for Cathedral School Alumni Mexican Cathedralite Just had this, hot on the...
Indian millionaire takes out advert looking for “slim, childless, meat-eating wife”
An Indian multi-millionaire has spent £15,000 on a full-page advertisement in The Times of India's matrimonial section to spell out just how rich he is in an attempt to find a wife. By Dean Nelson...
World Zoroastrian Organisation Trust India: 2012 Overview of Activities
Dinshaw K. Tamboly, Chairman of WZO Trust India and a good friend of Parsi Khabar, sends us an overview of the Welfare Activities of WZOT for the year 2012. You can download the entire report here....
80-year-old priest jumps to death from south Mumbai building
An 80-year-old Parsi priest, residing in south Mumbai's Dhobi Talao area, allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the balcony of his fourth floor flat at Trinity Apartments. The incident occurred...
Dinshah Vimadalal: Who wants to marry a Millionaire ?
Mirror reporter poses as a candidate to meet Dinshah ‘Din’ Vimadalal, a Mexico resident who paid top money for a matrimonial ad that he wrote himself. (Click here to see the advertisement) By Pooja...
Dinsha: Want To Marry Him ?
This is probably the most outlandish matrimonial advertisement you will ever see. Dinsha or Din! is a Parsi NRI from USA. And is looking for a bride. And no it’s not an April Fool’s Day joke. It...
Solicitor General of India Rohinton F Nariman Resigns
Solicitor General of India Rohinton F Nariman has resigned from his post buy cialis online almost an year after he replaced Gopal Subramaniam. The exact reason behind the sudden resignation is not...
An Appeal for Medical Costs for a Young Parsi Priest
Dear Fellow Zoroastrians I am writing this email to you all as a plea for financial help l help for a young. parsi boy in coma in hospital in Mumbai. Cherag Soli Desai is my moms cousin Soli...
Cyrus and Lyla Guzder: A Parsi Couple's Healing Touch to Vidarbha's Farmers
As debt-ridden farmers continue to kill themselves in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region due to "government apathy", a Parsi couple from Mumbai has provided a healing touch to around 25 widows...
Priest killed, friend hurt in mishap
A young Parsi priest was killed and his friend seriously injured while riding a bike on the Palm Beach Road early on Sunday. The deceased, Kaiwan M Dastoor (22), resided in Dadar's Parsi Colony...
Ardeshir Cowasjee RIP: Mourning a man who mourned for Pakistan
A year ago, an obituary appeared on the pages of Dawn of someone called A. Cowasjee. Many well-meaning fans and friends of famous columnist and social activist Ardeshir Cowasjee, rushed to non...
Special Edition Newsletter of the XVI NAZC 2012
The XVIth North American Zarathushti Congress was hosted by ZAGNY in New York in August 2012. ZAGNY has this month come out with a commemorative special edition of their Newsletter that covers the...
Vadodra Parsis cremated as vultures dwindle
Vadodara: When Dara Hakim, 89, a former Indian Navy deep-sea diver and prominent member of Vadodara?s Parsi community passed away recently, his family chose to cremate him. Though he did not leave...
Banned at home, Pakistan brewery seizes Hollywood moment
(Reuters) - What have Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, underage drinking and Pakistan's only beer maker got in common? It was the arrest of the Hollywood stars' daughter in New York with a can of Murree...
Kolkatta Parsis Look Forward to Iran Trip
The Parsis may be reduced to 600 families in the city and 70% of them are senior citizens. But they are not short of excitement when they get a chance to visit homeland. Parsis in the city are...
Tabla player Aban Mistry passes away
Aban Mistry, a musician and scholar, known as the first woman solo tabla player in India, passed away in Mumbai on Sunday evening. She was 72. Mistry, one of the few members of the Parsi community...
Sr citizen dies as Tardeo bldg flooring caves in
A 78-year-old polio afflicted woman, who was lying on her bed at her second floor flat in Soonawala building in Tardeo, died on Tuesday morning after the flooring gave way and she fell to the ground...
FEZANA 2012 Zarathushti Awards Announced
The FEZANA Awards for 2012 were announced today at the XVI North American Zarathushti Congress 2012, being in New York at the Hilton Westchester, Rye Brook NY. Shirin Nariman Dastoor Outstanding...
Only 87 girls born in the Parsi community in 2011
The number of girls born in the Parsi community in Mumbai dipped from 104 in 2010 to 87 in 2011, according to data released by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The average annual births...
XVI NAZC 2012 Launches iOS and Android App
In a first for a Zarathushti event anywhere in the world, ZAGNY and the hosts of the XVI NAZC 2012 are happy to announce the launch of their App. This app is free and is available for immediate...