Navroze Mubarak 2025: Happy New Year 1395 Y.Z.

Navroze Mubarak 2025: Happy New Year 1395 Y.Z.

Today marks the start of the Shehenshai New Year, when Parsi Zarathushtis all over the world welcome the “Navu Varas.” Over the past 10 days of Muktad and Gatha, we brought you along on a journey of tradition, nostalgia, and the value of continued customs—traditions...

Everyday Parsi: Xerxes Commissariat

Everyday Parsi: Xerxes Commissariat

Today is the Vahishtoishti Gatha, the fifth and final Gatha day of this year’s muktad. And in the 2025 Everyday Parsi series we feature our eleventh and final author Xerxes Commissariat. The ten days of Muktad prayers are, to me, a time of deep reverence — when the...

Everyday Parsi: Persis Driver

Everyday Parsi: Persis Driver

Today is the Vahishtoishti Gatha, the fifth and final Gatha day of this year’s muktad. And in the 2025 Everyday Parsi series we feature our tenth author Dr. Persis Driver. Flickering Memories of Fearless Women In my fast-paced, often chaotic life, Muktad days are when...

Parsi Wells in Navsari become Rainwater Harvesting Tanks

Parsi Wells in Navsari become Rainwater Harvesting Tanks

News 18 Gujarat has a video segment on the topic Parsi's foresight, wells became rainwater harvesting tanksThe segment is in Gujarati, but explains the historic nature of the wells in Parsi Mohollas100 years ago the entire Navsari district had a population of about...