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...

Ashdeen Brings the Parsi Gara Experience to London

Ashdeen Brings the Parsi Gara Experience to London

Ashdeen is bringing the Parsi Gara experience to London for the first time in collaboration with Aashni + Co. The exhibition, which opens today, will feature our signature pieces like this French Rose sari as seen on the lovely Rohiny Belani. It has been meticulously...

16 Parsis take part in the Himalayan Challenge Drive 2023

16 Parsis take part in the Himalayan Challenge Drive 2023

Naheed Divecha writes in to inform us that there were 16 Parsis amongst the over 100 participants who took part in the 2023 version of the Himalayan Challenge Drive. There were 64 self driven cars, over 100 participants who did a Himalayan Challenge drive, over 9 days...

Parsi Delicacies in the USA

Parsi Delicacies in the USA

We received the following update from Roshni Kharoliwalla who runs ParsiDelicacies.com  I am reaching out to you regarding my effort of helping Zoroastrian women in India support their home-based business alongside providing accessibility to the traditional...