Today is the Ushtavaiti Gatha, the second Gatha day of this year’s muktad. And in the 2025 Everyday Parsi series we feature our seventh author Mahtab Dastur. The Muktad times have always been a time of prayer and remembrance. When we were younger, we would go to...
Today is Ahunavaiti Gatha, the first Gatha Day of this year’s muktad. And in the 2025 Everyday Parsi series we feature our sixth author Ervad Adil Mithaiwala In the Presence of Fravashis: My Muktad Journey By Ervad Adil Mithaiwala It begins with a bell. A quiet Agiary...
Our fifth author in the Everyday Parsi 2025 series is Ava J. Patell My husband and I come from families where the tradition was to do Muktad ceremonies only for the first year. Visiting the Agiary early in the morning was a fast trot down Altamont Road to the Bai...
Bakhtiar Dadabhoy’s Homi J Bhabha: A Life chronicles not only the life of an exceptional scientist, but an important era in Indian scienceThe biography of Bhabha, who established India's nuclear energy programme, covers a vast canvas — his early life, scientific...
Persian excellence takes centre stage as Ashdeen and Good Earth come together for a one-of-a-kind limited-edition capsule collection that takes inspiration from Persia's famous seven-coloured decorative tiles. Known for his ground-breaking work in reviving Parsi Gara...
Udvada and Navsari towns in Gujarat were once home to a thriving Parsi community that is now rallying to increase its numbers, archive its history, safeguard its memories, and restore its records. Article by Shubhangi Misra | The PRINT The once famous Great Majestic...
Karachi was once home to thousands of Parsis, followers of Zoroaster (Zarathustra), the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. Some of them still live in the city, but the future for their community seems grim.Article by Mohammad Salman | DWThe history of Zoroastrians...
Noshir Desai, former CEO of Karishma Advertising and later media head at Lintas, passed away in Mumbai on 6th September 2023.Noshir was a veteran of many years belonging to the MCM era where he began his career. He then moved to Everest Advertising and later on worked...
In an email update Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe informs….ZTFE congratulates Lisa Bandari, daughter of Kay & Darayus Bandari, for been appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to Portugal as per the Press Release from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office...