The Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI), the nation's only full-time professional orchestra, is delighted to announce the return of maestro Zubin Mehta for the SOI Autumn 2024 Season, at the invitation of the NCPA. He will conduct the orchestra in four much-anticipated...
We are happy to share that our friend Niloufer Mavalvala has come out with a new bookThe Route to Parsi Cooking: From Pars to India and BeyondPreserving the past for the futurePlace your order by email at [email protected] info on Niloufer’s...
The University of Birmingham unveiled a portrait to commemorate Lord Karan Bilimoria’s remarkable ten-year tenure as Chancellor. Lord Bilimoria, the first Indian-born Chancellor of a Russell Group university in Great Britain, has stepped down, leaving behind a legacy...
We wish all our readers a very Happy Jamshedi Navroze Mubarak. May this new spring bring about a new post-pandemic world. Below is a beautiful poem written by our dear reader Deenaz P. Coachbuilder. About Deenaz P.Coachbuilder, Ph. D.Deenaz is an educator,...
Going purple for Census 2021Harrow’s Civic Centre and the iconic Zoroastrian Centre on Alexandra Avenue will join more than a hundred buildings and landmarks across England and Wales lighting up purple to celebrate the upcoming census and its importance to...
This spring we have much to be hopeful about, as 2021 brings us closer to universal vaccination and normalcy. Nowruz, the festival of Spring is a joyful time for Zoroastrians, as the start of the new year. Article by Nawaz MerchantA traditional Haft-Shin Table...
Niloufer is a cookbook author and cooking instructor with a great passion for food and a love of world travel.The people from Pars – a province in the Persian Empire — migrated to Gujarat, India, 2500 years ago. Persecuted, most of them fled, taking with them their...
Brigadier Furdoon "Duck" Mehta, the Royal Indian Artillery officer who survived a bullet passing through his cap and later became military attache in Washington, has passed away on his 101st birthday on March3.Cut to March 1944: flying a single-seater Auster over the...
Our dear friend E. Kanga sends us an interesting article on the How and Why of Navroze in the Pisces constellation.Sunrise, in Constellation ‘Pisces’ in Northern hemisphere, March 21stConstellations of the Zodiac, shown below at ‘Vernal Equinox’ thru the Ages. Their...