Pakistan’s Renowned gynecologist, Dr. Zeryab Setna, has been awarded the Hilal-e-Imtiaz, one of Pakistan’s highest honors. This accolade recognizes Dr. Setna’s remarkable contributions to women’s health and his pioneering work in gynecology. The President of Pakistan,...
MUMBAI: Two reputed institutes TISS and Parzor have devised an online certificate course on Zoroastrianism that has been thoughtfully developed to explain Parsi culture. Apart from burnishing the CV of young students and researchers and advancing career opportunities,...
Our dear friend and mentor Dr. Shernaz Cama writes in…I write to announce our TISS-Parzor Academic Programme. We are truly grateful for your support and faith in us. We will be glad if you will now help us through your networks to reach out, especially to youth across...
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...
Young Parsi comics, who are laughing at themselves and the innate behaviour that makes Parsis, Parsis, are taking over a corner of the Internet Pardiwalla believes that Bollywood stereotyping spoiled it for Parsis, and his portrayal of the community is closer to the...
Indian women chefs who left indelible culinary footprints across the nationFrom cookbook writers to chefs in commercial kitchens of hotels and restaurants, several Indian women too have emerged as path-breakers in the culinary world. Kitchen was their battlefield and...
Bombay high court on Wednesday asked trustees of Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) to work out by Thursday an alternative solution after a Parsi woman’s nomination for its forthcoming election was rejected on ground that her proposer, Rustom Jeejeebhoy, allegedly no longer...