The team of passionate academics helming the TISS-Parzor course on Parsi culture say it’s the first of its kind anywhere in India, and critical for a country that has been enriched by the minorityArticle by Debjani Paul | Mid-DayThe course will also cover the kusti or...
From the Swiss Alps to Down Under, Parsi home chefs guarding a rich culinary tradition in distant lands speak to Sunday mid-dayIn bustling cities and quiet suburbs, far from their homeland, passionate Parsi cooks are meticulously recreating the comforting dishes of...
Octogenarian maestro Zubin Mehta is in Mumbai for the second consecutive year to conduct the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI) at the NCPA, which will be held over two successive weekends. Although the global citizen considers Mumbai his home, he said when he looks...
Women's Day Special: Remembering-The lady of the Law- Mithan Tata Lam There are few life stories as invigorating as that of Mithan Tata. Mithan Tata has the distinction of smashing the thickest of all professional ceiling- she has the distinction of being the first...
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...
Past the Parsi hostel for women in Worli, through a narrow opening almost down a rabbit hole, lies the once-slum colony of Mayanagar. The birthplace of the Dalit Panthers in the 1970s has now been gentrified; there are apartments with lifts. A bright yellow crane at...
Dr. Zameer Careem, a Sri Lankan historian speaks about the Parsis of Sri Lanka
The full 9 minute BBC segment on the Jiyo Parsi program including extended interviews with Professor Dr. Almut Hintze; Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism at SOAS and Xerxes Dastur, Trustee of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet.