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...
Photographer Arif Mahmood's Pestonjee, Silver Linings leave one in sweet melancholy KARACHI: As the pandemic makes us nostalgic, longing for the yesteryears when times were simpler, a studio-light setup and a little brown bench in front of a dimly lit Arif Mahmood...
In an email announcement the World Zoroastrian Organization UK announced the election of Professor Zenobia Nadirshaw as its new President. Professor Zenobia Nadirshaw MBE was elected as the President of The World Zoroastrian Organisation on the 7th February...
We are informed of the appointment of Mahrukh Bamji, MD as Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the NYCHHC/Metropolitan Hospital. Dr. Bamji has had a versatile career at Metropolitan as a senior clinician, an able administrator, a researcher, and an educator. She...
Zoroastrianism is the world's oldest monotheistic religion, revealed by a prophet in Persia back in the 5th Century BC. Believing in one supreme deity, Ahura Mazda (Lord of Wisdom), creator and sustainer of all things, the central value is everyone has free will to...
There is much that is debatable and untenable in the new book on Jinnah’s wife.Who goes into history?Who is worthy of a biography?The shakers who change civilisation and our view of the world – the scientists, writers, painters and philosophers. And perhaps more than...
Welcome to My Parsi PartyParsis revel in their reputation as hedonistic gourmands. Every gathering, celebration, religious occasion, and even loss is marked by food. Writer Sabrina Medora shares never before printed recipes for the dinner parties of her childhood.By...