At a distinguished gathering held at the iconic The Taj Mahal Palace on May 9, industrialist, philanthropist, and Rasna Group Chairman Piruz Areez Khambatta formally launched his new book, Ashoi: The Zoroastrian Art of Success and Immortality, while also unveiling a...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday orally observed that the practice of excommunicating Parsi Zoroastrian women for entering interfaith marriages is discriminatory [Kantaru Rejeevaru v. Indian Young Lawyers Association].A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant...
Exclusion of intermarried women or their children contradicts the core tenets of Zoroastrianism and the Indian Constitution Article by Jean D’Cunha | UCA NewsA file picture showing Parsi women during a festival celebration in India. As per tradition, a Parsi woman...
Daisy Irani in conversation with Jamshed Fozdar….I had just lost a dear friend at 66 when I began a conversation with a 100-year-old.Between grief and longevity, I found myself wondering who decides what a “full life” really means. One life felt unbearably short, the...
Mumbai-based senior solicitor Berjis Desai has been appointed as a member of the National Commission for Minorities. With over 46 years of legal experience, Desai said his priority will be addressing pending complaints and exploring a new report on the social and...
Editor’s note: The article published in the Free Press Journal refers to a letter signed by a handful of people on an email discussion list and Facebook group. That group has no authority to speak on behalf of the whole community. By no means does their rant represent...
If you want to be an Irish citizen, you must be the sugar in the milk
The Parsis are a small but successful minority group who emigrated to India centuries ago. Today, they are associated with success in business and culture — for example, the Tata family and Farrokh Bulsara, aka Freddie Mercury.
They left their home in Persia as they were unwilling to give up their Zoroastrian faith for their nation’s new one, Islam. When they arrived in India, King Jadhav Rana, who welcomed guests, did not want them to stay. He explained that his kingdom was full and sent them a glass of milk full to the brim to demonstrate his dilemma.
Article by Leo Varadkar | The Times Ireland
For a few weeks each year, in parts of Karachi and Quetta, you can hear Avestan prayers in the Parsi fire temples rising above traffic and generator hum. It is a small sound now, almost silent as the years go by, but it carries two thousand years inside it.Article by...
Built in 1882 by Bomanjee Hormarjee Wadia, this clock tower was a gift of service and foresight. Today, its legacy stands complete once more.Standing tall in Fort since 1882, the Bomanjee Hormarjee Wadia Clock Tower has quietly witnessed Mumbai’s transformation — from...