A bright blue lamppost in the gallery feels like it’s been brought in off the street and given a fresh lick of paint. Look a little closer and you’ll see tiny people at the base and within the lamp. That’s when the light goes off in your head: this is a maquette for...
After a furore over the proposed sale of the Sanjan sanatorium, Parsis have raised concerns about the future of another community Institution - the 140-year-old Ripon Club on Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kala Ghoda.Article by Manoj Ramakrishnan | Free Press JournalEviction...
On a rainy afternoon in Mumbai, inside the executive dining room at Godrej Industries Group’s sprawling Vikhroli headquarters, water droplets on the glass windows blur the view outside — a single chimney, all that remains of the company’s old chemicals factory, once...
Ratan Tata, Noel Tata related to Tata Group founder Jamshedji Tata? New book claims their father was…Navajbai Tata, the wife of Sir Ratan Tata -- Jamshedji's second son-- had adopted Naval Tata after her husband passed away. Naval Tata was the father of Ratan Tata and...
The 2,400-year-old papyrus from Elephantine, touted as the earliest evidence for Pesach, may in fact reference Zoroastrian-influenced rituals, Israeli scholar concludesThe fragment of the 'Passover letter' from Elephantine, 419 B.C.E.Credit: bpk / Ägyptisches Museum...
The Panday Pavilion, named after the family that originally built it, is one of the two seating areas in the cemetery for non-Parsis. The pavilion, and another structure restored earlier, are part of the Doongerwadi cemetery precinct which is listed as a Grade IIA...
The Tatas gifted Mumbai this sprawling cultural space with five theatres, an art gallery and a library.On October 10, when the hearse carrying iconic industrialist Ratan Tata’s mortal remains drove into the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) for people to...
The Brilliant, the Extraordinary, The One and Only “Aapro” Boman Irani’s visit to the Chicago Dar-E-Mehr with family and friendsKhursheed Icchaporia, an active member of the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Chicago (ZAMC) writes about Boman Irani’s visit to the...
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry on the Parsi theatre tradition we lostLavish backdrops, melodramatic flourishes, high-pitched singing, complex tableaux and opulent floats — it combined European techniques with local contours to create a theatre form that became India’s first...