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Matteo Miele, “L’estinzione dei parsi in India”, Il Post, 15 September 2011http://www.ilpost.it/2011/09/15/lestinzione-dei-parsi-in-india/
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MUMBAI DOKHMA – AN OUTDATED PRACTICE???
Parsis expose their dead to vultures on Towers of Silence ( dokhma ), although if a person dies where no such tower exists, then burial or cremation is practiced. Usually built on a hilltop, the dokhma is a round stone or brick structure about 15 meters high and perhaps 100 meters across, with an internal platform on which sit three ranks of stone slabs, for the bodies of men, women, and children, sloping down toward a central dry well. The bearers place a body there and within an hour or so vultures reduce it to bones. Some days later the corpse bearers return and throw the bones down the central well. It has sand and charcoal in it, the purpose of the charcoal being to protect the earth from the pollution of death. In the current scenario at Mumbai where no vultures exist; the bodies of our departed souls are left to rot/decay in the presence of sunlight and air. The current practice seeks to achieve degradation of the body in the presence of sunlight and air. This apparently is a very slow process on account of the low heat intensity from the sun.
The next best option which is similar to what is sought to be achieved is electric cremation. Electric cremation reduces dead bodies to basic chemical compounds in the form of gases and bone fragments. This is accomplished through burning at high temperatures, vaporization and oxidation. The disintegration of the body is faster on account of the high heat intensity produced through electricity.
Its time our so called conservatives and high priests stop taking our community members for a jolly good ride and consent to use of electric cremation as the method of cremation for our departed ones bodies. Some day our community will end up into litigation on the current method of cremation which can lead to a possibility of a plague in southern mumbai if the bodies continue to be allowed to decay in the open. The time for awakening is now and hopefully one of our parsi punchayet trustee will pick up some guts and the will to take this issue forward for deliberation or subject it to a referendum. We have no better choice going by the state of the current cremation practice at the mumbai dokhma…do we???
MUMBAI DOKHMA – AN OUTDATED PRACTICE???
Parsis expose their dead to vultures on Towers of Silence ( dokhma ), although if a person dies where no such tower exists, then burial or cremation is practiced. Usually built on a hilltop, the dokhma is a round stone or brick structure about 15 meters high and perhaps 100 meters across, with an internal platform on which sit three ranks of stone slabs, for the bodies of men, women, and children, sloping down toward a central dry well. The bearers place a body there and within an hour or so vultures reduce it to bones. Some days later the corpse bearers return and throw the bones down the central well. It has sand and charcoal in it, the purpose of the charcoal being to protect the earth from the pollution of death. In the current scenario at Mumbai where no vultures exist; the bodies of our departed souls are left to rot/decay in the presence of sunlight and air. The current practice seeks to achieve degradation of the body in the presence of sunlight and air. This apparently is a very slow process on account of the low heat intensity from the sun.
The next best option which is similar to what is sought to be achieved is electric cremation. Electric cremation reduces dead bodies to basic chemical compounds in the form of gases and bone fragments. This is accomplished through burning at high temperatures, vaporization and oxidation. The disintegration of the body is faster on account of the high heat intensity produced through electricity.
Its time our so called conservatives and high priests stop taking our community members for a jolly good ride and consent to use of electric cremation as the method of cremation for our departed ones bodies. Some day our community will end up into litigation on the current method of cremation which can lead to a possibility of a plague in southern mumbai if the bodies continue to be allowed to decay in the open. The time for awakening is now and hopefully one of our parsi punchayet trustee will pick up some guts and the will to take this issue forward for deliberation or subject it to a referendum. We have no better choice going by the state of the current cremation practice at the mumbai dokhma…do we???
MUMBAI DOKHMA – AN OUTDATED PRACTICE???
Parsis expose their dead to vultures on Towers of Silence ( dokhma ), although if a person dies where no such tower exists, then burial or cremation is practiced. Usually built on a hilltop, the dokhma is a round stone or brick structure about 15 meters high and perhaps 100 meters across, with an internal platform on which sit three ranks of stone slabs, for the bodies of men, women, and children, sloping down toward a central dry well. The bearers place a body there and within an hour or so vultures reduce it to bones. Some days later the corpse bearers return and throw the bones down the central well. It has sand and charcoal in it, the purpose of the charcoal being to protect the earth from the pollution of death. In the current scenario at Mumbai where no vultures exist; the bodies of our departed souls are left to rot/decay in the presence of sunlight and air. The current practice seeks to achieve degradation of the body in the presence of sunlight and air. This apparently is a very slow process on account of the low heat intensity from the sun.
The next best option which is similar to what is sought to be achieved is electric cremation. Electric cremation reduces dead bodies to basic chemical compounds in the form of gases and bone fragments. This is accomplished through burning at high temperatures, vaporization and oxidation. The disintegration of the body is faster on account of the high heat intensity produced through electricity.
Its time our so called conservatives and high priests stop taking our community members for a jolly good ride and consent to use of electric cremation as the method of cremation for our departed ones bodies. Some day our community will end up into litigation on the current method of cremation which can lead to a possibility of a plague in southern mumbai if the bodies continue to be allowed to decay in the open. The time for awakening is now and hopefully one of our parsi punchayet trustee will pick up some guts and the will to take this issue forward for deliberation or subject it to a referendum. We have no better choice going by the state of the current cremation practice at the mumbai dokhma…do we???
Conduct an open Survey of those married outside the community to find the possible cause for intercaste marriages. For every thousand hackings to the leaves of the devil; there is one striking the root
Where are the vultures? So your first sentence is by itself misleading. C rematorium is not feasible an option in an area like Malabar Hill. Further, even it offends those who consider ‘sacrilege’ of Fire though no Fire is used and electricity is not flames. There are better more eco friendly options like Chemical decomposition. But as hey say, one requires an expose of the rot in the Towers to make our laity who mis up this practice as a part of Religion to wake up. We had some like Ms. Baria who made some noise some years back but in my knowledge has not taken any concrete steps to rectify this inflicting indignity on the departed souls.
Hinnells suggests that this myth represents the idea that if evil is left to go on quietly and is not openly opposed then it will cause chaos and destroy all that is good. Evil has to be opposed openly and deliberately. This can be done by following all the Zoroastrian purity laws which are at the centre of the Zoroastrian religion. Ritual religious purity wards off evil.
FJP 16.12.2011.
Hinnells suggests that this myth represents the idea that if evil is left to go on quietly and is not openly opposed then it will cause chaos and destroy all that is good. Evil has to be opposed openly and deliberately. This can be done by following all the Zoroastrian purity laws which are at the centre of the Zoroastrian religion. Ritual religious purity wards off evil.
FJP 16.12.2011.
Hey Guys, I’m sorry I posted in the wrong space.
I would suggest an article inquiring into the procedures employed by Avesthagen, a pharmaceutical headed by a Ms. Morawalla-Patel, who fraudulently and illegally duped Parsis into giveing a “small sample” of blood for “research into tracing the parsi genome” and her representatives verbally promised reports stating the genetic pre-disposition of each of the persons from whom they extracted bloood.
The consent forms that they gave were given after the blood was extracted. They were lengthy and ambiguous and written in a manner that covered up their illegal practice.
I still have the consent forms, as well as the “advert/ appeal” that they had placed in the baugs, and the thread of e-mails t I sent to the Avesthagen officials about their horrible malpractice. Although I was assured an inquiry and report into the matter, nothing of the sort ever happened.
Extracting nine testubes of blood (about 45-50ml) from each person, some being lactatng mothers, others being in their 80s, was an absolute violation of their human rights.
And what has happened? Will someone help me look into this?
Her representatives went to numerous conies in Mumbai and Surat. I can provide enough of victim’s accounts from Rustom Baug.
Yes, survey is necessary especially why well educated, Atash Behram and Agyari going Parsi young girls from good family back ground whose parents sacrificed so much to bring them up, choose to marry non-Zoroastrians and produce children to follow their faith when our population is on the brink of extinction ? Is it due to lack of
(1) information about our community’s situation ?
(2) and religious instructions or education what marriage means in Zoroastrianism ?
19.12.2011.
The basic reasons for intercast marriages:
1) Developed Brain.
2) Human rights.
3) Opposition to archaical/patriarchal belief system
4) Marrying at will and not forced into it.
5) Threats of disowning or making an outcast makes you cringe in disgust.
I am not against marrying in the sommunity. I am against forcing to marry in the community. It hasn’t helped and it will never help. You can lambast me all you want but the real cause of diminishing Parsis is not intercast marriages but a mindset too narrow to see or understand one’s own faults.
Why not donate the body for medical research?
Hope religion is not against saving a life….
Agreed to all “praises” people have for Parsi religion & community, but can’t understand why people from other religion cant enter/visit our Agiyari.
Is our religion and place where we worship of such high standard where we feel “others” are not equivalent to worship our God? I know and have heard multiple reasons and logic from the best of individuals from our community regarding not allowing “other religion” individuals to enter our Agiyari, but none of the logic & explanation have touched my heart in a positive way.
I have visited the best of holistic places in India and that too of various religious backgrounds. I have seen love & affection within each individual who visits those places irrespectible of which community they belong. The only thought which struck my mind even at that time was “why we-parsis differ from this concept.”
Religion is totally different as compared to faith. We all believe that God is One-“Ek Omkar”, then why such difference? This is just fate/destiny that we are offspring’s of a parsi couple so we are termed as “Parsi”. There is nothing to be proud of what God has offered us. This is just a gift from supreme…nothing more than that. Few “foolish individuals” among our community seldom have a single line to say – “ we/parsis & our agiyari is paak so we can’t allow others to enter within”. I totally disagree to accept the fact that the God that I worship is of such a nature that he will feel objected if an individual of some other community bows on his feet and prays to him. We should never ever forget that if we are living in India- we are Hindus first and then can follow any faith which our heart wishes to. If we can’t accept that we are “Hindus” we can never be a “True Parsi”. – Jai Hind
We need an article about a Parsi holding his rights as a minority in a cosmopolitan society. We need parsi advises, on how to remain strong between other castes, when we fall alone and lonely in this cruel world of competition. We need how to shield and protect parsis against humiliation from other castes out of jealousy. We need an article about fighting back when our own parsis call other parsis crack bawa in front of other community and insult them. Since all the other communities are now actually coming up in the inglis-spikking werold, some parsis are strongly dominated and supressed, how to turn back and show the finger. Parsis are often humiliated for not getting married and joked about too much, how to return it with thanks. Parsis are always thumped in serious conversations by others when BPP becomes an ever open charitable organisation . Lets have a provocative article. Lets be true- COME_ON
No Doubt we are thankful to Mr. Jadi Rana who gave us immense support when we landed on Indian soil, but we are not HINDUS. We are truly Mazdayasni Zarthoshthis only. We must follow Parsi Zoroastrian Religion Customs, Traditions, Ethics only. No scholar can change this. No Reformist can change this. It is always an Orthodox person who will look after the Mazdayasni Zarthosti Religion for a longer period of time and till eternity. God Bless You. Yatha Jamyad Yatha Afrinami.
Porus your logic that if we are living in India we are Hindus is laughable. Those living in India are Indians irrespective of their religious followings. India has hindus muslims christians sikhs buddhists Jains bahais etc etc etc…. If you want to accept that you are hindu and that makes you a True Parsi more power to you. Please do not let any more thoughts strike your mind on this concept as your brain may not be able to take it. Thanks for making my day.
Are you confused?
While I agree that Agyaris should be open to people from all faiths, but the notion of being a Hindu first is actually moronic.
If you ask for equality, then I think you should let go of religion.
Plus Parsis are too self involved to see anything beyond the Customs, Traditions, Ethics.
So asking this question is blasphemy for them and a waste of time for you because Parsi God is a god only for Parsis. Concept of one god is a moot on them and a person of any other religion is free of the morals and wrath of Parsi God.
No wonder as to who owns a God here…!!
Hi… I’mfrom Iran, please if it maybe active a program for translation texts to Persian. Tanks
Farzu your wish for an agiary (more of a club) open to all will soon be granted by ARZ and that too near you in Poona. Parsis (Private) potana khissa mathi built the existing Agiaries for Parsis only. If you let go of religion why would you need an agiary????????????
Nobody can do it for you. Learn to stand up for yourself. If you have a problem with BPP fight the elections or go there on Tuesdays and sort it out with the trustees. Just writing a provocative article will not do.
Yesterday’s function at malcolm baug organised by Zoroastrian Trust Funds of India for doing navjote of 5 poor children was excellent. Almost 1,000 people enjoyed the evening. It was fun-filled with Gara Competition, Dances, Music, Food, Fun and Frolic. Hats off to people who organised the same beautifully. Now, I suggest on 9th August, 2012 which will be their third anniversary, 5 poor parsi marriages can be organised in the same manner. We do not mind attending the same and enjoying our evening. This way, even parsi population will also increase. ZTFI please think it over. All The Best. God Bless You.
My take on suggesting an Article is ” WOULD A REFERENDUM ON CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES PUT AN END TO ACRIMONY IN THE COMMUNITY”
Phiroze talks as if th Fire Temples he frequents are built from his ‘potana khissa mathi” This is known as hallucination.
Phiroze talks as if the Fire Temples he frequents are built from funds from his own “potana khissa” A case of hallucination.
Excellent suggestion. Will ensure end to waste of time in endless discussions. Should be implemented ASAP.
Would love to see an article on one of my Grant Road favorite restaurants of yesteryears – Grand Oriental Parsi Restaurant.
I suggest you please write an article on pending number of court cases BPP has in Mumbai.(and also with Honourable Supreme Court of India.) What genuine efforts 7 trustees have taken to do an OUT OF COURT SETTLEMENT to reduce the number. This is very important for the Parsee Community to know because at a drop of a hat BPP loves going to Court instead of settling the matter amicably, peacefully. May LOrd Ahuramazda show them the right path.
HI all Parsi / Zoroastrian students and parents and family.
We P.P.P. Trustees are organising a GRAND function cum sessions with
three EXPERTS who will speak on education related topics and then
felicitate meritorious students with prizes. Followed by DINNER (
donation pass of 100.) good food for thought n body. plz BUY TICKETS
FAST AS LIMITED SEATS. function on 26th Jan. evening 5.30 pm. Dastoor
School Hall. PUNE.
It seems you think that you are the only ones who know how to worship and everyone else are here to party.
First: Even if I take your insulting and offending comment as a joke, it still is too stupid to make on your “wish for an agiary (more of a club) open to all”.
Second: If you let go of religion as a basis to build your relations with people, then you’d be closer to them. Please read into the lines. If you plan on taking everything literaly, then refrain from writing pun intended comments yourself.
Third: If you need and Agyari to have faith, then I am sorry, you are weak.
Fourth: You should stop being condescending about how you follow your religion. Going by your views here, you seem offended that people not of your religion can put their faith in Ahura Mazda. You should realize that you are created by him and its not the other way around. So refrain from telling people if they can wish to visit an Agyari to worship Ahura Mazda.
NAA NAA HAVAY!…..Just like the Marathi Manus has the Thakrays, The Gujus Have Mody, Bongs have Mamta, and Bhaiyas have Laloo, who is there for the BAWAS ?.
The inside story of the extraordinary life of the Mumbai-born Parsi Shapurji Edalji is key to a book by Roger Oldfield, Outrage: The Edalji Five and the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes (Vanguard Press). Shapurji’s son was imprisoned in 1903 for ripping open the belly of a pit-pony. This was the eighth in a series of gruesome outrages against horses, cattle and sheep in the Edaljis’ home village of Great Wyrley in England.
In 1907 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes, marched into battle to prove George innocent. His passionate campaign provoked huge excitement. It seemed as if Sherlock Holmes had taken on a real-life case, and newspapers from Mumbai to New York followed the story for months.
Shapurji’s own life was no less sensational. Born a Parsi in Mumbai he attended Elphinstone College, where he was a classmate of Sir Dinshaw Edulji Wacha, one of the founders of the Indian National Congress in Mumbai in 1885. In 1856, at the tender age of 14, Shapurji outraged his Parsi community by converting to Christianity, and his parents disowned him. The man who had captured him was the Free Church of Scotland missionary John Wilson, whose college Shapurji attended. He ended up as a missionary among the Warli people north of Mumbai.
Then he angered the Free Church of Scotland by going over to the opposition, the Church of England network in Mumbai. Under its influence he travelled to Canterbury in England to train as a Church of England missionary.
Roger Oldfield’s book covers Shapurji’s Mumbai years in detail. In his time there he had made a notable contribution to its life. Two of his books, A Gujerátí and English Dictionary and A Grammar of the Gujerátí Language, were still in use many years after his departure.
Once his Canterbury training was over he infuriated his new masters by refusing to go to India as a missionary on their terms. They abandoned all interest in him when he stayed in England and was ordained as a priest in Oxford. After years travelling the country as a curate he was finally made Vicar of Great Wyrley, where he served until his death 42 years later. No author has ever pointed out that he could well have been the first South Asian to be made a vicar in England. His is a remarkable story.
Another fascinating ingredient of Roger Oldfield’s book is the parallel background of Shapurji’s English wife Charlotte. From the 17th century onwards one generation after another of her ancestors were involved in what Mumbai-born Salman Rushdie has called ‘400 years of conquest and looting’ by the British. Many of her family travelled to Mumbai as merchants, sailors or soldiers, and some stayed for a period.
The Anglo-Asian couple (Charlotte and Shapurji) produced three children, George, Horace and Maud, all brought up in the isolated coal-mining village of Great Wyrley where attitudes were shaped by British imperialism. Each of their lives was blighted by the consequences of that attack on a pit-pony in 1903 which was made famous by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s intervention.
when parsi census figures are going to come out in the news ?? any idea ??? From 69,601 -all india population it must have definetely decreased by 6,000. Will anybody please find out. thanks.
No Article on Parsi General Hospital’s 100 years completion ?
Why BPP is not introducing Election Code of Conduct ??? Please write a detailed article soon. thanks.
I hope anyone of our Zarathosti Institutions have accepted such a generous offer and as a decency replied.
An article about a Parsi genius though she is not identified as such in the article.
Since I was a kid, I was taught to be proud that I’m a Parsi. I always had fun telling my friends that we are been eaten by vultures when we are dead, boasted about the navjotes and dhansaaks. I had a feeling of being different from the rest. It was always drilled into my head that we Parsis are modern, liberal and broad-minded. But over the years, when I started using my own intellect, I realized that we are nothing more than a bunch of orthodox, biased and hypocritical people. When I was just entering my teenage I wondered why my friends, or for that matter any other person who followed a different religion, is not allowed into our agiary. Whereas I could enter theirs without any qualms. I was never stopped from entering a church or a mandir or a mosque. That innocent question is still not answered yet in my 25 years. Not that I dint get answers. “This is how it always was, kid” said my mother… “We are just protecting our Holy Fire” said a Dasturji. Today when I think of it, I really want to go back to those people to claim to be “protecting the Holy Fire from being unpurified” that are you really serious? Are the people following other religions not human beings? Have we Parsis landed on earth directly from the heaven or something? Don’t they have 2 eyes, 1 nose, 1 mouth, 2 hands and 2 legs? Does blood not flow in them? Or is it water? In that case why do we even touch them? If the Holy Fire will become impure by their shadow even then wont we become dirty if we touched them? Let go back to the era where these flag-bearers came from… treating people like untouchables. Oh c’mon! I have come across multiple Parsis, but today I cannot name one who does not have a Ganapati or a Sai Baba or a Lakshmi in their house. When they did not stop us from praying to them then why are we being biased and plain borderline fanatics. Leave apart the other religions. What are we doing to our own religion folks. The other day I was sitting in the agiary and while a jasan was going on I went through a parsi magazine lying there. That’s when I read an article that a Parsi lady actually had to file a petition in court to perform the last rites of her parents. This is RIDICULOUS! I mean, how can we allow these so-called guardians-of-the-religion ruin a relation a daughter shared with her parents. Just because she made a choice of HER life and married a non-parsi. Today, daughters are being disowned because she chose a non-parsi spouse. Parents throw tantrums, relatives are full of taunts and friends are all “eni dikri parjaat maa parni!!”(Her daughter married a non-parsi!!) What exactly is the big deal here. Why cant she make a choice of her own life?!! I started reading more on this topic and I came across an article on “Excellent reasons against mixed marriages” by Homi P. Ranina who is a well educated lawyer, a trustee of B.P.P etc etc. And I was amazed at the orthodox thinking of this man. He mainly blames the parsi girls to choose a spouse outside the community. I don’t know if he is reading this, but I certainly want to ask him why does he think a Parsi girl should choose to be in such a religion where the girls are considered as just a child making machine. Thats what we do right? Because, a non-parsi mother’s children are happily taken into the religion. But if a Parsi girl marries outside the religion, then she along with her children are thrown out of the community. If that was not less, even her parents are looked down at, with disgust. Half of the parents disown their daughters just because they fear the society. Whereas if a son marries a non-parsi, its not that big a deal. Then it becomes “his choice, what can we do…” Why this discrimination? They talk about values in the kid. As far as I have known, the values in the child mainly comes from the mother. I have seen cases where a child of a non-parsi mother(who is happily accepted by our warriors of religion) does not give a damn about the religion. At the same time, a child of a parsi mother married to a non-parsi, even though not accepted by the Parsis, does follow the values given by her Parsi mother. I am a 25 year old girl. And after knowing and understanding all this, I certainly would not want to retain myself with this religion. Why should I? Just to be treated as a spawn to increase the population of such hypocritical people? I would rather prefer being in a religion which does not have barriers in praying or believing in God. That’s certainly one Parsi off your guard. And I’m sure there will be multiple such girls who could relate with me on this. Its high time we stop such retarded customs. If Parsi men can continue entering agiaries after marrying a non Parsi, I think it’s fair enough to allow our women to do the same. Even the stone age changed with time… But it seems our so-called flag bearer Parsis are still stuck up there.
SEE PHIROZE? this is what happens when just 1 Parsi alone is not enough. Read what that SICK-KERA has exposed, only because we dont stand-up
“I realized that we are nothing more than a bunch of orthodox, biased and hypocritical people” – You have hit the nail on the spot… I totally agree with your thoughts. People say that you should be proud to be born in the Parsi community, but I say that I am not proud to be a Parsi. What should I be proud about? suppressing the poor, gender discrimination, corrupt lawmakers and punchayat?
Sorry Percy you have me lost. Who is SICK-KERA, what is exposed and where is it written?
Neville, it depends who you look up too in your community. If you want changein your community, you have to be that change. No point in being pessimistic and an armchair activist.
Why do ‘provocative’ articles disturb you as your are not a BPP Trustee?
Mai ray mai, neend nahi aye, kem tu unghai, aray aavee ray aavee Delnaaaa tin…na na
Hi
can any one help me fine any thing in parsi heritage as i am collecting data on this .
Thanks
Kaizad
It is sad that in today’s day & age we put so much importance on inter-caste marriages, when there are so many more important things to focus on. The teachings of our religion is Good Words,Good Thoughts & Good Deeds & this sure is none of that.
I am a Parsi, but I am not proud to be one. Religion should unite people, not divide them.
Raipur is the Capital city of the state of Chhattisgarh . I have always been very keen about your community and its culture , so i went on a search for parsis in my city , where i found 3 parsi women who have married non-parsi men and one parsi woman , Ms. Frenny Umrigar , who had an younger brother who died in an accident .
There is also a parsi graveyard , named , Billomoria Kabristan in the city .
I would be glad if you write about the 4 parsi women on your website , if you need anymore of help from me , you can call me (09981910000) . I also have their(4 ladies) numbers , if you would want to talk to them .
Why are certain cuisines eaten at certain occasions? what is the symbolic meaning?
Dont worry,I am married to a well known parsi family..as i am from a different religion my in laws do all kind of discrimination..i jus love my husband more that is the reason i am able to sustain everything….i dont know why a beautiful religion is spoilt by few unreasonable things…n even i am not allowed to be part of their celebration or family..nor am allowed to enter their temple….
Hi,
This is a Poem I had wirtten during the 19th All India Youth Meet held at Pune. Would be oblidged if you could publish the same.
Thanks
Mabrin Noshir Nanavatti
PARSIS
Parsis have a wonderful way of putting others at ease;
They say and do little things, that will comfort and will please;
Parsis have some special warmth and quick to understand;
Whenever there is trouble, they lend a helping hand.
Parsis are so wonderful, because we are so fair;
The funny thing about it is, that we are just too fair.
Parsis have a special laugh, that no one can deny;
It’s all because of DHANDAR and pomfret fish fry.
The parsi girls have long noses, and even longer legs;
The parsi boys too casual and happier with parsi pegs.
DHANSAK is our favorite dish, that no one can deny;
And only if we have kababs, our stomachs will satisfy.
Our religion is a better place and happier by far,
Because we have parsis as wonderful as you are.
Dear Sir/Madam
In 2012 Jame had posted a picture attached about the youngest girl chess player as per attached copy.
Tinaz has also been awarded they youngest Zochild award in 2012 picture attached
Today we are proud to forward you this information that Tinaz Dinkoo Mistry has achieve another mile stone at the 27th National Under 9 Girls Chess Championship 2013 at Chennai rank 28th in India. She is the ONLY PARSI girl who has her International FEDE rating.
Young Parsi girls & boys need such encouragement to achieve higher levels in life.
Thanking You
Dinkoo Mistry
Respected Sir/Madam,
I am an architecture student and lived in Navsari.and doing my final year project, in which i have to design any structure or building.
But i want to specific to parsi community, because i want to do something which is related to their community.They are the pioneers of this city and they are in minority. I’m not a parsi but because of our historical background, i took that decision.
Can you please suggest or help me with this.What kind of facility or what do you really required for your community? what do you think that what kind of things can help your community?
Parsi Museum or parsi housing colony or anything you can suggest me.
Please I really need your help as early as possible.
You can reply me on my e-id.
Matteo Miele, “L’estinzione dei parsi in India”, Il Post, 15 September 2011http://www.ilpost.it/2011/09/15/lestinzione-dei-parsi-in-india/
Please help us, we from Uzbekistan, Tashkent. One of our well known writer and philosoher Mr.Takhir Karim write very interesting book Traces Of the Sacred Avesta and he want to send you as a present 10 pcs of this book. We need your adress. Please send me your adress in Indi. My mail adress – guzalina1970@mail.ru. We are waiting. Thank You,,
MUMBAI DOKHMA – AN OUTDATED PRACTICE???
Parsis expose their dead to vultures on Towers of Silence ( dokhma ), although if a person dies where no such tower exists, then burial or cremation is practiced. Usually built on a hilltop, the dokhma is a round stone or brick structure about 15 meters high and perhaps 100 meters across, with an internal platform on which sit three ranks of stone slabs, for the bodies of men, women, and children, sloping down toward a central dry well. The bearers place a body there and within an hour or so vultures reduce it to bones. Some days later the corpse bearers return and throw the bones down the central well. It has sand and charcoal in it, the purpose of the charcoal being to protect the earth from the pollution of death. In the current scenario at Mumbai where no vultures exist; the bodies of our departed souls are left to rot/decay in the presence of sunlight and air. The current practice seeks to achieve degradation of the body in the presence of sunlight and air. This apparently is a very slow process on account of the low heat intensity from the sun.
The next best option which is similar to what is sought to be achieved is electric cremation. Electric cremation reduces dead bodies to basic chemical compounds in the form of gases and bone fragments. This is accomplished through burning at high temperatures, vaporization and oxidation. The disintegration of the body is faster on account of the high heat intensity produced through electricity.
Its time our so called conservatives and high priests stop taking our community members for a jolly good ride and consent to use of electric cremation as the method of cremation for our departed ones bodies. Some day our community will end up into litigation on the current method of cremation which can lead to a possibility of a plague in southern mumbai if the bodies continue to be allowed to decay in the open. The time for awakening is now and hopefully one of our parsi punchayet trustee will pick up some guts and the will to take this issue forward for deliberation or subject it to a referendum. We have no better choice going by the state of the current cremation practice at the mumbai dokhma…do we???
MUMBAI DOKHMA – AN OUTDATED PRACTICE???
Parsis expose their dead to vultures on Towers of Silence ( dokhma ), although if a person dies where no such tower exists, then burial or cremation is practiced. Usually built on a hilltop, the dokhma is a round stone or brick structure about 15 meters high and perhaps 100 meters across, with an internal platform on which sit three ranks of stone slabs, for the bodies of men, women, and children, sloping down toward a central dry well. The bearers place a body there and within an hour or so vultures reduce it to bones. Some days later the corpse bearers return and throw the bones down the central well. It has sand and charcoal in it, the purpose of the charcoal being to protect the earth from the pollution of death. In the current scenario at Mumbai where no vultures exist; the bodies of our departed souls are left to rot/decay in the presence of sunlight and air. The current practice seeks to achieve degradation of the body in the presence of sunlight and air. This apparently is a very slow process on account of the low heat intensity from the sun.
The next best option which is similar to what is sought to be achieved is electric cremation. Electric cremation reduces dead bodies to basic chemical compounds in the form of gases and bone fragments. This is accomplished through burning at high temperatures, vaporization and oxidation. The disintegration of the body is faster on account of the high heat intensity produced through electricity.
Its time our so called conservatives and high priests stop taking our community members for a jolly good ride and consent to use of electric cremation as the method of cremation for our departed ones bodies. Some day our community will end up into litigation on the current method of cremation which can lead to a possibility of a plague in southern mumbai if the bodies continue to be allowed to decay in the open. The time for awakening is now and hopefully one of our parsi punchayet trustee will pick up some guts and the will to take this issue forward for deliberation or subject it to a referendum. We have no better choice going by the state of the current cremation practice at the mumbai dokhma…do we???
MUMBAI DOKHMA – AN OUTDATED PRACTICE???
Parsis expose their dead to vultures on Towers of Silence ( dokhma ), although if a person dies where no such tower exists, then burial or cremation is practiced. Usually built on a hilltop, the dokhma is a round stone or brick structure about 15 meters high and perhaps 100 meters across, with an internal platform on which sit three ranks of stone slabs, for the bodies of men, women, and children, sloping down toward a central dry well. The bearers place a body there and within an hour or so vultures reduce it to bones. Some days later the corpse bearers return and throw the bones down the central well. It has sand and charcoal in it, the purpose of the charcoal being to protect the earth from the pollution of death. In the current scenario at Mumbai where no vultures exist; the bodies of our departed souls are left to rot/decay in the presence of sunlight and air. The current practice seeks to achieve degradation of the body in the presence of sunlight and air. This apparently is a very slow process on account of the low heat intensity from the sun.
The next best option which is similar to what is sought to be achieved is electric cremation. Electric cremation reduces dead bodies to basic chemical compounds in the form of gases and bone fragments. This is accomplished through burning at high temperatures, vaporization and oxidation. The disintegration of the body is faster on account of the high heat intensity produced through electricity.
Its time our so called conservatives and high priests stop taking our community members for a jolly good ride and consent to use of electric cremation as the method of cremation for our departed ones bodies. Some day our community will end up into litigation on the current method of cremation which can lead to a possibility of a plague in southern mumbai if the bodies continue to be allowed to decay in the open. The time for awakening is now and hopefully one of our parsi punchayet trustee will pick up some guts and the will to take this issue forward for deliberation or subject it to a referendum. We have no better choice going by the state of the current cremation practice at the mumbai dokhma…do we???
New parsi matrimonial site.
http://www.chaalokaajkariye.com/OnlineApplication.htm
Conduct an open Survey of those married outside the community to find the possible cause for intercaste marriages. For every thousand hackings to the leaves of the devil; there is one striking the root
Where are the vultures? So your first sentence is by itself misleading. C rematorium is not feasible an option in an area like Malabar Hill. Further, even it offends those who consider ‘sacrilege’ of Fire though no Fire is used and electricity is not flames. There are better more eco friendly options like Chemical decomposition. But as hey say, one requires an expose of the rot in the Towers to make our laity who mis up this practice as a part of Religion to wake up. We had some like Ms. Baria who made some noise some years back but in my knowledge has not taken any concrete steps to rectify this inflicting indignity on the departed souls.
Hinnells suggests that this myth represents the idea that if evil is left to go on quietly and is not openly opposed then it will cause chaos and destroy all that is good. Evil has to be opposed openly and deliberately. This can be done by following all the Zoroastrian purity laws which are at the centre of the Zoroastrian religion. Ritual religious purity wards off evil.
FJP 16.12.2011.
Hinnells suggests that this myth represents the idea that if evil is left to go on quietly and is not openly opposed then it will cause chaos and destroy all that is good. Evil has to be opposed openly and deliberately. This can be done by following all the Zoroastrian purity laws which are at the centre of the Zoroastrian religion. Ritual religious purity wards off evil.
FJP 16.12.2011.
Hey Guys, I’m sorry I posted in the wrong space.
I would suggest an article inquiring into the procedures employed by Avesthagen, a pharmaceutical headed by a Ms. Morawalla-Patel, who fraudulently and illegally duped Parsis into giveing a “small sample” of blood for “research into tracing the parsi genome” and her representatives verbally promised reports stating the genetic pre-disposition of each of the persons from whom they extracted bloood.
The consent forms that they gave were given after the blood was extracted. They were lengthy and ambiguous and written in a manner that covered up their illegal practice.
I still have the consent forms, as well as the “advert/ appeal” that they had placed in the baugs, and the thread of e-mails t I sent to the Avesthagen officials about their horrible malpractice. Although I was assured an inquiry and report into the matter, nothing of the sort ever happened.
Extracting nine testubes of blood (about 45-50ml) from each person, some being lactatng mothers, others being in their 80s, was an absolute violation of their human rights.
And what has happened? Will someone help me look into this?
Her representatives went to numerous conies in Mumbai and Surat. I can provide enough of victim’s accounts from Rustom Baug.
Yes, survey is necessary especially why well educated, Atash Behram and Agyari going Parsi young girls from good family back ground whose parents sacrificed so much to bring them up, choose to marry non-Zoroastrians and produce children to follow their faith when our population is on the brink of extinction ? Is it due to lack of
(1) information about our community’s situation ?
(2) and religious instructions or education what marriage means in Zoroastrianism ?
19.12.2011.
The basic reasons for intercast marriages:
1) Developed Brain.
2) Human rights.
3) Opposition to archaical/patriarchal belief system
4) Marrying at will and not forced into it.
5) Threats of disowning or making an outcast makes you cringe in disgust.
I am not against marrying in the sommunity. I am against forcing to marry in the community. It hasn’t helped and it will never help. You can lambast me all you want but the real cause of diminishing Parsis is not intercast marriages but a mindset too narrow to see or understand one’s own faults.
Why not donate the body for medical research?
Hope religion is not against saving a life….
Agreed to all “praises” people have for Parsi religion & community, but can’t understand why people from other religion cant enter/visit our Agiyari.
Is our religion and place where we worship of such high standard where we feel “others” are not equivalent to worship our God? I know and have heard multiple reasons and logic from the best of individuals from our community regarding not allowing “other religion” individuals to enter our Agiyari, but none of the logic & explanation have touched my heart in a positive way.
I have visited the best of holistic places in India and that too of various religious backgrounds. I have seen love & affection within each individual who visits those places irrespectible of which community they belong. The only thought which struck my mind even at that time was “why we-parsis differ from this concept.”
Religion is totally different as compared to faith. We all believe that God is One-“Ek Omkar”, then why such difference? This is just fate/destiny that we are offspring’s of a parsi couple so we are termed as “Parsi”. There is nothing to be proud of what God has offered us. This is just a gift from supreme…nothing more than that. Few “foolish individuals” among our community seldom have a single line to say – “ we/parsis & our agiyari is paak so we can’t allow others to enter within”. I totally disagree to accept the fact that the God that I worship is of such a nature that he will feel objected if an individual of some other community bows on his feet and prays to him. We should never ever forget that if we are living in India- we are Hindus first and then can follow any faith which our heart wishes to. If we can’t accept that we are “Hindus” we can never be a “True Parsi”. – Jai Hind
We need an article about a Parsi holding his rights as a minority in a cosmopolitan society. We need parsi advises, on how to remain strong between other castes, when we fall alone and lonely in this cruel world of competition. We need how to shield and protect parsis against humiliation from other castes out of jealousy. We need an article about fighting back when our own parsis call other parsis crack bawa in front of other community and insult them. Since all the other communities are now actually coming up in the inglis-spikking werold, some parsis are strongly dominated and supressed, how to turn back and show the finger. Parsis are often humiliated for not getting married and joked about too much, how to return it with thanks. Parsis are always thumped in serious conversations by others when BPP becomes an ever open charitable organisation . Lets have a provocative article. Lets be true- COME_ON
No Doubt we are thankful to Mr. Jadi Rana who gave us immense support when we landed on Indian soil, but we are not HINDUS. We are truly Mazdayasni Zarthoshthis only. We must follow Parsi Zoroastrian Religion Customs, Traditions, Ethics only. No scholar can change this. No Reformist can change this. It is always an Orthodox person who will look after the Mazdayasni Zarthosti Religion for a longer period of time and till eternity. God Bless You. Yatha Jamyad Yatha Afrinami.
Porus your logic that if we are living in India we are Hindus is laughable. Those living in India are Indians irrespective of their religious followings. India has hindus muslims christians sikhs buddhists Jains bahais etc etc etc…. If you want to accept that you are hindu and that makes you a True Parsi more power to you. Please do not let any more thoughts strike your mind on this concept as your brain may not be able to take it. Thanks for making my day.
Are you confused?
While I agree that Agyaris should be open to people from all faiths, but the notion of being a Hindu first is actually moronic.
If you ask for equality, then I think you should let go of religion.
Plus Parsis are too self involved to see anything beyond the Customs, Traditions, Ethics.
So asking this question is blasphemy for them and a waste of time for you because Parsi God is a god only for Parsis. Concept of one god is a moot on them and a person of any other religion is free of the morals and wrath of Parsi God.
No wonder as to who owns a God here…!!
Hi… I’mfrom Iran, please if it maybe active a program for translation texts to Persian. Tanks
Farzu your wish for an agiary (more of a club) open to all will soon be granted by ARZ and that too near you in Poona. Parsis (Private) potana khissa mathi built the existing Agiaries for Parsis only. If you let go of religion why would you need an agiary????????????
Nobody can do it for you. Learn to stand up for yourself. If you have a problem with BPP fight the elections or go there on Tuesdays and sort it out with the trustees. Just writing a provocative article will not do.
Yesterday’s function at malcolm baug organised by Zoroastrian Trust Funds of India for doing navjote of 5 poor children was excellent. Almost 1,000 people enjoyed the evening. It was fun-filled with Gara Competition, Dances, Music, Food, Fun and Frolic. Hats off to people who organised the same beautifully. Now, I suggest on 9th August, 2012 which will be their third anniversary, 5 poor parsi marriages can be organised in the same manner. We do not mind attending the same and enjoying our evening. This way, even parsi population will also increase. ZTFI please think it over. All The Best. God Bless You.
My take on suggesting an Article is ” WOULD A REFERENDUM ON CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES PUT AN END TO ACRIMONY IN THE COMMUNITY”
Phiroze talks as if th Fire Temples he frequents are built from his ‘potana khissa mathi” This is known as hallucination.
Phiroze talks as if the Fire Temples he frequents are built from funds from his own “potana khissa” A case of hallucination.
Excellent suggestion. Will ensure end to waste of time in endless discussions. Should be implemented ASAP.
Would love to see an article on one of my Grant Road favorite restaurants of yesteryears – Grand Oriental Parsi Restaurant.
I suggest you please write an article on pending number of court cases BPP has in Mumbai.(and also with Honourable Supreme Court of India.) What genuine efforts 7 trustees have taken to do an OUT OF COURT SETTLEMENT to reduce the number. This is very important for the Parsee Community to know because at a drop of a hat BPP loves going to Court instead of settling the matter amicably, peacefully. May LOrd Ahuramazda show them the right path.
HI all Parsi / Zoroastrian students and parents and family.
We P.P.P. Trustees are organising a GRAND function cum sessions with
three EXPERTS who will speak on education related topics and then
felicitate meritorious students with prizes. Followed by DINNER (
donation pass of 100.) good food for thought n body. plz BUY TICKETS
FAST AS LIMITED SEATS. function on 26th Jan. evening 5.30 pm. Dastoor
School Hall. PUNE.
It seems you think that you are the only ones who know how to worship and everyone else are here to party.
First: Even if I take your insulting and offending comment as a joke, it still is too stupid to make on your “wish for an agiary (more of a club) open to all”.
Second: If you let go of religion as a basis to build your relations with people, then you’d be closer to them. Please read into the lines. If you plan on taking everything literaly, then refrain from writing pun intended comments yourself.
Third: If you need and Agyari to have faith, then I am sorry, you are weak.
Fourth: You should stop being condescending about how you follow your religion. Going by your views here, you seem offended that people not of your religion can put their faith in Ahura Mazda. You should realize that you are created by him and its not the other way around. So refrain from telling people if they can wish to visit an Agyari to worship Ahura Mazda.
NAA NAA HAVAY!…..Just like the Marathi Manus has the Thakrays, The Gujus Have Mody, Bongs have Mamta, and Bhaiyas have Laloo, who is there for the BAWAS ?.
Look at it that way.
Hello, thought this might be of interest to you: Homi Khusrokhan has been named the President of BNHS. More info here:
http://www.sify.com/news/ex-corporate-honcho-homi-khusrokhan-to-head-bnhs-news-national-mbjuOlddfdj.html
You’ll find it listed on K. E. Eduljee’s
http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/irani/cafe.htm
and on Bruce Carter’s
http://www.iranichaimumbai.com
Check both out
PARSI REBEL WITH A SHERLOCK HOLMES LINK
The inside story of the extraordinary life of the Mumbai-born Parsi Shapurji Edalji is key to a book by Roger Oldfield, Outrage: The Edalji Five and the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes (Vanguard Press). Shapurji’s son was imprisoned in 1903 for ripping open the belly of a pit-pony. This was the eighth in a series of gruesome outrages against horses, cattle and sheep in the Edaljis’ home village of Great Wyrley in England.
In 1907 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes, marched into battle to prove George innocent. His passionate campaign provoked huge excitement. It seemed as if Sherlock Holmes had taken on a real-life case, and newspapers from Mumbai to New York followed the story for months.
Shapurji’s own life was no less sensational. Born a Parsi in Mumbai he attended Elphinstone College, where he was a classmate of Sir Dinshaw Edulji Wacha, one of the founders of the Indian National Congress in Mumbai in 1885. In 1856, at the tender age of 14, Shapurji outraged his Parsi community by converting to Christianity, and his parents disowned him. The man who had captured him was the Free Church of Scotland missionary John Wilson, whose college Shapurji attended. He ended up as a missionary among the Warli people north of Mumbai.
Then he angered the Free Church of Scotland by going over to the opposition, the Church of England network in Mumbai. Under its influence he travelled to Canterbury in England to train as a Church of England missionary.
Roger Oldfield’s book covers Shapurji’s Mumbai years in detail. In his time there he had made a notable contribution to its life. Two of his books, A Gujerátí and English Dictionary and A Grammar of the Gujerátí Language, were still in use many years after his departure.
Once his Canterbury training was over he infuriated his new masters by refusing to go to India as a missionary on their terms. They abandoned all interest in him when he stayed in England and was ordained as a priest in Oxford. After years travelling the country as a curate he was finally made Vicar of Great Wyrley, where he served until his death 42 years later. No author has ever pointed out that he could well have been the first South Asian to be made a vicar in England. His is a remarkable story.
Another fascinating ingredient of Roger Oldfield’s book is the parallel background of Shapurji’s English wife Charlotte. From the 17th century onwards one generation after another of her ancestors were involved in what Mumbai-born Salman Rushdie has called ‘400 years of conquest and looting’ by the British. Many of her family travelled to Mumbai as merchants, sailors or soldiers, and some stayed for a period.
The Anglo-Asian couple (Charlotte and Shapurji) produced three children, George, Horace and Maud, all brought up in the isolated coal-mining village of Great Wyrley where attitudes were shaped by British imperialism. Each of their lives was blighted by the consequences of that attack on a pit-pony in 1903 which was made famous by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s intervention.
See http://www.outrage-rogeroldfield for further details of the book.
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Parsi USA Visa Consultants in Mumbai, India.
You please write latest on the Census of Parsis in India. (all cities).
Parsi Surnames !
any news on latest parsis census figures of india – citywise.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17546295 BBC today
when parsi census figures are going to come out in the news ?? any idea ??? From 69,601 -all india population it must have definetely decreased by 6,000. Will anybody please find out. thanks.
No Article on Parsi General Hospital’s 100 years completion ?
Why BPP is not introducing Election Code of Conduct ??? Please write a detailed article soon. thanks.
I hope anyone of our Zarathosti Institutions have accepted such a generous offer and as a decency replied.
An article about a Parsi genius though she is not identified as such in the article.
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2012_06_01/caredit.a1200061
Sabavala painting Vespers 1 (cover of Ranjit Hoskote book) to go at auction Thursday 7th June 2012.
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19674/lot/20/
Since I was a kid, I was taught to be proud that I’m a Parsi. I always had fun telling my friends that we are been eaten by vultures when we are dead, boasted about the navjotes and dhansaaks. I had a feeling of being different from the rest. It was always drilled into my head that we Parsis are modern, liberal and broad-minded. But over the years, when I started using my own intellect, I realized that we are nothing more than a bunch of orthodox, biased and hypocritical people. When I was just entering my teenage I wondered why my friends, or for that matter any other person who followed a different religion, is not allowed into our agiary. Whereas I could enter theirs without any qualms. I was never stopped from entering a church or a mandir or a mosque. That innocent question is still not answered yet in my 25 years. Not that I dint get answers. “This is how it always was, kid” said my mother… “We are just protecting our Holy Fire” said a Dasturji. Today when I think of it, I really want to go back to those people to claim to be “protecting the Holy Fire from being unpurified” that are you really serious? Are the people following other religions not human beings? Have we Parsis landed on earth directly from the heaven or something? Don’t they have 2 eyes, 1 nose, 1 mouth, 2 hands and 2 legs? Does blood not flow in them? Or is it water? In that case why do we even touch them? If the Holy Fire will become impure by their shadow even then wont we become dirty if we touched them? Let go back to the era where these flag-bearers came from… treating people like untouchables. Oh c’mon! I have come across multiple Parsis, but today I cannot name one who does not have a Ganapati or a Sai Baba or a Lakshmi in their house. When they did not stop us from praying to them then why are we being biased and plain borderline fanatics. Leave apart the other religions. What are we doing to our own religion folks. The other day I was sitting in the agiary and while a jasan was going on I went through a parsi magazine lying there. That’s when I read an article that a Parsi lady actually had to file a petition in court to perform the last rites of her parents. This is RIDICULOUS! I mean, how can we allow these so-called guardians-of-the-religion ruin a relation a daughter shared with her parents. Just because she made a choice of HER life and married a non-parsi. Today, daughters are being disowned because she chose a non-parsi spouse. Parents throw tantrums, relatives are full of taunts and friends are all “eni dikri parjaat maa parni!!”(Her daughter married a non-parsi!!) What exactly is the big deal here. Why cant she make a choice of her own life?!! I started reading more on this topic and I came across an article on “Excellent reasons against mixed marriages” by Homi P. Ranina who is a well educated lawyer, a trustee of B.P.P etc etc. And I was amazed at the orthodox thinking of this man. He mainly blames the parsi girls to choose a spouse outside the community. I don’t know if he is reading this, but I certainly want to ask him why does he think a Parsi girl should choose to be in such a religion where the girls are considered as just a child making machine. Thats what we do right? Because, a non-parsi mother’s children are happily taken into the religion. But if a Parsi girl marries outside the religion, then she along with her children are thrown out of the community. If that was not less, even her parents are looked down at, with disgust. Half of the parents disown their daughters just because they fear the society. Whereas if a son marries a non-parsi, its not that big a deal. Then it becomes “his choice, what can we do…” Why this discrimination? They talk about values in the kid. As far as I have known, the values in the child mainly comes from the mother. I have seen cases where a child of a non-parsi mother(who is happily accepted by our warriors of religion) does not give a damn about the religion. At the same time, a child of a parsi mother married to a non-parsi, even though not accepted by the Parsis, does follow the values given by her Parsi mother. I am a 25 year old girl. And after knowing and understanding all this, I certainly would not want to retain myself with this religion. Why should I? Just to be treated as a spawn to increase the population of such hypocritical people? I would rather prefer being in a religion which does not have barriers in praying or believing in God. That’s certainly one Parsi off your guard. And I’m sure there will be multiple such girls who could relate with me on this. Its high time we stop such retarded customs. If Parsi men can continue entering agiaries after marrying a non Parsi, I think it’s fair enough to allow our women to do the same. Even the stone age changed with time… But it seems our so-called flag bearer Parsis are still stuck up there.
SEE PHIROZE? this is what happens when just 1 Parsi alone is not enough. Read what that SICK-KERA has exposed, only because we dont stand-up
“I realized that we are nothing more than a bunch of orthodox, biased and hypocritical people” – You have hit the nail on the spot… I totally agree with your thoughts. People say that you should be proud to be born in the Parsi community, but I say that I am not proud to be a Parsi. What should I be proud about? suppressing the poor, gender discrimination, corrupt lawmakers and punchayat?
Sorry Percy you have me lost. Who is SICK-KERA, what is exposed and where is it written?
Neville, it depends who you look up too in your community. If you want changein your community, you have to be that change. No point in being pessimistic and an armchair activist.
Why do ‘provocative’ articles disturb you as your are not a BPP Trustee?
Mai ray mai, neend nahi aye, kem tu unghai, aray aavee ray aavee Delnaaaa tin…na na
Hi
can any one help me fine any thing in parsi heritage as i am collecting data on this .
Thanks
Kaizad
It is sad that in today’s day & age we put so much importance on inter-caste marriages, when there are so many more important things to focus on. The teachings of our religion is Good Words,Good Thoughts & Good Deeds & this sure is none of that.
I am a Parsi, but I am not proud to be one. Religion should unite people, not divide them.
Raipur is the Capital city of the state of Chhattisgarh . I have always been very keen about your community and its culture , so i went on a search for parsis in my city , where i found 3 parsi women who have married non-parsi men and one parsi woman , Ms. Frenny Umrigar , who had an younger brother who died in an accident .
There is also a parsi graveyard , named , Billomoria Kabristan in the city .
I would be glad if you write about the 4 parsi women on your website , if you need anymore of help from me , you can call me (09981910000) . I also have their(4 ladies) numbers , if you would want to talk to them .
Why are certain cuisines eaten at certain occasions? what is the symbolic meaning?
Dont worry,I am married to a well known parsi family..as i am from a different religion my in laws do all kind of discrimination..i jus love my husband more that is the reason i am able to sustain everything….i dont know why a beautiful religion is spoilt by few unreasonable things…n even i am not allowed to be part of their celebration or family..nor am allowed to enter their temple….
Hi,
This is a Poem I had wirtten during the 19th All India Youth Meet held at Pune. Would be oblidged if you could publish the same.
Thanks
Mabrin Noshir Nanavatti
PARSIS
Parsis have a wonderful way of putting others at ease;
They say and do little things, that will comfort and will please;
Parsis have some special warmth and quick to understand;
Whenever there is trouble, they lend a helping hand.
Parsis are so wonderful, because we are so fair;
The funny thing about it is, that we are just too fair.
Parsis have a special laugh, that no one can deny;
It’s all because of DHANDAR and pomfret fish fry.
The parsi girls have long noses, and even longer legs;
The parsi boys too casual and happier with parsi pegs.
DHANSAK is our favorite dish, that no one can deny;
And only if we have kababs, our stomachs will satisfy.
Our religion is a better place and happier by far,
Because we have parsis as wonderful as you are.
Dear Sir/Madam
In 2012 Jame had posted a picture attached about the youngest girl chess player as per attached copy.
Tinaz has also been awarded they youngest Zochild award in 2012 picture attached
Today we are proud to forward you this information that Tinaz Dinkoo Mistry has achieve another mile stone at the 27th National Under 9 Girls Chess Championship 2013 at Chennai rank 28th in India. She is the ONLY PARSI girl who has her International FEDE rating.
Young Parsi girls & boys need such encouragement to achieve higher levels in life.
Thanking You
Dinkoo Mistry
Respected Sir/Madam,
I am an architecture student and lived in Navsari.and doing my final year project, in which i have to design any structure or building.
But i want to specific to parsi community, because i want to do something which is related to their community.They are the pioneers of this city and they are in minority. I’m not a parsi but because of our historical background, i took that decision.
Can you please suggest or help me with this.What kind of facility or what do you really required for your community? what do you think that what kind of things can help your community?
Parsi Museum or parsi housing colony or anything you can suggest me.
Please I really need your help as early as possible.
You can reply me on my e-id.
Thank You very much.