Inside Travel: When a hotel becomes a potent symbol
Independent -
London,England,UK
It was built in 1900 by a rich Parsee businessman as a
hotel for all races and religions and as a reaction
against the racist codes that excluded many ...
Old-fashioned
way ... child's play on the waterfront in Stone Town ...
Sydney Morning
Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Named after Stone Town's most flamboyant son, Freddie
Mercury, the lead singer in the rock band Queen (born
Farrokh Bulsara to Parsee
parents in 1946), ...
The moveable feast: Indian dishes with a twist
Himalayan Times -
Kathmandu,Nepal
Dhan in Gujarati means wealth, but in Parsee Gujarati
Dhaan means rice. Sak means vegetables. Dhansak is a
meat, vegetable and lentil curry eaten with ...
Cycle of myth
National - Abu
Dhabi,United Arab Emirates
But also, I'm Zoroastrian, and in our tradition, we used
to not bury the dead but leave them on the Towers of
Silence and the vultures used to eat them. ...
THAT'S
THE WAY SHE WORKS
Calcutta Telegraph
- Calcutta,India
In August, on Parsi New Year's Day, Tata officials came
personally to deliver ... book called Camera Chronicles
of Homai Vyarawalla, which came out in 2006. ...
Review
of: World Religions
The Faster Times -
New York,NY,USA
Or here, I'll do it for you: “This faith is often
claimed to be the earliest monotheistic religion, since
Zoroaster requires devotion to the single God ...
Punchayet can sell Panthaki flats at market rates: Court
Daily News &
Analysis - Mumbai,India
The Bombay high court on Thursday set aside the joint
charity commissioner's (CC) order preventing the Bombay
Parsi Punchayet (BPP) from selling the flats ...
Whining & Dining: Creative juices get flowing in cool
snap
Memphis Commercial
Appeal - Memphis,TN,USA
While I'm printing a practical recipe for a simple
curry, I'm going to be trying the fiery Parsee Red
Chicken Curry and the Watermelon Curry before making ...
London Memorial For Freddie Mercury!
Oneindia
... after publicly acknowledging he had the disease.
Mercury, who was a Parsi and grew up in India, has been
referred to as 'Britain's first Asian rock star'.
The lure of Naxalism
Deccan Herald -
Bangalore,India
Much is being made of reports that Ghandy's Parsee
family lived amidst antique furniture in Worli Sea Face
and owned an ice cream factory and a resort in ...
Freddie Mercury to be honoured with London memorial
Newstrack India (blog)
... can succeed in whatever you do," he added.
Mercury, who was a Parsi and grew up in India,
has been referred to as 'Britain's first Asian rock
star'. (ANI)
Consent of majority will prevail in building
redevelopment: HC
Times of India
Justice DB Bhosale recently ordered 17 tenants of Parsi
Chawl in Dadar to vacate their tenements before November
15, 2009. If they failed to comply, ...
Blessing of the Waves in Surf City a multi-faith affair
OCRegister - Santa
Ana,CA,USA
And Maneck Bhujwala, a Zoroastrian priest from
Huntington Beach, walked to the water with an offering
of rice, sugar and banana in his pocket. ...
Mystery
of the Six Towers Update -- Catal Huyuk
Student Operated
Press - Vero Beach,FL,USA
By Rob Roy There is a possible connection between the
Round Tower People and the Zoroastrian Towers of Silence
-- Catal Huyuk [or Çatal Höyük]. ...
SC dismisses plea against Parsi trusts
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
The premises in question is the property of Calcutta
Zoroastrian Community's Religious and Charity Fund and
Olpadvala Memorial Trust. ...
Several Bollywood flicks have the B-word
Times of India
Earlier this year, in screenwriter-turned-director Sooni
Taraporewala's `Little Zizou', a contemporary comedy
that dealt with the Parsi community, ...
Parsis
Go Online To Save Dispersed And Blenching Community
WATBlog -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
By Abhishek Kapoor • October 6, 2009 While walking down
a morbid street today, I came across a Parsi Agiary that
read – “No one allowed to enter, ...
We are like this only
Economic Times
Over the decades, Irani's Frams has defined parties and
Parsi community gatherings be it nuptials or
navjots. Not many outside of Pune might have heard of
...
sobo teapot serves hot dogs
Mid-Day
It may sound like something you'd find in Alice's
Wonderland, but The Teapot is a new Parsi-run eatery at
Fort, that features more American dishes than Bawa ...
'Charity chief can't deny info in age of RTI'
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
The embattled BPP, which looks after the welfare of
Parsis, is defending charges levelled against it by
Percy Patel of Alert Zoroastrians' Association, ...
India's
Parsis use technology to keep religion alive
DAWN.com -
Karachi,Pakistan
In India, the last national census in 2001 recorded just
under 70000 Parsis – Zoroastrians who follow the prophet
Zarathustra and worship one god, ...
UNESCO
honour for two Indian festivals
Rediff
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organisation has added Navruz, the Parsi new year, and
Ramman, a religious festival and ritual ...
Unwell charity commissioner postpones BPP hearing
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
The CC on Tuesday was to hear an application filed by
the BPP after Alert Zoroastrian Association member Percy
Patel lodged a complaint with the CC, ...
Cannabis
Has Always Played an Important Role in Religion
Opposing Views -
Los Angeles,CA,USA
... the sacrament of the Avestan religion, and later
Zoroastrians. ... and through both Indian Persian
Zoroastrian influences cannabis use filtered into the
...
Cyrus has the crowds rolling with laughter
Times of India
Sitting in the audience were comedians Anu Menon and
Boman Irani, who was asked by Cyrus to describe a Parsi,
to which he promptly answered: Ask my wife ...
For
all the little people out there
Deccan Herald
Radha S Prathi meets the good doctor who also volunteers
at the Sheila Kothavala Institute for the Deaf Dr Najoo
Varkey, a Parsi who married a Keralite, ...
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Kersi
of Mumbai, the Zoroastrian Padre Pio converted
AsiaNews.it -
Italy
Born in a Parsee family, all devout Zoroastrians,
Kersi was well versed in the sacred text of the Avesta
to which his mother introduced him. ...
Jab they met: Love in the time of death
Times of India
“We started meeting whenever we took a break during the
month-long stay,'' said the Parsi lawyer who
practises corporate and civil law at the Bombay high
...
Release Kobad Ghandy Now
Desicritics.org -
Bangalore,Karnataka,India
Kobad came from a well off Parsee family of Worli,
Mumbai. Sometimes during the eighties he married
Anuradha, an academic and an activist who shared the ...
This Naxal leader studied at Doon
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
MUMBAI: He was an unlikely rebel — from an affluent
Parsi family, ... Although not many Mumbai
Parsis have heard about him, one old-timer from the
community ...
Ahmadinejad
arrives in New York
PRESS TV -
Tehran,Iran
There are three Christian MPs, one Zoroastrian
MP, and one Jewish MP. Ahmadinejad will deliver a speech
to the General Assembly on Wednesday. ...
Casualties feared in India clash
BBC News
Ghandy, who grew up in Mumbai in an upper middle-class
Parsi family and went to a public school, was
taken into custody for 14 days, reports say. ...
Minister accused of code violation
Daily News &
Analysis
Minister of state for law and justice Hasan Mushrif has
landed himself in trouble by asking for a report on the
special audit of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet
...
Ahmadinejad
to take religious minorities MPs to NY
PRESS TV -
Tehran,Iran
... Assyrian and Chaldean Christian Yonatan Bet-Kolia
and Zoroastrian Esfandyar Ekhtyari will fly out
to New York with the president on September 21. ...
Parsi Cyclists to celebrate centenary in unique
way
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
MUMBAI: One of the glamorous teams of Mumbai's maidan
cricket, Parsi Cyclists plan to celebrate their
centenary in unique way on October 10. ...
A
journey through time
Express Buzz -
Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
The Parsis treasure their wedding chairs just as they
are strict about ... A non-Parsi girl who marries into
their society is alienated and remains an ...
Struggling
Parsee Cyclists Club celebrates centenary year
Indopia - India
Parsee Cyclists club, a well-known name in Mumbai
cricket fraternity, is celebrating its centenary year.
The club, which won the prestigious'A' division ...
Report of FPZAI meeting of Sept. 2009 | Parsi Khabar
Sep 7, 2009 ... Besides him five
other BPP trustees Khojeste Mistree, Mrs. Arnavaz
Mistry, Mr. Jimmy Mistry, Mrs. Armaity Tirandaz and
Yazdi desai were ...
The mullah's rewrite of Iran's ancient history: Don't
overlook ...
World Tribune -
USA
There is no mention of the ancient Iranian prophet,
Zoroaster, who is credited with being the ...
Most scholars agree that Zoroaster lived around
1700 BCE. ...
Nari rues decline of Parsi cricket
Daily News &
Analysis
Mumbai: Parsi Cyclists, one of Mumbai's oldest
clubs, will complete its centenary in early October. The
club which has produced some fine cricketers in Nari
...
BPP to seek legal advice on show cause notice
Chennai Online
Mumbai, Sep 14 The 350-year-old Bombay Parsi
Panchayat (BPP) will seek legal advise against the
Charity Commissioner's (CC) show cause notice for
refusing ...
Set the hotel on fire'
Daily News &
Analysis - Mumbai,India
Adil, who is a Parsee, replied in the
affirmative. The gunman started abusing him. "He told
me, 'You work for a five-star hotel and drink expensive
liquor. ...
Parsi Punchayet faces the axe over audit row
Daily News &
Analysis - Mumbai,India
Mumbai: Barely six months after the charity commissioner
(CC) warned the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) of
dismissal, a similar show-cause notice has been ...
Cops fail to implement cards scheme for senior citizens
Mumbai Newsline
... the concept of 'senior citizen cards' after
the gruesome murder of Khurshid Dick (65), a Parsi
woman staying alone at a flat in Borivali, in March
2008.
Religious
use of marijuana may lead to jail or psychoses
Examiner.com - USA
The Church of Cognizance, founded in 1991, is based on
"neo-Zoroastrian tenets" and believes that
marijuana provides a connection to the divine mind and
...
Sachin Tendulkar's new home Dorba Villa
Stock Market Today
Dorba Villa was orginally built in 1920 square feet of
10000 and the house was occupied by a Parsi
family.Sachin is very hapy man since his long dream has
...
Tributes paid to Firoz Gandhi on his 49th death
anniversary
Times of India
... freedom fighter late Firoz Gandhi on his 49th
death anniversary on Tuesday by lighting candles and
placing wreaths on his grave in Parsi cemetery.
...
After
30 years, 100 hawkers evicted from Cross Maidan
Mumbai Mirror -
Mumbai,India
However, the stalls expanded to the area around the
centuries-old Bhikha Behram Well, a Parsi-Zoroastrian
place of worship, and became a source of nuisance. ...
Vegas
Ban on Pole Dancing, Religious Pot Still Illegal and
Clove ...
Digital City - New
York City,NY,USA
The religion, created in 1991, is based on
"neo-Zoroastrian tenets" and says that marijuana
provides a connection to the divine mind and spiritual
...
Court nixes religious marijuana exemption
Yuma Sun -
Yuma,AZ,USA
A church official testified that the religion, founded
in 1991, is based on "neo-Zoroastrian tenets" and
that marijuana provides a connection to the divine
...
There's
So Much More to 'Frank' Behind the Counter
Voice of San Diego
- San Diego,CA,USA
Yadzani is a Parsi Zoroastrian. Zoroastrianism
is an ancient religion that influenced today's most
popular faiths. It has been more and more marginalized
as ...
Parsis push on with sops to boost birth rate
Daily Pioneer
At a time when most countries are engaged in controlling
the population explosion, the miniscule Parsi
community here is busy taking steps to increase its
...
Parsis
moot Waqf-like body to protect land
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
This was one of the crucial issues discussed at the
two-day meet of the Federation of the Parsi
Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI). .
Ratan Tata pampers his cars'
Daily News &
Analysis
But if anyone wins hands down over them all in terms of
pure passion for cars, says Hormazd Sorabjee, it is
another Parsi gentleman who goes by the name of
...
The
Grand Old Iranian Feast
ایرانیان - San
Francisco,CA,USA
Zoroastrians are religious about food, and who can blame
them? There are, by name at least, seventeen feast days
on the Zoroastrian calendar. ...
Anahita
– Lady of Persia
ایرانیان - San
Francisco,CA,USA
A young Magi (who later was to be known as the prophet
Zoroaster) has been keeping a night vigil. His solitary
fire is the only light for miles around and ...
Rocking Karachi
Forbes - NY,USA
... to Parsi Colony, a magical neighborhood structured
around a park that recalls a London suburb and the rich
Zoroastrian heritage of the city. ...
Upper
Paleolithic sites found in southeast Iran
PRESS TV -
Tehran,Iran
... with Greek-style, Achaemenid and Mesopotamian
architectural designs. The site is believed to have been
the birth place of the Persian prophet Zoroaster.
Parsis fight to keep Sanjan coastline clean
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
MUMBAI: Over a thousand years ago, Parsis landed on the
shores of Sanjan on the Gujarat coast, seeking shelter
and were welcomed by the local raja who ...
Oosh and aash on the menu
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
The Dehmiris, who are Zoroastrian, moved to
Mumbai from Iran in the late 1980s. Since they are
recent immigrants, they still have strong cultural and
...
Go
forth and multiply in Punchayet flats
Mid-Day
In a desperate attempt to boost numbers and save the
community from impending extinction, the Bombay Parsi
Punchayet (BPP) will give first priority in ...
First Iranians who Introduced the Art of Poetry
ایرانیان - San
Francisco,CA,USA
Such poetry can only have been fully understood by the
scholars; and since Zoroaster believed that God had
entrusted him with a message for all mankind, ...
Nehru, the real founder of Pakistan
Telegraph.co.uk
My late friend, the Parsi National Assemblyman Minoo
Bhandara, sought to amend Pakistan's constitution to
include this commitment to a democratic, ...
What minorities have given to this country?
Pakistan Observer
- Islamabad,ISB,Pakistan
The owners of the largest hotel chain (Avari Hotels) are
Parsis. ... Even our best novelist in English-Bapsi
Sidhwa is a Parsi. ...
'You do not know how I love Bombay'
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
In Karachi, he constantly made all these very Bombay
references to the Parsis and the YMCA and things like
that.'' Another historian, the late Rafiq Zakaria ...
FIRST IRANIANS WHO LIVED ON THE IRANIAN PLATEAU
ایرانیان - San
Francisco,CA,USA
This term was used as AIRYA in Avesta, the Zoroastrian
holy book. Avestan AIRYA, Old Persian and Sanskrit ARYA,
and Middle Persian ER mean straight going ...
Piyush
Jha: Arunoday will be a superstar
GlamSham
I had seen him on TV earlier and through his ads, I
could sense that he could pass off well as a Kashmiri
boy even though he in real life he is a Parsi. ...
Iran
religious minority MPs under pressure to travel to New
York ...
WashingtonTV -
Washington,DC,USA
The Zoroastrian and Jews have each got one deputy;
Armenian Christians of the north and south of the
country have a total of two deputies and the Assyrian
...
Zoroastrians
hope 'Facebook for Parsees' will revive religion
Times Online - UK
A dwindling birthrate has raised fears that adherents —
known as Parsees in India, the religion's main
stronghold — are dying out.
...
The
Wizard of Park Avenue
Huffington Post -
New York,NY,USA
Apparently, this is not Merlin, but is in fact
Zoroaster, "the mastermind ... It gets even better: at
the top of the hour, Zoroaster waves his wand around,
...
''Facebook
for Parsees' may help revive Zoroastrianism
Thaindian.com -
Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
Also, the diminishing birth rate has raised fears that
adherents - known as Parsees in India, the religion's
main stronghold - are dying out. ...
Almost
every Muslim was with Gandhi when Jinnah left the
Congress'
Rediff -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Ruttie's Parsi family disowned her, she separated from
Jinnah a decade later. (The wedding ring was a gift from
the Raja of Mahmudabad. ...
Parsis refuse to do the poll dance
Mid-Day -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
A proposal from a Malabar Hill corporator to include
representatives from the Parsi community in the
upcoming state Assembly elections has not found favour
...
Ladies
and gentlemen slug it out to revive Parsi theatre
Mid-Day
Originally written in 1970 by late writer-director Adi
Marzban, Shapurji Na Tapela Saaf "has a team of ladies
pitted against a team of gentlemen," Sam ...
Parsis celebrate pateti with fervour in Vadodara
SamayLive
Vadodara, Aug 19 Members of Parsi community celebrated
the Pateti (Parsi New Year) with fervour here today.
Parsis visited the Fire Temple in traditional ...
Parsi community marks Navroz
Times of India
KOLKATA: The Parsi community celebrated Navroz, or the
Parsi New Year's Day, in style on Wednesday. The main
attraction was the annual play that has been a ...
Cooking
with Love
The Monthly
(Subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Fire and Spice (Wakefield Press, 192pp; $24.95) is one
of the few works about the cuisine of the Parsis, who
brought classical Persian food to India even ...
Parsis call for revival of business skills
Daily News &
Analysis - Mumbai,India
Mumbai: Concerned over the community losing its
entrepreneurial knack over the years, a group of Parsis
has decided to inject the much-needed impetus. ...
Bezjian: Travels with Basturma
Armenian Weekly -
Watertown,MA,USA
The Armenian dictionary explains that aboukhd originated
from the Zoroastrian and Manichean texts of the Pahlavi
language, indicating that its timecard is a ...
Parsi New Year 2009 | Jamshed-e-Navroz Traditions
Stock Market Today
- Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh,India
by Srinivas Jamshed-e-Navroz is a festival celebrated on
the first day of the first month of the Zoroastrian
year. The new year of the Parsis corresponds ...
President greets people on Parsi New Year
Newstrack India
New Delhi, Aug 18 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil today
greeted the people of the country on the occasion of the
Parsi New Year, which will be celebrated ...
Nargol villagers keen to host Parsi fest
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
SURAT: Nargol is set to become the first village in the
country to host a Parsi festival. This will be similar
to government sponsored annual fests like ...
It Pays to be Parsi at the Taj
Indian Wine
Academy
India's Top Chef Hemant Oberoi gets a hefty annual
remuneration of over Rs. 6 million but a 60-year old
Parsi senior laundry operator at the Taj Mahal ...
PM
greets nation on Navroz
Thaindian.com -
Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Tuesday greeted the nation on the “joyous occasion” of
Navroz, the beginning of the Parsi New Year. ...
Nonagenarian Vyarawalla gets Nano car as 'Pateti' gift
Press Trust of
India
... who had parted her Fiat car to buy a Nano, yesterday
in the presence of the company officials on the occasion
of Parsi new year 'Pateti'. ...
Small Talk
Pune Newsline -
Pune,India
In wake of swine flu Poona Parsee Drameteurs have
postponed their charity show Shapoorji Na Tapela Saaf at
the Nehru Memorial Hall. ...
'Made in India'
Jordan Times
Indeed, she is very conscious of her distinct and
somewhat privileged status as a part of the prosperous,
educated Parsi community. This does not, however, ...
Happy Nowruz?
Examiner.com - USA
Zoroastrianism is one of the most ancient religious
traditions still practiced today. ... Zoroastrian
concepts, including belief in one creator God, ...
In India, girls begin to outnumber the boys
Independent -
London,England,UK
Parsi tribe is another example of the declining tribe.
Parsis - The Zoroastrians of India by Sooni Taraporevala
The following text is an extract from the ...
A
community tradition
Mumbai Newsline -
Mumbai,India
The owner is a fourth generation Parsi; but the heavy
wooden name board ... Their clients over the years have
included some famous Parsis including the ...
Eat,
drink and be merry
Mumbai Newsline -
Mumbai,India
For a true foodie, there isn'ta feast bigger than the
Parsi New Year. On the day of the feast, you'll find a
non-follower for every Zoroastrian queued up ...
The
onscreen shades of a splendid past
Express Buzz
The second and the one with a long-lasting influence was
of the Parsi theatre. The likes of Ardeshir Irani,
Sohrab Modi and Prithviraj Kapoor brought the ...
Pakistan ka matlab kya?
The News
International - Karachi,Pakistan
Years later, a new national anthem was adopted, the tune
for which was composed by a Zoroastrian, and the lyrics
later written by Hafeez Jallandhari.
A
New Kind of Protest
Payvand - Iran
According to the myth, Ahriman, a Zoroastrian demon,
tricked Zahak, an ancient Persian king, into letting him
prepare a delicious meal. ...
COMMENT:
Reclaiming the founding moment —Suroosh Irfani
Daily Times -
Lahore,Pakistan
... the composition is by a Zoroastrian — Ghulam Ahmed
Chagla, and the chorus giving it an 'Indian' musical
aura comprises of almost equal numbers of female ...
A metropolis for the dead and buried
Daily News &
Analysis - Mumbai,India
However, one of the most moving and aesthetically
eloquent enclosures -- amongst the best kept -- is the
Zoroastrian Burial Grounds. ...
Taarak Mehta Ka Festival Bonanza!
Real Bollywood
It is for the first time that a Parsi festival is
celebrated on Indian Television. Also it is very rare
that Jain festivities are celebrated with such ...
Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Lord Desai,
economist ...
Independent -
London,England,UK
It was serviceable with one really good teacher, a
Parsee gentleman who taught me how to parse and analyse
a sentence: very good training. ...
Former Ranji trophy cricketer Soli Patel dies
Press Trust of
India
He was cremated at Parsi graveyard in the circuit house
area this morning. Apart from the JSCA officials,
several past and present cricketers were took part ...
Arjun
Rampal snubs Parsi community
GlamSham
The Parsi community is miffed with actor Arjun Rampal
after he made certain remarks in one of his recent
interviews which has not gone well with the ...
The place of cow in Indian life
Organiser - New
Delhi,India
In Parsi tradition, a milky white bull is celebrated as
Varsiyaji. Parsis greatly revere a Varsiyaji and make a
daily offering of fruits to it. ...
Dhirubhai Ambani school shuts down for a week
Daily News &
Analysis - Mumbai,India
But parents claim that's due to the Gatha holidays -- an
event celebrated by Parsis -- that students get every
year for ten days. ...
Hidden forces trying to create religious differences:
Rasheed
The Nation,
Pakistan
Nousher F Dastoor represented the Parsi community, Dr
Matinder Chand from Hindu, Sardar Kalyan Singh Kalyan
from Sikh, and Raverind represented the ...
The
Peacemaker
PRESS TV -
Tehran,Iran
The Zoroastrians believe he is Persian and among the
followers of Zoroaster. The Jews believe that he will be
among the Children of Israel, and a follower ...
Parsis seek apology from Arjun Rampal over 'hurtful'
remark
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
MUMBAI: Arjun Rampal should apologise to the Parsis.
This is the demand from sections of the Parsi community
who are scandalised with the actor for stating ...
First
success for vulture breeding programme
Register -
London,England,UK
... highly regarded in Indian culture and do a valuable
job in cleaning up carrion. They of course also help
Parsees dispose of their dead in Towers of Silence.
Nargol
leads Nilekani, has own 'UID' for residents since 2006
Expressindia.com -
New Delhi,India
Ironically, Nargol happens to be a significant spot for
many Parsis, ... Legend has it that the first
generations of immigrant Parsis landed here about 1200
...
Parsi
Priests Challenge BPP Decision after Ban | Parsi Khabar
By Mehernaaz Sam
Wadia
Madon is welcome to his personal point of view, but we
have to look in terms of what the community wants and
the majority are with us,” said BPP trustee Khojeste
Mistree. “The previous board of the BPP had also taken
the position that ...
Temple of subdued grandeur
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
PUNE: Demure and unassuming, Sardar Sorabji Patel Agiary
in Nana Peth is quite like the Iranian and Parsi
Zoroastrians who worship at this fire temple. ...
Most Read Articles
Indian Express
The small Parsi community has often presented a
universal picture, albeit with the help of Parsi
writers. The latest voice to join this force belongs to
...
MARTYRDOM CENTENARY OF MADAN LAL DHINGRA [1883-1909]
Fight for ...
Organiser - New
Delhi,India
A Parsee doctor Cawas Lalkaka tried to come in between
but Dhingra fired at him as well. However, Dhingra's
attempt to shoot himself failed and he was ...
Karachi's mayor is a man with a master plan
The National - Abu
Dhabi,United Arab Emirates
... for his care of the city's public gardens from the
most demanding of the city's fathers, the Parsee
philanthropist and writer, Ardeshir Cowasjee. ...
Burial grounds at city centres may become envy of land
sharks
Economic Times -
Gurgaon,Haryana,India
“Don't publish these figures,” a young Parsi man warned,
as SundayET snooped around to gather an estimate of real
estate values of some prominent burial ...
Iran: Why the West Should Back off
OpEdNews -
Newtown,PA,USA
For Iranians, history did not start in 622 AD, when
Islam was founded; it starts in an ancient past, a
glorious Zoroastrian past. However, all major players
...
Own 'Facebook' to spur Parsis to marry their own
Daily News &
Analysis - Mumbai,India
BPP chairperson Dinshaw Mehta said the Punchayet will
launch the Zoroastrian Youth Association or ZYA (the
name is yet to be finalised) "with a big bash" in ...
I AM: Cyrus Sahukar
Times of India
I'm half Punjabi and half Parsi and my mother was
Buddhist for fifteen years. I've therefore been lucky to
experience these diverse belief systems.
3215 new flats for Parsis on anvil
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
Kersi Randeria of the Alert Zoroastrian Association, who
has crossed swords with the BPP over its housing policy,
said although he does not know the details ...
3215 new flats for Parsis on anvil | Real Estate News,
Property ...
By admin
“We have sought the assistance of the best brains in the
community,'' said BPP trustee Khojeste Mistree.
According to the plan, the biggest redevelopment project
pertains to the sprawling Nowroz Bag complex near Ganesh
Gully, Parel, ...
Sassanian
Administration
Cultural Heritage
News - Tehran,Tehran,Iran
Nor is anything known about lands belonging to the
clergy, mainly Zoroastrian. At least one aspect of the
economy was always completely under control of the ...
Sea devouring Gujarat's coastal villages
Daily News &
Analysis - Mumbai,India
The fire temple of the Parsis in Udwada is at a stone's
throw from the Arabian Sea. Every monsoon, local Parsis
are afraid the sea will come even closer and ..
A dhansak that dates back to the 1930s
Daily News &
Analysis - Mumbai,India
Perhaps, she feels, that was how the idea of documenting
old Parsi recipes ... Ask any Parsi lady with even
remote gastronomical leanings and they know of ...
Remembering the Howard Roark of India
Times of India
Fifteen years after this maverick Parsi architect died
in a car accident, most of his built works (except for
Jain House in Lonavla and the Bajaj House) ...
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Ancient
and modern sun worshipers of Phoenix
Examiner.com - USA
Poston himself was a sun worshiping Zoroastrian who
converted to that religion after visiting India in the
late 1860's. He even wrote a book about it, ...
One Nation: diversity and multiculturalism
The Island
(subscription) - Columbo,Sri Lanka
Parsis; Perhaps the numerically smallest community is
made up of Parsis or Zoroastrian Persians from the
Iranian Province of Fars who fled the Arab Muslim ...
Food & Flavour: Words that are cross
Economic Times
Or Niloufer Ichaporia King's My Bombay Kitchen:
Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking, which is a
beautifully written collection of both her family's ...
A rakhi band binds the love between brothers and sisters
insideTORONTO.com
- Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... event primarily because my friends in India were
Hindu and were instrumental in influencing me to
although this was not part of my Zoroastrian culture.
...
The
Politics of Art in Contemporary Iran
ARTINFO - New
York,NY,USA
... was flayed alive by the Zoroastrian High Priest
Kirder for heresy and for challenging the fundamentalist
ruling priesthood and laws of the time. ...
The six major world religions
Examiner.com - USA
It was founded by the prophet, Zoroaster. These people
worship Ahura Mazda, ... Scholars assert that Zoroaster
prophesied about the coming of the Messiah, ...
Rebirth
of a classic
Livemint -
Delhi,Delhi,India
In 1936, a strange and melancholy novel titled The Blind
Owl appeared among the Zoroastrian and Iranian
expatriate communities of Mumbai. ...
Why
Parsis love Western classical music
Livemint -
Delhi,Delhi,India
To understand a culture we must examine its classical
roots. No real understanding of Europe or Europeans is
possible without understanding Western ...
Moser
Baer releases Little Zizou on DVD
India Infoline.com
- Mumbay,India
It tells the story seen through the eyes of Xerxes (Jahan
Bativala), an 11- year old soccer-mad Parsi boy who
wants to meet Zinedine Zidane and calls ...
Accusations against Baha'is within the Context of
Islamic ...
Iran Press Watch -
Germany
The association of heresy with incest appears to go back
to the Arabs first encounter with Zoroastrianism.
Certain Zoroastrian scriptures appeared to ...
Seminar on Human Rights in Iran
Kurdish Aspect -
Denver,CO,USA
Dr. Anoshiravani will speak on the women's rights in the
Zoroastrian Era. Mrs. Soraya Falah is a former Kurdish
political prisoner. ...
Boman wants to kiss Shabana again!
Times of India -
India
"Yes, she sends me Parsi messages asking how I am, where
I am. Just yesterday she messaged in Parsi asking where
I was early in the morning. ...
Farming
the Parsi way
Express Buzz -
Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
CHETHALAYAM: In the wilderness, the lone Parsi farmer of
the district (may be of the entire state) lives a lonely
life. Enjoying the comfort of wilderness ...
Film
review for Mystic Iran- A film by Aryana Farshad
Persian Mirror -
USA
The first scene shows a part of Persepolis, talking
about the great Darius, who brought the first
Monotheistic religion, Zoroastrian to Persia. ...
Avesthagen gears up to raise Euros 100-125 mn for next
phase of growth
pharmabiz.com -
Mumbai,MH,India
The company was engaged in the assessment of the Parsee
population for the development of the cancer biomarker.
It has identified a few interesting markers. ...
HC says no to plan for redevpt of Tardeo agiary
Times of India -
India
MUMBAI: In a major victory for the Parsi community in
the city, the Bombay high court recently dismissed an
application seeking to commercially exploit a ...
Parsi
Journeys
Hindu -
Chennai,India
How does one describe the sheer perfection of Parsi gara
embroidery in which birds take wing with the delicacy of
a Japanese Haiku, weeping willows, ...
Different
vision
Calcutta Telegraph
- Calcutta,India
Born to a Parsee family in Gujarat, Tamboli lost his
eyesight when he was ... “They said that they found the
Parsee name difficult and would give me a name ...
'Arash
the archer' and the Festival of Rain
PRESS TV -
Tehran,Iran
According to the Zoroastrian calendar, each thirty days
of the month carries a name. The thirteenth day of the
month of Tir on the Persian calendar (June 22 ...
Breeding
Vultures: The Other Side of the Story
The Epoch Times -
New York,NY,USA
It is, however, not only the environmentalists who
expressed concern at the declining of vultures from the
sky but the Parsi people of India remained ...
Islam's Victimization of Iran
American Thinker -
Bellevue,WA,USA
The faith of Zoroaster, based on the triad of Good
Thought, Good Speech and ... Other teachings of the
faith of Zoroaster, arguably the most ancient divine ...
Construction Poses Cultural Heritage Crisis For
Afghanistan
RedOrbit -
Dallas,TX,USA
Zoroastrianism, the worship of Ahura-Mazda, is one of
the world's oldest ... Some scholars believe that
Zoroastrianism has had more of an impact of mankind, ...
Paikuli
inscriptions studied, restored in Iraq
PRESS TV -
Tehran,Iran
“The inscriptions belong to the Sassanid King Narseh and
are similar to the ones at the Cube of Zoroaster that
bears Middle Persian, Greek and Parthian ...
BSEK exam standards criticised at ceremony to honour
position holders
The News
International - Karachi,Pakistan
The overall first position holder in the examination,
Farah Dhunjish Ferozepurwalla of the Mama Parsi Girls
School, was awarded Rs30,000, while Rs20,000 and ...
A Salute to the Iranian People
Watching the
Watchers.org - USA
Parsees are originally from Iran. After most of the
population of Persia was converted to Islam,
Zoroastrianism was shunted out, but some of the
followers ...
Minority groups present demands to Khursheed
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
NEW DELHI: The Parsi community is facing a tough
challenge from dwindling population -- of the community
as well as that of vultures. ...
Girls outclass boys in matric examination
The Nation,
Pakistan - Karachi,Pakistan
In the results of regular candidates, private schools,
belonging to Parsi community, have left behind all other
private and government schools, ...
SSC Part-II results announced
The News
International - Karachi,Pakistan
Students of the Mama Parsi Girls School bagged first and
third positions while the second position was clinched
by a student of the BVS Parsi High School. ...
BMC may reduce water supply to bulk users
Times of India -
India
Residents of Dadar's Parsi Colony have been facing a
peculiar problem over the past several weeks. "Between 7
am and 10 am water has been continuously ...
Religious smells & bells the same
ScienceBlogs - USA
I have read that Muslim prayer 5 times a day was in part
an attempt to one up the Zoroastrians, who pray 3 times
a day. In any case, I decided to see what a ...
THE AVIARY PROJECT: By Khojeste Mistree
Instead of acting positively and
encouraging Mr. Khojeste Mistree, a religious scholar
and an avid proponent of the Aviary, you have condemned
it to die ...
HBO documentaries attempt to put Iran and the West in
focus
Victoria Advocate
- Victoria,TX,USA
... Ahmadinejad and interviewed a variety of locals,
including "a Zoroastrian priest, an Iranian family, an
underground rapper and a feminist blogger. ...
About the Persian language
Daily Kos -
Berkeley,CA,USA
Today we call the religion he propagated
"Zoroastrianism" (after a Greek ... The later holy books
of the Zoroastrian religion are written in a form of
this ...
The spirit of Mumbai has its roots in Surat
Livemint -
Delhi,Delhi,India
Aungier gave Parsis the land for their Tower of Silence
on Malabar Hill in 1673. Now we need to explain what
this spirit of Surat was that was transferred ...
Western scholars Wilson/Haug's Detrimental influence: By
Khojeste ...
I draw your attention to what a Parsi
scholar in Mumbai, KHOJESTE MISTREE wrote in the
Jame-Jamshed newspaper, Naoroz edition, 1995. ...
NEW YORK, June 16 NY-COMEDYCENTRAL
Earthtimes (press
release) - London,UK
In addition to attending a speech given by President
Ahmadinejad, Jones spoke to a cross-section of Iranian
society including a Zoroastrian priest, ...
Fitzgerald: On Dogs and Statues In Islam
Right Side News -
Kennesaw,GA,USA
It is likely, I have suggested before at Jihad Watch and
am suggesting again right now, that because dogs were
prized by Zoroastrians, and treated with ...
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The
star of Bethlehem and astrology
Examiner.com - USA
The Magi originated from a caste of Zoroastrian priests.
During Roman times they were recognized as
physician-astrologers who healed the sick, ..
Have your fill of bread and breakfast
Daily News &
Analysis - Mumbai,India
... Parsi chutney bread (a combination of Brioche and
Parsi chutney) and high fibre bread which includes
freshly ground vegetable fibre and juices. ...
Locals divided over Five Gardens revamp
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
Some residents of the old-world colony-mostly inhabited
by Parsis-accuse the BMC ... Interestingly, another
group within the Parsi Colony supports the BMC's ...
Minorities panel suggestion to MP Govt: Declare cow a
'cultural ...
Indian Express -
New Delhi,India
The letter has been signed by the Commission's Parsi
member, Sam Pavri, who presided over Wednesday's
meeting. “Every Indian is proud of the cow (and its ...
Women in Tajikistan pushed to brink
Colorado Daily -
Boulder,CO,USA
Zafar Saidzod, a presidential adviser, says
self-immolation has deep roots that predate the advent
of Islam and may be connected with older Zoroastrian ...
Pay for dad's upkeep, court tells NRI
Times of India -
New Delhi,India
Satarawala is among many Parsis, who suffer from the
empty nest syndrome after their children fly off to
distant shores. “Pesi has not even bothered to talk ...
Avasthagen ties up with Harvard Medical School on
Genomics studies
pharmabiz.com -
Mumbai,MH,India
Our goal in this collaboration is to understand the
structure of Parsi populations and the historical
and genetic relationship with groups in India and ...
Kerman
home to world's lone Zoroastrian anthropology
museum
Payvand - Iran
TEHRAN, June 5 (Mehr News Agency) -- The City of Kerman in
central south of Iran is home to the lone anthropology
museum of the world's Zoroastrians. ...
Qatar Consulate puts security before art
Indian Express - New
Delhi,India
The lobby of this prestigious building, known for
fostering art projects, was adorned by a magnificent
sculptural mural by Parsi artist Arzan Khambatta ...
School rushes to HC after closure notice
Daily News &
Analysis - Mumbai,India
PTI Mumbai: A school meant primarily for Parsi community
has moved the Bombay High Court after Municipal
Corporation of Greater Mumbai issued it a closure ...
Attuning
To The Masters, Saints, & Prophets: A Series Of Sufi ...
Auburn Journal -
Auburn,CA,USA
According to the teachings of Zoroaster, it is light that
overcomes deceit, lying, ... Likewise the earth itself,
according to the tradition of Zoroaster, ...
Are enough Bollywood films dealing with Indian
sub-cultures?
Hindu -
Chennai,India
... Percy (1990), 1947: Earth (1998), Being Cyrus (2005)
and Little Zizou (2009) put the spotlight on the Parsi
community, while movies like Devdas, ...
Watch Tower: Will it be Modi vs Rahul in 2014?
Central Chronicle -
Bhopal,India
He is only technically speaking a Parsi because his
grandfather was a Parsi, but at his father's funeral,
Rahul was performing all the Hindu rites. ...
The Blog That Brought Me Home Again
gourmet.com - New
York,New York,USA
When Dad described Parsi New Year at Chez Panisse, I was
jealous. Reading about pilaf with peas, nettles, and
chard, which he said reminded him “that spring ...
The
Intervention of Saint George
Journal of American
Medical Association (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
In the remote mountain valleys, old women still whisper
that Saint George was in reality Zoroaster, who, among his
other attributes, was a physician. ...
Have a Murree with your curry'
The National - Abu
Dhabi,United Arab Emirates
“The Taliban is only a fraction of 176 million people and
they have no support and will never succeed,” said
Isfanyar Bhandara, a Parsee businessman whose ...
Tehran or Bust
Newsweek - USA
Yet it is also a capital of pre-Islamic Persia, and is
well known for its Zoroastrian temples and grave sites.
(At one fire temple, priests continue to tend ...
Stamps issued on Parsi high school's 150 years
The Nation, Pakistan
- Karachi,Pakistan
KARACHI - On the eve of completion of hundred and fifty
years of Bai Virbaiji Soparivala Parsi High School,
Karachi, the Pakistan Post has issued the ...
A life in comedy
The Statesman -
Kolkata,India
The Parsi girl has carved a niche for herself on
television and she is never tongue-tied when it comes to
talking about food and travelling. ...
Book
Review : Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Desicritics.org -
Bangalore,Karnataka,India
In Rohinton Mistry's Books, one can always get a taste of
Parsi life and culture and the book “Family Matters” is
one more such work. ...
MSOLA SISTERS RECALL late Sister CECILIA OF MOMBASA
Coastweek -
Mombasa,Kenya
Sr. Cecilia also known as Nergis Commissariat was born in
Mombasa on April 27th, 1925 to Mr. Burjorji and Mrs. Mitha
Commissariat of the Parsee Community. ...
CPI veteran Homi Daji is dead
Hindu -
Chennai,India
Belonging to a middle class Parsi family, Daji was born on
September 5, 1923. He participated in the All India
Student Federation Movement for the first ...
The religion decision
Boston Globe -
Boston,MA,USA
My husband was raised Baptist, but isn't particularly
religious; our youngest children are being raised with the
morals and values of my Zoroastrian faith, ...
Viktor
Sarianidi, his expedition excavate new royal tomb at
Gonurdepe
Turkmenistan.ru -
Turkmenistan
... considered by scientists as the birthplace of
Zoroastrian religion and the fifth center of the world
civilization, along with Egypt, Mesopotamia, ...
Assyrian
metropolitan visits Ahmadinejad
PRESS TV -
Tehran,Iran
"In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the (followeres of the)
Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Zoroastrian faiths live
fraternally alongside each other. ...
Iran
to Celebrate Ferdowsi Day
Cultural Heritage
News - Tehran,Tehran,Iran
Experts Qotbeddin Sadeqi, Naser Takmil-Homayun,
Heshmatollah Riazi, Farshid Faraji, Babak Salamati from
among the Zoroastrian nation, and Varant Gorjian ...
Turkish scholar translating Shahnameh
Tehran Times -
Tehran,Iran
Ancient Persian religions, Zoroastrian myths, myth and
creation, the role of myths and other notions including
death, heaven and hell are discussed in his ...
Assam vultures to the rescue of Parsis
MyNews.in -
Bhopal,Madhya Pradesh,India
Guwahati: As the Parsi community in India is facing
serious concern for ensuring traditional disposal of
bodies of their dead due to alarming decline in ...
The changing faces of Bunder Road
The News
International - Karachi,Pakistan
In fact, several buildings in Parsee Colony, that was
previously considered to be an upscale part of town, have
been replaced by gas stations and clinics. ...
Interview:
Ratan Tata, India's humble business king
Times Online - UK
... the swaggering boss of Kingfisher beer, projects a
Bransonesque lifestyle full of parties, booze and
jetsetting, Ratan, a Parsi (a Zoroastrian sect, ...
Motherhood personified
Times of India -
India
This is 83-year-old Parsi woman Parin Ichhaporia who
resides in Fategunj. Known as the best baby sitter of her
times, she personifies selfless motherhood. ...
Retro is in
Business Standard -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Little Zizou is a slice-of-life story filtered through the
perspectives of a young Parsi boy named Xerxes — a
Zinedine Zidane fan, hence the nickname that ...
Iran is going to build a new island near Bushehr in
Persian
Gulf, based on the national symbol of Fravahr. This will
cover an area of 6,200,000 square meter.
http://www.berasad.com/fa/content/view/1568/
Seminar on Human Rights and US-Iran Relations
Kurdish Aspect -
Denver,CO,USA
Dr. Anoshiravani will talk about women's rights in the
Zoroastrian Era. Members of other minorities in Iran such as
Yaresan, Jewish, Assyrian, Caldanian, ...
The heart of the city in a taxicab
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
According to him the traffic police only fear the Parsis and
the Sikhs. "Dekho, there are two kinds of people they are
wary about: Parsis and Sikhs. ...
Cooking
with love
Times Online -
Auckland - Auckland,New Zealand
Of Parsi background the couple has included several Parsi
dishes in the menu to reflect their Persian heritage – the
Parsis fled Persia after the fall of ...
Good
news for art lovers
Mumbai Pluses -
Mumbai,MS,India
He had opened his first Art Institute in Mumbai, as only
Europeans and Parsis had access to Sir JJ School of Arts
those days. .
Edulji Dinshah Dispensary threatened by ingress of water
The News International
- Karachi,Pakistan
It may be pointed out that the Zoroastrian community has
played an extremely significant role in the development of
the city. ...
John scores for football
Times of India - New
Delhi,India
“It was a sweet film about a little boy's love for the game
apart from being about Parsis. You know I'ma half bawa,”
explains John. ...
Minorities
join Mousavi for Persian Gulf fest
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
By Shapur Negareh In what may be a glimpse of diversity in a
Mousavi administration, senior representatives of Iran's
native Jewish and Zoroastrians joined ...
TIME / Deena Guzder
ایرانیان - San
Francisco,CA,USA
... a few weeks ago and now an article in the time travel
section about the parsi restaurants and the parsi community
in mumbai was featured recently.
An
“Indian Bible” or a “Bible for India”?
Reuters India -
Mumbai,India
It now survives as the religion of the Parsees in India… For
Matthew, the magi are the highly respected religious
leaders, representing non-Jewish religions ...
HC asks Parsi body to file affidavit on its flats for poor
Indopia - India
Mumbai , Apr 28 The Bombay High Court today directed the
city-based Parsi Panchayat to file an affidavit stating the
number of flats under its control that ...
Couple ends 40-yr marriage
Times of India - New
Delhi,India
Neither was the resolve of the septaguanerian Parsi couple
to end their ... But Justice Chandrachud, noting that Parsis
tend to live till the "ripe old ...
Koli community to play vital role in new constituency of
Navsari
Ahmedabad Newsline -
Ahmedabad,India
Navsari is also known for its erstwhile Gaekwad era
buildings and traces of Parsi population. It is not much
developed industrially; the people are ...
Parsis flock to 300-yr-old agiary to celebrate
Hindustan Times - New
Delhi,Delhi,India
More than 1000 Parsis flocked to the city's oldest fire
temple to celebrate the Zoroastrian Feast of Fire, which
fell on the agiary's 300th anniversary. ...
Indian
Film Festival of Los Angeles fetes 'Slumdog' star
Los Angeles Times -
CA,USA
The English-language film, set in Mumbai, focuses on the
lives of two rival families in the Parsi community, a
long-established cultural sect. ...
Accountants now make the calls at BT
Times Online - UK
Ratan Tata, head of Tata Sons, is no Indian billionaire in
the style of Vijay Mallya, the freewheeling tycoon behind
Kingfisher beer, but a Parsee bachelor ...
Parsi couple seeks divorce after 40 years of marriage
Times of India - India
12 Apr 2009, 1235 hrs IST, PTI MUMBAI: A Parsi couple,
married for 40 years, is fighting a legal battle for divorce
in the Bombay High Court which has asked ...
Prepare to be inspired by major achievers
nebusiness.co.uk - UK
He was chosen as a cross-bench life peer in 2006, becoming
the first Parsi in the House of Lords. The chief executive
of Finsbury Food Group and reigning ...
History's 100 most holy people
Telegraph.co.uk -
London,England,UK
Moses is ranked sixth, Mahavira is seventh, Guru Nanak, the
founder of Sikhism is eighth, Baha' Allah ninth and
Zoroaster tenth. There are only six living ...
Parsi Punchayet bypoll an expensive affair
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
Mumbai: The electorate is a measly 9000, but the expenditure
being incurred by two of four candidates in a Bombay Parsi
Punchayet (BPP) by-election is an ...
Parsi trust says it tried best to help mother of dead kid
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
Mumbai: In a case before the Bombay High Court on housing
for poor Parsis, chief justice Swatanter Kumar incredulously
asked: "Are there poor Parsis? ...
Iran’s
New Year “Nowruz” An Ecological Bridge To Connect The ...
Green Prophet -
Jerusalem,Israel
The sun and fire are important elements in the ancient
Persian religion of Zoroaster and the festival is observed
by this ancient monotheistic faith. ...
Mumbai's Parsi Restaurants: Get It While It's Hot
TIME - USA
"Fifty years ago, there used to be around 500 Parsi
restaurants along the stretch of south Bombay; now there are
hardly 15 left," says Kohinoor, ...
Bapsi explains mystique of her art
The Nation, Pakistan -
Karachi,Pakistan
Hailing from Parsi Community, Bapsi takes enormous pride in
declaring that she belonged to Lahore. 的 come from a Parsi
background but what makes me stiff ...
Azerbaijan,
South Azerbaijan, Iran, Persia, Turkey, Orientalism ...
American Chronicle -
Beverly Hills,CA,USA
Zoroaster´s identification with Azerbaijan – Atropatene –
Adhurbadhagan was undeniable in the ... The land was
considered sacred due to Zoroaster´s birth, ...
His Dark Materials Part 1
Stage -
London,England,UK
Pullman’s moral theme, which lies at the heart of the
evening and seems to touch on Zoroastrian religious
traditions, uses on several occasions a curious ...
'The House of Wisdom' by Jonathan Lyons
Los Angeles Times -
CA,USA
A planned city laid out in the 8th century by a converted
Jew from Basra and a Persian Zoroastrian, the so-called City
of Peace served as the intellectual ...
Special
officials to register Christian weddings
Calcutta Telegraph -
Calcutta,India
A similar proposal from the Parsee community is also being
considered. ... “We have already prepared a draft to appoint
Parsee marriage registrars in ...
This Gandhi is No Mahatma
Middle East Times -
Cairo,Egypt
Even from his father's side, he is more of a Parsi or
Zoroastrian than a Hindu. Varun's paternal grandfather and
Indira Gandhi's husband, Feroze Gandhi, ...
Varun Gandhi: A pox on both his houses
Asia Times Online -
Kowloon,Hong Kong
Nehru's daughter, the redoubtable Indira who was premier
from 1967 to 1977 and 1980 to 1984, had married a Parsi
lawyer-politician named Feroze Shah Ghandy, ...
Indiana University - Bloomington,IN,USA
At one site alone -- Navikat, in the Chuy Valley -- archaeologists have identified a Zoroastrian fire altar, a collection of Nestorian Christian votive ...
Leaping
across the fire to embrace Nevruz
Hürriyet - Turkey
Zoroaster is supposed to have preached in the royal court of
Bactria. He preached that there were two forces in the
world, good and evil, and that they were ...
Nawaz on Navroze
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
"He (Gautam) likes Parsi food a lot," she reveals, "but you
know, one has to make fusion food for him," she laughs.
"Since Gautam is especially fond of ...
Brun-maska-chai!
Times of India - India
I present Boman Irani and Shenaz Treasuryvala, Zoroastrians
both; he a blustery and excitable Irani, she a petite and
pretty Parsi, both making news in ...
Celebrating
a glorious spring festival ‘Nauroze’
The News International
- Karachi,Pakistan
Today, after the lapse of thousands of years, people of
Iranian descent from all walks of life - especially the
Parsi community enthusiastically celebrate ...
A Persian feast for spring equinox
Times Online - UK
There's so much delight in Persian food, which becomes
Parsee food in India. With its herbs and dried fruits,
delicately spiced meat and grain and nut ...
Irani or Parsi, what's the difference?
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
Both groups seek the 'true' Zoroastrian vision." Persians
fleeing persecution, who entered the country a thousand
years ago, were christened Parsi, ...
Happy
Norouz! Persian New Year means a springy, special spread
Pittsburgh Post
Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
This traditional New Year meal is shared by celebrants who
are Zoroastrian, Muslim, even Jewish. "I think the beautiful
thing about Persian New Year is it's ...
Obama delivers holiday greetings to Iran
Los Angeles Times -
CA,USA
Nowruz is a 12-day originally Zoroastrian holiday that
begins today. The name means "new day," and the holiday
marks the beginning of spring and the ...
Iranian Peoples & Non-Iranians of the Persianate Societies
...
The Circle of Ancient
Iranian Studies - London,England,UK
[6] Since then, the peoples of the Iranian culture, whether
Zoroastrian, Jews, ... With the widespread of the
Zoroastrian religion and the belief that the ...
Vartanantz celebrated at the Armenian Sisters Academy
Armenian Reporter -
Yerevan,Armenia
... of a very important event in their history: the
Vartanantz War waged between Zoroastrian Persia and its
Christian Armenian province in the year 451. ...
Varun Gandhi is one-fourth Hindu
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
His father, the late Sanjay Gandhi, was born of Feroze
Gandhi, a Parsee and Indira Nehru, a Kashmiri Pandit and
hence a Hindu. Taking all this into account ...
HC relief for the Parsee punchayet
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
... against the current trustees of punchayet as they had
failed to comply with his January 23 order directing
allotment of flats to 104 needy Parsis. ...
Celebrate Norooz: The Persian New Year
Pasadena Now -
Pasadena,CA,USA
... its’ uniquely Iranian characteristics has been
celebrated for at least 3000 years and is deeply rooted in
the traditions of Zoroastrian belief system. ...
Celebration on Alki tonight: Chahar Shanbeh Soori
West Seattle Blog -
Seattle,WA,USA
Thanks to Paige for e-mailing to share this: Chahar Shanbeh
Soori is the ancient Iranian festival dating at least back
to 1700 BCE of the early Zoroastrian ...
Iran
celebrates Chaharshanbeh Souri
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
Chaharshanbeh Souri is an ancient commemoration dating back
to at least 1700 BCE, in the early Zoroastrian era. It was
done to banish misfortune, ...
Iranians Celebrate Chahar-Shanbeh Soori Festival
Payvand - Iran
Chahar-Shanbeh Soori, literally means 'Red Wednesday', is an
ancient festival, dating back to 4000 years ago since the
early Zoroastrian era, which is still ...
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Payvand - Iran
One could only hope and pray that the Mazdean Athravans [Zoroastrian priests] quietly removed, purified, blessed and buried the mortal remains of the ...
Iran celebrates Chaharshanbeh Souri
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
Chaharshanbeh Souri is an ancient commemoration dating back
to at least 1700 BCE, in the early Zoroastrian era. It was
done to banish misfortune, ...
Iranians
Celebrate Chahar-Shanbeh Soori Festival
Payvand - Iran
Chahar-Shanbeh Soori, literally means 'Red Wednesday', is an
ancient festival, dating back to 4000 years ago since the
early Zoroastrian era, which is still ...
'Little Zizou' puts Parsis in comic spotlight after 30 years
Hindu - Chennai,India
New Delhi (IANS): Bollywood provided a hilarious take on
Parsis with the 1978 film "Khatta Meetha" that starred Ashok
Kumar and Pearl Padamsee. ...
I like bums on the seats’
Times of India - India
“Madness is in short supply in the world, so thank God for
the Parsis,” said Mira. “But it’s a madness that you love,”
added Sooni who’s called ‘Loony ...
Little Zizou
Times of India - India
He hates his father, Cyrus Khodaiji (Sohrab Ardeshir), a
Parsi fundamentalist who launches a Parsi Liberation Army to
preserve the purity of the ...
Little
Zizou is a big winner
Livemint -
Delhi,Delhi,India
And it’s refreshing to see Parsis depicted unlike the comic
caricatures portrayed in Bollywood cinema. The truth doesn’t
make them any less eccentric or ...
Rostam:
The DARK AGES
Payvand - Iran
Team: The duality between good and evil is an important part
of ancient Persian culture and is rooted in Zoroastrianism.
So it's only natural for this idea ..
.
Just
for kicks
Sakaal Times -
Pune,India
The script is mostly happy to meander around, capturing
lives around a Parsi locality. The film starts with
11-year-old Xerxes (Jahan Bativala), ...
John Abraham was always meant to be in my film: Sooni
Taraporewala
Thaindian.com -
Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
For years I have been witness to the battle between the
Parsi fundamentalists and the liberals. I have tried to
capture that in my film. ...
One
birth day; one marriage anniversary - Eight American
Marriages
Asian Tribune -
Bangkok,Thailand
Iranis and Parsis consider Meher Baba as a great spiritual
soul but are reluctant, at least a large percentage, to
accept him as the Avatar, like Zoroaster. ...
Centre stage
The National - Abu
Dhabi,United Arab Emirates
He was born into a Parsee family, to Mehli and Tehmina
Mehta, ... 的 am a Parsee, which is a minority of only 80000
in a country of 1.2 billion. ...
We'd
probably burn buildings: Sooni Taraporevala
Moneycontrol.com -
Mumbai,India
It isn't the first time that Sooni has captured Parsis on
camera.. Her coffee table book, Parsis – The Zorastrians of
India is a telling tale of the small ...
Outstanding Entrepreneur of the Year; Dr. Villoo
Morawala-Patell ...
Webnewswire.com - New
Delhi,India
It has to its credit several unique projects for eg
Avesthagenome, a comprehensive genetic study of more than
60000 Parsi (Zoroastrian) individuals. ...
Little
Zizou, a tale amidst Parsis, about Parsis
IBNLive.com - New
Delhi,India
A PARSI PICNIC: A funny take on Parsis and with an ensemble
cast of 34 actors. ibnlive.com is on mobile now. Read news,
watch videos be a Citizen Journalist ...
Little
Zizou
En Primeur -
Montréal,Québec,Canada
It is told by Xerxes, an 11-year-old football-crazy Parsi
boy who has one wish—wants his long-dead mother to bring the
legendary French footballer Zinedine ...
Parsi fire temple to be shown in Little Zizou
Oneindia -
Tamilnadu,India
Folks, we are talking about the first ever Bollywood film
that has an entire sequence in a Parsi fire temple. Though
there have been plenty of films based ...
Bollywood's
first view of the Fire Temple
NDTV.com - New
Delhi,India
So the entire ceremony and prayers were authentic." It may
not be the original, but this may be the closest non-Parsis
can get to the Fire Temple.
‘Little Zizou’ - a comic insight into the world of Parsis (IANS
...
Newspost Online -
Baroda,India
“Parsis have a culture just like anybody else. I chose to
set my debut film within the Parsi world because it is so
fascinating and so rarely seen,” ...
‘Little Zizou’ script was completed in 10 days: Sooni
Taraporewala
SINDH TODAY -
Sindh,Pakistan
“Parsis have a culture just like anybody else. While the
setting is very particular the characters, their dilemmas
and the issues they face are totally ...
The
Other Mumbai
Wall Street Journal -
USA
She then tells him how the Parsis, also called Zoroastrians,
fled to India from Persia 900 years ago. "They escaped in a
small boat because Persia was ...
Parsi trust likely to be dissolved
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
In his January 23 order (DNA, January 24), the commissioner
directed the punchayet to allot houses to 104 needy Parsis,
which was approved by the previous ...
Shiamak Davar: The Guru Of Contemporary Bollywood Dance,By
Yogita ...
South Asian Link -
Vancouver,BC,Canada
Shiamak Davar belongs to a Parsi family that is very closely
associated with Wadias, the pioneers of Indian Film Industry
who founded the Wadia Movietone ...
‘The world is unpredictably crazy’
Times of India - New
Delhi,India
The tagline of the film is ‘A film made by a Parsi for
Parsis.’ Now, isn’t that something out of the ordinary? “The
Parsi factor is important, ...
BPP trustee supports needy Parsis
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
Mumbai: After years of fighting for a home under the Bombay
Parsi Punchayet's (BPP) homes-for-the-needy scheme, needy
Parsis found support from an ...
A La Carte: tips, tastes and tools
San Jose Mercury News
- CA, USA
Niloufer Ichaporia-King will cook Parsi specialties for
brunch Saturday and Sunday. 2534 Mission St., (415)
648-7600,
www.foreigncinema.com.
...
Parsipolis
Sooni Taraporevala’s Little Zizou is
a Felliniesque portrait of Mumbai Parsis.
Parsi family of three tries to commit suicide
Gujarat Global.com -
Ahmedabad,Gujarat,India
In a case of what can be described as arm twisting by
creditors, a family of three, tried to commit suicide in
Ahmedabad. They had consumed heavy dose of ...
Cool down with these refreshing fruit drinks
Trinidad News - Port
of Spain,Trinidad and Tobago
The original drink was named paantsch, which comes from the
Parsi word panj for five. The word “five” ultimately from
Sanskrit panchan-s. ...
A Parsi state of mind
Hindustan Times - New
Delhi,Delhi,India
The actors playing Parsis How come John Abraham ended up
with a cameo? ... That’s how I got into this crazy world
of Parsis. I wrote the original script ...
All
in the family
Livemint -
Delhi,Delhi,India
Besides Irani and Abraham (whose mother is Zoroastrian),
Sohrab Ardeshir, Zenobia Shroff, Shernaz Patel and Kurush
Deboo play the main characters. ...
Discovery of Large Number of Achaemenid Dynastic Sites in
Markazi ...
The Circle of Ancient
Iranian Studies - London,England,UK
... contains a cave known as Kay-Khosrow, which is sacred to
locals and Zoroastrian community. According to the local
folklore, legendary Kay-Khosrow, .
Arizona's Marijuana-Worshipping Church of Cognizance Seeks a
Legal ...
Phoenix New Times -
Phoenix,AZ,USA
Quaintance claims he can trace the use of cannabis back to
the earliest reaches of Zoroastrianism, considered by many
to be the world's oldest monotheistic ...
To Light A Bedside Blaze
Outlook - New
Delhi,India
Having written and taken the photographs for the
coffee-table book Parsis—The Zoroastrians of India, Sooni
has now brought to life the Parsi world on screen ...
Tata, Ambani bag Gujarat Garima Awards
Business Standard -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Turning his attention to Gujarat, Tata said the Tatas’ owe
their start in India to Gujarat, as it is here that Parsis
first landed. “With India growing fast ...
Playing all the roles
Business Standard -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
This includes, besides other projects, my book, Parsis: The
Zoroastrians of ... As far as visual representation of
Parsis in Indian cinema is concerned, ...
Marriages are made in heaven, but gifting is a dilemma for
earthlings
TopNews - Noida,Uttar
Pradesh,India
In Parsi community, gifting cash is very important. "As our
community is small and we give gifts in cash only. The
general concept is that you have to gift ...
Business
big shot: Ratan Tata
Times Online - UK
As a Parsee, he does not drink or smoke. He shuns Bombay
social life and once said: “There is a great sense of
loneliness from time to time. ...
Just back from Azerbaijan
San Francisco
Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... World Heritage sites in the capital, Baku, and nearby
fire that erupts from the ground, the site of a James Bond
film scene, and the Zoroastrian Temple. ...
Gulbarg Society beyond recognition seven years after carnage
Ahmedabad Newsline -
Ahmedabad,India
Parsi couple, Dara and Rupa Mody, who lived in this society,
lost their 14-year-old son Azhar in the 2002 conundrum. A
film titled Parzania, ...
Anu Aga (India)
Times Online - UK
Anu Aga was born into an upper middle-class Parsi family in
Mumbai. She graduated in economics and later did
postgraduate studies in medical and psychiatric ...
Little
Zizou an insider's view to Parsi community
IBNLive.com - New
Delhi,India
Mumbai: The press interaction for Sooni Taraporevala's film
Little Zizou was a congregation of all Parsis in Mumbai. The
special event was hosted by ...
Voice of the Martyrs Alert
Crosswalk.com -
Chesterfield,VA,USA
The hostel warden, Parsis Zareen Gul, maintains that the
school administration that ordered closure of the Muslim
prayer room.
Zidane's Parsi connection
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
According to sources close to the crew of the film, Zidane
did some homework about the Parsis in Mumbai while he
attempted to work out dates. ...
Mumbai Stray Receives Second Chance at Life
HappyNews.com - Round
Rock,TX,USA
The dog, who was named Rex Harrison after the Hollywood
legend, certainly found his fair lady in the form of a Parsi
woman from Babulnath, India. ....
Namesake
writer directs John
Rediff -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
But the film is also about young Parsis trying to make a
sense of a fast-changing ... "Parsis and humour have always
been a good fit. We love to laugh. ...
Central Bank serves legal notice on Tatas
mydigitalfc.com -
Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh,India
In fact, the bank was until very recently known as a Parsi
bank due in part to the large number of Parsis employed at
the bank. ...
The Indian Film Company sells international sales rights to
...
SmallCapNews.co.uk -
UK
A satirical take on two Parsi (Zoroastrian) families in
Mumbai, the film was the directorial debut of award-winning
screen-writer, Sooni Taraporevala. ...
AWP to handle sales on Taraporevala's Little Zizou
Screendaily.com - UK
Set in Mumbai, the film tells the story of two Parsi
(Zoroastrian) families – one headed by an extremist who
wants to cleanse the community of inter-racial ...
Boman Irani rescues Imaad
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
Imaad realized while shooting for Sooni Taraporewala's
Little Zizou, which is a Parsi comedy film, that it was
Boman who could be a dear friend and mentor ...
ENVIRONMENT-PAKISTAN: Warnings From Vanishing Vultures
Inter Press Service -
Rome,Italy
"There are many Parsis like me in Pakistan and in India who
will be only too glad to ... Parsis are descendants of
Iranian Zoroastrians who migrated to the ...
`Little Zizou' is about triumph of love: Taraporevala
Hindu - Chennai,India
"When I see the film, I remember my childhood because I have
had a very Zoroastrian childhood since my mother is an Irani."
Floored by space increase
Times of India - New
Delhi,India
The over four dozen Zoroastrian fire temples in Mumbai have
utilised only a small portion of their FSI. However,
community activists were not enthused, ...
Chaos, Crisis and Terror Serves the Islamic Republic
American Thinker -
Bellevue,WA,USA
For centuries, the Zoroastrians paid heavily in all manner
of ways under the rule of the converted Muslims; many were
forced to leave for other lands such ...
Merging the old with new
Times of India - New
Delhi,India
Parsis developed urban realistic theatre in the 19th
century. People like Girish Karnad still know Gujarti
theatre as Parsi theatre. ...
‘I enjoy being the boss’
Express Buzz -
Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
Produced by Sooni and friend Dinaz Stafford’s company Jigri
Dost Productions, and presented by Mira and Indian Films,
Little Zizou is a Parsi story set in ...
Norouz
2009 event at Philadelphia Museum of Art on March 8th
Payvand - Iran
Witness the Sofreh Haft Sîn, the ceremonial table of the New
Year, and a Parsee Navroz presentation. Watch a
demonstration by celebrated painter Nasser ...
Farah’s triplets complete one year
Bollywood Mantra - San
Pablo,CA,USA
The three children of Farah and Shirish looked like princess
and price with Parsi outfits specially designed at
Katherine's at Kemps Corner. ...
Various religions find common ground
MiamiHerald.com -
Miami,FL,USA
Teens from the Zoroastrian Association of Florida performed
a skit. ... The Zoroastrian Association, which claims to be
the world's oldest religion, ...
INDIA Catholics intolerant, Goa mission congress told
Union of Catholic
Asian News - Asia
Roxana Singh, a Zoroastrian married to a Sikh, alleged that
Goa's Catholics have ... "I knew the Our Father and the Hail
Mary before I knew my (Zoroastrian) ...
Allotment of flats to Parsis results in tussle |
PropertyNice
By admin
Another BPP trustee Khojeste Mistree said many of the
applications in this list of 104 had ceased to exist. “The
applications have to be renewed by the applicants every
three years. If they fail to do so, their names are struck
from our ...
SIT picks holes in Erda's policing
Times of India - India
In this massacre, 39 persons lost their lives, while 30
others went missing from the day of incident, including
Azhar Mody, the Parsi boy who had taken ...
Notes
on the Iran/Persia Conflict: A Travelogue -- Part Three
Huffington Post - New
York,NY,USA
It's here that most of the remaining Zoroastrians live,
living relics of the Lost World, that Achaemenid empire that
stretched from the Danube to the Indus ...
The Gujaratis of Pakistan
The News International
- Karachi,Pakistan
The story is that when the Parsis landed in Gujarat, fleeing
the Arabs under ... It is indisputable that the Parsis, the
greatest community of Bombay, ...
Matters of Heart and Faith Guide a Zoroastrian Matchmaker
New York Times - New
York,NY,USA
They quickly discovered they both were Zoroastrian by faith,
both Indian immigrants to the United States by experience,
both signed up for a conference on ...
CGA-Canada Announces 2008 CGA Fellowship Recipients
Canada NewsWire (press
release) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Mr. Engineer is a founding director of Ontario Zoroastrian
Community Foundation, ... The foundation boasts a membership
of over 1000 Zoroastrians. ...
INDIA Peace talk launches interreligious center
Union of Catholic
Asian News - Asia
Zoroastrian Tina Mehta suggested religion should be personal
and kept to oneself. "We begin to irritate others when we
speak of our religion in this age of ...
Parsee community deeply worried about disappearing vultures
Northern Voices Online
- Chandigarh,UT,India
The Parsee community in Mumbai has been deeply worried about
the last rites of their departed near and dear ones since
the late 1990s. ...
Zoroastrians Observe Sadeh Festival in Iran
Cultural Heritage News
- Tehran,Tehran,Iran
Tehran , Feb 4, 2009: Iran +s Zoroastrian community held the
Jashn-e-Sadeh Festival for celebrating the discovery of fire
on the 10th of the Iranian month ...
Parsi Agiyari opens for public in Gujarat
Gujarat Global.com -
Ahmedabad,Gujarat,India
Though many of the Parsis are among the architects of modern
India, ... No non Parsis can enter their temple where Holy
fire is kept nor can anyone of ...
No God, lots of fuss
Malta Independent
Online - Malta
Ms Sherine’s 83-year-old Zoroastrian grandmother sewed
advert covers for the launch and told her that she had
watched the media event with a devout ...
This 12-year-old can now dream big
Expressindia.com - New
Delhi,India
... in team games hinged on too many variables ?Porus
continued to train for football in school, training
individually at Khushnuma Parsee Colony, Colaba. ...
Vadodara Parsis break path, allow all to have a glimpse of
Agiyari ...
Expressindia.com - New
Delhi,India
This is for the first time in the state that the Parsis have
shed their conventional ideology and allowed people from
outside their faith to have a close ...
Zoroastrian
artist shares his religion through his art
Houston Chronicle -
Houston,TX,USA
Most religious historians believe many Jewish, Christian and
Muslim beliefs were derived from Zoroastrianism. ?It may
have been the world’s first ...
Naughty
at 80
Screen Weekly -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Born in 1929, Shammi began life as Nargis Rabadi in a family
of Parsi priests. Her father died when she was just three
and her mother made a living by ...
Who
is Sai Baba' guru? Zarzari Zar Baksh who lived at Khuldabad
...
Asian Tribune -
Bangkok,Thailand
Meher was still a young Zoroastrian, Merwan Sheriar Irani,
the son of a first generation Iranian parents settled in
Pune. ...
Berlin
to hold Shahnameh Congress
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
... as well as collage works by Esfandiar Imanzadeh
featuring renowned Iranian figures such as Zoroaster, Darius
and Cyrus the Great, Avicenna and Mowlavi. ...
Management advised to preserve originality of structure
The News International
- Karachi,Pakistan
JB Sidhwa, a Parsee and others had the distinction of
writing textbooks for the students that were prescribed in
Pakistan as well as India.
How Parsis contributed to academics in western India
Times of India - New
Delhi,India
That's what Rashna Poncha, a history teacher at Sophia
College, said during a seminar on the contribution of Parsis
to education in western India in the ...
Battle
to beat obesity
Times Online -
Auckland - Auckland,New Zealand
Benifer Irani, who represents the Zoroastrian community,
says many worshippers of the Indian religion live in
Pakuranga and Bucklands Beach. ...
Obama, his horoscope and the world
The Moderate Voice -
USA
Their Zoroastrian religion was perhaps the world’s oldest.
Interestingly, Daruwala who lived in the US for seven years
in the past is a master of ancient ...
Being Parsi
Delhi Newsline -
Delhi,India
Somewhere in the 8th century, the first Parsis are said to
have left their ... But it is said that when Akbar was in
power, he invited learned Parsis to his ...
Israelis are living high on US expense account ?Michael
Backman
The Malaysian Insider
- Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
They have established hospitals, libraries, schools, museums
and many other institutions and, most importantly, not for
the Parsee community exclusively but ...
Please
Come Back in 2009
StarBoxOffice.com -
Bangalore,Karnataka,India
Dimple Kapadia: The diva was last seen playing a sex-starved
neurotic Parsi wife in Being Cyrus and what a performance
that was! She also lent her voice in ...
Marijuana: Arizona Supreme Court to Hear Case Asserting
Religious ...
Drug War Chronicle -
Washington,DC,USA
Hardesty, in which Daniel Hardesty, a member of the Church
of Cognizance, an Arizona-based church that practices
neo-Zoroastrian tenets and believes ...
Patients have difficult time reaching hospitals
Times of India - India
Adi Lowji Doctor of the Parsi Ambulance Division said
they had five ambulances, all of which had been filled to
capacity on the previous day. ..
Kolkata robbers loot Rs 11L by cheque
Times of India - India
Only, the robbers were real and left a middle-aged Parsi man
poorer by almost Rs 12 lakh in the space of four hours.
Three youths walked into the ...
Police crack robbery case
Times of India - India
Sleuths said the unique robbery at Hormuz Burjor Bhagwagar's
flat forcing the Parsi to sign cheques at gunpoint and
withdrawing the money was planned by ...
My week: Ariane Sherine: I’ma believer ?in plastering buses
with ...
Times Online - UK
My 83-year-old Zoroastrian grandmother sewed advert covers
for the launch and told me that my devout Jehovah’s Witness
great-aunt saw me on BBC News. ...
Who Fears God, Does Not Know God----------Zarathustra
AllHipHop - USA
Early western scholars of the Avesta (the scripture of the
Zoroastrians) placed him much closer to the present.
James Darmesteter even theorized that ...
Avalonia Esoteric Book Reviews - London,UK
He also discusses the Zoroastrian spirits associated with the days, an area worthy of study by itself, especially in light of their planetary nature and ...
Times Online - UK
My 83-year-old Zoroastrian grandmother sewed advert covers for the launch and told me that my devout Jehovah’s Witness great-aunt saw me on BBC News. ...
Meher Baba Manifestation Expected in Iran?
Asian Tribune -
Bangkok,Thailand
(Parsis are followers of Zoroaster; many of them left
Iran some time in the fourteenth century to avoid
persecution at home and have spread all over the ...
Heroes of Nariman House
Indian Express - New
Delhi,India
... where Shiv Sena activists saved Christian families and
gave protection to a nearby mosque and a madarassa; where a
Parsi baker—his bakery, located bang ...
Milk
and Sugar
India Journal - Sante
Fe Springs,CA,USA
There is a true episode that occurred about 1100 years back,
when Parsee ... The language of the land was Gujarati and
Parsee community spoke Farsi or the ...
An uneven account of life as a teenager in India
Boston Globe - United
States
As a "Parsi teenager attending a Catholic school in the
middle of a city that's predominantly Hindu," Umrigar felt
like she was leading a "schizophrenic ...
Green
Revolution Hits Dead End In Georgia Cemetery Proposal
Wall Street Journal -
USA
Mr. Russell recently invited a Zoroastrian priest from
Mumbai to survey the Texas site. He says the priest found
the local vulture population suitable for ...
Experts in science, spirituality to participate in symposium
Times of India - India
The symposium will be inaugurated by Meher Master Moos,
president of the Zoroastrian College. The guest of
honour will be Umesh Keskar from the Tilak ...
They want Taj in original form
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
SURAT: As the restoration work of the ravaged Taj Mahal
Hotel has kicked-off, Parsis of Navsari are worried over
something that is very dear to their heart ...
Thus
departed Zarathustra
GetReligion -
Washington,DC,USA
She begins by introducing a tower where tens of thousands of
corpses have been placed: Zoroastrians (known in India as
Parsis) regard sky burials, ...
A life of promise, frustration and tragedy
Philadelphia Inquirer -
Philadelphia,PA,USA
He explains the tenets of his Zoroastrian faith: "Good
thoughts. Good words and good deeds. . . . To live a life
without guilt, but don't hurt anybody."
Bombay Samachar
Trustee Khojeste Mistree said: We should
seize the opportunity and show in the next seven years by our
actions what we can do. We will preserve our race ...
The first wheels roll into India
Business Standard -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
The next year, there were four cars in Bombay, one of them
owned by Jamshedji Tata and the other three also by Parsis.
That same year, the first pneumatic ...
X知as
show for Parsees
Calcutta Telegraph -
Calcutta,India
The Calcutta Parsee Club, founded in 1908, will have the last
of its centenary celebrations during the Christmas week. The
100-year-old club will organise a ...
Every day is special - 21.12.2008
Sunday's Zaman -
Istanbul,Turkey
Today is Yalda, the longest night of the year, celebrated by
Zoroastrian Iranians. The ceremony has an Indo-Iranian origin
where Light and God were ...
Quaid-e-Azam
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Pak Watan -
Faisalabad,Pakistan
She was the fashionable young daughter of his personal friend
Sir Dinshaw Petit, of an elite Parsi family of Mumbai.
Unexpectedly there was great opposition ...
Dalai
Lama to inaugurate Morari Bapu’s world religion conference
DeshGujarat -
Ahmedabad,Gujarat,India
... Kanchi Shaknkaracharya Swami Jayendra Saraswati on
Hinduism and Dastur Dr. Peshtan Hormazadiar Mirza(Mumbai/Udvada)
on Zoroastrian.
House of 'Kasab's lawyer' vandalised
Times of India - India
Bombay Parsi Punchayat chairperson Dinshaw Mehta said, "Kasab
isn't a person who needs to be represented by anybody. Why
should Lam do so? ...
Parsis reduced to tears for homes
Daily News & Analysis -
Mumbai,India
As if the 25-year wait for a house was not enough, allegations
that she and many like her lied to get a house became too much
for a 55-year-old Parsi woman ...
John
Abraham turns 35
Kerala Online -
Kerala,India
His father is a Christian from Aluva, Kerala, and his mother
is a Zoroastrian Parsi. Being Catholic, his father added the
name Abraham to his son John as a ...
Young Parsis moving to Silicon Plateau
Times of India - India
Bangalore: Dasturji Jamshedji Unvulla, who took over priestly
duties at the city's only Parsi temple, the Zoarastrian
Anjuman, after his brother passed away ...
'Patrons
pack caf?hit in Mumbai terror attack
International Herald
Tribune - France
Zoroastrian priests in white robes came to bless the business
with burning sandalwood. The first customers were served on
Dec. 1, just 48 hours after the ...
It
feels great to be the sexiest of them all'
Hindustan Times - India
I agreed because my mum is a Parsi, I’d do anything for our
community. Because of the recession now, have you been asked
to reduce your fee? ...
Topic: Christianity and the Vedic Teachings Within It (Read
333 times)
The Daily Kenoshan -
Kenosha,Wisconsin,USA
The Persian Zoroaster, the Egyptian Osiris, Horus, Adonis,
Bacchus, Hercules, .... Also Zoroaster of Persia. The Greek
Hercules, Bacchus, Amphion, ...
Praying
together, staying together
Daily News & Analysis -
Mumbai,India
Parsis have a ritual which involves praying as the muslin vest
sadra is worn and the sacred thread kusti is tied. Whilst this
is an individual prayer, ...
Jupiter,
a comet or an exploding star... what did the three wise ...
Daily Mail - UK
It was not so astounding an event that everyone in Jerusalem
knew about it, but it was something that would have interested
a rather serious Zoroastrian. ...
Little
film makes big waves
Daily News & Analysis -
Mumbai,India
Often thought to be a chronicler of the Parsi community, Sooni
says, 的 have been a screen writer for about 20 years and have
written about 20 scripts, ...
'Punchayet
fails to release list for homes
Daily News & Analysis -
Mumbai,India
... a list of people they examined since assuming office on
October 23, 2008, the Bombay Parsi Punchayet failed to release
the list even on Thursday. ...
The
Voice of Brampton's South Asian Community'
South Asian Focus -
Brampton,Ontario,Canada
... representing the Indian consulate; Sam Vesuna of the
Zoroastrian Society of Ontario; Shai Abraham of Bina, a
community of Jews from India; Maxim D'Mello ...
Harrow's
multi-faith community unites in grief
The Sikh Times, UK -
Birmingham,West Midlands,UK
... Imam Mohammed Akram (Muslim); Paramjit Singh-Kohli (Sikh);
Phiroza Gan (Zoroastrian) and Mary Hale (Buddhist). More than
80 people attended the event, ...
Embroidery
firm stitches country’s racial groups together
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
By contrast, Parsis are one of India’s wealthiest groups,
certainly by capita. Of a world total of 100000 Parsis ?
Persian Zoroastrians who came to India ...
Fravahar,
pictogram of Persian past
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
Some scholars hold that these torsos do not represent Ahura
Mazda, as in the Zoroastrian faith god has no image and
therefore cannot be represented by any ...
Interfaith meet mourns Mumbai victims
IndiaPost.com - Union
City,CA,USA
... Dr Rajwant Singh, Chairman of the Sikh Council on Religion
and Education, Shehzaad Dastoor from Zoroastrian community, Dr
David Faria, President-elect ...
The
Last of the Zoroastrians
TIME - USA
A Zoroastrian priest clad in a long, cotton robe explains:
"Death is considered to be the work of Angra Mainyu, the
embodiment of all that is evil, ...
Zoroastrian faith flourishing in Illinois
Chicago Tribune - United
States
The Indian Zoroastrians, known as Parsis, tend to practice
more elaborate rituals, but the beliefs are the same. "The
essence of the religion has remained ...
I’m a mixture of all religions: Pooja Bedi
Thaindian.com -
Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
Farhan’s father is a Muslim and mother a Parsi. Though Pooja
and Farhan split in 2002, they have two children - daughter
Aalia and son Omar. ...
Poet
of the soul
Hindu - Chennai,India
Katrak was ordained as a proper priest, though he declared
that Parsis “don’t have a meaningful religion? Yet his faith
in the central Zoroastrian doctrine ...
Forever
curious
Hindu - Chennai,India
Parsee family, doctor, lawyer, soldier, sailor, tinker,
tailor…and I thought to myself: Death.?What did he have to
look forward to? Some factory in Pune, ...
Passages to India
Globe and Mail - Canada
If Mehta and Varma give us myriad voices and journeys, Mistry
captures the injustice of a nation with only four characters:
a young Parsi man, ...
Fine
and rare
The Week - Kochi,India
Ask Mehta where this passion stems from, and she credits her
Parsi genes. "Parsis, you will note, are always interested in
their history and their history ...
INDIA Catholic Priests Help Parishioners Around Mumbai Deal
With ...
Union of Catholic Asian
News - Asia
Gool Bhujwala, a Zoroastrian, told UCA News he joined the
program to “share the pain of Mumbai and pray for
forgiveness.?He said the city had never seen ...
The Best Little Cookbook Store in San Francisco: Or, A Room
With a ...
SF Weekly Blogs - San
Francisco,CA,USA
... by Noe Valleyite Niloufer Ichaporia King of her book My
Bombay Kitchen, the first book published in the United States
on Parsi food written by a Parsi, ...
The Riddle of Natanz
Persian Journal - Iran
It is a reminder of the days when the region's Zoroastrian
inhabitants laid out their dead on the tops of lofty mountains
for vultures and other creatures ...
Mumbai terror: Zee News Online’s tribute to former Associate
Zee News - Noida,Uttar
Pradesh,India
Once that was sorted out, he would have a thousand jokes and
anecdotes to share, especially about his Parsee community. A
complete family man, ...
Face-to-face with Kaizad Patel
Express Buzz -
Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
Chef Kaizad Patel, who was in town to start Jashn-e-Khordan,
the Parsi food festival at GRT Grand, pays no less attention
to details in his food than an ...
Friends share their memories of suicide victim
Philadelphia Inquirer -
Philadelphia,PA,USA
Hundreds of Chapgar's young friends and members of his family
and his Zoroastrian community crowded into a small funeral
home in West Norriton to mourn. ...
'I think I can make a happy film'
Screen Weekly -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Clearly, the theme is a comfort zone for you, since you’re
Parsi, familiar with the dilemmas of the Parsis in Mumbai?
Yes, I am comfortable with the milieu ...
A
Weekend Trip to Yazd
Payvand - Iran
We also went to see the Atashkade, where a Zoroastrian flame
has been burning, some say since 470 AD. Unfortunately we had
to cut short our visit to Yazd as ...
Flowers for the Taj
New York Times - United
States
The colony was developed exclusively for members of the
Zoroastrian religion ?the same religion that JN Tata, the man
who built the Taj, belonged to. ...
"Iran:
Hot Tea, Cool Conversations" and Brenden Hamilton ...
Payvand - Iran
Anyway Azzi was still a practicing Zoroastrian and for some
reason I just felt really comfortable talking with him and
really enjoyed spending time with him ...
Ramjibhai,
Friend of The Last Journey
India Journal - Sante Fe
Springs,CA,USA
Pesi Pir, a Parsi (Zoroastrian) passed away from an unknown
illness. First person to be called was Ramjibhai Patel.
Ramjibhai did not know the deceased ...
Unsung Heroes- The staff of Taj Mahal Hotel
ireport - USA
The Parsi community has lost so many heroes like Kaizad in
this tragedy... Security officer Noshir Sanjana is another
such example. ...
Independent - London,England,UK
This is how Parsis came to the city, and the Tatas, the Wadias and The Godrej's who went on to build industrial empires. Other "invitees" included Muslims ...
NATE LaMAR: Mumbai ?a personal reflection
Anderson Herald Bulletin
- Anderson,IN,USA
Farook was a Farsi (of Persian descent, but of the Zoroastrian
religion) from India who became a US citizen. While very
pro-American, he could not hide his ...
: From Black then to a laugh-riot now, the
hard-to-get-harder-to ...
Indian Express - New
Delhi,India
Seated in Fame Malad’s lounge, with a coffee and popcorn that
adds to the venue’s appeal, the elusive Parsi actor says that
she will be displaying more ..
Live on the Oldest Square in Paris
By Adrian Leeds for
Parler Paris(Adrian Leeds for Parler Paris)
The legal documentation took a little longer than expected to
finalize, as written by our attorneys of The International Law
Partnership, LLP, London and Andy Sirkin, here in Paris, but
we are now fully ready to take a firm reservation ...
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The very best of Boman
Rediff -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Boman's character is that of a nasty, obnoxious man who
clearly knows no scruples, and while the Parsi accent might
have come to him naturally, .
Book Review: Iran: Empire Of The Mind: From Cradle to Grave
istockAnalyst.com (press
release) - Salem,OR,USA
What we weren't told was that the Persian prophet Zoroaster
had introduced the idea of a monotheism linked to moral
rectitude to the world, or that Xerxes' ...
Images
down Memory lane
Business Standard -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
The Parsis were the first to profit with people such as S
Hormusjee and Shapoor N Bhedwar becoming much sought-after
even by middle-class Indians for family ...
Little Zizou nominated in four categories at Asian Film
Festival
Business of Cinema -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Now with her directorial debut she has chosen a subject that
is very close to her heart and explores the Parsi milieu.
Little Zizou, as the name suggests,
Exquisite Indian saris on display in Peshawar
The News International -
Karachi,Pakistan
A Parsi couple, Kersi Dubash and his wife, have brought for
sale Parsi Gara saris, suits, and rare jewellery from India to
introduce it to women in NWFP who ...
Book Review: Iran: Empire Of The Mind: From Cradle to Grave
istockAnalyst.com (press
release) - Salem,OR,USA
What we weren't told was that the Persian prophet Zoroaster
had introduced the idea of a monotheism linked to moral
rectitude to the world, or that Xerxes'
In
Iran, open arms, rich history await intrepid Westerners
USA Today - USA
And in Yazd, a stronghold of the country's pre-Islamic faith, Zoroastrianism, a
popular souvenir is a pendant depicting the ancient Zoroastrian symbol of a ...
Little Zizou bags 2 awards at Mahindra film festival
Business of Cinema -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Taraporevala's debut directorial feature is set amongst Mumbai's educated,
eccentric and miniscule Parsi community. The fast-paced and exuberant yet ...
Indian to command world's first double-decker aircraft
Times of India - India
Being a Parsi and considering that a Parsi (JRD Tata) brought aviation into
India, this achievement was of special significance to me,'' says Capt Cama, ...
God save Queen
Mumbai Newsline - Mumbai,India
Queen's biggest and most flamboyant USP, apro Parsi boy, Freddie Mercury is
legend. The tights-wearing singer was known not just for his on-stage theatrics,
...
Sooni Taraporevala makes her directorial debut
IBNLive.com - New Delhi,India
New York: Sooni Taraporevala is an internationally acclaimed screenwriter who is
now making her debut as a director with comedy about two Parsi families in ...
Man With Wings Found in Iran
Fars News Agency - Tehran,Iran
... was discovered at Rabat Tepe Mound, located in the town of Rabat Tepe in the
neighborhood of Sardasht, which is said to be the birthplace of Zoroaster. ...
Why I am Proud Being an Indian!
Media For Freedom - Nepal,Nepal,Nepal
Deprived of freedom in their own motherland of Iran, Zoroastrians [Parsis], the
followers of Spitama Zoroaster, who conveyed the great message of monotheism ...
Revelatory
aesthetics
Hindu - Chennai,India
的ndividuals such as Shapoor N. Bhedwar and S. Hormusjee were Parsee
photographers from Bombay, the former being one of the first Indian
practitioners to ...
Zoroastrianism has peace-loving pedigree
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
Despite having lived in India for 12 centuries, the Parsees, as they are known,
have kept their religious distinctiveness. ...
For some Parsis, the wait just got longer
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
Several Parsi families that were allotted flats by former trustees of the Bombay
Parsi Punchayet (BPP) this year have now been put on the waiting list again ...
International dance festival is growing by leaps and bounds
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
He is a Zoroastrian, a descendent of Persian refugees who fled their native
country for India in the seventh and eighth centuries to escape religious ...
Out
of this world
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
Most members of the Society are Parsis, which was not always the case earlier.
Gujaratis and Maharashtrians were active members till a few decades ago and ...
44 Parsis allotted houses at new board’s first meet
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
The newly-elected Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trust allotted houses to 44
Parsis at its first board meeting held on Tuesday. The new trustees were of the
...
Desi
films all set to rock New York
Rediff - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Centering on a young Parsi boy, the film tells a heartwarming story of growing
up with interesting life lessons. 'I believe local is global,' declares the ...
Congratulations Ltr # 7 To Parsi Irani Zarthoshtis for BPP elections
By Deen Parast(Deen Parast)
Khojeste Mistree (5292 votes) - WAPIZ. Yazdi Desai (5101 votes) - WAPIZ. Rustom
Tirandaz (4790 votes) - Independent. Noshir Dadrawala (4681 votes) - AFP. Thanks
to the collective good minds and wisdom of those who voted, the ...
Finding
Zoroastrianism in the Heart of the Iranian Desert
Payvand - Iran
Today I depart for the desert city of Yazd, the holiest city for Zoroastrians.
In the domestic airport, men and women are separated for security checks. ...
White lies
The Nation, Pakistan - Karachi,Pakistan
He further clarified that he retired from politics in 1993 and continues to be
Chairman of the Parsi community, a position to which he has been repeatedly ...
Contractor's long, strange trip to 'The Border'
Brantford Expositor - Canada
Contractor is Parsi -- Indian of Persian descent -- and a Zoroastrian. Yet, she
says, she grew up with Muslim friends and patterned Layla on them. ...
He willed for street kids, but sons came in way
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
Before his death in March 2007, Dr Shapoor Behram Badshah, a rich Parsi living
in Germany, wanted to do something for the welfare of Mumbai’s street .
The Sounds of Scripture
Chronogram - Kingston,NY,USA
The resulting 12 tracks are profound and piercing—the driving rhythms of the
heated “Ashem?(a Zoroastrian prayer), the religious experience of
“Charents I?...
Ancient
Blessings Near the Flat-Screen TV
New York Times - United States
Ms. Clubwala is an American-born Parsi. The word is a term for Indian
Zoroastrians descended from Persians who fled the Middle East a millennium ago.
...
Zoroastrian center proposed in Boyds
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA
Though the project, a Zoroastrian house of worship, is in its preliminary
stages, neighbors say they are wondering what effect a religious center will
have ...
Tales from Cusrow Baug
Indian Express - New Delhi,India
On Colaba Causeway, there is a place that intrigues the non-Parsis a lot. For
over six years, we’ve have gone up and down the Causeway a million times, ...
Golden
Parsi da rosa: the golden revolution?
FreshPlaza - Netherlands
This strain of Golden Clone B has been observed for some years, and represents
an improvement: regarding russeting it seems that Golden Parsi can absolutely
...
An 'Indian' foreigner in Nashik
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
... knowledge that Dan who had come to India during September will be here for a
year, is staying in Navsari and studying the Parsi religion and community. ...
Parsi Punchayet winners decide to kiss and make up
Times of India - India
MUMBAI: On Wednesday night, the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) acquired seven new
trustees: Arnavaz Jal Mistry, Dinshaw Mehta, Jimmy Mistry, Khojeste Mistree, ...
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BPP
Gets it’s ‘Super Seven?
By Shernaaz Engineer, Mumbai, India
Email:...(Shernaaz Engineer, Mumbai, India Email:...)
Dinshaw Mehta and the WAPIZ duo of Khojeste Mistree and Yazdi Desai are
confirmed religious conformists, as is Rustom Tirandaz, an old associate of
Mehta and a former BPP Trustee. Arnavaz Mistry is an acclaimed social worker,
...
Bombay Parsi Panchayat Election 2008 Results
By arzan sam wadia
From various sources, we have been informed that the election results are as
below. The 7 new trustees of the Bombay Parsi Panchayat are. Arnavaz Mistry.
Dinshaw Mehta. Jimmy Mistry. Khojeste Mistree. Yazdi Desai. Rustom Tirandaz ...
BPP Poll Counting
By Shernaaz Engineer, Mumbai, India
Email:...(Shernaaz Engineer, Mumbai, India Email:...)
Khojeste Mistree - 4622 votes 5. Yazdi Desai - 4460 votes 6. Noshir Dadrawalla -
4049 votes 7. Dr. Ketayun Dinshaw - 3912 votes The Dadar boxes have just been
opened. These are the last lot of boxes remaining, so results will finally ...
Modi dedicates flyover to Manekshaw
Times of India - India
Field Marshal Manekshaw, MC, was born to Parsi parents who settled in Punjab
after moving from Valsad. He died at the age of 94 in June this year. ...
Experts say Iraj Fortress was likely abandoned after construction
Tehran Times - Iran
Some experts believe that the fortress has been referred as Varna in the
Vendidad, the main source for Zoroastrian ritual and civil law. ...
She
explores inner workings of bias
Boston Globe - United States
She grew up a Zoroastrian - a small religion and philosophy with only about
100000 followers left in the world - in Hyderabad, India. ...
I AM: Cyrus Sahukar
Times of India - India
I’m half Punjabi and half Parsi and my mother was Buddhist for fifteen years.
I’ve therefore been lucky to experience these diverse belief systems. ...
Early to rise, early to vote
Daily News &
Analysis - Mumbai,India
He was there, before anyone else, at the booth during the
recent Parsi Panchayet polls too An active amateur sailor,
75-year-old Jamshed Adrianvala loves ...
Personal
score
The Week -
Kochi,India
He could lapse into Gujarati, which he did every now and
then, much to the appreciation of the largely Parsi
gathering, beaming at their "aapro Zubin". ...
Big
fight, small community
IBNLive.com - New
Delhi,India
Over the past two weeks, Parsis have been coming out to
vote for whom they'd like to see in control of their
richest body, the Bombay Parsi Punchayet. ...
Mister Behram and Other Plays puts the spotlight on Gieve
Patel ...
Indian Express - New
Delhi,India
And the Parsi community remained his constant inspiration.
的f we takes a close look at a small group and write
intimately about it, the writing acquires a ...
MITHRAS
EQUALS CHRISTIANITY?
Persian Journal -
Iran
In the Zoroastrian religion of ancient Persia Mithras was
called "the Heavenly Light." This belief carried to
Assyria and Asia Minor where many people ...
Lectures on Zoroastrianism delivered by Khojeste Mistree
in Sydney ...
Available in the National Library of
Australia collection. Format: Book; 172 p. in various
pagings ; 30 cm.
Man
with wings found in Iran
PRESS TV -
Tehran,Iran
The ancient relic was discovered at Rabt Mound, located in
the town of Rabt in the neighborhood of Sardasht, which is
said to be the birthplace of Zoroaster ...
I didnt pull girl off chair: Jehangirji
Times of India - India
The daughter of Khojeste Mistree, who is one of the
candidates, was attempting to film a fight that had broken
out between two rival groups when she was ...
Parsi Panchayat's tryst with democracy
Times of India - India
A new chapter has opened in the 300-year-old history of the
Bombay Parsi Panchayet (BPP) with the first round of
elections having started last Saturday. ...
The revival of the Hawraman area
Kurdish Globe -
Erbil,Kurdistan,Iraq
Some scholars believe that the name Hawraman has strong
connections to the ancient Zoroastrian faith and claim that
the name may have originated from ...
The root of Christianity
AllHipHop - USA
Many aspects of the Arabic philosophical contributions
throughout history are also rejected by the Christians, but
curiously, we see here in the Zoroastrian ...
'Let first Nano drive out of Navsari'
Times of India - India
Navsari and Tata connection is even more special as their
original house still exists there, preserved by Parsi
community. The town is even home to Bai ...
We belong to Gujarat and are here:Ratan Tata
DeshGujarat -
Ahmedabad,Gujarat,India
Ratan Tata is Parsi. Parsis landed at south Gujarat’s Sanjan
from Iran centuries back as refugees. Gujarat welcomed them,
allowed them to follow their ...
Scuffle and charges of rigging mar Parsi elections
Times of India - India
MUMBAI: The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) elections got off
to a tumultuous start on Saturday with scuffles and
allegations of electoral malpractice. ...
Temple truths
Calcutta Telegraph -
Calcutta,India
The peaceful Parsis have been uncharacteristically charged
over the campaign to elect trustees to the Bombay Parsi
Panchayat. ...
The Parsis of South Bombay
The News International
- Karachi,Pakistan
No Indian community internalised the civilising mission of
the British as did the Parsis. Only 50000 remain, mainly in
South Bombay, the most disciplined ...
Parsi elections begin today
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
For the first time in the history of the Parsi Panchayat,
every member of the community, who is above the age of 18,
will be able to elect seven trustees of ...
Never too old to rock!
Deccan Herald -
Bangalore,India
He retired from HSBC in 1989 and after an active stint as a
concurrent auditor in the Middle East is now a trustee of
the Bangalore Parsee Zoroastrian ...
Mumbai,
the drama city
MSN India -
Bangalore,Karnataka,India
The play is located in an ailing decrepit house which is
used to look hard at the Parsi community in a cosmopolitan
city. The play staged by the late Toni ...
Khojeste Mistree: Keeping the Faith
By Shernaaz Engineer,
Mumbai, India(Shernaaz Engineer, Mumbai, India)
It must take some courage to be Khojeste Mistree! For years
he has been relentlessly reviled and rebuked ?yet has stood
steadfast to the principles of the faith, without fear or
favour. His scholarship is astounding, his erudition ...
Parsis too seek reservation in govt jobs
By arzan sam wadia
According to Khojeste Mistree (58) of World Alliance of
Parsi Irani Zarthoshtis (Wapiz), Parsi philanthropists used
to donate a huge amount to educational institutions and
accordingly, certain number of seats would be reserved for
...
NDTV
speaks to Zubin Mehta
NDTV.com - New
Delhi,India
NDTV: Your biography also says "When I am in India I am a
Parsi first and then an Indian. It is the exactly the
opposite abroad. ...
Father
God or Mother Goddess! Which one?
Merinews - New
Delhi,India
Zoroaster was the founder of Persian religion. According to
Zoroastrianism the world is a combination of both good and
evil. It was a working hypothesis ...
The Parsi community may not be the biggest in terms of
numbers ...
Indian Express - New
Delhi,India
It is to address this concern that a prominent Parsi named
Bhikaji, who had come from Bharuch, dug this fresh water
well. Situated at the southern end of ...
Parsis too seek reservation in govt jobs
Times of India - India
According to Khojeste Mistree (58) of World Alliance of
Parsi Irani Zarthoshtis (Wapiz), Parsi philanthropists used
to donate a huge amount to educational ...
Ahmadinejad speaks with church groups in New York
Economic Times -
Gurgaon,Haryana,India
Rohinton Dadina, a Zoroastrian priest who said a prayer at
the dinner, said if Ahmadinejad's views were changed even
one percent by what he heard, ...
Hundreds
Protest a Dinner with Ahmadinejad
New York Sun - United
States
A Zoroastrian priest who attended the dinner, Rohinton
Dadima, said beforehand that he planned to reach out to Mr.
Ahmadinejad by reading from a religious ...
Complete list of Candidates for BPP Elections 2008
By arzan sam wadia
Syrus Irani; Byram Jeejeebhoy; Darayus Kabraji; Viraf
Kapadia; Bomi Kavina; Yazdi Madon; Dinshaw Mehta; Framroze
Mirza; Khojeste Mistree; Arnavaz Mistry; Jimmy Mistry; Keki
Mistry; Nadir Modi; Tehmasp Mogul; Farrokh Munsiff ...
The journey of the holy fire
Hindustan Times -
India
Nearby is a Parsi sanatorium that serves excellent dhansak.
Technically, it is only open for Parsis. But you can request
the caretaker to let you sample the ...
Priya
Dutt Presents prestigious IDF Awards
Mangalorean.com -
Mangalore,India
Dr. Meher Master Moos, President, Zoroastrian College -
Dr.Dinesh Jain, Regional Co-ordinator, German Leprosy & TB
Relief Association - Mr. NC Lunayach, ...
New
arrivals
Hindu - Chennai,India
Sugar in Milk ?Lives in Eminent Parsis: Bakhtiar K.
Dadabhoy; Rupa & Co., 7/16, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New
Delhi-110002. Lived Heritage, Shared Space ...
Perizaad
Zorabian searching for 'meaty' roles
Sify - Chennai,Tamil
Nadu,India
"I didn't want a Parsi name for her, so we chose this
Persian name that means splendour and joy. She has brought
joy to our lives," the actress explained. ...
Exploring
new areas
Hindu - Chennai,India
her choreography on the Parsis. “They have never threatened
anybody and they have never felt threatened. I’m trying to
understand how it is that they have ...
Life, as Mehr Jesia knows it
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
But India’s first supermodel turned it down because she was
missing her home in Dadar Parsi Colony. You listen
disbelievingly as she tells you she has no ...
Wedding
trousseau, the Parsi styleCalcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
19: After wearing saris of Bengal, Orissa, Maharashtra and south India to your relatives?weddings, if you want something unique then head for the Parsi ...
Minority rights? No thanks!
guardian.co.uk - UK
... and attended by a fascinating collection of
representatives from the region's forgotten minorities, even a
Zoroastrian lady - one of the few remaining The
comments and discussion section on Zoroastrains is very
interesting to read.
Genomic Medicine towards affordable health care for all: a
case ...
Press Information Bureau
(press release) - New Delhi,India
An Indian life-sciences company, Avesthagen Ltd, has announced
a five-year, $32 million Avesthagenome project to genotype the
country’s entire Parsi ...
India leads the way for personalising medicine in developing
countries
Thaindian.com -
Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
The Parsis, thought to be genetically homogenous, are feared
to be at risk owing to their religious prohibition of marriage
outside of the community. ...
Iran
to restore Bam's Qeisarieh
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
The Zoroastrian Qeisarieh, which includes three bazaars, a
caravanserai, a public bath, a water reservoir and a mosque,
was built about 140 years ago. ...
Painting in sound
Daily News & Analysis -
Mumbai,India
But for this London-born Parsi, the journey to the Jamshed
Bhabha Theatre has been replete with the grandeur of music
Clad in a black kurta and jeans, ...
Professor
to discuss poet priest
Deseret News - Salt Lake
City,UT,USA
Zarathushtra (known in Greek as Zoroaster) preached in verse,
and it is his poetry ?but not much else about the poet priest
himself ?that has survived. ...
Colour
and culture
Straits Times -
Singapore
Fourteen women from the Parsi Zoroastrian Association will
present a fashion show this weekend at the Colourful Heritage
event at Fort Canning Park. ...
BPP elections: Charges fly thick and fast
Times of India - India
MUMBAI: The tension underlining the Bombay Parsi Punchayat
elections finally blew up on Tuesday when a meeting called by
the BPP dissolved into ...
Iranian Wedding Traditions
Corsavoo.com -
Bastia,Corse,France
In Zoroastrian culture the right side designates a place of
respect. Persian Wedding Spread - Persian Wedding Sofreh Aghd
The spread that is used on the ...
Awash in emotion
The National - Abu
Dhabi,United Arab Emirates
Through intricate impressionist brushstrokes that arrange
motifs into complex layers, she presents the atmosphere of her
childhood in a strict, Zoroastrian .
Know Your Candidates
By Shernaaz Engineer,
Mumbai, India(Shernaaz Engineer, Mumbai, India)
Khojeste Mistree INDEPENDENTS Phiroze Amroliwalla Tehmtan
Dumasia Urvax Dhanda Darayus Kabraji Viraf Kapadia Dinshaw
Mehta Framroze Mirza Arnavaz Mistry Jimmy Mistry Tehmasp Mogul
Farrokh Munsiff Danesh Nejadkay Yezdi Panthaky ...
Narratives of Memory
Kolkata Newsline - New
Delhi,India
There is very little that the Parsis have, in dance forms so
to speak, so the danseuse incorporated Middle Eastern
influences in her work. ...
Recreation
of Islamic Edifices at Pasargadae a New Move for ...
The Circle of Ancient
Iranian Studies - London,England,UK
Alireza, another visitor said: “if we look at our history
almost half of it was ruled and governed by our Zoroastrian
forefathers and the other half by ...
Modi welcomes Nano in Gujarat
Business Standard -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Hailing historical linkages between the Tata’s and their
Parsi heritage and the state of Gujarat, state chief
minister Narendra Modi indicated that the ...
Nano project welcome in Gujarat: Modi
Hindustan Times -
India
"Centuries back, when the first Parsis arrived on the
Gujarat coast, the then ruler sent them a glassful of milk
indicating there was no space. ...
Digging deep
Deccan Herald -
Bangalore,India
About 2500 blood samples have been collected from Parsis
across the country. Being a relatively genetically
homogeneous population, the Parsis were ideal ...
Digging deep
Deccan Herald -
Bangalore,India
An ambitious project launched last year is the AVESTAGENOME
Project (TM), a comprehensive genetic study of more than
60000 Parsi individuals. ...
Dr. Villoo Morawala-Patell Receives the Prestigious 'Astitva
Award ...
India PRwire (press
release) - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
Dr Patell has received the Officer of the National Order of
Merit Award from the French President and the Parsi
Entrepreneur Par Excellence Award from the ...
Catholics invite Nevada-based Hindu leader for a dialogue
Fresh News -
Delhi,Delhi,India
The Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America
invited him for Unity Walk in Washington DC. The Church of
Scientology International has ...
Govt taking steps for betterment of minorities: Shahnaz
Associated Press of
Pakistan - Pakistan
Shahnaz said that the Parsi community has contributed
towards the development of Karachi and played a significant
role in this regard. ...
Grand gesture in the name of the father
The Statesman -
Kolkata,India
Mr Brij Lal belongs to the fourth generation of caretakers
of the old Parsi graveyard. “Rahul baba came here at around
2 pm and stayed beside the grave for ...
Parsis in Ajmer welcome New Year
Times of India - India
"The Parsis came to India in 1372 from Iran after the
invasion of Arabs on August 19 and this is the new year for
the community," said Marfatia. ...
Last-minute drug ban could save India's almost-extinct
vultures
Plenty Magazine - New
York,NY,USA
Meanwhile, the Parsis sect has lost the vultures which once
transformed their dead back into nature. The Parsees believe
that the human body is sacred, ...
Rahul Gandhi visits grave of grandfather
Thaindian.com -
Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
Gandhi’s visit to the only Parsi graveyard in the city was
described as a personal programme and not disclosed to the
media and other Congress partymen. ...
Fire temples burn bright
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
47 Parsi fire temples have finally made it to the heritage
list. Labonita Ghosh looks at the struggle that led to this
and some of the more unique agiaries ...
Every day is special - 24.08.2008
Today's Zaman -
Istanbul,Turkey
Khordad Sal is the birthday of the Zoroastrian prophet
Spitama Zarathustra (Zoroaster), who founded Zoroastrianism.
The feast is celebrated on March 26 ...
Satara Agiary: The tale of a fire temple and two families http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1184271
Housing in Ahmedabad: Many non-Hindus find doors closed
Economic Times -
Gurgaon,Haryana,India
Parsis - another peace-loving minority community, have also
found themselves at the receiving end in Ahmedabad. "Though
we have not been denied homes in any ...
Bye bye to the baklava
Daily News & Analysis
- Mumbai,India
But the authentic Parsi flavour, and ‘no-nonsense?Parsi
ladies have gone missing from the Ratan Tata Institute,
finds Derineh Cooper Join the queue winding ...
Iran
Mullahs' Blame Game
Persian Journal - Iran
For centuries, the Zoroastrians paid heavily in all manners of
ways under the rule of the converted Muslims; many were forced
to leave for other lands such ...
Strong is who strong does!
The News - International
- Pakistan
You were telling me the other day about some of your Parsee
friends. Fr & Sq: Yes, they are very noble people. Fr & Sq:
Very kind-hearted, humble and always ...
Freed giant emerges from chaos
The National - Abu
Dhabi,United Arab Emirates
The 71-year old Parsee, who had earlier bought Tetley’s, a top
English tea brand, and Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steelmaker, now
owns a car brand that has been ...
Avesthagen begins work on new R
Business Standard -
Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Referring to the Avestagenome project which enables the
archiving of the genome of 69000 members of the Parsi
community and determining the genetic basis of ...
Bibliography Page 24
Protecting the Physical World / Fireze M.
Kotwal, Khojeste Mistree 336 The Court of the Lord of Rituals
/ Firoze M. Kotwal, Khojeste Mistree 366 ...
Parsee
New Year day and launch of a new face
GlamSham - Mumbai,India
When the Parsees are celebrating their New Year Today, there
must be a sense of satisfaction that around the same time
another new star from the fraternity ...
Bawas of the world unite
Daily News & Analysis -
Mumbai,India
Several years ago, the couple attended a conference conducted
by religious speaker Khojeste Mistree, in which, he spoke of
the meaning of the word Ushta in ...
'I'm
very proud to be a Parsi'
Times of India - India
About the community, I am very proud to be a Zoroastrian. I do
not know anyone who does not have a Parsi family friend. They
are difficult but at the same ...
Caption
Only
StarPhoenix -
Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
HAPPY NEW YEAR: An Indian Zoroastrian woman prepares a
traditional door decoration known as a Toran on the eve of
Navroze, the Zoroastrian New Year. ...
Day
in pictures
BBC News - UK
An Indian Zoroastrian or Parsi girl kisses her brother as they
stand in front of figures of "knights" or guardians of a fire
temple on the occasion of ...
Navroze Mubarak! Time for hugs and cheers
Daily News & Analysis -
Mumbai,India
The mummified village of Udwada is located on the Gujarat
coast and is preserved by all its old Zoroastrian residents.
The entrances to every home here have ...
Vice President greets People on Navroj
Press Information Bureau
(press release) - New Delhi,India
“I greet the people of our country on the auspicious occasion
of ‘Navroj? which marks the beginning of the Parsi New Year.
Navroj is celebrated with ...
The Iran Letters ?Part III: A Survey of 'Iran Profound' Barin
...
Journal of Turkish
Weekly - Ankara,Turkey
A product of millennia, “Iran Profound”[1] houses magnificent
Zoroastrian fire temples and towers of silence; brilliant
badgirs and qanats (wind towers and ...
Are
Parsis on a path to self-destruction?
One such optimist is Khojeste Mistree, who
runs the Centre for Zoroastrian Studies in Mumbai. "We must
remember the Parsis were always a small community ...
The
Truth Behind Spiegel's Article
Payvand - Iran
Whether such tolerance was intended to prevent revolts or
whether it was part of their Zoroastrian culture is a matter
of debate. ...
Mumbai
Parsi Panchayat election heats up
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080060846
Couple hopes to find son lost during ?2 riots
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
The trauma faced by this middle class Parsi family,
years after the carnage, inspired filmmaker Rahul Dholakia to
make the much-acclaimed film Parzania. ...