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Boman Irani as brand ambassador for Parsis
Celebrity endorsements are always bound to get the desired attention of the brand they’re promoting. Cashing in on that, the Ministry of Minority Affairs plans to rope in celebs from the sports and...
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Modern classics: MAZDA Designs
Everything in the world is designed. Some consciously, but much of it unconsciously. If design helps and enhances the use and purpose of the object or being, therein lies its success. In day-to-day...
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Can India save its Parsi community with assisted reproduction?
The size of the Zoroastrian population is in sharp decline, reports Jeetha D’Silva, so the federal government has decided to fund advocacy and in vitro fertilisation in the hope of bucking the trend By...
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Parsis confront threat to existence at Mumbai gathering
The world’s tiny but hugely successful Zoroastrian community will confront a demographic crisis which threatens its very existence when it gathers en masse in its spiritual home of Mumbai this week....
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Day 01 at the 10th World Zoroastrian Congress 2013
Finally after weeks of yes and no, the 10th World Congress took off today, 27th December 2013 at the NSCI Complex in Worli, Mumbai India. Over 1200 (not official) delegates gathered from 8:00 AM...
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Day 02 at the 10th World Zoroastrian Congress 2013
Day 02 of the 10th World Zoroastrian Congress started bright and early at the NSCI complex in Worli, Mumbai. About half of the 1250 delegates were at their seats when the first panel sat down to listen...
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Day 03 at the 10th World Zorostrian Congress 2013
Day 03 of the 10th World Zoroastrian started bright and early at the NSCI Complex in Worli, Mumbai. The attendance at the first session at 9:30 AM was about 30% when the session started but had grown...
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Day 04 at the 10th World Zoroastrian Congress 2013
The last day of the Congress started bright and early at the NSCI Complex in Worli, Mumbai. Entering the arena I did feel a tinge of sadness that it was indeed the very last day of the event. This was...
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Sam Bulsara: Retrospective on 10th World Zoroastrian Congress 2013
10th World Zoroastrian Congress, Mumbai, December, 2013 WRAPPING UP 38 hours of speeches and discussions, 45 sessions, 121 speakers, and I have just 20 minutes to wrap-it-up. So, at best what I can...
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Zoroastrianism: The Way Forward by Darius J. Khambata
ZOROASTRIANISM : THE WAY FORWARD 10TH WORLD ZOROASTRIAN CONGRESS – KEYNOTE ADDRESS 28TH DECEMBER 2013 Darius J.Khambata Senior Advocate, LLM (Harvard) [NOTE : This is the written version of the...
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B. Merwan and the Irani Cafe: A Fading Icon
Recently the news about B. Merwan the iconic Irani cafe with the best Mava cakes in the world, shutting down; has brought a sense of gloom over all those who love the restaurant and in fact the entire...
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How the Bombay cupcake survived
As yet another Irani café announces its closure, we revisit the history of the Irani’s popular staple, the humble ‘mawa’ cake By Pooja Vir | Livemint The year 1981 saw the release of Manmohan Desai’s...
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How Bombay’s Parsis cracked the opium trade
In the opening chapter of Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke, Bahram Modi of Navsari, recently married into the Mistrie family of Bombay, is trying to persuade his wealthy fatherin-law to let him get into...
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Parsis walk from outside to take my story forward: Cyrus Mistry
Reclusive writer Cyrus Mistry, whose book Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer has been nominated for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, prefers the classics to the contemporary — books as well as...
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Mehr Fardoonji: A greenie with gusto
Die-hard nature lover and ecologist Mehr Fardoonji talks to P. Sujatha Varma about reversing the bio-diversity crisis We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever; the goal is to create something that...
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Death and bawdiness from the Parsi tongue
Parsis don’t have the reverence for the dead that other Indians do and their irreverence is extreme, as shown by numerous Parsi sayings By Aakar Patel | Livemint The Parsis are my favourite Indian...
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Cyrus Mistry wins DSC Prize for 2014
Reticent author Cyrus Mistry on Saturday beat off stiff competition from five other writers to become the fourth winner of the $50,000 DSC prize for South Asian literature on Saturday for his book...
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Sooni Taraporevala and Keki Daruwalla Bestowed Padma Shri in 2014
Good friend of Parsi Khabar, and amazing script writer, film maker and photographer Sooni Taraporevala was one of the two Parsis bestowed with the Padma Shri on the occassion of the 65th Republic Day...
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A comedy of errors finds favour with audience: Dinyar Tirandaz
When Parsi actors get together to stage a comedy, you can be sure of a laugh riot. Harish Chandra Bijo, staged at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival on day one on Saturday, sent audiences back home with...
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The Dreamers: Gallery Chemould Celebrates 50 Years on the Art Scene
UNTIL THE 1940S, art in Bombay was an occasional pleasure for the city’s European and Indian elite, displayed most prominently at an annual exhibition sponsored by the Bombay Arts Society that was more...
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