Interesting News
Intermarriage Row Must Be Resolved Soon
by Joeanna Rebello Fernandes via Times of India, 8th May 2011 “It’s not so much the elephant in the room, no one wants to acknowledge, but rather the unicorn they all imagine-that the global Parsi population isn’t so desperately in decline, but that it has somehow miraculously ballooned to four million. Rubbish, was the emphatic [...]
Parsi Food Festival at Radisson MBD Noida: Chef Kaizad Patel serves up the goodies!
Parsi food lovers in the NCR have reason to rejoice, and take their taste buds on an exciting journey this weekend up to the 19th of September 2010. “Third generation Parsi chef Kaizad Patel is in town to help Delhiites nurture a taste for Parsi food” “You’d expect a Le Cordon Bleu- trained chef who [...]
Mumbai Parsis celebrate Janmashtami
“The dahi handi celebrations in Mumbai are, undoubtedly, huge. It is common to see people of different faiths intermingle during the exercise where human pyramids stretch as high as nine levels to break the coveted pot. But it was quite unusual to see Parsis (Zoroastrians) celebrating the festival in Mahim, a Mumbai suburb. It was [...]
Back with a bang! Wah Taj!
It is an idea, dreamt up by Jamsetji Tata, of an Indian hotel that took on the world’s best hotels (and also, the whites-only clubs and hotels of the Raj) and proved that when Indians were given a chance, they could beat the best in the world. It is fitting that the majority of the [...]
ZAGNY WZO FEZANA Gatha Colloquium
The ZAGNY WZO FEZANA Gatha Colloquium was held on the 27th and 28th of June 2009, in Doubletree Hotel in New York. A report by Cyrus Dastur. “What a wonderful experience to attend this colloquim! I was overwhelmed by the impressive line up of 12 distinguished speakers on various aspects of Gathas. I have to [...]
Religion for Conservation
A Report by a Member and Trustee of the Delhi Parsi Anjuman – Professor Kavas Kapadia The Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) in collaboration with the Ecological Management Foundation( EMF) and International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) had organized a three day workshop on “Faith, water ,sanitation and hygiene” from 5-7th July 2009 in the [...]
