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 ...
 

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.

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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, ...

IU anthropologist's project looks to expose, protect riches of ...
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 ...

 

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 ..

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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,” ...