Always standing tall – Sam Manekshaw

Express News Service Posted: Oct 28, 2009 at 0337 hrs  Pune On Infantry Day on Tuesday Pune got a monument in honour of Field Marshal SHFJ Manekshaw, near the Southern Command headquarters, which was inaugurated in the morning by Lt Gen Pradeep Khanna, Army Commander and General-Officer-Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command. More …Always standing tall_Sam Manekshaw  Courtesy [...]

MEJMT_Free Eye Check-up Camp

Mancherji Edalji Joshi Memorial Trust is conducting a Free Eye Check-up Camp on Sunday 8th. November 2009 from 10:30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m at J.B.Vachha High School for Parsi Girls, Dadar, Mumbai For further details click here … MEJMT_Free Eye Check-up Camp

Parsi Theatre

THEATRE MUSIC IN INDIA HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: Theatre tradition in Sanskrit was very rich & highly developed in ancient India. One more theatre tradition was there which was folk theatre tradition. Sanskrit Theatre tradition which was originated before Kalidas, developed rapidly up to 8th century. Thereafter emergence of outside forces restricted its growth up to beginning [...]

Cawas Jehangirji Bardoliwalla

My father was born in Bombay and attended The Sir J.J.P.B Institution and was to be the highest amongst those who passed The S.S.C.Examination in 1953. He subsequently went on to achieve a 1st Class Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Bombays Technical Instute for Science and Technology. He was awarded a full honorary Scholarship from The [...]

Parsi Calendar – 21 March ?

The ‘Calendar Controversy’ is very old in the Zoroastrian religion. Up until 1129 CE, Zoroastrians in India intercalated an extra 30-day month to their 365-day calendar after every 120 years, thereby restoring parity with the Georgian calendar. This meant that, the Zoroastrian New Year began on 21st March after every 120 years. However, after 1129 [...]

Zoroastrian purity: Finer than a hair

By : Ervad Marzban J. Hathiram Our religion lays great stress not only on ritual purity but also on physical purity in daily life. There is a proverb amongst Parsis: ‘Bawa, aapro Dharam to baal kartaa baarik!’, i.e. ‘Our religion is finer than a hair’. Click to read complete article.  

Just For Today!

  JUST FOR TODAY – FOR A PARSI              Just for today, I will do a Kushti in each Gah, (except perhaps the Ushahen Gah), because I know that Sudreh Kushti draws a protective ring around me.             Just for to-day, I will chant the prayers: Kushti, Sarosh Baj, Gah (Haavan, Rapithwan or Ujiran), [...]

Zoroastrianism and the Doctrine of Re-incarnation

A very interesting point of view by – P N Tavaria Click Here to read

Iranian Zarathushti describes how Parsis Saved them From Extinction in Iran

Friends,              Most middle-aged and younger Iranian Zarathushtis do not know in their history about how Parsis of India saved their ancestors from extinction in Iran, so it is gratifying to see that an article written by an Iranian-American, Dr. Daryoush Jahanian, MD, has been included in the Summer 2009 issue No. 151 of the magazine CHEHREHNAMA, which is published [...]

Afarganyu from Holy Names

Ahura Mazda Sant Dasturji Jamshedji Sorabji Kukadaru Saheb Dastur Azar Kaiwan Bin Azar Gushasp Saheb Tehemurasp Div Band Padshah Saheb Spitaman Asho Zarathustra Saheb Shah Kay Lohrasp Padshah Saheb Shah Kaikhashroo Padshah Saheb Shah Jamsheed Padshah Saheb Mushkil Aasan Behram Yazad Asho Farohar Saheb Sraoshavarej Saheb Ervad Nadarshah Navroji Aibara Saheb Shah Afshune Shahe Faridoon [...]

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