Mazra Kalantar (Yazd,Iran)

This site is opened with the intention of helping to bring closer together Zoroastrians, particularly those of Mazra-e Kalantar origin.  Our history has been full of hardships and storms and through these hardships we have learned to keep united.  The inhabitants of Mazra-e Kalantar have gradually scattered and settled in different parts of the world, [...]

Ashem Vohu in Sogdian Manuscript

This ninth- or 10th-century Sogdian manuscript from Dunhuang, China,  contains a version of one of the holiest Zoroastrian prayers: the Ashem Vohu, composed originally in the Avestan (old Iranian) language. Click here to read the article from the British Library’s  ”Sacred Text” Courtesy : Minocheher Damania  

Nari Contractor

The man who laughed at his own misfortune Mumbai has many beloved sons. Some were born here; some just lived here. Millions come here to change their lives. No one can say who will make it and who won’t. ‘Mumbai is all about fate’, they say. But there have been people who changed the fate [...]

Zoroastrianism in Persia before Islam in Iran

Zoroastrianism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of the persian prophet Zoroaster founded in the early part of the 5th century BCE. In some form, it served as the national- or state religion of a significant portion of the persian people for many centuries before it was gradually marginalized by Islam from [...]

Oil Tanker – Zoroaster

Dear all, The following was given to me to read as it would be of great interest to me – and since I think it should be of some interest to all Zoroastrians, I send it to you with many thanks to the author for having taken the trouble to first study and then transcribe [...]

Parsi cricketers led the way for us!

The first two teams from India, therefore, to leave the shores in 1886 and in 1888 to tour England consisted of only Parsi players. The one in 1886 was led by one Dhanjishaw H. Patel, an underhand bowler, and also in the team were three Parsis — Pestonji Dinshaw Dastur, Dinshaw D. Khambatta and Burorji [...]

Parsi Cyclists played to enjoy

Each person in this team was a specimen. Nowhere will one find such colourful people together at once. Polly Umrigar, Nari Contractor, Behram Irani, Farokh Engineer, Rusi Surti, Mehli Irani, Hoshi Amroliwala, Behram Gowadia, Salim Durrani, Abbas Ali Baig, Noshir Tantra, Homi Mehta, Karsan Ghavri and many others. Wicket keeper batsman Mehli Irani, who is [...]

Of vision and hard work

Amongst the communities whose study has suffered an eclipse are the Parsis. The reason lies in the decline of business studies, but also in the decline of Parsis as a business community. Parsi enterprise played a significant part in the rise of modern Indian industry and services. Parsis were members of the Indian trading community [...]

Zoroastrian Cosmogenesis

Terms used in Buddhist, Jewish and other religions can be found in the Zoroaster religion, which is millions of years old. Zoroaster is the name title of the teacher. Documents on the fundamentals of this old Persian religion have been long destroyed. H.P. Blavatsky provided a glimpse of these fundamentals in the Secret Doctrine and [...]

Cyrus Cylinder – Video presentation

Video presentation on Cyrus Cylinder by British Museum director Neil McGregor : Courtesy : Maneck Bhujwala Friends, My daughter pointed to me the following website  where there is a youtube lecture on Cyrus Cylinder presented by a British Museum  director, so I heard his lecture and put in my comment that although the lecture  was [...]

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