SIR JAMSETJEE JEJEEBHOY PARSEE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION DINOO VATCHA SCHOLARSHIPS Applications are invited from Parsee / Iranian Zoroastrians for Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Parsee Benevolent Institution – Dinoo Vatcha Loan Scholarships for higher studies abroad for the Academic Year 2013-2014. Applicants should be graduates of a recognized Indian University, with a minimum result of 60%. Candidates studying in the Final Year of
Read moreThe Cyrus Cylinder has left its British Museum repository for its first U.S. tour, beginning at the Smithsonian Institution’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington. “The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia” showcases this 2,600-year-old archeological treasure amid other artifacts from the Achaemenid Empire (550–331 B.C.) founded by the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great. Among the most important objects in world
Read more“Author William Culican remarks that the “Laws of the Medes and Persians” became a by-word of judicial incorruptibility and harshness, throughout the subject lands. Execution by crucifixion is a Persian invention. It was theZoroastrians who gave the world legal principles enshrined in the law of evidence and procedure. Legal concepts like arbitration, release on bail, representation by a lawyer, power of attorney and execution
Read moreSince the Cyrus cylinder is presently touring USA, I am delighted to be able to forward some great reading on the subject per the kind courtesy of Mr K E Eduljee and Zoroastrian Heritage. I found it all fascinating and well researched and I am sure most of you avid Zoroastrians will find great pleasure in reading all about one of
Read moreThe Parsi Zoroastrian Anjuman of Secunderabad and Hyderabad (PZASH) is a Religious Trust which was originally operating under a Trust Deed dated 14th January 1887. This Trust Deed was found to be inadequate for the conditions and requirements prevailing at that point in time. Therefore a new Declaration of Trust Deed was prepared on 15th December 1941 which is a
Read moreHappy Navroz to you and your family! I am happy to tell you that my book project is complete and now available online at www.insearchofmygod.com Please try out the links in the table of contents and the audio in the prayers section. Would appreciate it if you could post it on your page also on facebook if you have a page and
Read moreNavroze Mubarak from the FEZANA family to you and your family! May the New Year bring good luck, good health, happiness, success, peace and harmony! For complete Navroze/Nourouz message please refer the link to our Bulletin. Link: http://www.fezana.org/node/303 Please share it with your association members, family and friends. All the FEZANA Bulletins are available on-line at Bulletin Archives – http://fezana.org/files/drupalfiles/FEZANA_Bulletin_2013_03.pdf You
Read moreConservation and the Community Jamshid Adi Bhiwandiwalla Learning about cases of adaptive reuse for retaining the design integrity and retrofitting a new experience within the built heritage. Udvada Conservation Courtesy : Minni Gagrat
Read moreDear humdins, the Sun enters the first degree of Aries (Mesh Rashi) today, 20th March 2013 at 4.33 pm, IST. This indicates that the forces of Duality – good and evil which is a continous ongoing battle come to a truce on this day only and the negative destructive malevolent forces of Asere Tariki become totally absent. The good beneficial
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