A bold new initiative to safeguard the community’s 150 or so fire temples all overIndia has been launched by a group of traditionalists, old and new. Called rather unimaginatively the Parsi Zoroastrian Guards of the Holy Fire (PZGHF), the trust lists five objectives including collecting data on all the fire temples, looking to their welfare, ensuring a regular supply of
Read moreLadies and Gentlemen, This boy is a Young Practicing Ervad at our Bandra Agiary. He is currently in ICU at Bhatia hospital. The below message is an appeal from his parents. Any help for the young Ervad is welcome. Our son Malcolm, aged 20, is in a very critical stage on ventilator at Bhatia Hospital, in an isolated ICU unit.
Read moreThe Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday decided to continue of pre-matric, post-matric and merit-cum-means based scholarship schemes for the students belonging to the six notified minority communities, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain and Parsi, who are from the economically weaker sections of the society. Under this scheme around 70 lakh fresh scholarships at a
Read moreDetermined expert on Zoroastrianism who founded degree courses on world religion and zipped across the world on crutches As a child sick with tuberculosis of the bone, John Hinnells spent the best part of seven years isolated in hospital. When he was as young as six years old he was placed on wards full of adults. Only on Saturdays could
Read moreOnce upon a time We lived in the Land of the Free Where we did Have the freedom to Live a life without scrutiny Without racism Discrimination Segregation and Bigotry No one was inferior or Superior but equal On the same playing field The Peacock did strut Their beautiful feathers Whilst beautiful birds Of hue would sing In full
Read moreThe Women Graduates Union in Mumbai is a part of the International Federation of Graduate Women. We have the Mumbai Chapter here in Mumbai, of which I am the Vice President. One of our Projects is to encourage women to educate themselves and thus, empower them. To this end, we have been awarding scholarships every year, to women studying in
Read moreThe Fali Chothia Charitable Trust is now accepting applications for its 28th annual scholarship awards. Scholarships are open to Zoroastrian students in North America enrolled in four-year or graduate-level programs. Awards are based on financial need, academic achievement, extracurricular activity and community service. They are given as outright gifts or no- and low-interest loans. The Fali Chothia Charitable Trust was established in 1988 under the
Read morePeople throughout history have taken pride in their ancestral roots, but new studies of migrations of people into Europe and elsewhere are showing that no one’s heritage is “pure” One example of the racial purity concept is that of people so famous for touting their “racial purity” and being the “master race”— Ancient Origins If one believes that one
Read moreThis manuscript comes not from India or Iran, the lands associated today with the Zoroastrian religion, but from Dunhuang in Central China, and is written in Sogdian, a medieval Iranian language. It contains a short text concerning the prophet Zarathushtra (Zoroaster in Greek sources) and a phonetic transcription into the Sogdian script of the holy ‘Ashem Vohu’ prayer, composed originally
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