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Inauguration: Arbab Rustam Guiv Dar-E-Mehr New York

The Arbab Rustam Guiv Dar-E-Mehr in New York is inaugurated. The Inauguration Ceremony shall be telecast live on youtube. The broadcast will start on Saturday March 26th, 2016 at 10:30 AM New York Time 8:00 PM Mumbai Time 7:00 PM Tehran Time The direct youtube link Courtesy : Hushang Vakil

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A Tribute to the Parsi Community of Pakistan

A Tribute to the Parsi Community of Pakistan, both my grand fathers built far North west frontier province My own grandfather Hormusji Sorabji Shroff built Oil storage tanks and my Pious Maternal grand father Jamsetji nusserwanji Mehta Built Ice factories in Karachi “Losing a community like the Parsis is definitely a huge blow to a tolerant Pakistan, its cultural diversity

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Cyrus The Great Recognized By Israel

NOTE: We as Zoroastrians are very proud of our early Persian history and culture. Besides what is stated below, Cyrus is also recognized for The Cyrus Cylinder which was inscribed with the words of Human Rights and Freedoms practiced by him about 2550 years ago. Watch the attached video…Pervaze Rabadi   Benjamin Netanyahu’s message for Cyrus stamp !   Hello Dear

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Jamsetji Tata

Jamsetji Tata: Glancing at the journey of the pioneer of Indian Industry By NewsGram News Desk – March 12, 2016   Photo: @TataCompanies By Gauri Kumari The 21st century’s Indian government major concern is to rejuvenate the India’s manufacturing base and the job it creates. To achieve this objective the present government has initiated the ‘Make In India’ program. A special focus has

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Book decoding Parsi-Gujarati lingo gets second edition

Book decoding Parsi-Gujarati lingo gets second edition By Mitali Parekh |Posted 06-Mar-2016   Sometimes expression needs more than one language. Want to try Parsi-Gujarati? Help is at hand with the second part of Parsi Bol   Two years and 1,058 crowd funded phrases later, the Parsi Bol team of Sooni Taraporevala, Meher Marfatia, Farzana Cooper and Hemant Morparia are back with

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Parsi corner shops

Mar 13 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai)   Parsi corner shops give city its quick fix of dhansak, kebabs & lagan nu custard     If you have a sudden craving for Parsi cuisine, don’t wait for your pal Khushru to wed Perin at Colaba agiary. Just order some dhansak and kebabs to your Fort office or step

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Dadabhai Naoroji

Dadabhai Naoroji Born: September 4, 1825 Died: June 30, 1917   Achievements: First Indian to become a professor of the Elphinston college; instrumental in the establishment of the Indian National Congress; was President of the Indian National Congress thrice; the Congress’ demand for swaraj (self-rule) was first expressed publicly by him in his presidential address in 1906   Dadabhai Naoroji

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Where there is a Will, there is a Way

Where there is a Will, there is a Way The Great Dasturji Nadirshah Pestonji Unvalla – hats off ..I salute him ! A memorable episode in Nadirshah’s life as Panthaki of the Bangalore Anjuman involved stopping of an Indian Airlines Plane.   In October 1978, at the time of the Emergency (declared by Indira Gandhi) a group of Parsees from Navroz

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Persis Khambatta present Documentary Oscars® in 1980

William Shatner and Persis Khambatta present Documentary Oscars® in 1980 Oscars Published on Apr 13, 2014      

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The Persian Language and What Makes It Fascinating

  An interesting video about the origin and the world-wide spread of Farsi [Persian] language … Share with your children if you can.  

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