The Zoroastrian Return To Roots Program will be continuing this March with their third trip to India. FEZANA has been a proud supporter and sponsor of the program right since inception and youth from North America have formed the majority of participants in the last two programs. If you are a Zarathushti youth between the ages of 22-40 we urge
Read moreDear all, https://www.youcaring.com/people-arriving-in-lesvos-498415 Next week, my friends, Maddy Evans, Zak Suffee, and I will be traveling to Lesvos, Greece, to help with the refugee support work ongoing there. Each day about 1000-1200 people arrive by boat on the island. The logistics involved in supporting them while they await registration and being processed through the system, are immense and require
Read moreA multi-faceted person, India’s nuclear programme grew in leaps and bounds under Bhabha’s leadership. Homi Jehangir Bhabha was born on October 30, 1909 into a wealthy, prominent Parsi family. Bhabha is known as the father of Indian nuclear power. He went to school at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Bombay and then went on to pursue mechanical engineering
Read moreReview From beginning to end this delightful narrative simply races along, providing an intimate, witty and scintillating story of a superhero. Sam s humanism, his notations on official files, his colourful language and his doodles, which occasionally set off tidal waves of mirth through Army Headquarters, make this book simply un-put-down-able –Fali Nariman, President Bar Association of India, Former Additional
Read moreHi, Here is an interesting Book on Gathas of Zarathushtra, authored by well known scholar, Dr. Irach J S Tarapore,forwarded to us by our ZAPANJ member Noshir Karanjia. Thank you ZAPANJ Board of Trustees Book_on_GATHA_Final
Read moreDar-E-Mehr Zoroastrian Temple New York CHEERS TO A NEW YEAR! LET’S CELEBRATE 2015 AND THE STEPPING STONES THAT HAVE PAVED THE WAY FOR A MOMENTOUS OPENING OF OUR NEW DAR-E-MEHR IN 2016! Phase l, our new Dar-e-Mehr building construction, is slowly but surely inching towards completion with help from each one of our 400+ donors – THANK YOU for sharing
Read moreUdvada is an obscure hamlet in India’s western Gujarat state which houses the holiest fire of India’s Parsi community. Legend has it that it was consecrated some 12 centuries ago on the nearby Sanjan beach, landing point of a boatload of refugees who had fled the Arab conquest of Persia to save their 3,000-year-old Zoroastrian faith, and that it has
Read moreAdar Poonawalla, CEO, Serum Institute of India has announced to set up Rs 100 crore fund under the Adar Poonawalla Clean City Movement (APCCM) in partnering with Pune Municipal Corporation and Noble Exchange Environment Solutions. It will focus on supporting the Pune Municipal Corporation with infrastructure and management of solid waste, specially focusing on organic waste management. “This is first-of-its-kind public private partnership (PPP)
Read moreParsi theatre will last till the last Parsi, says Yazdi Karanjia The scenes take the audience directly in the middle of a Parsi household and witty dialogues leave them in splits as actors present relationships and societal issues in trademark Parsi Gujarati. One immediately gets sucked into the world of Parsi theatre. However, with only a few performers
Read moreMany times, in remote places, Mobeds are not available for prayers for the dear departed. In such cases, the family members should not be deprived of having obsequies performed for the deceased. Prayer Hall, Worli, has come out with audio files, which have the prayers for all the ceremonies, with a 10 second gap, for putting in the name of
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