A walk along video by Arnaz Bisney taking you through the charming lanes of Dadar Parsi Colony. The beautiful vintage bungalows and tree-lined lanes create magic that modern Bombay rarely offers. It’s these quiet lanes which hold stories that shaped the city we know today.
Read moreOn Flattened Priesthoods, Forgotten Rituals, and the Sacredness of Survival Let’s stop pretending we’re still making Mobeds. Or Dastoors. Or Atash Behrams. Not in the way our ancestors did. Not in the way the architecture demands. To understand what we’ve lost, we have to first understand what it took. To be a Mobed wasn’t just to memorize a few prayers
Read moreDear Colleagues, I am delighted to inform you about our latest update to the Pārsīg Database: we have now included a significant collection of Middle Persian Manichaean texts, complete with transliterations and Persian translations. Each entry is annotated with nine layers of linguistic information, enabling detailed searches in Manichaean script, transliteration, and grammatical tags. We have also integrated manuscript images from
Read moreDear Friends, Parzor founded under the aegis of UNESCO aims to further knowledge of Parsi Zoroastrian culture & heritage. We have been working with the prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences, TISS, Mumbai to take forward our collective knowledge to the world, particularly the younger generation. We are happy to announce the beginning of the TISS-Parzor Academic Programme on Culture
Read moreThe JJ Zarthoshti & Mulla Feroze Madressa, Mumbai is conducting an online course in Avesta and Pahlavi. The course is completely free and the organizers will hold the course at a time convenient for students living in North America. Request you to publicize this to your members. Those interested may contact Ervard Cyrus Darbari or Meher Contractor at the
Read moreProgramme Proposal for the Parzor-TISS Certificate in Parsi Zoroastrian Culture & Heritage Studies Background The Parsi-Zoroastrian community, its history, assimilation in India and multicultural heritage makes for a highly significant area of contemporary socio-politico-cultural study and discourse. The story of the community’s resilience and cultural survival is a case-study in tradition and continuity, adaptation and assimilation, multiculturalism and philanthropy;
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