By Apoorva Puranik |Posted 20-Jan-2016 Mumbai-based model-actor plans to launch a dating and social connectivity app in association with a Pune tech firm exclusively for single Parsis to mingle; reformists ask why not for all If the government’s $1.6 million programme to arrest the decline of numbers in the Parsi Zoroastrian community, by offering the best in IVF expertise, is
Read moreThe New Zealand Herald : 5:00 AM Friday May 15, 2015 World youth congress in Auckland in December is a bid to get followers to marry within the faith, writes Lincoln Tan. From left, Zoroastrians Tinaz Karbhari with Sanaya Master and Kainaz Jasmasbnejad. Photo / Brett Phibbs One of the world’s oldest religions is facing extinction, and will be fighting
Read moreDear members, Please find attached Religious Lecture Programme for March 2014. This month are included lectures for the Panj-i-Meh Fasli Gatha days from 16th – 20th March. On each of these days a Jashan will be held at 5 pm followed by a lecture. All humdins are welcome to attend the Jashan and lectures. Regards Behram P Dhabhar Click on Table
Read moreDear all, The 10th World Zoroastrian Congress will be held in Mumbai from 27thDecember to 30th December 2013. The last World Zoroastrian Congress was hosted by Dubai in December 2009, and India will be hosting this grand event after an interval of 23 years. The Organising Committee of the 10th World Zoroastrian Congress is making all efforts to make this event
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 moreMeeting for families of persons with special needs – BPP – Sun, 19 Sep 2010 Dear Friends, Please forward this message to all your Parsi friends and contacts. This is a notice about a meeting organised by the BPP, on Sunday 19th September, at Bharucha Baug Hall, for families of persons with special needs. BPP Meeting_19Sep10 Thank you for helping
Read moreSanjoy Majumder gets a taste of Parsi life India’s ancient minority Parsi community are pinning their hopes on modern methods such as speed-dating, social networking and IVF to stop their numbers vanishing, finds the BBC’s Sanjoy Majumder in Mumbai. Click to read on and view a short video. Courtesy : R. K. Talati
Read moreFor NRI’s and PIO’s — “Opposition to Retroactive Enforcement of New Rules for Surrender of Indian Passport”. “Opposition to Retroactive Enforcement of New Rules for Surrender of Indian Passport”. The latest notice posted on the website of Consul General of India in New York and San Francisco, says, “In supercession of previous rules, Government of India has decided that
Read moreAll-India Directory of Parsi institutions compiled by Marzban J. Giara. 280 pages, hard bound Published March 2010. Price Rs.200/- N. M. Wadia Charities has published an All-India Direectory of Parsi institutions compiled by Marzban Giara. This directory was released by Justice Shahrukh J. Kathawalla at Malcolm Baug, Jogeshwari on Sunday 2nd May 2010. It is a handy reference book of
Read more8th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas-2010 Indian Govt plans to woo Overseas Indians to be partners in economic growth Assurances for protecting investment and private property will be given By: ASHOK B SHARMA on: Wed 23 of Dec, 2009 13:34 UTC New Delhi, Dec 23 : At the beginning of the year 2010, the Indian government has planned
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