A bottle of Pallonji’s raspberry soda comes with this helpful disclaimer: “Contains no fruit.” Electric red in colour, and syrupy sweet to the taste, the raspberry soda is a beloved cultural icon of India’s fast-disappearing Parsi community – as well as the endangered Irani cafes in the western city of Mumbai. It is pure, fizzy nostalgia. But peer more closely
Read moreThe front facade of the Bombay Central Railway Station is a heritage structure, and it depicts fire of victory. A Parsi architect designed this station to be protected by this fire at the entrance. To date, this major station has been an oasis of calm even during wars and riots and pandemics. It was Shapoorji Pallonji who built this station.
Read more‘MEHER LAGHU LIPI’ – GUJARATI SHORTHAND – DEVELOPED BY SHRI NOSHIRWAN BAPUJI KARANJIA OF SURAT – By Ailesh Shukla, Surat (Free rendering in English from ‘Meher Laghu Lipi Rachayitaa Noshirwan Bapuji Karanjia’ – by Burjor Daboo) GUJARATI SHORTHAND WAS INVENTED BY A PARSI EDUCATIONIST OF SURAT – SHRI NOSHIRWAN BAPUJI KARANJIA. Completing over 9 decades of establishment and approaching to
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Read moreThe Institution of Freemasonry in Mumbai, established for more than two centuries now, has been founded on the solid bedrock laid by our Founding Fathers. K R Cama was a very prominent Freemason and the first Indian to be appointed Provincial Grand Master as earlier all were Britishers. Incidentally Parsis were socially at the fore then. The District Grand Lodge
Read moreIn the Calcutta of the 1970s and ’80s lived a young Parsee who made her community proud with her sporting achievements Cricket, hockey, basketball: Shireen Contractor played three sports at high levels • Kermeez Kiash It was 1972 or 1973. Kumkum Banerjee was part of a group of five well-connected society ladies with an interest in sport who were tasked with finding
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