So we, that is the Zoroastrian youth of today, indeed have a legacy to live up to! And a very distinguished one at that! We rank as one of the most educated communities, and have the highest literacy rates! And yet, what is our strength today? I’m not talking about numbers. Mahatma Gandhi himself said, “In numbers, Parsis are beneath
Read more52nd Annual Gen. Meeting & Report of P. P. P. Trust. N O T I C E Notice is hereby given that the 52nd Annual General Meeting of the Poona Parsee Panchayat Trust will be held on Thu. 31st March 2011 at 3.30 p.m. at Pudumjee Hall, Kadmi Shenshai Anjuman Agiary, Synagogue Street, Camp, Pune 1, to transact following business
Read moreZoroastrian Assn of Chicago is featured in this article on NowRuz in a local Burr Ridge paper: http://burrridge.patch.com/articles/with-the-arrival-of-spring-local-zoroastrians-celebrate-a-new-year Enjoy! Roshan Rivetna
Read moreNasli Heeramaneck migrated to the U.S. from India in 1927 with two main possessions: $75 in cash and a trunkful of objets d’art and Oriental miniatures. The son of a Bombay art dealer and a descendant of a long line of Parsis (a sect that left Persia in about the 8th century and settled in India), Heeramaneck quickly found a
Read moreFriends On behalf of President Dr Faranak Firoozi , it gives me great pleasure to post the first newsletter of the Zoroastrian Association of Quebec. (ZAQ) Hope you enjoy reading of our activities and we will welcome your comments Hope to see many of you in Montreal , as ZAQ is hosting the FEZANA AGM April 22-24 2011 Best wishes
Read moreIf all goes well, the diamond city will get a world-class international institute of neurosciences by 2013. Dr Keki Turel, head of department of neurosurgery at Bombay Hospital in Mumbai, has joined hands with the city-based PP Savani Group to set up India’s first dedicated Rs 1,000 crore institute for neurosciences. The state-of-the-art institute of neurosciences, likely to come up
Read moreArtist recycles worn-out books into sculptures She gives books a new identity; call her the ‘book makeover’ if you like. But for Banoo Batliboi, 51, working with books is “something I had to do, the moment I set eyes on a book sculpture”. Batliboi is an altered book artist, the only one in the city and probably, the country. What
Read moreRoxana Kalyanvala is executive director of a Poona-based adoption centre that offers care to lost/abandoned children and helps them find adoptive homes. Click here for the full article from Parsiana Look into the eyes of a helpless child and you see your whole world fall apart…. Hear the haunting cry of a baby and listen to your heart beating with
Read morePhoto : Toxy Cowasjee For some families, the parties started Sunday night, with a dance at Beach Luxury Hotel, and the celebrations and thanksgiving will continue into today, Monday, that marks, as March 21, the advent of spring or NovRuz. “We go to the Fire Temple in the morning to pray for shukarana,” explained Fareshteh Gati-Aslam, while talking to The
Read moreDawn of their New Year and arrival of spring was celebrated with traditional fanfare by the 3,700-strong Parsi community of the city on Monday. Jamshedi Navroz is an age-old tradition followed by people of Iran and Parsis after migrating to the country to celebrate it every year. Click Here for the full report Courtesy : Jehangir Bisney
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