The 5th edition of the Zoroastrian ‘Return To Roots’ Program began in Mumbai on December 19, 2018. 22 Zarathushti youth from USA, Canada, Pakistan, New Zealand and India gathered at the Cusrow Baug Pavilion to kick off the program. Aban Marker-Kabraji, Co-Chair of RTR Program, welcomed the RTR Fellows and briefed them about the history […]
Forty members of Xtremely Young Zoroastrian’s (XYZ) Behram’s Battalion organized an educational trip to the ‘GO Cheese Factory and Pride of Cows Milk Farm’ near Pune, on 8th December, 2018. The trip included a tour of the farms and various factory units, where milk was pasteurized, chunks of curd were churned and block and slice […]
The Godavara Gamadia Agiary at Fort celebrated its 192nd Salgreh on 17th December, 2018 with a Hama Anjuman Jashan performed by Er. Firdaus and Er. Rohinton Pavri at 10:00 am. Established in 1826, the Agiary was originally the house of First Baronet, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, who donated to the Ervads of Godavara Village who were unable to […]
On 9th December, 2018, the team of Empowering Mobeds organized a heritage walk to highlight various Parsi monuments, institutions and statues around South Mumbai’s Fort area. Attended by children of Bai Avabai Petit Girls’ High School and Dadar Athornan Madressa, the group took its first halt at the Bhikha Behram Well where Er. Hormuz Dadachanji […]
The Trustees of Bai Dosibai Kotwal Parsi Boys’ Orphanage, in association with the Trustees of Soraji B. Garda College Trust Parsi Cultural Division, invited Er. Dr. Cyrus Dastoor, affiliated to the MF Cama Athornan Institute Ex-Students’ Foundation, to conduct a four-day workshop for Ervads, Ostas and Behdin Pasbaans. Conducted from 14th to 17th November, 2018, […]
Our Community’s most holy, over 300-year-old, Doongerwadi in Mumbai, is in Urgent Need of Renovation and Green Cover Restoration. Immediate Repairs are needed for the Maintenance and upkeep of our Dokhmas; Bunglies; Road Repairs and for the restoration of the Green Cover/Forest area which provides the sense of calm and healing for all. The BPP, […]
The Jiyo Parsi Program announced the launch of three new initiatives – ‘Jiyo Parsi Care’, ‘Jiyo Parsi Campaign’s Phase 3’ and the ‘Jiyo Parsi Calendar’, on Thursday 20th December, 2018, at the Sir Ratan Tata Institute in South Bombay. The event was held by the Parzor foundation and Madison BMB, in collaboration with the Bombay […]
The Mancherji Joshi Dharmagnan Class at Dadar, organised its annual Prize Distribution ceremony on 2nd December, 2018, at the J B Vachha High School, with Chairman of WZOT, Dinshaw Tamboly; BPP Trustees, Armaity Tirandaz and Zarir Bhathena; Er. Asphandyar Dadachanjee, Er. Dr. Parvez Bajan and Diana Marfatia in attendance. In keeping with their protocol of […]
11-year-old, Miron Shroff, recently participated in the ‘Hindustan Times Scholarship Programme 2018’ held on 11th December, at Rangsharda Auditorium, Bandra, and was declared as one of ‘Mumbai’s Brightest Young Minds’. A student of Std. VI at St. Mary’s High School and an active member of XYZ’s Cyrus Superstars, Miron competed with 77,800 students across 207 […]
The Zoroastrian Trust Funds of India’s dynamic frontrunner and trustee, Yasmin Mistry was conferred a doctorate in ‘Women Entrepreneurship and Welfare’, in recognition of her inexhaustible body of community service and social work, by the National Virtual University for Peace and Education, registered under the Government of India as well as the United Nations Organisation […]
