The Bangalore Parsee Zoroastrian Anjuman felicitated Naval Hormusji Dalal on his 103rd Birthday, on 27 November, 2017. Born in 1914 into a horse racing family, Naval’s elder brother Rusi, who was just a few years older than him, took him for admission to the Clarence Boys School in Bangalore, where the English headmistress christened him […]
. IIt has been exactly 27 days since we lost a father figure, Er. Palanji Pirojshah Dastoor, the torch bearer of Dastoor family of Udvada. It is hard to believe and accept God’s will. November 5, 2017, Shehenshahi Roj Ram Yazad, Mah Khordad Ameshaspand, YZ 1386 will be marked as a very sad day in […]
NCPA is hosting its premiere International Jazz Festival featuring a medley of internationally renowned musicians from November 24th to 26th, 2017. Performances for the Fest kicked off yesterday with fab performances by ‘The Latination’, India’s only genuine Latin jazz band, and the ‘Kevin Davy Quintet’ from the UK, performing beautiful modal music of the classic […]
Adding yet another feather to his cap, the multi-faceted and dynamic, global holistic health and fitness guru, Dr. Mickey Mehta recently debuted as an author with his first novel – ‘The SHOONYAM QUOTIENT’. Within a short period of its release, the ‘The SHOONYAM QUOTIENT’ has already gotten listed in the prestigious Nielson Top 500! Speaking […]
The 2nd Jiyo Parsi Jiyo Mobed Workshop was organized by the Jiyo Parsi team and PARZOR Foundation on 19th November, 2017 at the Sir H.N. Reliance Hospital’s auditorium, with fifty-six priests and four Behdin Pasbaans actively participating in the workshop. The aim of the workshop was to empower our priests with communication skills so they […]
An exuberant musical and proficiency-acknowledging fund-raiser event was organized by the Bai MN. Gamadia Girls High School at the Marathi Sahitya Sangh, Charni Road, on 11th November 2017. Dynamic Principal Zarin Behram Rabadi and her faculty of efficient teachers got together to reward hard working students who excelled in various subjects and other pursuits encouraged […]
Parsi woman, Naomi Sam Irani moved the Supreme Court questioning the validity of many provisions of Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act (PMDA), stating that the procedure under the 1938 Personal Law was “exasperatingly cumbersome, involving a system akin to jury decision, and granted no access to mediation and settlement.” She has alleged that these long drawn and outdated […]
India’s very first woman advocate, Cornelia Sorabji’s 151st birth anniversary was honoured by the global tech giant, Google, on 15th November, 2017, with a doodle showing her in advocate’s attire with the Allahabad High Court building in the background. Cornelia Sorabji was also the first Indian woman to study at a British University, when she […]
‘Paranjoti Academy Chorus’, one of India’s oldest and renowned choirs, is set to celebrate fifty eventful years under the conductorship of Coomi Wadia, through a revered concert featuring Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, along with the SOI Chamber Orchestra and soloists Valentina Marghinotti – Soprano, Margherita Tani, Mezzo-Soprano, Sorab Wadia – Tenor and Eugenio Di […]
After nearly four years, the small Parsi community in Jabalpur came together to witness the initiation of two children into our faith. Annu and Behram Panveliwalla, residents of Delhi, decided to have their children, Zubin and Zara’s navjote ceremony in Jabalpur so that their grandparents, Nergish and Phiroze, could be a part of the ceremony. Performed […]
The JB Vachha High School held their annual kindergarten (KG) competition, the ‘KG Queen Contest’ last month, with ‘Our Feathered Friends – Birds’ as the theme for 2017. Packed with parents, teachers and students, the auditorium witnessed over ten junior and senior KG students dressed up as any bird of their choice, displaying their oratory […]