Celebrating Righteous Power

January 13, 2024, is Roj Hormuzd of Mah Sheherevar, as per the Shehenshahi calendar. Shehrevar (Avestan Khshathra Vairya) is the sixth month of the Zoroastrian calendar and represents Ahura Mazda’s strength, power and ‘desirable dominion’. Shehrevar uses these qualities righteously to usher peace and Ahura Mazda’s ‘desirable dominion’ in this world. To invoke Shehrevar is to aspire for qualities of good […]

10th RFP World Council Appoints Vada Dasturji Khurshed Dastoor and Homi Gandhi

The 10th World Assembly of Religions for Peace (RFP), held from 20th – 23rd August, 2019, in Lindau, Bavaria, Germany, took place in partnership with the Foundation Peace Dialogue of the World Religions and Civil Society. Over 800 senior religious leaders, youth and women of faith from over 125 countries participated in the Assembly, which celebrated the theme, […]

Meher Bhandara Pioneers Technology That Makes Water From Air

Mumbai’s Meher Bhandara has been at the forefront of launching a pioneering technology that makes water out of air. 67-year-old Meher is one of the founders of WaterMaker (India) Pvt Ltd, an organisation that manufactures ‘Atmospheric Water Generators’ (AWG), which employs a technology that uses optimised dehumidification techniques to extract and condense moisture in the […]

Zeus Zend Hits Gold In Arm Wrestling

 Being Parsi is so much about tradition and legacy, across all areas – be it food, career or sport. Keeping alive this very essence of family-cum-community legacy, Zeus Zend, takes after his veteran and legendary grandfather – Zend Merwan Zend – to continue making headlines in the sport of Arm Wrestling, which still continues to […]

A Mother’s Garden

Common courtesy is so scarce these days! Unless you’re living in a cave, it’s hard to miss our culture’s current trend towards discourteous and disrespectful behavior. Whether it’s something in the news or a more immediate source – like the middle-finger brandishing driver who was tailgating your car – our daily lives (and our children’s) […]

Parsi Women Fly High

Throughout the Parsi-Zoroastrian history, Parsi women have all been high achievers – in Persia and India, and globally too! We had Artemisia of Halicarnassus (485 BCE) – Admiral of the Persian Navy and a lover of Xerxes I; there was Pantea Arteshbod (Aryash) – Commander of the legendary Immortal Army known as Persian Immortals or […]