[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Not too long ago, Western Classical Music formed an integral part of the Parsi culture. The affinity still remains in most Parsi homes. Khushroo Suntook, Chairman of NCPA and leading connoisseur of Western Classical Music, supports Parsi Times’ endeavours to re-ignite the love for this – one of the most polished genres…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]There is hardly an aspect about our Parsi culture more intrinsic than Theatre, or as we call it – ‘Natak’. Watching a play before heading out for dinner is an integral and unbroken Navroze ritual. Though Parsi Theatre has evolved over the decades, it has sustained its unique ‘Parsipanu’ even today. Our Community’s…
Be it New Year or birthdays, the accompaniment to dhan-daar is usually macchi no patio or tareli macchi. You go to Udwada on a pilgrimage and it would not be deemed complete if you were not served the boi for lunch or dinner. At weddings or Navjotes, there are the saas ni macchi enthusiasts and…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] It is quite commonplace, in keeping with our culture which overflows with an affinity for dogs and pets, to see most of our pooches spoilt silly with all our ‘laar gela’. Let’s face it – our pooches are given way more leniency than our own family members, sometimes! Leading Canine Behaviourist and…
Parsis landed in India about 1200 years ago. The exact date of landing differs amongst scholars but that is not important. After the sugar and spice, and all that’s nice sort of episodes, we were allowed to stay in the kingdom of Sanjan, but with a rider, rather four riders – one of which was,…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Parsi Times brings you our monthly column promoting Western Classical Music by one of its leading connoisseurs – the eminent Khushroo Suntook, Chairman of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), to re-acquaint you to the joys of this unparalleled form of music. [/otw_shortcode_info_box] In my last article I wrote about the pleasures of camaraderie and…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Parsi Times brings you our monthly column on Western Classical Music by one of its leading connoisseurs – the eminent Khushroo Suntook, Chairman of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), to re-acquaint you to the joys of this unparalleled form of music. Having kicked off this column last month with ‘Why…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Parsi Times is delighted to bring our readers a column, as promised, dedicated to reviving what used to be one of our Community’s core cultural mainstays – Western Classical Music. It is our privilege to have on board, one of its leading connoisseurs – the eminent Khushroo Santook, Chairman of the National Centre…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Associated with Cosmic Heart Gallery, artist Natasha Lalla has showcased her works nationally at various solo and group exhibitions, art festivals, including the India Art Festival and the Jaipur Art Summit, as well as Internationally, in New York, Chicago and USA. Parsi Times Arts writer, Razvin Namdarian reviews her solo show, ‘Parallel Realities’…
Parsi, thy name is charity” is a common expression that probably traces its roots to the time of the British Raj. No less a person than Mahatma Gandhi has acknowledged, “I am proud of my country, India, for having produced the splendid Zoroastrian stock, in numbers beneath contempt, but in charity and philanthropy, perhaps unequalled,…
Travel Guru and Corporate Trainer, Narendra Agarwal is a traveler, photographer and a ‘permanent’ nomad. In twenty eight years of travelling, he has explored twenty seven states and five union territories of India and more than twenty countries neighboring India, Europe and the Far East. He has followed adventure, climbing Himalayan peaks, diving oceans, skiing…