On 2nd February, 2020, the Mancherji Joshi Dharmagnan Class at Dadar celebrated its Annual Prize Distribution Day at the Mancherji Joshi Hall of the Dadar Athornan Institute. Each year, the Annual Day is presided over by a Chief Guest who is an accomplished ex-student. This year, Counselling Psychologist and Classical Ballet dancer-cum-choreographer – Urveez Kakalia…
Adar Poonawalla – the son of the community’s leading tycoon and one of the foremost names in the Indian and global pharma industry – the founder of Serum Institute of India, Cyrus Poonawalla – made his debut investment in India’s Food Service Sector. Adar has acquired a stake in a specialty coffee in biscuits, founded…
On the eve of 16th February, 2020, a number of Ahmedabad’s Parsi community members gathered at the Parsi Sanatorium for the Sheri Bhojan Program, sponsored by Dr. Armaity Davar, Managing Trustee of Late Sunamai and Firoze Davar Charitable Trust (SFDCT), which she manages in memory of her late parents. Daraysas Hoshangji Kavina, the grand-nephew of…
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[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Daisy P. Navdar is a teacher by profession and a firm believer in the efficacy of our Manthravani. She is focused on ensuring that the deep significance of our prayers is realized by our youth. She credits her learnings and insights, shared in her articles, to all Zoroastrian priests and scholars whose efforts…
The Muncherji Jamshetji Agiary was packed to the rafters as the Jashan ceremony got underway to celebrate the glorious 13th anniversary of the renovation of the Agiary and its hall, on the eve of Roj Meher – Mah Meher, 28th February, 2020. It also marks the day on which the ‘Structured Religious Course’ was initiated,…
Parsi women are known for their strong will, resilience and courage. So they were in Iran, so are they in India, even more so, today. After the fall of the Persian Empire that followed the disastrous defeat at the battle of Nehavand in AD 642, over eighty-thousand Persians soldiers were slain. Iran came under the…
Everywhere in nature, we find pairs of opposites that complement each other and complete each other -like light and darkness, Yin and Yang, good and evil, day and night and many more. Similarly, for the procreation of any species, there’s male and female. This female aspect comes from Divinity and has been acknowledged in all…
22-year-old master magician, Zenia Bhumgara, who resides in Mumbai’s Godrej Baug and hails from a family of magicians, is doing the nation and the community proud, by adding to her achievements in the world of magic! In the typically male dominated performing art genre of magic, Zenia has broken through the male bastion by competing…
On 22nd February, 2020, the brave girls of Tata Parsi Girls School, in Nagpur, adopted Gandhigiri as a last option, to protest the eve-teasing and physical misconduct menace, which is on the rise in the area surrounding the school. Accompanied by faculty and members of a social organization named Center for Education of Human Rights…
A suburban London street has been renamed in honor of late musician Freddie Mercury – ‘Freddie Mercury Close’ – was officially unveiled on February 24, by Freddie’s sister, Kashmira Bulsara, her son Samuel, alongside the Mayor of the London Borough of Hounslow, Councillor Tony Louki and Lord Bilimoria. Freddie Mercury Close is located in Feltham, West London, which…