Ardakan, the capital city of Ardakan County, and second major city in Iran’s Yazd Province, has applied for membership and been nominated in the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. Two other Iranian cities – namely Hamedan and Kelardasht, have also been nominated alongside Ardakan. The historic city of Ardakan, located 60 kms from Yazd, is one…
Twenty years ago, UNESCO requested me to create a programme on the Parsi Zoroastrians, as they realized that this community was facing demographic extinction. With the loss of culture, the world loses a part of its wisdom and UNESCO’s mandate was for us to record this culture. Even as a student and teacher of the…
Edited by Firoza Punthakey Mistree and Cashmira Vatcha Bengalli Ten years ago, at the Golden Jubilee of the Delhi Parsi Anjuman, in a conference attended by priests and scholars from India and abroad, each drew upon Vada Dasturji Firoze Kotwal’s research at some point in their study of Zoroastrianism. However, when I asked him…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Behind the success of every person, lies a teacher. Most of us are lucky to have our hearts, minds and souls nurtured under the warm glow of enlightenment by our teachers, who guided and supported us in the one journey of life on which the success of all other journeys depend – that…
On 9th July, 2017, the World Heritage Committee voted the historical city of ‘Yazd’, formerly known as ‘Yezd’ in central Iran, as the country’s 22nd World Heritage Site, ranking first in the Middle East and eleventh, worldwide. Announced during the Committee’s 41st session in Krakow (Poland), Yazd is the only UNESCO-listed Iranian city where people…
Harvard literary scholar and cultural theorist, and Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language, Homi K. Bhabha was recently awarded the Humboldt Research Prize for his contributions to the field of academics. The award is usually granted to a researcher in recognition of his life’s achievements to academics. Bhabha received this…