A large number of people came to the Tamna ni Dharamshala on September 3, 2024 to attend a prayer meeting organized by the Parsee Pragati Mandal (PPM) Surat, and the Zoroastrian Women’s Assembly of Surat (ZWAS) to pay tribute to two of its late members, Freny Chipia and Dhun Kharas.
Top: Freny Chipia (l) and Dhun Kharas; 2nd and 3rd rows: Kharas’s family and Chipia’s
family with organizers of the prayer meet
Every winter Parsis look forward to vasanu (a seasonal delicacy) and the answer was Freny Aunty nu vasanu. She was also proficient in embroidery, toran making and stitching sudrehs.......