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March 7-March 20, 2023

 
 

Editorial Viewpoint

So they say

  • Quotes

      "Beginning in spring and moving on into summer, the avenue...

Readers' Forum

Events & Personalities

  • Of wronged girls - Farrokh Jijina

    The song To Parsi Girls We’ll Wrong No More and...

  • The flying Major - Farrokh Jijina

    "Good to be back in the cockpit at the age...

  • Fire and the faith - Farrokh Jijina

    The 176th salgirah celebration of Cusrow Baug’s Nusserwanji Hirji Karani...

  • Scouting award - Prakash Bhandari

    Cardiologist Dr Cyrus Wadia received the World Organisation for Scouts...

  • Recognizing research - Farrokh Jijina

    The Tata Transformation Prize instituted by Tata Sons and The...

Zoroastrians Abroad

  • Yearning for yogurt - Parinaz Gandhi

    "In Iran, everybody knows everybody’s business and everybody helps everybody....

Politics and Policy

  • Access to associations - Text: Parinaz M. Gandhi  Photos: Jasmine D. Driver

    Thanks to an international effort courtesy the Global Working Group...

  • Abreast of anjumans - Parinaz Gandhi

    "The Federation is our family, parivar, kutumb…” There may be...

Cover Story

  • “Music and movement” - Firdaus Gandavia

    "Everybody has read English translations of (Jalal al-Din Muhammad) Rumi’s...

Business

  • Making machines smart - Farrokh Jijina

    Have you ever wondered how appliances are made "smart?” How...

  • Of studios and future hotels - Farrokh Jijina

    Real estate developer Godrej Properties Limited has bought film legend...

  • PHOTOCAPTION

    Fund managers Chintan Haria (alongside, center) and Sandip Santdasani (far...

Books

  • In Gandhi’s footsteps - KOBAD GHANDY

    Walking from Dandi: In Search of Vikas by Harmony Siganporia....

  • Feasting on vegetables - Farrokh Jijina

    The Vegetarian Parsi: Inspired by Tradition by Niloufer Mavalvala. Published...

  • Mid-air maneuver - Rukshana Chenoy-Horwood

    This chapter has been reprinted from Life on a Postcard...

  • Mirth in medicine - Dr MAZDA K. TUREL

    Hilarious Moments in a Surgeon’s Life by Dr Adi R....

Milestones

  • Milestones - Roxan Driver

    Parsiana sources information for the Milestones column from various anjumans,...

  • Errata

    In the report on the meeting of The Federation of...

  • Bombay: The Telling Figures for 2022

    The percentage of intercommu-nity marriages in 2022 rose to 47.5...

History

  • The Fort in flames - Prof Aban Zarir Sethna

    Girded by 27 ft high and 25 ft broad walls...

  • A Kobe sayonara - Pablo Vazquez

    Right outside the urban landscape of cosmopolitan Kobe in Japan,...

  • Once zestful in Zanzibar - Ajay Kamalakaran

    Edited and reprinted with permission from scroll.inPhotos of Zanzibar fire...

Institutions

  • Utilizing resources - Farrokh Jijina

    The spacious grounds of Navsari’s Bai Dosibai Kotwal Parsi Boys...

  • Here comes the sun

    Masina Hospital (MH) has joined the growing list of elite...

12WZC

  • Powered by the past - Text: Parinaz M. Gandhi  Photos: Jasmine D. Driver

    Members of the community — be they conservative or liberal,...

Food

  • Vegetarian viands

    For many, a Parsi vegetarian may seem an oxymoron; those...

  • Not just malido - Farrokh Jijina

    At a café named Malido one would expect a plethora...

Music

  • The band and the music - Firdaus Gandavia

    Khushroo Suntook, chairman of the National Centre for the Performing...

Environment

Festival