In a separate development, the WZO Trust Funds denied claims by the Daviervala family that the house, which later became the sanatorium, had been sold at a nominal price. The trust maintained that the ...

They were few, but far ahead of their time. In a country still grappling with child marriage and female illiteracy, Parsi ...

MUMBAI, India (RNS) — With steadily declining numbers, some of India’s Zoroastrians are looking to reduce the strain of becoming a priest in order to encourage more young men to devote themselves to ...

Less ubiquitous is an author who merges the two, swiveling a mirror to look at both themself and their ancestral background.

In the West, Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, is a name meaningful chiefly to crossword-puzzle addicts and readers of Nietzsche. To the 100,000 Parsis of India who last week celebrated their New Year, the ...

Pheroza Godrej, co-curator of the Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum, gives AD a special tour of the Parsi Museum in Mumbai.

The WZO Trust had earlier announced plans to auction the property, citing annual losses of ₹9–10 lakh that made the ...

You may know the work of Sooni Taraporevala from the big screen -- she wrote the screenplays for the films Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala, each of which won awards. When she's not writing, ...

The brown walls are peeling at all ends. Giant paint chips cake the ceiling. And the cash register — if you can call it that — is just a series of old wooden drawers. "I'm going to put up a sign that ...

MUMBAI, Nov 26 (Reuters) - The days when Mumbai's Parsi community dominated a city they helped to build may have faded, but the rise of Cyrus Mistry to the helm of the Tata Group reinforces the clout ...

I am quizzing Eric Billimoria on the first floor of the iconic Parsi Gymkhana. Perpendicularly to my right, the announcement speaker bolted to the thick, diagonal wooden beams above us has caught rust ...

Each Oct. 12, Homyar Nasirabadwala, the gaunt, white-haired priest of Hong Kong’s Parsi community, pays a visit to the University of Hong Kong to conduct a brief ceremony of thanks on the birthday of ...