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Organ Donation Debate
Whose Body is it anyway! – Noshir H. Dadrawala Parsis thrive on controversy and debates; sometime I think that’s what keeps us alive. If we are not debating on whether to consign our dead to the dakhma...
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Master of the field
This book is a revised and updated edition of Sam Bahadur’s approved biography, written by his trusted military assistant. Many biographies tend to be anecdotal and chronological, and this one is no...
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Rohinton Mistry steals the show with cowboy song
ONE FOR THE AGES Author Rohinton Mistry, who received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Times Litfest, charmed the audience, both with his words and his singingon Sunday evening. The author, now...
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Parsis and Jews: Two Communities and a battle for survival
In her spartan office, Dhun Daraius Bagli is answering the third call in half an hour. The query is the same. So is her answer. “Sorry, we are full for December,” says Bagli, putting down the...
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List of countries with Zoroastrian population
The total number of currently practicing adherents of Zoroastrianism is unknown. A 2004 esitimate gives a range of 124,000 to 190,000,[1] roughly half of them in India (theParsi and Irani groups)....
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The poor man’s bakery
While many cafes and restaurants run out of business due to the increasing number of hawkers on the roads of Mumbai, Yazdani Bakery thrives. Situated in Fort, Yazdani Bakery opened in 1950 as a...
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XYZ thanks you for your support
Dear Parents and Well Wishers, XYZ has officially launched and all of us cant thank you enough for all the wishes and messages that you have sent us. I promise to try and reply to all of them at the...
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Xplosion 2015 @ Godrej Baug
At godrej baug 31 st night – peaceful surrounding – everything unlimited donation 1700 only – interested contact yours truly 9223261083 Special table for group booking before 27th everything unlimited...
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 220,000 times in...
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The challenge to survival of Parsis comes from self-appointed messiahs
The Mumbai-born Canadian novelist Rohinton Mistry received the Lifetime Achievement award at the Times Litfest last December. It was his first public appearance in his original hometown, indeed India,...
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Modi govt orders coins to honour Jamsetji Tata
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to honour Tata Group founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata by releasing commemorative coins to mark his 175th birth anniversary. The coins, a first for an...
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100 YEARS OF MARQUEE MAGIC
The Dubash family behind Paradise, Mahim’s iconic single screen, celebrates a century in cinema Imagine enjoying aMahim traffic jam. That’s how it was for me some times before the Sea Link rose. I...
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‘THREE WAR CAPTAIN’ -INDIA’S ’S NELSON ADMIRAL RKS GHANDHI BREATHED HIS LAST...
“Admiral Ghandhi was one of the grand stalwarts of our Navy. A flamboyant and an extremely courteous gentleman belonging to the ‘old school’ he will be missed by all of us who had the privilege of...
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Chennai and its old Parsi flame
Its legacies far outnumber this fast-dwindling community with two centuries of ties to the city The art deco Casino theatre in Chennai was built in 1941 by JH Irani, an ice factory owner, and designed...
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PROPOSED CODE OF CONDUCT TO GOVERN FUTURE BPP ELECTIONS
With a view to provide a level playing field to all individuals contesting future BPP Trustee elections, former Trustees of BPP along with some prominent community members had been discussing with the...
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Dr. Pourus Mehta – Scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Dr. Pourus Mehta received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from University of Mumbai through research conducted at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay in year 2007. His...
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Cyrus Todiwala opens his first restaurant in India
Chef Cyrus Todiwala has opened his first restaurant in India, at the Acron Waterfront Resort in Goa, on the banks of the Baga river. Called the River restaurant, the 60-seater site is run on a...
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Kushru Patel runs his first marathon at 75
Rushing to the local bazaar for odds and ends, sprinting out with his siblings to spot the rare car turning into their lane, racing indoors and tracking mud across the floor, from the then-marshy land...
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Nargis Sidhwa, 84, has lived in the Parsi ward at JJ Hospital since 2010. She never married, and her nieces and nephews live in the U.S. and U.K. Image by Rosalie Murphy. India, 2014. At 95, this...
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Nobody learns Parsi history in schools, says historian
On just a short stretch of Veer Nariman Road in Fort, beginning at the stained glass enclosure of the Bhikha Behram Well and ending at the v-shaped Eros Cinema with its Art Deco dome, six Parsi gents...
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