One of the first questions many people ask when meeting a Parsee woman is “How many garas do you own?” The intricately-designed sari is considered the small Indian community’s traditional dress and ...
Parsee cuisine comprises a variety of dishes that are as vivid as the culture itself. The Parsees migrated from Persia and settled on the west coast of Gujarat during the seventh to 10th centuries.
When her mother died last year, Dhun Baria followed the religious practices of most Parsees, leaving the body in the Towers of Silence to be disposed of by vultures. But Baria, 65, also started asking ...
Read the remarkable story of a father and son duo, who dreamt of a hospital to treat the old and the sick in the Parsi community, and the fund-raising efforts of the hospital's core team that included ...
From going to the fire temple to feasting and get-togethers with family and friends, around 180-odd Parsee families of Jamshedpur joined the rest of their community members around the world to ...
From Vijay Merchant to Farokh Engineer, the contribution of Parsee community can’t be forgotten and it was their zeal that gave Indian cricket a new direction in the 20th century, reveals a new book ...