Mumbai: Being half-Parsi is not really helping Farah Khan make her acting debut as a Parsi woman in Bela Sehgal's movie Shirin Farhad. The choreographer-turned-director-turned-actor needs time to prepare for the part to match up to her co-star Boman Irani's performance. While Farah is only half-Parsi, Boman is a full Parsi. To match his natural Parsi accent and body language would take Farah more time to acclimatize herself to the...
06:47 PM, Jul 04, 2011
New Delhi: The Parsi community is an amazing pool of talent, having created modern India as we know it, says one of the country's foremost novelists and chronicler Amitav Ghosh, who tails his Parsi protagonist, Bombay merchant Bahramji Naurozji Modi to China in his new novel, "River of Smoke" - the second book in the Ibis trilogy. The first book of the trilogy, "Sea of Poppies", a saga of migration...
06:16 PM, Jul 02, 2011
As Navroz ushers in the beginning of a new calendar year Parsis, across the country, celebrate the joyous occasion. ...
02:22 PM, Aug 19, 2010
Bombay Parsi Panchayat's Fertility Project was launched five years ago, primarily to bolster the dwindling community's numbers. ...
10:53 AM, Aug 09, 2010
A funny take on Parsis and with an ensemble cast of 34 actors. ...
01:54 AM, Mar 11, 2009
The film revolves around the clash between two Parsi families. ...
01:07 AM, Feb 27, 2009
In his new video blog, Directly Rajdeep Sardesai (DRS), the CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief on how to attract fans to Test cricket. I thought I'd start today by looking at two incredible cricket matches that in a sense have reaffirmed the faith of all of us cricket fans have in Test cricket. The first is the match in Johannesburg between South Africa and Australia, where Australia won by just two wickets while...
10:34 PM, Mar 25, 2008
New Delhi: Batting is by no means child's play, and when it comes to the longer format of the game it definitely tests a batsman's true skills and talent. Test cricket is a true examination of batting skills, technique and temperament. Keeping in mind how the pitch behaves and at the same time where the match is heading, even the best of batsmen have to change their game according to ...
09:01 AM, Mar 21, 2008
Garish billboards near Towers of Silence promise to earn lakhs for pachayat, but the community says its sacrilege. ...
04:04 PM, Jun 19, 2007
Parsi Panchayet has decided to import and begin breeding vultures, on which Parsis rely dispose off their dead. ...
09:20 PM, Mar 16, 2007
When 1,000 Parsis come together for a bike rally, it was
dhoom and
dhamaal all the way. ...
02:51 PM, Dec 11, 2006
Only 23 Parsi families are now residing in the Capital while among the minorities, Muslims are the largest chunk. ...
04:10 PM, Nov 12, 2006
The Towers of Silence, where the Parsi leave their dead to be to be fed upon by vultures, are in the spotlight. ...
10:04 PM, Sep 04, 2006
The Parsi community in India is one of those few communities that has managed to maintain its identity. ...
08:17 PM, Aug 20, 2006
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