The magazine, founded in 1964, covered the Parsi community in its main hub, Mumbai. Ageing staff, unavailability of trainees, ...

I got my first taste of dhansak during the mid-1990s on a visit to Mumbai with my childhood friend Anupama. Jeroo Nariman, ...

The Parsis of India have reared some of the best and brightest, such as Rohinton Mistry, the Bombay-born novelist short-listed for the Booker Prize for “Family Matters,” a sad, ...

The Parsis begin to introduce deliberate religious reforms; The Zoroastrian response to the increasing urbanisation and cultural diversity of the 20th century was one of flexibility and integrity ...

The Parsi community, which gave India many of its firsts— first cotton mill in the country, the first Indian-owned newspaper, ...

The number of Parsis has been dropping. In India, they are down from 115,000 in 1941 to perhaps 65,000 (out of 1 billion Indians) today. By 2021, they are expected to fall to a mere 21,000.

The Parsis have been very successful over the centuries in India in politics, academia and business, but their population in India is aging rapidly and many young people are moving abroad.

From a small fishing village to a teeming metropolis, Karachi has been home to all and sundry — from the natives to the conquering British and then the streams of immigrants who embarked at its ...

Explore the history of Parsis in Chennai's cinema industry, from single-screen theatres to their decline, in a detailed narrative.

Vispy Wadia, who heads the Association for Revival of Zoroastrianism in Mumbai, founded a fire temple in Pune in 2017 where non-Parsis are allowed to enter and interfaith couples are warmly ...

Parsis, who are concentrated in Mumbai and count many of the country’s best-known billionaires among their ranks, now number fewer than 70,000 in a country of 1.2 billion, ...

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