India’s Supreme Court reviews cases challenging discrimination against Parsi Zoroastrian women who marry outside the faith, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Niloufer Ichaporia King lives in a house with three kitchens. She prowls through at least six farmers markets a week in search of unusual greens, roots and seeds, traditional food plants from every ...

In this charming volume, an independent food scholar explores her Parsi heritage and provides a wide range of recipes that should prove revelatory even for home cooks used to whipping up a biryani at ...

I initially said no,” laughs interior designer Mansi Mehta when we ask her for her reasons for taking up the project to ...

New Delhi: When Dina Budhraja’s grandmother died in September 2024, she, without permission to pray inside the agiary (fire temple), had no option but to conduct the funeral ceremony at her mother’s ...

The number of Parsis in Calcutta has dwindled to 347 — the lowest since the 1980s — mirroring a trend across the country. The Parsis had settled in Calcutta in the mid-18th century and there were ...

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday sought the Nagpur Parsi panchayat's response on a Parsi woman's petition challenging the constitutional validity of the religious custom which excommunicated her for ...