News from 2017.
47 reports published between 2012 and 2025, alongside the fortnightly magazine.
A reprint of H. D. Darukhanawala's classic, Parsi Lustre on Indian Soil is now on sale at the Parsiana Shop and online through our website parsiana.com. Faithfully reproduced from …
Dastur Khurshed Dastoor was felicitated by the Gujarat anjumans and others in Bardoli and Navsari on June 17 on his being appointed as the Zoroastrian representative on the Nationa…
Dastur Khurshed Dastoor of Udvada has been appointed as the Zoroastrian representative on the National Minorities Commission…
Blogger and community activist Jehangir Bisney's Facebook account has been banned for "72 hours minimum," he notes. His acerbic comments, generally on politicians, appears to have …
An originating summons has been filed this February in the Calcutta High Court inquiring if a child of a Parsi mother and non Parsi father can enter the Mehta fire temple in Calcut…
After endorsing the candidacy of former Bombay Parsi Punchayet trustee Dinshaw Tamboly for a seat on the National Commission for Minorities, BPP chairman Yazdi Desai has "after car…
Today at the release of a four-volume set of The Parsis of India: Continuing at the crossroads at the Max Mueller Bhavan (MMB), the union minister of minority affairs Mukhtar Abbas…
The Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA) will be celebrating its 30th anniversary from April 27 to 30, 2017. In addition to the two-day sessions of the …
A one-day workshop on "The Parsis of India and their economic and commercial enterprise, 18th - 20th centuries" was held on April 7, 2017 at Godrej Bhavan. The participants initiat…
Community members gathered at the statue of Sir Hormasji Cowasji Dinshaw to commemorate his 160th birth anniversary today, at 9 a.m. The function was organised by the Bombay Parsee…
Tehmtan Andhyarujina, renowned senior counsel at the Supreme Court, passed away at 4 am today in Bombay. He was the Solicitor General of India from 1996 to 1998 and prior to that h…
Function at the Godrej complex in Vikhroli on March 24, 2017 to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of Jai Godrej. Adi Godrej recalled his mother's upbringing taught him "how t…
The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) have served a legal notice on the Bombay Samachar Private Limited (BSPL) alleging that the advertorials published in the Gujarati daily on February…
Without going into the merits of the case, the Supreme Court has disposed of former Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) Dinshaw Mehta’s application regarding his objections to the redevel…
News and pictures from Navzar Dotiwala, managing committee member and ex-chairman of the Jamshedpur Parsee Association: The 178th birth anniversary of Jamsetjee Tata, founder and p…
The Bombay High Court has permitted the movie Rangoon to be released as scheduled on February 24, 2017, but asked film maker Vishal Bhardwaj to deposit Rs 2 crore as guarantee till…
The petition filed by Bombay Parsi Punchayet trustees Armaity Tirandaz and Viraf Mehta praying that BPP papers be made available to them was heard in camera today by Bombay High Co…
Veteran stage actress Dolly Dotiwala has passed away. She was to appear on stage at the Tata Theater on Sunday, February 19, 2017, the opening night of the sequel to Laughter in th…
Dr Tehemton Udwadia has been bestowed the Padma Bhushan Award as per the Republic Day list of awardees that was issued this evening.…
Jashan in progress at the 179-year-old Daman Agiary on January 21. Four mobeds led by Dastur Khurshed Dastoor performed the ceremony. The dakma there has been serving the residents…
Breaking news By a vote of 156 to six the Navsari Samast Jarthosti General Fund had favored the use of a portion of the Doongerwadi lands for an aramgah (burial ground), trustee an…
"We wanted a real horse, not an artist's impression of a horse," Maneck Davar told Parsiana at the unveiling of the Spirit of Kala Ghoda today. Thrown open by chief minister Devend…