Cocktail party blends glamour, reverence

The tiny Parsi-Irani community is one of the largest land owners in and around Mumbai. The Wadia, Godrej and Jeejeebhoy families are some of the big landlords while the Bombay Parsi Punchayat controls over 5,000 apartments in the city.

The Iranian Zoroastrian Anjuman, whose proposed Rs 722-crore land deal with a construction company owned by Vasai-Virar strongman Bhai Thakurs family is opposed by a section of the community, on Wednesday voted out its president Mehrwan Irani...

Spring is here. The season's breeze will blow in the colours of Holi across India. About this time Parsis, Kurds, Zoroastrian communities in South Asia and in their original abodes will celebrate the New Year or Nowroz. Parsis in Gujarat call it ...

There is growing opposition within the Zoroastrian community against the sale of 963 acres controlled by a community trust in Palghar, about 110 km from Mumbai. The Iranian Zoroastrian Anjuman wants to sell the land to a firm owned by the family of Bhai ...

EXCELSIOR Gold has improved the resource at its Zoroastrian deposit in Western Australia by 8% to 524,400 ounces of gold as ongoing drilling expands deeper mineralisation. - more 27 February 2013 EXCELSIOR Gold has increased the resource at its ...

Around the first century B.C.E. in the area that is now Iran, the ideas of a man called Zoroaster became a formal religion. A few empires even took it as their state religion. The

Prof. Almut Hintze (SOAS) gives a repeat of the extremely popular and oversubscribed talk she gave as part of the 2012 Festival

Nowruz, New Day, is the holiest and most joyful festival of the Zoroastrian year and the most important national festival for all Iranians. Its celebration is recorded from the Achaemenian period around 500 BCE. The name Nowruz first appears in ...

Anahita: Ancient Persian Goddess & Zoroastrian Yazata This book is the most extensive study of the figure of Anahita in recent years, and includes new and never published before research. is essential reading for all those interested not just in ...