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January 25, 2021 at 4:06 PM Sundays on #FinelyChoppedTV are #foodocracyforher days and in this episode, I speak to Mumbai based Parsi home chef, Mahrukh Mogrelia who runs Mahrukh’s Kitchen. Mahrukh’s food talks of the times of yore and has a certain rustic flavour that one does not see in the Parsi food of Mumbai today. This made me order from her weekly menus Sunday after Sunday for my wife who is Parsi. She loves Mahrukh’s food, as do I. I am Bengali of course. In this chat Mahrukh, who hails from Navsari in south Guj... Tags: Life, India, Iran, Mumbai, Gujarat, Parsi, Navsari, Food And Beverage, Mahrukh, Mahrukh Mogrelia92 people like this. Like
January 20, 2021 at 10:30 AM Stained glass designer Katayun Saklat’s paintings, with their disconcerting details, give a dark twist to sweet nostalgia
At first glance, Katayun Saklat is just another kindly, elderly lady with a thatch of grey hair. But she is much more than that. She is one of the most accomplished designers of stained glass in India, with her work included in several public and private collections. She is also a painter, working chiefly with oil and watercolour. At 83, Saklat is trying her hand at a new me... Tags: Art, Europe, London, Life, India, Time, Mumbai, Kashmir, Kolkata, LAHORE, Parsi, Baroda, Katayun Saklat, Grant Lane, Metcalfe Street, Katayun146 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 2:14 PM Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in collaboration with Museum Society of Mumbai
cordially invites you to a lecture titled
The Literary and Archaeology story of the arrival of the Parsis in India and their dispersal
by
Dr. Kurush Dalal
on
Monday, 18th January 2020 at 5:30pm IST
To register click here
From 2002 to 2004 the WZCF, Mumbai and the IAS, New Delhi conducted an intensive archaeological project, under the auspices of the ICHR and the Tata Trust, at the Me... Tags: Life, India, Iran, Mumbai, New Delhi, Talks, Tata Trust, Rajasthan, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Dalal, University of Mumbai, ICHR, west coast of India, Kurush Dalal, Sanjan, Museum Society of Mumbai108 people like this. Like
January 17, 2021 at 1:33 PM Below is a report circulated by The Parsee Voice
The repairs to the Bisni Dakhma at our hallowed Mumbai Doongerwadi, are finally completed thanks to donations received from certain members of the Parsee community and the unrelenting efforts of the BPP trustees and staff.
Under the guidance of Dasturji Dr. F. M. Kotwal, the required ceremonies to restore the spiritual strength of the Dakhmas was undertaken by Ervad Aspandiar Dadachanji and his son Ervad Hormuz, which concluded with the p... Tags: Asia, Life, CSR, Mumbai, University of Edinburgh, Stockholm, Asia Society, South Mumbai, Bombay Parsi Panchayat, BPP, Doongerwadi, Armaity Tirandaz, Hanging Gardens, Pardiwala, Kotwal, Parsee113 people like this. Like
January 15, 2021 at 10:16 AM Here’s an entertaining story about Yazdani Bakery and Zend Meherwan Zend that was told to me by the blustery Irani baker who passed away on Sunday. He was my friend. And I knew him from when he was a much younger man. Strapping, with a roaring voice, as crusty as the crackling Brun that Yazdani baked. But Zend was also a droll man. I had experience of that. Yazdani was near my newspaper office. Zend would often come over with Mawa Cakes. And stay for a chat.
Once he came red in the face. His Ira... Tags: Life, Russia, Mumbai, Parsi, NCPA, Zend, Irani, Brun, Individuals, Yazdani Bakery, Yazdani, Zend Meherwan Zend, Strapping, Mawa Cakes, Austria Israel, red Kinetic Honda115 people like this. Like
January 13, 2021 at 12:01 PM “Get rid of your cough, eat my ginger biscuit.” The baker who kneaded such happy prescriptions into Mumbai’s gut via the blackboard of the iconic Yazdani bakery in Fort is no more. Zend Meherwan Zend, the jovial co-owner of the six-decade-old Irani bakery who said bread must have a bite to it and who did not let Parkinson’s disease keep him from sipping tea or relishing ice-cream at the cash counter, passed away at age 86 this past Sunday.
Article by Sharmila Ganesan Ram | TNN
With the departu... Tags: Life, Mumbai, Bombay, Alexander, Fort, Parkinson, Colaba, Zend, Irani, Food And Beverage, Deepak Rao, Mantralaya, Kurush Dalal, Yazdani, Zend Meherwan Zend, Kalyan Karmakar129 people like this. Like
January 12, 2021 at 9:43 AM Flops, frauds or community disapproval did not prove obstacles to the growth of the theatre enterprise.
Elphinstone Circle in Bombay in the 1870s. Photo: Lee-Warner Collection/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
When one thinks of Horniman Circle – the ring of elegant old buildings in south Mumbai – today, several associations spring to mind: the glossy storefronts of Starbucks and Hermes – the temples of neoliberal globalism; men snoozing on the garden’s shaded benches – a respite from... Tags: Life, China, Wikipedia, India, Turkey, Iran, Starbucks, Victoria, Theater, Hermès, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Bombay, Madras, Town Hall148 people like this. Like
January 11, 2021 at 3:54 PM Food historian Kurush Dalal recalls Zend as the baker who wasn’t afraid to experiment and wished to give his customers quality products.
Sitting behind the cash counter or instructing staff by the woodfire oven, Zend Meherwan Zend was synonymous with Yazdani Bakery. He was a regular at the iconic bakery in Fort, even after being afflicted with acute Parkinson’s in his later years. On Sunday, Zend died due to advancing age. He was 86.
Food historian Kurush Dalal recalls Zend as the baker who ... Tags: News, Life, Mumbai, Fort, Parkinson, St Peter, Zend, Individuals, Dalal, Food And Beverage, Tirandaz, Yazdani Bakery, KARMAKAR, Mantralaya, Kurush Dalal, Yazdani56 people like this. Like
January 11, 2021 at 12:54 PM An interesting short documentary on the iconic B. Merwan & Co. Bakery Tags: Life, Mumbai, Food And Beverage64 people like this. Like
January 11, 2021 at 8:46 AM Cars are in the Parsi DNA since the day automobiles were invented, or so it seems ! It is no surprise that some of the top automobile restorers, journalists, organizers and most importantly owners and collectors are Parsis.
One such gentleman is Perseus Bandrawalla who organized the 2020 Mercedes Benz Classic Car Rally to end 2020.
Perseus writes….
From a parsi angle we have a number of well known Parsi families that participate in the event year on year. Some of the star cars this year b... Tags: News, Life, India, Mumbai, Mercedes, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes Benz India, Maharashtra, Parsi, Bandra, Mumbai Police, Amit Jha, Hormazd Sorabjee, Bandra Worli Sea Link, Adenauer, Rayomand100 people like this. Like
January 9, 2021 at 10:11 AM Mumbai: Members of the Parsi community are aggrieved with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) as the fate of the iconic ‘Parsi Gate’ continues to remain uncertain. In order to facilitate the ongoing construction work for the Coastal Road Project (CRP), the civic body had approached the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), seeking its approval to relocate the 100-year-old structure.
Article in Free Press Journal
On Wednesday, a group of concerned citizens from the Parsi community went to t... Tags: Life, US, Heritage, Mumbai, Donald Trump, EIA, Bmc, Bombay, MLA, CRP, NOC, Girgaum Chowpatty, Marine Drive, Parsi, Colaba, Chahal138 people like this. Like
December 31, 2020 at 6:08 AM Two persons were injured in a fire that broke out at Mehta building in Panthaki Baug in Mumbai’s Andheri East late on Wednesday.
The fire broke out on the first floor of the four-storey building on Andheri-Kurla Road.
According to fire brigade officials, the injured were identified as Yohan Irani (17), who was admitted to Citi Care hospital and Naushad Chapgar (83), admitted to the civic-run Cooper hospital with 60% burns.
Doctors said that both of them were stable and under treatment.
Officials... Tags: News, Life, Mumbai, Cooper, Mehta, Andheri East, Andheri Mumbai, Panthaki Baug, Andheri Kurla Road, Yohan Irani, Citi Care, Naushad Chapgar139 people like this. Like
December 27, 2020 at 10:28 PM Marzy Parakh, 36; Restaurateur And Founder Of Live To Give
India has just five hospital beds per 10,000 Indians, according to a study by the Human Development Report. The results show that out of 167 countries, India ranks 155 in access to healthcare. No surprise then that there was a mad scramble for expert medical treatment a month into the Coronavirus infection outbreak. Marzy Parakh, a restaurateur and philanthropist, remembers the time all too well. As the founder of a WhatsApp group call... Tags: Life, India, Uncategorized, Mumbai, LTG, Parakh, Marzy Parakh56 people like this. Like
December 26, 2020 at 4:36 PM Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez.
Simon Stacpoole/Offside / Contributor
In January 2019, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez were publicly outed as a couple the same day Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, announced their divorce.
The National Enquirer had been investigating Bezos and Sanchez for months and had obtained leaked photos and texts the couple had sent, including the now-famous message where Bezos called Sanchez "alive girl."
In the 18 months since, bo... Tags: Amazon, New York Post, Hollywood, California, Washington Post, Washington, Life, Relationships, India, Los Angeles, Trends, Tech, Spain, Features, Fox, Culture109 people like this. Like
December 22, 2020 at 5:05 AM Katayun Saklat , 82, is a charming and exuberant painter and stained glass artist
Seated in the drawing room of her Auckland Square apartment, Katayun Saklat, painter and stained glass artist, though not necessarily in that order, speaks about her exceptional life and her art, as a number of her assistants come and go, pleasantly interrupting her for instructions.
Saklat, 82, is a charming and exuberant personality and the room is a bit like her. But then it is also her gallery, Gallery Kata... Tags: Art, UK, Life, Mumbai, New Delhi, Bombay, Buckinghamshire, Srinagar, Calcutta, Parsi, Zarathushtra, Katayun Saklat, Grant Lane, Katayun, Suhas Roy, Auckland Square129 people like this. Like
December 22, 2020 at 4:41 AM ‘Astad had the courage to plough a lonely furrow. He made a life of his own, on his own, and created a path-breaking dance style.’
‘Only a few in the performing arts could do what he did.’‘A classical dancer can fall back on tradition, but Astad created something absolutely new.’
Article by Archana Masih | Rediff
IMAGE: Astad Deboo, the legendary dancer who died after a brief illness on the morning of December 10, performs at the Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur. Photograph: Kind courtesy Ritam Banerj... Tags: Art, Europe, Washington, France, Life, India, Syria, Afghanistan, Paris, Myanmar, Delhi, Mumbai, Damascus, Maya, Afghanistan Syria, Foreign Service54 people like this. Like
December 14, 2020 at 12:31 PM NAMC LECTURE SERIES
Topic: Life of Prophet Zarathushtra
Date: Sunday December 20, 2020 @ 2:00 PM Eastern – 11 AM Pacific
Join Meeting on Zoomhttps://zoom.us/j/95671042784?pwd=bkNNaDVQVG9CcjRXeXE2ZUVUaGpUdz09Meeting ID: 956 7104 2784Passcode: NAMC
This presentation will deal with the whole life history of our Vakhshur-e-Vakhshuraan Zarathushtra Spitamaan. It will cover the usual stories of his birth, troubles he faced in childhood from his enemies, his ten year seclusion in a mountain and his... Tags: Usa, Life, India, Religion, Toronto, Washington Dc, New Jersey, North America, Mumbai, Hinduism, Télé, South Florida, Montreal Canada, Jo Ann, Procter Gamble, Indian Army70 people like this. Like
December 12, 2020 at 1:55 AM Remembering an episode form legendary jurist Nani Palkhivala’s life on his 18th death anniversary
When Nani Palkhivala entered the Supreme Court to argue Kesavananda Bharti, India’s future rested on his shoulders. The case was to be heard by a mammoth bench of 13 judges, and their decision would decide the fate of the largest democracy in the world. Palkhivala knew that this was to be an uphill battle, especially because he was to go up against a celebrated jurist and his long-time friend from B... Tags: Supreme Court, Life, India, History, Parliament, Mumbai, Bombay, Madras, Oxford University Press, Kerela, Bombay High Court, Kanga, DE, Nani Palkhivala, Palkhivala, Jamshedji Kanga69 people like this. Like
December 9, 2020 at 11:49 PM ‘His works represent an important segment in contemporary dance expression in India,’ the Sangeet Natak Akademi had said.
Dance pioneer Astad Deboo passed away in the early hours of Thursday, his family said in a brief announcement. He was 73.
“He left us in the early hours of December 10, at his home in Mumbai, after a brief illness, bravely borne,” the announcement on social media said. “He leaves behind a formidable legacy of unforgettable performances combined with an unswerving dedicati... Tags: Art, Japan, New York, London, Sweden, Indonesia, Mexico, Life, India, Iran, United States, Delhi, Mumbai, Pina Bausch, Kolkata, Bombay136 people like this. Like
December 9, 2020 at 11:52 PM He once said there was a time when most Indians saw his style as ”too western” while westerners found that it was ”not Indian enough”.
Contemporary Indian dancer Astad Deboo, renowned for marrying Kathak and Kathakali into a unique form, died in Mumbai on Thursday, his family said. He was 73. ”He left us in the early hours of December 10, at his home in Mumbai, after a brief illness, bravely borne,” the family announced on social media.
”He leaves behind a formidable legacy of unforgettable pe... Tags: News, Life, India, Mumbai, Gujarat, Kathakali, Deboo, Hussain, Padma Shri, Navsari, Astad Deboo, Individuals, Guru E K Pannicker, Astad Deboo Dance Foundation, Mani Ratnam Vishal Bhardwaj107 people like this. Like
December 9, 2020 at 1:58 AM 8th World Zoroastrian Youth Congress: London calling! Spotlight on Youth Organisers
Article by Zeena Batliwalla, Treasurer 8WZYC
With the 8th World Zoroastrian Youth Congress (8WZYC) 2023 being hosted by the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe (ZTFE) in the United Kingdom (UK) in Summer 2023, a dedicated team of youth volunteers have already commenced early groundwork to start planning and organising this momentous event. As part of a series of articles, we will be sharing the insights and v... Tags: UK, London, Law, Congress, Life, United Kingdom, Kpmg, Mumbai, United Kingdom UK, Kuo, Atash Behram, Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe ZTFE, ZTFE, Ava Roj, 8WZYC, Zeenia Batliwalla63 people like this. Like
December 9, 2020 at 1:58 AM 8th World Zoroastrian Youth Congress: London calling! Spotlight on Youth Organisers
Article by Zeena Batliwalla, Treasurer 8WZYC
With the 8th World Zoroastrian Youth Congress (8WZYC) 2023 being hosted by the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe (ZTFE) in the United Kingdom (UK) in Summer 2023, a dedicated team of youth volunteers have already commenced early groundwork to start planning and organising this momentous event. As part of a series of articles, we will be sharing the insights and v... Tags: UK, London, Law, Congress, Life, United Kingdom, Kpmg, Mumbai, United Kingdom UK, Kuo, Atash Behram, Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe ZTFE, ZTFE, Ava Roj, 8WZYC, Zeena Batliwalla115 people like this. Like
December 1, 2020 at 4:41 PM Anyone who has lived in or grown up in Mumbai would know at least one Parsi for sure. And if new, you will wonder about the fuss around Bun-Maska (Bun-Butter), Bhurji-Pav (Scrambled eggs-Bread) and Irani Chai (Persian Tea). That is the extent to which the Parsis are part of the cosmopolitan weave of this city. The history of Bombay and the Parsis almost run parallel, with the community making their presence felt since the mid-17th century. Their contribution to the island’s early development, an... Tags: Life, India, Unesco, Mumbai, Bombay, Fort, Parsi, Irani, Vikas Dilawari, Wadia, Wadia Clock Tower, Banaji Limji Agiary, Perin Nariman, Lamassu, Maneckji Seth Agiary, Bun Maska Bun Butter Bhurji Pav55 people like this. Like
November 28, 2020 at 3:20 PM Queenslanders saw one of their own in the first and only Indian Test player to play in the Sheffield Shield
Patrick Skene
Indian Test cricketer Rusi Surti plays a classic cover drive. ‘To see him perform in the middle was like sipping champagne and he gave endless pleasure to fans,’ says Kersi Meher-Homji. Photograph: Percy Surti
Fifty-three years ago, the second Indian Test team to tour Australia arrived, turning the wheel of history and sowing the seeds of the respect Virat Kohli’s modern-da... Tags: England, Australia, Life, India, Sports, Pakistan, Queensland, New Zealand, Brisbane, Muslim, PERCY, Melbourne, Mumbai, Western Australia, West Indies, Hindu104 people like this. Like
November 24, 2020 at 4:37 PM In an exclusive conversation with The Morning Standard, Puneet Shah, Founder of Akara Art, and Curator of the show tells us more.
Connoisseurs of Jehangir Sabavala (1922-2011), will take delight that a new exhibition titled ‘Pilgrim Souls, Soaring Skies, Crystalline Seas’, stands true to its name as the showcased works contain all the signature details that the Parsi modernist came to be known for.
It is organised by Mumbai’s Akara Art and is on view both online and in the gallery space. I... Tags: Art, Life, India, Paris, Mumbai, Jehangir Sabavala, Sabavala, Akara Art, Shirin Sabavala, Puneet Shah Founder of Akara Art, Afreed Sabavala, Churchill Chambers, Lalit Kala Ratna109 people like this. Like
November 16, 2020 at 4:25 AM By being on the receiving end of an agonisingly protracted lecture from Nita Ambani, of course!
Regular readers will be well aware of our morbid fascination with Nita’s breath-taking commitment to interminable public speaking.
As soon as we realised that Mumbai were going to win, our thoughts immediately turned to Nita’s victory talk and whether or not it would be powerful enough to entirely drain away all of the positive feelings arising from becoming champions.
We have all experien... Tags: Sex, Uncategorized, Ipl, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians, Nita, Nita Ambani90 people like this. Like
November 8, 2020 at 2:28 PM A master of light and play, with a blend of Impressionist and Cubist elements, Jehangir Sabavala’s blue-chip art has inspired a sense of wonder and awe. Akara Art’s latest show revives the late artist’s legacy
Article by Shaikh Ayaz | Architectural Digest India
PUBLISHED: NOV 04, 2020 | 09:30:19 IST
Jehangir Sabavala, The Miasmic Shore, Oil on Canvas 28 x 42 inches, 1967
Puneet Shah remembers only one brief encounter with the late Jehangir Sabavala who passed away in 2011 at 89, but he met t... Tags: Art, Europe, France, Life, India, Paris, Italy, Mumbai, Kerala, Bombay, Rajasthan, Shah, Madhya Pradesh, Mark Rothko, Shirin, Parsi147 people like this. Like
November 5, 2020 at 4:19 PM MITHUBEN PETIT, WHO FOUGHT FOR INDIA’s FREEDOM WITH GANDHIJI, RENOUNCED HER COMFORTS AND LUXURIES
Petit surname has its roots in the French word ‘petit’ (meaning physically small). One of the women pioneers of India’s freedom struggle, Mithuben’s ancestors had worked as a shipping clerk and interpreter for the British East India Company, French merchants who dealt with a lively, short Parsi clerk and they called him ‘le petit Parsi’. He was great grandfather of Mithuben’s father Sir Dinshaw Men... Tags: Life, India, History, Mumbai, Bombay, Gujarat, Petit, Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Raj, Parsi, Padma Shri, East India company, Sardar Patel, Gandhiji, Kasturba118 people like this. Like
October 27, 2020 at 6:13 PM Elephant and Artsy have come together to present This Artwork Changed My Life, a creative collaboration that shares the stories of life-changing encounters with art. A new piece will be published every two weeks on both Elephant and Artsy. Together, our publications want to celebrate the personal and transformative power of art.
Article by Rhea Dhanbhoora
Pestonji Bomanji, Feeding the Parrot, 1882. Image via Wikimedia Commons
The artists of the 19th century often came alive for me in my grandm... Tags: Art, Life, India, Johannes Vermeer, Delhi, Mumbai, Van Gogh, Bombay, Monet, Renoir, Manet, Cezanne, Degas, Wikimedia Commons, Parsi, National Gallery of Modern Art116 people like this. Like
October 25, 2020 at 8:14 AM This is that time of the year. NO! Not that time when there is this festive cheer in the air and everyone is happy and smiling and cheerful and in the celebration frame of mind. But the time when I go through the annual ritual of looking for a house that's good enough in my opinion and affordable enough in my pocket's opinion and unobtrusive in my friends' opinion and accessible enough in Mumbai traffic's opinion. You would've guessed that the combination is as rare a find as life's purposes are... Tags: Travel, Money, Life, India, Househunting, Starbucks, Mumbai, Bangalore, Whitefield, SRK, Myra, Malad, Andheri, Bandra, Thane, Koramangala16 people like this. Like
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