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NEW YORK, January 13, 2016 – FEZANA will be participating at the 60th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Conference to be held at the UN Headquarters in New York, USA.

Homi Jehangir Bhabha was born on October 30, 1909 into a wealthy, prominent Parsi family. Bhabha is known as the father of Indian nuclear power.

Parsi priests often approach actor Boman Irani and ask him to do something about the community’s dwindling numbers. “Uh su

REVIEW From beginning to end this delightful narrative simply races along, providing an intimate, witty and scintillating story of a

Draame-Bawaas, a competition of one-act plays, aims to give a new lease of life to Parsi theatre. FOR me, theatre

Presently there is a section of brilliant officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) which avoid marrying and having children considering

By Burjor Patel My friends who regularly wait for my column are wondering where has the bawa disappeared? The bawa

Below is a letter signed by all the Vada Dasturjis in the aftermath of the Iranshah Udvada Utsav 2015

Here is the full letter that they have sent Jame Jamshed for publishing:

Darius Khambata was one of the speakers on Day 02 of the recently concluded Iranshah Udvada Utsav 2015. His talk raised a lot of controversey over what was said/heard/implied…..or NOT….by those present, and those that went by hearsay.

He clarifies his stand in a letter to the Editor of the Jame Jamshed that was shared over social media by Jame.

Udvada is an obscure hamlet in India’s western Gujarat state which houses the holiest fire of India’s Parsi community.

Legend has it that it was consecrated some 12 centuries ago on the nearby Sanjan beach, landing point of a boatload of refugees who had fled the Arab conquest of Persia to save their 3,000-year-old Zoroastrian faith, and that it has remained unquenched ever since.