A government-funded IVF programme that aims to help save India's shrinking Parsi community from extinction is delivering bundles of joy and controversy. Some 120 children have been born through the ...

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 ...

In an old, neo-gothic building in Fort, an upmarket area in India's financial capital Mumbai, is a run-down office that produces one of country's oldest and most prominent Parsi magazines - Parsiana.

Parsis brought their Zoroastrian faith, and unique funeral rituals, to India from Iran a thousand years ago. Parsis believe burying or cremating... Vanishing Vultures A Grave Matter For India's Parsis ...

BOMBAY — At 24, Darayus Tirandaz knows what he wants: a Parsi wife, several children and an orthodox life within contemporary society. “I want to get married before I’m 28,” said Tirandaz, a ...

Parsis are an ethnic community devoted to Zoroastrianism, a monotheistic religion that dates back well over three millennium. Various estimates put today’s global Parsi population between ...

A new documentary highlights how the Parsi community that once put India on the cricketing map, is disappearing from the field as fewer youngsters step up to the crease Farokh Engineer, visiting ...

Since the 1800s, these cafes have flourished in Mumbai. They've helped keep alive the culture and cuisine of Parsis — Zoroastrians who fled... Parsi Cafes, A Centuries-Old Tradition In India, Are ...

Sooni Taraporevala is an acclaimed photographer whose first book, Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India-- A Photographic Journey, documents Bombay’s small but vibrant Zoroastrian community. Taraporevala ...

The Parsi community, followers of Zoroastrianism who fled Persia over a millennium ago, settled primarily in Gujarat and Bombay. They were traders and industrialists, but also among India's earliest ...

The brown walls are peeling at all ends. Giant paint chips cake the ceiling. And the cash register — if you can call it that — is just a series of old wooden drawers. "I'm going to put up a sign that ...