Burning sandalwood thickens the air in a room that’s so exclusive only a vanishingly small number of people are allowed to ...

The Parsi Zoroastrian population is declining at 18 per cent each decade. Recent efforts to increase the Parsi population, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was an Indian industrialist, who founded the Tata Group, India's biggest conglomerate company. He was born to a Parsi family in Navsari, Gujarat, India. He founded what would ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor (March 17, 2006): This week marks an observance for Zoroastrians, who celebrate their new year and the creation of human beings. Zoroastrianism began in ancient Persia, now Iran, ...

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 ...

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 ...