Mumbai: Members of the Parsi community have snubbed their high priests’ assurances that Metro III project will not affect the structural stability and spiritual sanctity of their fire temple at the Princess Street junction in Girgaum. The community has decided to launch its own separate peaceful agitation by seeking supportContinue Reading
By: Bhavya Dore A jubilant Katy Gandevia passed around a box of celebratory sweets she had received in her office at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai. “That,” she said, gesturing towards the sweets, “was to celebrate the birth of the 102nd baby.” The baby in question hadContinue Reading
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 PersiaContinue Reading