World Zoroastrian Congress Mumbai

Written by admin on June 7, 2013. Posted in Zoroastrian Congress

Mumbai Congress & Gujarat Tour

If you are 22-40 years of age, not married, and would like to attend the World Zoroastrian Congress in Mumbai at the end of December 2013 AND see Zoroastrian religious and cultural sights in Mumbai and Gujarat, you may visit http://zororoots.org/apply/ and apply.  The deadline for this is 1st July 2013.

Gujarat tour details can be accessed from ”Zoroastrian Return to Roots” website mentioned above, and congress details you can gather from www.wzcmumbai.com.

Selection of participants for Gujarat tour will be by ‘Return to Roots’ organizers.

Please forward this email to family and friends who may be interested.

 

Zoroastrian Return to Roots Organizers

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Ancient Persian Goddess and Zoroastrian Yazata

Written by admin on June 9, 2013. Posted in Parsi News

A short clip of images of Anahita: Ancient Persian Goddess and Zoroastrian Yazata.
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Being Zoroastrian: Understanding the Parsi community

Written by admin on June 9, 2013. Posted in Parsi News

Photographer Kainaz Amaria has been born and brought up in America. As a child, when she’d tell her friends at school she was a Zoroastrian, they thought she was pretending to be a superhero. Years later, Amaria came to India to understand her Zoroastrian heritage better by spending time with and documenting the lives of Parsis (which is how we know Zoroastrians) in India today. Amaria’s has selected some of her footage and made a video titled Being Zoroastrian. It includes beautiful photographs and rare scenes like a ceremony inside a fire temple. Amaria spoke to us about Being Zoroastrian.
Understanding the Parsi community

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Fali Chothia Educational Scholarships

Written by admin on June 9, 2013. Posted in Parsi News, Zoroastrian Scholarships

The Fali Chothia Charitable Trust is accepting applications for its 24th annual scholarship awards. Scholarships are open to Zoroastrian students in North America enrolled in four-year or graduate-level programs. Awards are based on financial need, academic achievement, extracurricular activity and community service. They are given as outright gifts or no- and low-interest loans.

To demonstrate solidarity and trust between organizations while serving community causes, the US Chapter of the World Zoroastrian Organisation is once again joining the Fali Chothia Trust’s Scholarship Program. This partnership enables the Trust to significantly increase the amount of its scholarships.The Fali Chothia Charitable Trust was established in 1988 under the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Washington, Inc. (ZAMWI). The Trust provides scholarships to deserving Zoroastrian students enrolled in universities in North America, regardless of their country of origin.

Applications may be downloaded from the following link –> The Fali Chothia Scholarships

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Mysterious Missing Parsi Writer

Written by admin on June 9, 2013. Posted in Parsi News

The Case of the Missing Writer
 
A Princeton University professor’s obsessive hunt for a mysterious Parsi writer
In the midst of his research at the British Library in London, historian Gyan Prakash stumbled upon an incomplete manuscript of an action-packed thriller written by a Bombay-based Parsi in 1927. Here, Prakash tells the fascinating tale of how he tried to solve the mystery of the author’s identity as well as how the novel ends
Gyan Prakash

http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/books/the-case-of-the-missing-writer

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Byram Avari on Pakistan’s Sindh Zimmi Welfare Committee

Written by admin on May 27, 2013. Posted in Parsi News

AMRITSAR: For the first time a Sikh has been included in the Sindh Zimmi welfare committee, Pakistan to ensure development of Gurdwara’s, the welfare of the Sikh community in Sindh along with equal distribution of funds provided by the ministry of minorities.

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