Writer Bapsi Sidhwa was in London, at the rehearsals of her play Sock'em With Honey, when she heard about a resolution adopted recently by the high priests of the Parsi Zoroastrian community in......
The dahi handi celebrations in Mumbai are, undoubtedly, huge. It is common to see people of different faiths intermingle during the exercise where human pyramids stretch as high as nine levels to......
On his 200th birth anniversary, Utkarsh Mishra/Rediff traces the life, thought, and legacy of Dadabhai Naoroji, the Grand Old Man of India. IMAGE: Dadabhai Naoroji. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons......
From dating apps to events, the shrinking community is innovating ways to encourage the young to marry within the faith, reports Ranjita Ganesan. IMAGE: The Zoroastrian population has seen a......
The Supreme Court on Thursday said the law does not sanction the concept of a woman's religion getting merged with her husband's faith after an inter-religion marriage. A five-judge......
Corporate leaders, politicians and celebrities joined hundreds of people on Thursday as they bid final adieu to one of India's most respected and internationally recognised business leaders, Ratan......
The Rasna Group on Monday said its founder and chairman Areez Pirojshaw Khambatta has passed away. Khambatta, 85, who was also the chairman of Areez Khambatta Benevolent Trust and Rasna Foundation,......
Who is a poor Indian? One who earns below Rs 35 a day? Or one whose salary is in four figures? While the debate rages, the Bombay Parsi Punchayet, the organisation that governs the affairs of the......
Should the Income-Tax Act have been simultaneously amended to exclude Sikhs and Jains from the definition of HUF once they were declared a minority by the government? Sanjeev Nayyar discusses the......
Sree Sreenivasan recalls his encounters with the pioneer of sound who passed away on Friday and gives a sense of how many lives he touched -- in big and small ways. There are two......