The Supreme Court has termed as prima facie discriminatory the practice of barring Parsi women who marry outside their faith from religious rites, while men face no such restriction. Hearing a ...

A Parsi woman Tuesday questioned a decision of the Valsad Parsi Panchayat barring women who married men of another faith from ...

The second article of the five-part series highlights how religions across the board will be impacted by the Sabarimala case ...

India’s Supreme Court reviews cases challenging discrimination against Parsi Zoroastrian women who marry outside the faith, ...

The number of Parsis in Calcutta has dwindled to 347 — the lowest since the 1980s — mirroring a trend across the country. The Parsis had settled in Calcutta in the mid-18th century and there were ...

New Delhi: When Dina Budhraja’s grandmother died in September 2024, she, without permission to pray inside the agiary (fire temple), had no option but to conduct the funeral ceremony at her mother’s ...

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday sought the Nagpur Parsi panchayat's response on a Parsi woman's petition challenging the constitutional validity of the religious custom which excommunicated her for ...

Dhansak confuses non-Parsis. This meat dish, with sweet-sour gravy thickened with pumpkin and dal, and eaten with caramelised rice and koftas, is one of the glories of Parsi cooking. Yet it , being ...

FIRST ON FOX: Trita Parsi, a controversial figure among the Iranian American community, will be speaking at an event hosted by the John Quincy Adams Society at Yale University on Thursday, sparking ...

Mumbai, Dec. 21: The Parsi community in Navsari is up in arms against the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI)’s plan to acquire a portion of the Doongerwadi (Tower of Silence, the final resting ...

Parsi food, like its people, reflects its 8th century AD journey from Iran to India. There are definite Persian roots and Gujarati, Mumbaiya, West coast influences. Predominantly seafood/meat-based, ...