KARACHI: Famous businessman and a leader of Parsi community Byram D Avari has said he has been receiving SMS on his cellphone from bhatta mafia for payment of Rs5 million, but he was not afraid and he would not leave Pakistan at all. He said he has spent all his age, 72 years, in Pakistan and nobody could scare him. He said that acting on his complaint, the police have arrested three ‘criminals’ from Pannu Aqil in Sindh. Avari said he knew those ‘criminals’ and he would expose their names at an appropriate time.
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Nagpur Parsi Cemetery
Writing on marble plaque at the gate of the ‘Nagpur Parsi Cemetery’.
Top Script is of the Avestan Language (read it from right to left) and
below is its transcript is in Gujarati Script (read it from left to right).
Vandegujarat a song on Navsari
The following (worth seeing and hearing) video on Youtube which has a Gujarati song and pictures of today’s city of Navsari in Gujarat, India, produced by Parsi young men and women, was received from Prof. Ardeshir Damania who lives in Northern California.
There is (or was) a town in Iran called Sari (as I have read somewhere) and when Parsis from Iran settled in Gujarat they named this town NavSari or New Sari (similar to how New York in USA was named after the towm of York or Yorkshire in England). Navsari has the second most important Zarathushti temple holding the consecrated fire of Atashbehram (or Atash-e-Varharan) after the temple an fire in Udwada, Gujarat.
A Zartoshti man murdered and an old Zartoshti lady
It is reported (http://www.berasad.com/fa/
The next door neighbour, a Zartoshti man came to help the woman and was also attacked by the addict who attacked him with a brick. After injuring the (Zartoshti) man and while he was laying on the ground the addict throws his motor byke gas on him and sets him on fire.
Sedreh Pooshi by Female Mobedyar in Toronto-Canada
Sedreh Pooshi ( Navjote) Performed by a Female Mobedyar in Toronto-Canada
Group Sedreh Pooshi (Navjote) in Toronto.
An Iranian female Mobedyar and two male Parsi Mobeds performed the ceremony for three young Zartoshti girls.
Ratan Tata to be AirAsia India chief advisor
NEW DELHI: Tata Group chairman emeritus Ratan Tata will be the chief advisor to the board of AirAsia India, a joint venture between the group, the Malaysian low cost carrier and Telstra Tradeplace. AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes made this announcement on Sunday and said the soon-to-be-launched Indian subsidiary’s chairman would also be a “towering man”.
“I am pleased to announce Ratan Tata as the chief advisor to the board of AirAsia India. A legend in every sense. Building a powerful team… Persuading Mr Tata to be advisor has not been easy. Critical we have someone of his massive experience to help me chart AirAsia India with Mittu (the CEO) and myself,” Tony Fernandes tweeted.
