Previous NCERT social science textbooks didn't have such a chapter. No connection to CAA controversy, says NCERT director.

MUMBAI, India (RNS) — With steadily declining numbers, some of India’s Zoroastrians are looking to reduce the strain of becoming a priest in order to encourage more young men to devote themselves to ...

In the West, Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, is a name meaningful chiefly to crossword-puzzle addicts and readers of Nietzsche. To the 100,000 Parsis of India who last week celebrated their New Year, the ...

Boman Kohinoor, 97, has spent the past eight decades committed to his beloved Britannia & Co., one of Mumbai's last Parsi cafes. Here, he proudly holds up a photo of himself with two members of the ...

Parsis brought their Zoroastrian faith, and unique funeral rituals, to India from Iran a thousand years ago. Parsis believe burying or cremating... Vanishing Vultures A Grave Matter For India's Parsis ...

The Parsi community, followers of Zoroastrianism who fled Persia over a millennium ago, settled primarily in Gujarat and Bombay. They were traders and industrialists, but also among India's earliest ...

The Ministry reaffirmed its long-term commitment to safeguarding the heritage and identity of the Parsi community through ...

In an old, neo-gothic building in Fort, an upmarket area in India's financial capital Mumbai, is a run-down office that produces one of country's oldest and most prominent Parsi magazines - Parsiana.

You may know the work of Sooni Taraporevala from the big screen -- she wrote the screenplays for the films Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala, each of which won awards. When she's not writing, ...

The brown walls are peeling at all ends. Giant paint chips cake the ceiling. And the cash register — if you can call it that — is just a series of old wooden drawers. "I'm going to put up a sign that ...