Don’t bother putting the chicken-or-egg conundrum to a Parsi, we’d been told. “He’ll tell you the egg came first,” a septuagenarian Parsi had said, guffawing through a missing premolar, “because ...

Rediff.com's Hitesh Harisinghani tells us what makes this quaint seaside town worth a visit. I welcomed the the first day of 2021 with a trip to a peaceful town called Udvada. I remember coming here a ...

One of the two high priests of the Iranshah Atash Behram in Udvada, Gujarat, has said that neither the Iranshah Atash Behram—the country’s oldest fire temple where a millennium-old sacred fire burns ...

When you think of us Parsis, you think dhansak and wedding feasts. Swan-necked Shireens swathed in chiffon and Chopin. Sciatic Solis in sola-topis and solitude. You think statues and the soaring ...

A stranger exploring the narrow lanes of Udvada on a hazy Gujarati afternoon could well find himself wondering whether the rattling contraption that ferried him into town was an auto rickshaw or a ...

Residents of Udvada, a holy place for Parsis, met on Sunday to oppose a government notification which they say virtually seeks to freeze any development in the town to protect its heritage value. "We ...

The Parsis’ sacred fire, the Iranshah, had an arduous journey before it settled in Udvada Sadly, Bathela House, which housed the Iranshah when it first arrived in Udvada, has long been razed.

As Parsi-Zoroastrians get ready to mark the 265th anniversary of the consecration of the holy Iranshah fire in Udvada in Gujarat on Sunday, resentment about plans to turn the town into a tourists spot ...

Efforts to arrest dwindling numbers are beginning to get results, say optimistic Parsis. Jiyo Parsi, a fertility scheme, launched in 2013 has some encouraging numbers, said Shernaz Cama, director of ...

To many, Udvada is no more than just a sleepy beach town. Tucked away in a corner of Gujarat, it appears to be one of the thousands of nondescript entries but one that unfolds in a charmingly quaint ...

When Maharukh Dastur began making beautiful paintings, collages and mosaics in her spare time two years ago, she never imagined that one day she would be able to showcase her creative work in front of ...