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Cabbages & Kings: Cultural mix isn’t a problem

Edit Deccan Chronicle 17 Jun 2016
“The sink of the bath sings,. More melodious than a. coel’s tweet;. The steam of a cooking. scrambled egg. As it hardens, appears more concrete. Than the mist of a morning mountain;. The spout of broken firehose ... birdsong — ... The rites which involved coconuts and Avestan blessings were performed before she was whisked off and had her clothes changed to an elaborate long heirloom of a cream-coloured Victorian christening gown....

Culture Is Only A Thin Apple Peel Over A Glowing Chaos

Edit Huffington Post 04 Apr 2016
Photo Credit. Lena Hades. There is a beautiful fairy tale Gianni Rodari, the greatest modern children's writer in Italy, entitled "La strada che non andava in nessun posto"-"The Road that Went Nowhere" ... Martin the Heardhead (quite Lionheart! the noble Lions are curious too) was very stubborn and one fine day he took that way ... Martin took the award and came back home ... There is the Avestan equivalent of this word, it sounds like Asha ... ....

On Navroz, Delhi takes a slice out of Parsi way of life

Edit The Times of India 26 Mar 2016
New Delhi. They may be few in number, but Parsis are an integral part of Indian culture ... The most ambitious of these exhibitions-The Everlasting Flame ... Prayer fragments in the Avestan script, excerpts from religious texts, an enamelled reliquary casket from Limoges, a delicate griffin bird carved in bone, a faded mural of warrior Rustam spearing an enemy, among others are on display ... RELATED. From around the web ... Recommended By Colombia ....

Shri Arun Jaitley opens the Everlasting Flame International Programme

Edit Newstrack India 19 Mar 2016
Celebrates Multicultural Ethos of the Parsi-Zoroastrian Community ... Najma Heptulla ... The event progressed with Dastur Khurshed, the Vada Dasturji(High Priest) of Udvada invoking Parsi prayer first in Avestan followed by Sanskrit and English translations.A prayer song by Ghazal singer Penaz Masani captivated distinguished audience ... Dr ... a ... b ... c ... Ancient Avestan (the language of Zoroastrians) and Sanskrit belong to the same group of languages. ... ....

Shri Arun Jaitley opens the Everlasting Flame International Programme (Ministry of Minority Affairs of the Republic of India)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Mar 2016
The function began with presenting bouquet of flowers to the dignitaries on dais and lighting the ceremonial lamp.The event progressed with Dastur Khurshed, the Vada Dasturji(High Priest) of Udvada invoking Parsi prayer first in Avestan followed by Sanskrit and English translations.A prayer song by Ghazal singer Penaz Masani captivated distinguished audience....

Campus announces Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Iranian Studies (University of California - Berkeley)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Mar 2016
(Source. University of California - Berkeley) ... Opening hearts and minds ... A seminal position ... UC Berkeley has long focused on scholarship for Persian and Iranian studies, with work on ancient and middle Iranian cultures, religion, philology and languages such as Avestan, Old Persian, Middle Persian and Sogdian - as well as Persian Sufi/mystical literature, medieval Persian philosophy, intellectual history and modern Persian literature....

A common origin of languages

Edit The National 25 Jan 2016
Once upon a time, in a land far away, an ancient storyteller spun a fairy tale that would for thousands of years captivate those who heard it. It is a simple yarn, the story of how a blacksmith strikes a bargain with the Devil, trading his soul for the ability to meld any two materials together ... The English word "mother", for example, is echoed in many languages, including Sanskrit, Iranian Avestan, Lithuanian and Celtic ... He adds....

Institute housing Madam Cama’s will, oldest image of Parsi prophet turns 100

Edit The Times of India 01 Nov 2015
Mumbai. Today, images of the prophet Zarathushtra with his flowing beard, soft brown eyes, and golden halo, are ubiquitous in fire temples and Parsi homes ... When Bombay University was finally established, he ensured Avestan languages were included in its curriculum ... Prods Oktor Skj198rvo, the Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Emeritus at Harvard University, once attempted to catalogue the vast Avestan and Pahlavi collection ... ....

Gawande Lecture Series explores women and law in ancient India (Ohio University)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Oct 2015
(Source. Ohio University). Oct 28, 2015. By McKenzie Powell. Ohio University's biannual Gawande Lecture Series presents, 'Adulterous Woman to Be Eaten by Dogs ... 12 at 7.30 p.m. in OHIO's Ellis Hall 214 ... She has continued to focus her career on Indo-European languages, including Sanskrit, Middle Indo-Aryan and Avestan, and analyzes various literatures in these languages that focus on topics like gender, mythology, religion, law and poetics....

Gwandee lecture promo (Ohio University)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Oct 2015
(Source. Ohio University). Oct 28, 2015. By McKenzie Powell. Ohio University's biannual Gawande Lecture Series presents, 'Adulterous Woman to Be Eaten by Dogs ... 12 at 7.30 p.m. in OHIO's Ellis Hall 214 ... She has continued to focus her career on Indo-European languages, including Sanskrit, Middle Indo-Aryan and Avestan, and analyzes various literatures in these languages that focus on topics like gender, mythology, religion, law and poetics....

Secrets of Kangavar’s temple

Edit Irna 03 Oct 2015
Tehran, Oct 3, IRNA - The small town of Kangavar is about 90 kilometers from Hamedan. Its name may be derived from the Avestan Kanha-vara meaning ‘enclosure of Kanha’ ... ....

Parsi priest earns doctorate in ancient Avesta Pahlavi script

Edit The Times of India 04 Jul 2015
MUMBAI. Rustom House in Grant Road is home to an elderly priest who is a veritable storehouse of Iranian history. Ervad Parvez Bajan has six cupboards for books on Irani and Persian culture and just one for his personal effects ... Most ancient Iranian languages like Avestan, Pahlavi and Pazand are not spoken tongues anymore, he says, yet community youngsters show interest in studying them at Mumbai University ... ....

Spotlight's on khandias, the Parsi 'untouchables'

Edit The Times of India 29 Jun 2015
MUMBAI. Sam Vesuna was 19 when he became a pallbearer at the Parsi Towers of Silence at Malabar Hill ... "When I first saw vultures tearing into human flesh, I was terrified of being attacked," Vesuna recalls ... But not to his "untouchable" status ... Social ostracisation isn't condoned by the scriptures but Avestan scholar, Ervad Parvez Bajan, explains that since corpses are covered in bacteria, khandias are expected to keep their distance ... ....
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