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 ...

Naoroji Rustom, the first Parsi to visit England, dons a robe of honor given to him by the British East India Company. He wears it over traditional Parsi dress. The embroidery on a sari is an example ...

For more than 1,000 years, Parsis have thrived in South Asia but an ageing population and emigration to the West driven by instability in Pakistan means the tiny community of "fire worshippers" could ...

NEW YORK (AP) — SOAS University’s Almut Hintze, a professor of Zoroastrianism, has described the global community as “microscopically small” and worries about the decline of Parsis in India. NEW YORK ...

The gara is a type of embroidery that is unique to Parsi saris. Traditional hand-embroidered garas are considered heirlooms and Parsi women typically wear them on festive occasions. The saris feature ...

It could be an event quite unprecedented in the 3000-year-old history of the Zoroastrian religion. A group of reformists in the community, called the Association for Revival of Zoroastrianism (ARZ), ...

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.

Farokh Talati has always wanted to share Parsi food with the world, his long-held goal being to open a Parsi restaurant to share the traditions and innovations of the cuisine he loves. And it was this ...

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, ...