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Wondering what to get Mom for Mother’s Day? I recommend Niloufer Ichaporia King’s “My Bombay Kitchen” (University of California Press, $27.50), a lush memoir in the form of a cookbook, by a talented writer and inspired cook who grew up in a Parsi household in Bombay.
With pervading wit and droll sense of humor, she tells us what it means to be part of the 3,000-year-old Parsi culture, and how this plays out in a crazy amalgam of India and the West. Read More »
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www.telegraphindia.com By : SOUMITRA DAS
... a Zoroastrian by faith, and although she does not practise it, she admits that the “ethnicity” is there. With the typical self-deprecatory humour of her people, she says Parsis were always “very visible”, though “counted in numbers they were never more than a couple of hundreds”. ...
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After Sankho Chaudhuri died last year in Delhi at 90, his widow kept herself occupied by organising an exhibition of pieces, which were waiting to be forged or cast during the celebrated sculptor’s illness and were given shape to by Chandrakant Bhatt, who was Read More »
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Vice-President Esfandyar Rahim Mashayee said Iran’s ancient clay tablets which had been entrusted to Chicago University more than 60 years ago will definitely be returned to Iran in future.
Speaking to FNA, Mashayee who is the head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, said that the US court dealing with the case has no way out but to issue a verdict in favor of Iran.
The official reminded that purchase of the world nations’ cultural heritages is absurd and a waste of money, “because international conventions and treaties rule out any possibility for transfer of the ownership of the ancient artifacts and cultural heritages of the countries.”
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... Its history dates to the pre-Islam era when Iran's Zoroastrians praised exceptional calligraphy as an art form. ...
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Tokyo’s Ancient Orient Museum has displayed a collection of Persian calligraphy produced by a female Japanese artist and her pupils.
The exhibition puts on display 30 works created during classes instructed by a Japanese master of Persian calligraphy, Hisako Tsunoda.
The event, continuing through March 11, was attended by Iran’s cultural attaché in Tokyo. Javad Kazemi expressed Iran’s readiness to cooperate with Japanese artists interested in Iranian art and culture. Read More »
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