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Navroz Greetings, Navroze sms wishes messages

editor — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:44:52 +0000

Navroz Greetings, Navroze sms wishes messages. Catch here all the latest news and updated collection 2011 Navroz Greetings, Greeting cards, sms wishes messages. Nowrūz is the name of the New Year in Iranian calendars and the corresponding traditional celebrations.

Nowruz is also widely referred to as the Persian New Year. Nowruz is celebrated and observed by Iranic peoples and the related cultural continent and has spread in many other parts of the world, including parts of Central Asia, Caucasus, South Asia, Northwestern China, the Crimea and some groups in the Balkans.

Navroz sms wishes messages

Subah ho yaa shaam ho,
Din ho yaa raat ho,
Jaane kaise bhi halaat hoN..
Hum nahi bhoolenge aapse kehna..
Aaj hai Jamshedi Navroz..
Dua hai yeh ki ye din aapka khaas ho..
Mubaarak Navroz.

Like birds, let us, leave behind
what we don’t need to carry…
Grudges Sadness Pain Fear & Regrets
Life is beautiful, Enjoy it.
Happy Pateti!

As the New Year begins, let us pray
that it will be a year with new Peace
New Happiness
and abundance of new friends
God bless you throughout the
NEW YEAR

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Navroz Festival 2011, Parsi New Year – Navroze Mubarak

editor — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 05:51:27 +0000

Navroz Festival 2011, Parsi New Year – Navroze Mubarak. Catch here all the latest news and updated reports on jamshedi navroz 2011. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh given salutation to the nation on the occasion of Navorz, the Parsi New Year which falls Navroz 2011 date 21st March.

What is Navroz Festival

Nowrūz (Persian or in Kurdish Newroz “New Day”, originally “New Light”) is the name of the New Year in Iranian calendars and the corresponding traditional celebrations. Nowruz is also widely referred to as the Persian New Year.
Nowruz is celebrated and observed by Iranic peoples and the related cultural continent and has spread in many other parts of the world, including parts of Central Asia, Caucasus, South Asia, Northwestern China, the Crimea and some groups in the Balkans.

Nowruz marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in Iranian calendar. The moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator and equalizes night and day is calculated exactly every year and Iranian families gather together to observe the rituals.

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Parsi New Year greetings, Pateti greeting cards, Navroz festival 2010

editor — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:35:49 +0000

Parsi New Year greetings, Happy Pateti greeting cards, Send free and all new latest Salgirah mubarak Navroz festival 2010 greetings to all your friends. Nowruz is the traditional celebration of the ancient Iranian New Year.

Nowruz is also widely referred to as the Persian New Year. Nowruz is celebrated and observed by Iranian peoples and the related cultural continent and has spread in many other parts of the world, including parts of Central Asia, South Asia, Northwestern China, the Crimea and some ethnic groups in Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia. As well as being a Zoroastrian holiday and having significance amongst the Zoroastrian ancestors of modern Iranians, the same time is celebrated in the Indian sub-continent as the new year. The moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator and equalizes night and day is calculated exactly every year and Iranian families gather together to observe the rituals. Parsi NewYear greetings here below.

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Parsi new year SMS, Happpy Pateti festival wishes, Navroz 2010 messages

editor — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:25:22 +0000

Parsi new year SMS, Send all new and latest Happpy Pateti festival wishes and Navroz 2010 messages from 160by2 free sms. Nowruz Persian: “New Day”, originally “New Light”) is the traditional celebration of the ancient Iranian New Year. Nowruz is also widely referred to as the Persian New Year.

Parsi new year SMS, Send all new and latest Happpy Pateti festival wishes and Navroz 2010 messages from 160by2 free sms. Nowruz Persian: “New Day”, originally “New Light”) is the traditional celebration of the ancient Iranian New Year. Nowruz is also widely referred to as the Persian New Year.

Nowruz is celebrated and observed by Iranian peoples and the related cultural continent and has spread in many other parts of the world also. Nowruz marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in Iranian calendar. As well as being a Zoroastrian holiday and having significance amongst the Zoroastrian ancestors of modern Iranians, the same time is celebrated in the Indian sub-continent as the new year. Happy Parsi new year SMS, Send all new and latest Happpy Pateti festival wishes and Navroz 2010 messages.

Like birds, let us, leave behind what we don’t need to carry…
GRUDGES SADNESS PAIN FEAR and REGRETS.
Life is beautiful, Enjoy it. HAPPY NEW YEAR
Enjoy Pateti

Pateti Parsi New Year SMS
Wishing all Family members
and Dear ones a Happy Pateti
May you all have a Happy,
Peaceful and Prosperous Year ahead

Wish You A every Happy New year to all Parsi!!
Happy Pateti!

All things bright and beautiful.
All Things good & true,
All things fine and wonderful,
All these r wished 4 U on the day and always……………… NAVROZ MUBARAK

Subah ho yaa shaam ho,
Din ho yaa raat ho,
Jaane kaise bhi halaat hoN..
Hum nahi bhoolenge aapse kehna..
Aaj hai Jamshedi Navroz..
Dua hai yeh ki ye din aapka khaa
s ho..
Mubaarak Navroz.

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Pateti 2010 – Parsi New Year – Navroz festival Celebrations

editor — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:34:20 +0000

Pateti 2010 – Parsi New Year – Navroz festival Celebrations. Happy New Year For all Persians, Zoroastrians and Iranians. Zoroastrian brings the Navroze or the Parsi New Year on Thursday – Today (August-19th-2010).

The Ten days before Navroz are marked by prayers for the departed, at Agiaries in the city. The 10th day is called Pateti, which was held on Wednesday, sources reports. Parsis or the Iranis or Zoroastrians go to their worshipping place called as ‘Fire Temple’ or ‘Agyari’. The name itself suggests that they worship ‘fire’. Navroz is celebrated and observed by Iranian peoples and the related cultural continent and has spread in many other parts of the world, including parts of Central Asia, South Asia, Northwestern China, the Crimea and some ethnic groups in Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia. Originally being a Zoroastrian festival, and the holiest of them all, Nowruz is believed to have been invented by Zoroaster himself, although there is no clear date of origin.

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Parsi New Year 2010

editor — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:42:59 +0000

Parsi New Year 2010 date is on 19, Thursday. The latest news and updated reports on Indian Fairs and Festivals. Nowruz (Persian: “New Day”, originally “New Light”) is the traditional celebration of the ancient Iranian New Year. Nowruz is also widely referred to as the Persian New Year.

Nowruz is celebrated and observed by Iranian peoples and the related cultural continent and has spread in many other parts of the world, including parts of Central Asia, South Asia, Northwestern China, the Crimea and some ethnic groups in Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia.

Nowruz marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in Iranian calendar. It is celebrated on the day of the astronomical vernal equinox, which usually occurs on March 21 or the previous/following day depending on where it is observed. As well as being a Zoroastrian holiday and having significance amongst the Zoroastrian ancestors of modern Iranians, the same time is celebrated in the Indian sub-continent as the new year. The moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator and equalizes night and day is calculated exactly every year and Iranian families gather together to observe the rituals.

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‘Jamshedi Noruz Zoroastrians/Parsis festival 2010′

editor — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:25:22 +0000

‘Jamshedi Noruz Zoroastrians/Parsis festival 2010′ – “New day” in Persian is Noruz, and the festival of that name marks the beginning of the year, which is still celebrated at the equinox in modern-day Iran.

Persian King Yima—Jamshid, the most famous of the prehistoric Iranian kings—with the creation of the calendar; as a result, Zoroastrians of Iran have given the name Jamshedi Noruz, “the New Day of Jamshid”, to the New Year observance. *Parsis-Zoroastrians in India the diaspora communities—the Parsis and Iranian Zoroastrians that are observe both holidays, sharing each other’s celebrations.* Zoroastrian Jamshedi Noruz is a public holiday of Zorastrians in Iran.Zoroastrians around the globe including in India, in Iran celebrates Nowruz, the traditional Iranian New Year. For more information, visit Iran Nowruz. Nowruz is celebrated a day after the last day of the year in the Zoroastrian calendar known as Pateti. Jamshedi Noruz 2010 date festival is on 20 Tuesday.

History of Zoroastrians

During the 10th century onwards several groups of Zoroastrians emigrated to Western India and Pakistan, where they became known as the Parsis. Today, Zoroastrianism has its stronghold in India and Pakistan, but Zoroastrianism still survives in Iran proper.

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Pateti festival, Pateti 2009, Parsi New Year,

editor — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:59:59 +0000

Pateti is the festival of the Parsis (Zoroastrian community) is celebrated on the eve of New Year of the Zoroastrian calendar.

Pateti comes in the month of Navroj by the Parsis.On Pateti day, the parsis visit the fire temple or agiary. Other parsi families and exchange gifts and sweets. The parsis worship Ahura Mazda, symbolised by fire. The parsis on this day, promise to live with good thoughts, use good words and perform the right actions.The word pateti is derived from Pazend patet, meaning ‘repentance’. The President of India, Smt Pratibha Patil, greeted the nation on the “joyous occasion” of Navroz, the beginning of the Parsi New Year.Pateti is the Parsi new year’s day. The last day of the Pateti come to fall on the first day of the New Year. The significance of Pateti is that it is the day to dwell on the wrongs or sins one may have committed the previous year, and atoning for them.

Our Indian public holidays.com and we wish everyone a very happy Pateti and prosperous Parsi New Year!

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Parsi New Year, Jamshedi Navroz, Zoroastrians

editor — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:43:21 +0000

Jamshedi Navroz is the Parsi New Year. It usually falls on 21st March. Parsi New Year was named after the legendary King of Persia, Jamshed who started the Parsi Calendar. As per the Parsi mythology, universe is recreated on this day and life with all its glory is cherished. Navroz means spring and is believed Mother Nature casts her spell by dressing up like a young bride. Thus, Navroz gives a new vision to everyone’s life. Parsis celebrate the day with jollity and mirth.

Parsi New Year Traditions

Jamshedi Navroz is the time to be with the near and dear ones and pay respect to the elders of the family. On this day, people get up early in the morning, clean their house, take bath and dress up in new clothes. They decorate the entrance of their houses with colored powders, light incense sticks and place a burning coal scuttle sprinkled with sandalwood powder. This is done to keep the air clean and fresh. There is also a tradition of offer food to the poor on this day.

Parsis lay down certain auspicious items on the table on the day of New Year. It includes a sacred book, a picture of Zarathustra, mirror, candles, incense burner, fruits, flowers, a goldfish bowl, sugar, bread and some coins. These things symbolize prosperity and longevity for the family members.

Parsi New Year Traditions

Parsi delicacies play a very important role in the New Year celebrations. A sweet Ravo (made from sugar, milk and suji) and vermicelli are the best breakfast for Navroz. After breakfast, whole family visits a nearby Fire Temple or Agiary. Priests perform a thanks giving prayer in the temple called Jashan and the congregation offers sandalwood to the Holy Fire with covered heads. They wish each other ‘Sal Mubarak’.

Parsi Navroz lunch consists of pulav (with nuts and saffron), fish and other spicy non-vegetarian food. Cooking plain rice and moong dal is a must in Parsi community. Every visitor to the house is welcomed with sprinkle of rose water and offering faluda (rose flavored chilled vermicelli).

New Year Celebrations ends on the 13th day from the New Year’s day. It is known as ‘Sizdah be dar’. It is the custom of leaving the house for public celebrations. These celebrations are done by visiting out with friends and family members. On this day, people throw their sabzeh (seeds grown at Navroz) into a river. Some unmarried girls tie sprouts of sabzeh and wish for good fortune and love in life while some crack jokes calling it the thirteenth lie(same as April’s fool).

Jamshedi Navroze is one of the three main festive days in the Parsi Calendar. The others being Parsi New year in August and Khordad Saal, the birthday of Zarathustra.Navroze falls on March 21st, which is also Spring Equinox. It is celebrated the world over in various manifestations. It heralds the coming of Spring. In Iran it is celebrated as a ten day celebration and is the one Zoroastrian festival celebrated in an otherwise Islamic country.

Over time, the festival has sometimes been labelled “Jamshedji” navroze, which is a misnomer. It is Jamshedi Navroze, after the ancient Sassanian King Jamshed, who proclaimed the day as the start of the ancient Persian Calendar.

Navroze is one of the oldest known festivals of the Parsis. Firdausi, in his Shah Namesh, Book of Kings, attributes its origin to the legendary King of Persia, Jamshed son of Tehmooraz of the Peshdadian dynasty in Iran. Persia was ruled by many dynasties, the last being the Zoroastrians. It is said that Jamshed was a great king and cared for the welfare of his subjects. Though there were no clocks to measure time, the King sought the help of the great astronomers and mathematicians of his day who devised a calendar which was known as the “Tacquim-e-Nowrooze-e-Sheheriyari”. The King accordingly decided that Navroze or the New Year would start on the Vernal Equinox when night and day were of equal durations

Celebrating Parsi New Year

By arzan sam wadia ⋅ August 20, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

BY Rakshande Italia

If I cherished one special day during the year, besides my birthday, it was the New Year – not Jan. 1, but a day in August when members of my tiny Zoroastrian community in Mumbai, India, celebrated the beginning of their calendar year.

Colloquially referred as Parsi New Year, the day was extra-special as community members, the Parsis, party all day long. One prime reason that this day was special is that unlike the scores of Hindu festivals, which are an all-year-round affair, our community celebrates only two others in the year. Navroze, a celebration of spring equinox, and Khodadsal, the birthday of our prophet Zarathusthtra.

You see, our forefathers landed in India in the eighth century after fleeing the Arab invasion in Persia, refusing to leave their Zoroastrian religion, which is said to be one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions, founded around 1200 B.C.

Today, there are only 150,000 Zoroastrians left worldwide. While India houses the largest population – 65,000 – the Greater Toronto Area comes in second with 6,000. Toronto is unique because Zoroastrians from India, Pakistan and Iran come together here, sharing the same religion even as they have different customs, cultures and languages.

On Aug. 20, Toronto’s Zoroastrians will celebrate the new year, congregating in two community centres in the GTA – one at Bayview and Steeles avenues and another in Oakville. The evening starts with a Jashan, a prayer ceremony, ending late but only after a sumptuous meal and loads of entertainment.

In India, the community doesn’t congregate together as it does here, but there’s a set pattern to the celebration.

In India, you get up early and enjoy sev, a sweet-roasted vermicelli topped with exotic dry fruits and sweet yogurt. Then you don a new outfit and, in your mind, thank the tailor, once more, for delivering it on time (as orders are placed months in advance). You then go to the fire temple, place of worship, where the quaint scent of sandalwood fills the air and the entire temple is lit up with hundreds of oil lanterns, which look even more beautiful in the dark (most big fire temples intentionally don’t have electricity).

When you return home, you gorge on the traditional meal of dal-chaval and patio-thick lentils gravy with rice and spicy prawns or fried fish – all washed down with liberal doses of beer or wine.

After a short snooze, it’s time for entertainment, which takes the form of a parsi natak, a play that’s usually a comedy full of gaffes. As a teenager, I’d find some jokes so corny that I once even resisted going, but on that day you’ve got to grin and bear it – after all, people all around you are laughing.

Next stop is dinner at a restaurant that’s full of Parsee customers, whom you politely greet even though you don’t know them.

As a community, we can laugh at ourselves, but around the world, Zoroastrians are respected for two distinct traits – their honesty and philanthropy, which tie in with the religion’s core beliefs of good thoughts, good words and good deeds, exemplified by the building schools, hospitals, charitable institutions and housing colonies throughout India.

The highly educated community produced pioneers in business, medicine, law, scientific research and atomic energy. Even today, if one walks around Mumbai, several statues in key public places remind us of those Parsi luminaries.

Statues may be missing here, but Parsi authors such as Rohinton Mistry have put Canada on the world stage as have doctors such as Khursheed Jeejeebhoy, Toronto’s top gastroenterologist at St Michael’s Hospital and recipient of 23 international awards and author of 300 research papers.

Philanthropists such as Dr. Dhun Noria, who migrated here with barely $8 in her pocket, is now chief of pathology and the director of laboratory at The Scarborough Hospital, donating more than half a million to various projects within and outside the Zoroastrian community, including the Women’s Health Clinic for the emergency and critical services center at The Scarborough Hospital.

As the diaspora carves its own identity here, Zoroastrians from Iran, Pakistan and India are making efforts to mesh and celebrate each other’s unique cultures and customs, said Daraius Bharucha, who conducts religious classes at the Darbe Meher in Toronto. As well, to encourage Zoroastrian entrepreneurship, a new World Zarthushti Chamber of Commerce has also been set up to help business folk succeed.

As for me, the new year is a time for some nostalgia. So when my brother calls from India, I promptly ask him what natak he went to and if the jokes are still as funny? Out here, some things have changed, some haven’t. I don’t go to the tailor, but make sure my kids wear new clothes. And despite them insisting I not bother cooking sweet sev or dal chaval and patio, I make sure I cook at least one of them with all the trimmings.

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EVERY YEAR CHEZ PANISSE celebrates the coming of Spring with a dinner honoring Parsi New Year, with a menu conceived and executed by Niloufer Ichaporia King, who was born in Bombay to a Parsi family. There have been seventeen thirteen years of these dinners, or perhaps it is seventeen thirteen times these dinners have been presented, I’m not sure which. I think Lindsey and I have been at nearly every one, and they just keep getting better, better in every respect: the conception, the authenticity (which I judge wholly intuitively, knowing nothing of Indian cuisine, let alone Parsi), the richness, the nutritive quality, the colors, aromas, flavors, and textures.

And, you might say, even the fifth sense, hearing: most obviously in the snap of the chipati pappadum, flavored with subtle chili and pungent cuminseed, but more subtly yet more substantially in the musical quality of the dinner, its sequence of courses, rhythms, and repeated notes.

We began with little dishes of cashews, lightly seasoned to match the pappadum, and pickled tiny carrots and radish slices, with a nice twist on Kir royale: a glass of cava flavored with pomegranate juice.

Then came Bombay potato balls — deep fried mashed potatoes, I’d say — with fried curry leaves and steamed semolina bread, with an avocado chutney on the side, a delicious Parsi version of guacamole, perhaps, all prettily laid out on a banana leaf. Those curry leaves! crisp, pungent, deep…

Then a bowl of Niloufer’s traditional “Auspicious dal,” to confirm the promise of the New Year, with its Zen-like circle of spices further delineating the significance. With these two courses we had a fine Pinot blanc from Domaine Weinbach (Alsace), 2006.

Three oysters on the half shell came next, an Arcimboldo version of a fleur-de-lis, on a bed of rock salt, with a mignonette sauce lifted judiciously with lime and chili: perfect with a little glass of Crémant pink with the skins of its pinot noir.

Plat principal: and the photo does not do it justice. Grilled and braised rabbit in pistachio cream; springtime pulao (pilaf) with peas; a deep green note of nettles and chard, reminding us that Spring issues from the dark depths of Winter; and chicory salad with tamarind and slices of kumquats. The rabbit was succulent, meaty yet delicate, the cream sauce complex but light with its pistachio and turmeric. With this, a cuirous an very good “Vassal de Puech” Languedoc 2006, earthy and fertile.

Rhubarb Ice, faluda, and sweets:

the faluda recalling the feel (though not the flavor!) of the pistacho cream, the little date pastry visually recalling the Bombay potato… what an intelligent, artful, good-humored dinner this was. And, as always, a delightfully printed menu decorated by David King (who also pounce-stencils the ritual blessings on the steps to the restaurant), and fabulous floral displays… too bad it comes but once a year. At other times we make do with Niloufer’s fine book, My Bombay Kitchen, and look forward to next March.

Parsi New Year, Jamshedi Navroz is the Parsi New Year, Tacquim-e-Nowrooze-e-Sheheriyari. Parsi New Year was named after the legendary King of Persia, Jamshed who started the Parsi Calendar. It is said that Jamshed was a great king and cared for the welfare of his subjects. As per the Parsi mythology, universe is recreated on this day and life with all its glory is cherished. Navroz means spring and is believed Mother Nature casts her spell by dressing up like a young bride. Thus, Navroz gives a new vision to everyone’s life. Parsis celebrate the day with jollity and mirth.

As a community Zoroastrians are respected for two distinct traits – their honesty and philanthropy, which tie in with the religion’s core beliefs of good thoughts, good words and good deeds, exemplified by the building schools, hospitals, charitable institutions and housing colonies throughout India.

Forefathers landed in India in the eighth century after fleeing the Arab invasion in Persia, refusing to leave their Zoroastrian religion, which is said to be one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions, founded around 1200 B.C.

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Parsi, Zoroastrian Holidays or festivals during 2009 | Khordad Sal

editor — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:08:28 +0000

Parsi, Zoroastrian Holidsays or festivals during 2009, The Parsi calendar is divided into 12 months of equal length and five festal days.

The Parsi calendar is divided into 12 months of equal length and five festal days. The five festal days are presided over by guardian angels. So are each of the other days of the year. So, loosely, every day of the year could be considered special.

The Zoroastrian year has six seasons, and there is one major festival in each season – feasts known as Gahambars, that later got associated with religion. The Zoroastrian feasts are elaborate affairs.

Zoroastrian festivals occur during different months of the year, depending on the calendar that is followed. There are three different calendars, and three sects of Zoroastrians based on the calendar they follow.

However, most of the Zoroastrians in India follow the Shehanshahi, or Parsi, calendar, not the Iranian (Kadimi) or the Fasli calendar. According to this, the new year, Pateti, falls sometime in August. The Kadimi new year is not officially recognised in India, though the Fasli new year, Jamshed-E-Navroz, is.

The other important Zoroastrian festivals are Khordad Sal, the birthday of Zarathushtra; Muktad, All Souls’ Day; Zardosht, the day commemorating the death of Zarathushtra; and Adar roj nu Parab, the birthday of fire. There are also festivals in homage to justice, water, the rains and fertility. Besides, specific rites are prescribed for the special occasions of a Zoroastrian’s life, like birth, initiation (Navjote, the sacred shirt and thread ceremony) marriage (lagan) and death.

In a closed community like the Zoroastrians’, whose celebrations don’t spill over into the streets or even out of their homes and temples, it can be very difficult to know what their religion and festivals are like, except from a source. But if you can get access to a traditional Zoroastrian home, you could get one side of the picture first-hand.

Khordad Sal is the major festival for Parsi, Zoroastrian which is the birthday of Zarathushtra

Zoroastrian festivals occur during different months of the year, depending on the calendar that is followed, Shehanshahi, or Parsi, calendar, not the Iranian (Kadimi) or the Fasli calendar. There are three different calendars, and three sects of Zoroastrians based on the calendar they follow.

The Zoroastrian year has six seasons, and there is one major festival in each season – feasts known as Gahambars, that later got associated with religion.

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