One early morning, amid streets full of the sleeping, homeless poor of India, well-known author and journalist – Malcolm Muggeridge accompanied Mother Teresa to Calcutta railway station to see her off, and this is what he wrote: “When the train began to move and walk away, I felt as though I was leaving behind me […]
Human beings are both, wise and foolish, at ANY age. We are either filled with optimism or soured by setbacks. We could be alive and kicking in our old age or silenced and numbed within the four walls of our home. Some people in their fifties, sixties and seventies live with the fearful feeling of abandonment […]
To be respected is a far greater compliment than Love. They say respect for ourselves guides our morals, while respect for others guides our manners. There is no relationship without mutual respect. So, what is respect really? They say it is a positive feeling towards another’s skills, opinions or characteristics. It also means honoring a […]
Decidedly, love, as a feeling or emotional state, is complicated, confusing, exasperating enough… but add to the mix, a pandemic of the coronavirus proportion, and we are distinctly headed for the evolvement of a new kind of romance! The state of affairs (pun intended) at present is in a new kind of disarray. By early […]
Dear Readers, Love, Actually With Valentine’s Day round the corner, many get into frenzied brainstorming sessions on gift-giving. From the humble card, which professes all kinds of affections, as if trying to make up for the lack of a ‘real gift’… to the ‘real-gifts’ themselves –dazzling solitaire diamonds on platinum bands or race-cars or then, […]
Once upon a time, not very long ago, lived three very eligible bachelor ‘boys’ (all over 60), who were trying in vain for many years to marry a nice, 100% pure-Parsi girl, i.e. both the parents of the girl should be Parsis. But alas! Something or the other always went wrong and either the girls […]
Thou, Ahura Mazda, hast put love of one’s country in every human breast. Thou hast made the land of his birth dear to man. Airyana Vaeja, the stemland of the Aryans, was the best of all lands, says the Vendidad, that thou didst create. Airyana, Iran became the primitive fatherland of our ancestors… Here was […]
Truth is the paramount virtue. It embraces and embodies other virtues within its fold. It is the all-inclusive virtue. Beautiful and sublime is truth. It is divine. Knowledge is truth and goodness is truth and religion is truth and God, the giver of all, is truth. To love truth and to love God, are one […]
Raell Padamsee’s Ace Productions brings the hit adult comedy, ‘Anything But Love’, starring Mandira Bedi and Samir Soni, to South Mumbai. Produced by Raell Padamsee and directed by Vikrant Pawar, this rom-com is a story of two recently divorced people, still very much in love! Will life give them a second chance or will they conform? […]
Animal welfare NGO, The Welfare of Stray Dogs (WSD), is holding a Books and Garage Sale till 15th January, 2019 as a fund raiser to sustain the organization and continue working towards the welfare of our lesser fortunate Indie breeds that roam the streets. The sale items offered at throw-away prices include books (fiction, non-fiction, […]
An ancient Indian legend tells of a prince who met a maiden with the body of a Goddess and eyes of a gazelle in spring-time. He told her, “I know why you are wearing this black sari embroidered in gold –it’s coz in a primeval forest you were a tigress and I was a tiger. […]