The Daguerre type and other pioneering photographic equipment of the mid-19th centuries could not do justice to the portraits of our rigid, somber-faced grand and great-grand parents, mainly due to the subject’s restricted movements while facing the huge, cumbersome, cavernous cameras, with the cameramen hidden behind the apparatus, covered with a couple of yards of […]
During my long life, I’ve collected many friends with strange habits and weird outlooks… next level eccentrics! A fair number of them are plain, home-grown-garden variety of loonies, few atheists, a couple of agnostics, many religious fanatics, a handful of hypochondriacs, one narcissist, some faddists and, last but not the least, an Anglophile, better known within […]
It’s the most longed for day, it’s the most dreaded of days. It’s the day sans wisdom, a personification of foolishness, a day of great contradictions. The day of….. “Darabsha! Stop rambling and get to the point!” That’s Madam Editor, “Sorry Madam, tukku and pointed, eh! Right-o!” My apologies to Dickens too. Soon it will […]
What is 18… or, let’s say, what is 80! Almost the same! It’s just a matter of juggling a zero with one! I would like my Math teacher – Mr. K T, to see me now juggle these figures. I could hardly do addition, subtraction, very rarely multiplication and even more rarely, division. I am […]
Parsi Times presents the concluding part of our popular series highlighting some of Mumbai’s prominent statues, by Dara Khodaiji Mumbai is adorned with some brilliant displays of statues of the British, Parsis and great Indians, at various locations. These speak of the history of our nation and our city… in stones, marbles and bronze. Continuing […]
Parsi Times presents the second part of the interesting series on some of the prominent statues of Mumbai, by Dara Khodaiji Mumbai is adorned with some brilliant displays of statues of the British, Parsis and great Indians, at various locations. These speak of the history of our nation and our city… in stones, marbles and […]
Parsi Times presents the first part of the interesting series on some of the prominent statues of Mumbai, by Dara Khodaiji Mumbai has some of the finest displays of statues of British, Parsis and great Indians at various locations, mostly in South Mumbai. These speak of the history of our nation and our city in […]
“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai Teaching is indeed the noblest profession of all and teachers are the guiding force in a child’s life, that shapes their destiny. Teaching not only imparts knowledge, but opens the young mind to infinite possibilities, […]
As we near 21st March, Ratimai tends to get mushy. “Darab, remember how we said ‘Pasand-e Kardim’ (the Parsi equivalent of ‘I do’) forty-three years ago, just on the very happy day of Jamshedji Navroz? “Harrumph!” reacted Darabsha. “Why the ‘harrumphing’? There is nothing to be grumpy about! ’Tis the season of plenty! Plenty of […]
– Mithuben Petit And Zarin Daruwala – Mithuben Petit: Born during the last decade of the long reign of Queen Victoria, on 11 April 1891, to (Hormasji) Sir Dinshaw and Lady Sakarbai Petit, Mithuben Petit passed her senior Cambridge from the Convent of Jesus and Mary, at Colaba, in Mumbai. While still in […]
What’s in a word? Simply this… a mélange of consonants and vowels, all put together in a pattern to form a word. Words come together to form a sentence. A senten—-oops here I go preachy, preachy. When it comes to anything to do with a language or literature, mainly English, the teacher and lecturer in […]