In keeping with the ongoing summer season, PT’s Writer extraordinaire, Dara Khodaiji presents a hilarious Bawaji Travel Story-Series, filled with humour and fun, to kick off that perfect weekend mood! It’s Sunday morning of 10th March. Rutimai is immersed in Parsi Times. Darabsha is lolling on his easy chair and mulling over the Racing Times. […]
Just like my hair, it’s come and gone. Just like Jehangir Uncle’s breathing, and Coomi Aunty’s sighing… it just came and left. Of course, many people hope Coomi Aunty would leave the room with her sighs, but that’s a story for another day. But, now that you bring it up, do you ever wonder why […]
. Dear Persian reader (86%), Dear Half Persian reader (9%), Dear Non Persian reader (5%), and Dear Shri Rahul Gandhi (.25%), in this column the writer, (henceforth to called myself), will use his years of being ignored by women, (Parsi and non-Parsi), to bring low light into dark tunnels. It is similar to what the […]
Coomi Kaajwali came to Meherbai’s house to exchange a soiled 500 Rupee note saying, “Meherbai, mari jaaon tamara par thi, please change this meli-gheli note for a nice new crispy one. You see, our entire family of ten members has to attend a lagan this evening and I don’t have a decent note for the 501 rupees pehramni.” Meherwanji: Coomi-mai, this is our house, […]
Parsi Times is thrilled to welcome on board the absolutely hilarious and super talented, TV, theatre and Bollywood personality, Cyrus Broacha, known for his inexhaustible and uproarious wit! What better way to ring in the New Year than laughter? And who better than Aapro Cyrus, the Brand Ambassador of Humour itself, to ensure we’re on […]
. Idioms aren’t idiotic. They are replete with wisdom, lessons in morals and a lot more besides being amusing. ‘Being the breadwinner’: Most of our life is spent in working and earning our livelihood, or being the breadwinner. ‘Breadwinner’ stands for someone who works and earns for the family, especially the sole earner. This phrase […]
. To Be ‘Born With A Silver Spoon In The Mouth’: It was back in time, in England, when the majority of the people in the middle ages used to have wooden cutlery. It was only the wealthy who were fortunate to have metal spoons. Silver spoons were often given by the wealthy godparents to their God-children on […]
મરહુમ મહારાજ શ્રી સ્વયંજ્યોતિના સહકાર્યકર્તા જયેશ એમ. ગોસ્વામી . ARIES | મેષ: અ.લ.ઈ. 20મી સપ્ટેમ્બર સુધી બુધ તમારી બુધ્ધિને વાણીયા જેવી બનાવી દેશે ફાયદાની વાત પહેલા જાણવા મળી જશે. કામકાજને વધારવા માટે ગામ-પરગામ જવાનો પ્લાન બનાવી શકશો. બીજાને તમારા મનની વાત સમજાવી શકશો. ફસાયેલા નાણા ભાગદોડ કરી મેળવી લેશો. દરરોજ ‘મહેર નીઆએશ’ ભણવાનું ચાલુ રાખજો. […]
There’s Plenty Of Octopuses In The Sea! “There are plenty of fish in the sea,” they said. “It will be fun,” they said. I tried online dating for 6 months. All I caught was a cold. And that’s the good news…. Here’s the not-so-good news…. Women are most afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men […]
There is a mistaken notion that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. This is a fallacy. A man is all stomach, especially a Parsi. It is not a via-media to anything else. His love for food has led him to plagiarize culinary marvels from all over the world. I find it […]
It happened one day, the time I was trying to eke out a satisfactory living, satisfactory to my wife, struggling times for me. I had to meet a CEO of a foreign company. I had fixed up an appointment with his secretary for 9:30 am. At 9:25am, I entered her office. The secretary, unused to […]