. 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 […]
The Shady Saga of Munching Murgo and Dinky Derko In the Jungle of PP, there existed a very unique combination of trees, animals, mammals and birds… The trees were solid, basking in the glory of the past and looking down in amusement, and sometimes confusion, at what went on in the jungle… Deep… in […]
With the Divali festivities behind them, Meherbai and her Mandli had a Chicken-Farcha-Pe-Charcha with cold coffees at the PVM Gymkhana. The subject under discussion was ‘Sasujis and Vahumais’! Meherbai: My Sasuji was extremely kind and loving and treated me like her own daughter. In fact, she pampered me and at times, she and I would gang-up […]
There are two types of Parsis – those who love tea and those who love coffee. Kekoo Coffeewala, more popularly known as Kekoo-Kalingar (Watermelon) loved coffee since childhood. His psychiatrist knew that Kekoo’s coffee-mania went back to his embryo-stage since his mother Ketayun had an urge for this beverage throughout the nine months she carried […]
Meherbai and Merwanji were enjoying their afternoon tea with Khari biscuits and home-made mava cakes. The fragrance of the freshly baked cakes reached the sensitive noses of their obnoxious neighbours, Jaloo and Aloo, who decided to have some under the guise of a courtesy home- visit. Merwanji answered the door since answering doors for the […]
It was Sheroo’s birthday. She was Meherbai’s neighbour and the birthday-girl personally did all the chowk-chadan-toran-sagan herself before carrying a silver tray containing sev-dahi-banana and a boiled egg covered with a delicate embroidered muslin. Sheroo desperately wanted to get married and ever since she was 20, her parents, friends and match-makers (kaj-walis who were themselves spinsters) showed […]