When we enter our car with our phones, we want everything to turn hands-free. Android Auto does just that. You can connect your phone to a compatible car display, or put your phone in a dock and use Android Auto directly from your phone screen. It works with any car which has compatible Bluetooth connection […]
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Know Your Bombay! – 28th January 2017
Sassoon Dock Sassoon Dock was built in 1875 on reclaimed land, by the banking and mercantile company – David Sassoon & Co. The docks were owned by Albert Abdullah David Sassoon (1818–1896), son of David Sassoon. It is one of the oldest docks situated just off Cuffe Parade in South Mumbai, and one of the […]
Caption This! – January 28, 2017
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mail.parsitimes@gmail.com by 2nd February, 2017. . . . . .
Know Your Bombay! – 21st January 2017
Cuffe Parade Cuffe Parade, the Southern-most region of Mumbai city, was named after T W Cuffe of the Bombay City Improvement Trust, which reclaimed around 75,000m² on the western shore of Colaba. Much of Cuffe Parade was developed on reclaimed land in the 1960s. . . Mazagaon The word Mazagaon has been derived from the […]
Caption This! – January 21, 2017
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Film Review: The Bye Bye Man
There are film crazy folks who adore watching horror flicks purely to test themselves for the jump scares. And then there are those who don’t care about which film they are shelling out valuable bucks for. For the fist category, a word of advice — skip it, wait for the next horror film—any one would […]
Film Review: The Founder
Welcome to the American world of corporate take-overs, welcome to the land of inked contracts, cheesy hand-shake agreements, milkshakes and burgers. Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) is a struggling traveling proprietor-cum-salesman from Illinois, touring towns, attempting to sell his five-spindled milkshake machine and getting doors slammed in his face – well, most of the time. And […]
Film Review: Ok Jaanu
Shaad Ali’s (Saathiya) tryst with the romance genre continues. This time he’s opted to remake Mani Ratnam’s Tamil version of ‘OK Kadhal Kanmani’. Adi (Aditya Roy Kapur), a video-game designer from Kanpur, meets Tara (Shraddha Kapoor), an architecture graduate at a friend’s church wedding. The two don’t have any compunctions about communicating and relaying phone […]
Film Review: Haraamkhor
Released with barely an ado, Haraamkhor is the story of 15-year-old Sandhya (Shweta Tripathi), a small town schoolgirl infatuated with her school teacher Shyam (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), even as 12-year-old Kamal (Irfan Khan) secretly pines for Sandhya. Goading him on is his confidant Minto (Mohammed Samad). Writer-Director Shlok Sharma, in his debut feature film — one […]
Know Your Bombay! – 14th January 2017
Breach Candy The name originates from a Hindi-Arabic fusion word, ‘Burj-Khadi’. The area has many famous landmarks throughout its long and winding stretch, from the Breach Candy Hospital to Amarsons, and Tata gardens and Lincoln House, the former location of the Consulate General of the United States in India. The elite Breach Candy Club in […]
Caption This! – January 14, 2017
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mail.parsitimes@gmail.com by 19th January, 2017. . . . . .