Twenty years ago, UNESCO requested me to create a programme on the Parsi Zoroastrians, as they realized that this community was facing demographic extinction. With the loss of culture, the world loses a part of its wisdom and UNESCO’s mandate was for us to record this culture. Even as a student and teacher of the […]
What is old age? Old age is reflective of an old and failing body which will simply not cooperate. It lets one down every so often. Old age is a period of reversal of our faculties. Little babies are born totally helpless but are well taken care of, with great love and immense pleasure by […]
It was spring cleaning time. The ‘bhangarwalla’ was standing by. Every-so-often he would ask, “what else?” As the lady of the house discarded things, a quiet voice from behind, asked softly, “why don’t you give away this old model as well?” Shocked, the lady turned to look at her old mother sitting on a chair […]
What The Community Needs To Know One of the sad truths, that our Community and its unsuspecting members have had to endure, is the repetitive attempts of those who wish to put a spanner in the works – whenever our Community is on the path of progress. ‘Two steps forward, one step back’, has become […]
ખુશી બહુ વ્યાપક શબ્દ છે, જે આનંદ, સંતોષ અને સમાધાનની પોઝિટિવ લાગણીઓના અનુભવને વર્ણવે છે. રિસર્ચના પરિણામો દેખાડે છે કે, માનસિક સ્વાસ્થ્યને શારીરિક સ્વાસ્થ્ય સાથે સીધો સંબંધ છે. ખુશ રહેવાથી તમને સારું તો લાગે જ છે, પણ એ ઉપરાંત ખુશ રહેવાના અનેક સંભવિત સ્વાસ્થ્ય લાભ પણ છે…. ટૂંકમાં, ખુશ રહેવાથી તમે હેલ્થી રહી શકો છો. […]
ખુશી એવી અદભુત લાગણી છે જે આપણે ત્યારે અનુભવીએ છીએ જ્યારે આપણને લાગે છે કે જીવન બહુ સારું છે અથવા તો સારી રીતે પસાર થઈ રહ્યું છે અને જ્યારે આપણે કોઈ કારણ વિના સ્મિત કરીએ છીએ. એ સુખાકારી, આનંદ, સંતોષ, ગર્વ, કાર્યસિદ્ધિ, સફળતા અથવા સમાધાનની લાગણી છે. ખુશીની આ લાગણી ગમે એટલી ક્ષણભંગુર કેમ ન […]
Diana Marfatia Diana Marfatia completed her M.A in Social Work in 1985 from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. After which she worked as a School Counsellor in the B.J.P.C Institution and Sir Cowasji Jehangir School. […]
One often hears Parsis say that they are proud to be Parsis. However, try asking the average Parsi in the street what it means to be a Zarathushtrian (a follower of Prophet Zarathushtra) and you are likely to draw a blank. At best, you are likely to hear the over-simplified and stereotyped message of, ‘Good […]
Laugh and be merry together, like brothers akin, Guesting awhile in the rooms of a beautiful inn, Glad till the dancing stops, and the lilt of the music ends. Laugh till the game is played; and be you merry, my friends. A Parsi is an epicure, loving the good living and his millennia old Zoroastrian […]
I’m certain that every passionate motorcycle aficionado, will know most of these motorcycles, if not all. Should any of us get down to making our own lists – they would differ every single time, albeit with plenty of overlaps from the below mentioned makes and models. Here is my homage, to what I feel, were […]
Four men drove into their residential baugs at different times, at night. Failing to find parking below their respective homes, they circled the colony twice to find the closest spot and that is when four expletives escaped their lips. But these were no ordinary men who buckled under pressure. Oh no, sir! They were men […]