Our lives don’t come with maps and instructions. Everyone experiences twists and turns – from everyday challenges to traumatic events with more lasting impacts, like the death of a loved one, a life-altering accident, or a serious illness or them, this global pandemic. But most of us are able to adapt well over time to […]
For all the talk about patient-centered care and a new health-care paradigm – which is most certainly the right way forward, the clinician-patient relationship has always remained relatively one-sided because of the nature of the profession itself. Essentially, patients come to clinicians for help, and the knowledge transfer, advice and guidance most often flows in […]
When things become old, we replace them with something new… a blitzkrieg of advertisements catch our eye, tempting and luring us to buy the new and dispose the old. We then boast about new purchases… “My triple door fridge,” or “our ultra-modern music-system.” Alas, soon, markets get inundated with newer, better and more advanced versions […]
I’m sure all of us are only too familiar with the three basic principles or tenets of our religion – Good Thoughts, Good Words and Good Deeds. So then, what’s the fourth one? Is it some kind of a missing link? Like the fourth wise man? No dear readers, the ‘Four Keys or Pillars’ of […]
It’s the seasonal festival of spring and a time when Mother Nature herself seems to have a spring in her feet! Summer, autumn and winter also have their charm, but spring is perhaps the most charming season among them all. Temperatures are moderate, the days get longer and nights turn shorter… migrating birds return to […]
Kaizad Dastoor takes forward the valiant fire-fighting family tradition from his father, Mehernosh Faramroze Dastoor, as well as his grandfather, Faramroze Erachshaw Dastoor – both intrepid Fire-fighters, who greatly inspired Kaizad. While his father served the A’bad Fire Station from 1984 to 2021, being on call 24/7 for any emergencies, and was awarded the prestigious […]
For the first time in all these years of greeting the community on Jamshedi Navroz, I feel the need to say a little more… My term as a trustee started with great promise, as our trio – Late Zarir Bhathena, Noshir Dadrawala and I – with the active support of then BPP Chairman, Yazdi Desai, […]
As per the Shehenshahi Zoroastrian calendar the Holy month of Ava will commence this year on 14th March, 2022, and devout Zoroastrians will wend their way to river banks, seashores and wells to offer homage to Ava, the Divinity that presides over the waters. The term Ava is derived from the word Aap or Aapo – the Divine Cosmic […]
Special Leave Petition Filed In Supreme Court And Withdrawn By Zuleika Homavazir And Others Just A Day Before Dinshaw Mehta Files Intervention In High Court A Supreme Court Order (printed alongside) has been made available to Parsi Times – the record of proceedings in the Supreme Court of India, dated 21st February, 2022, challenging the […]
IT IS RAINING FALSE PROMISES!!! It appears that after Parsi Times exposed the fake promises of ‘converting Licensee to Tenancy’ and the huge stamp duty involved, the Mehta father-son duo are trying desperately to disprove (or prove) the stamp duty calculations. Simple answer: STOP LYING! The Big Tenancy Fraud… Being unable to promise housing to […]
Psychologist Mehezabin Dordi practices at the Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital This year’s theme for International Women’s Day (IWD) is, “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow,” which has essentially birthed a whole new hashtag – ‘Break the bias’. But from a mental health perspective, what makes the tomorrow more sustainable? Women’s day is […]