Do you know that a Teacher could possibly impact your child’s life in more ways that you could ever imagine? With the Pandemic scare and the lockdowns globally, 2020 has been a year of appreciation. Now more than ever, the medical faculty and teachers are being respected and acknowledged for their contributions everywhere. Under normal […]
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Culling Out The Negative
Life is about experiencing happiness and living in a relatively healthy, balanced and positive manner. When we decide to become positive, it’s not a simple act of flipping a switch mentally – choices have to be made and hard decision taken to detox your life from all sources of negativity, followed up with correlating action. […]
Of Mothers And Daughters
In the Egyptian book of the dead as well as the Buddhist ‘Bardo Thodol’, it is mentioned that when a soul is about to incarnate, it chooses its own mother with the help of Karmic-angles within the limitations of its Karma. It also says that not all souls come to give happiness to the mother. […]
Dr. Mickey Mehta Celebrates 50 Glorious Years Of Yoga On His 59 th Birthday!
Aapro Dr. Mickey Mehta is celebrating his 59th birthday today, on the 29th of August, 2020. It’s a milestone for him as it marks 50 glorious years of his living and breathing Yoga! Few can believe that at the shy age of nine, Mickey took his first steps into what would become, not only a […]
Gourmet Garnish by Shiraz
“What do I cook? Hoon su randhu??” sighed Freny Fatakia, with the perineal question in every household since time immemorial! As most of us continue working from home, juggling work and household chores, we realize it’s not getting any easier, even as the surging cases of coronavirus keep us cooped up at home, amid frayed […]
High ‘Weigh’ to Corona!
It’s a given to say that the most important weapon to fight the corona virus is in our own hands – taking the onus to maintain optimum levels of health and fitness – only then can the vaccination work as a desirable adjunct to help combat the virus. It’s a rather unfortunate fact that health […]
The Community Deserves To Know… The TRUTH!
Kersi Randeria Shares… Since the last two years, I have been sincerely trying to make things work smoothly and peacefully at the BPP, to put aside all the old differences, personal attacks and senseless infighting. My efforts started with putting on the BPP agenda, a request for developing an internal ‘Code of Conduct’ for the […]
The Zen Series: The Gates Of Paradise
In the eighth episode of ‘The Zen Series’, we learn an important lesson based on the story – ‘The Gates of Paradise’. A soldier named Nobushige came to Hakuin, and asked, “Is there really a paradise and a hell?” “Who are you?” inquired Hakuin. “I am a samurai,” the warrior replied. “You, a soldier!” exclaimed […]
Finding Forgiveness
There is no knowing what people will do when they are about to die, but one thing is for certain, a human heart bleeds for forgiveness at death’s door. Life starts as a clean slate, an empty book, gradually filled with your own hand and what destiny doled out generously, or held back tightly with […]
Those Were the Days
‘Those were the days my friends’, as the song goes, and I thought they’d never end but the days went by, each bringing unnoticeable changes, and over the years came the realization that things have changed, tremendously and the only constant in life is change itself. Of course, making a Socratesian or Aristotalean, face, we […]
Cawas Sorabji Panthaki – A Tribute
The loss of Cawassa (as I would fondly call him) leaves a void that will be very difficult to fill. He was as strict, as he was compassionate. He was as kind, as he was firm. He was a simple man dedicated to his work and totally committed to the welfare of the community. Cawassa […]