Be Parsi, Buy Parsi – An Atma-nirbhar Community! Dear Readers, Even as we welcome and brace ourselves for the outpouring of our Rain-gods, the overcast skies add only marginally to the gloom that the pandemic has set in. In addition to having claimed innumerable lives across the world, COVID-19 has emerged as the modern-day nemesis […]
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 15th July, 2020. WINNER: Trump: I renamed Covid the ‘China Virus’ – your economy will go into a slump! Xi Jinping: And what about the US-virus that the whole world calls ‘Trump’?? […]
On 29th June, 2020 Mumbai’s 20-year-old Khushnaz Nevil Dadrewalla secured second position in the Under-21 category of the All India Open Girls Online Chess Tournament, organised by Shri Sheetala Mata Shaktipeeth Trust, New Delhi, through Lichess.org digital platform. A total of eighty-five girls participated in the event from all across India. Holding up the Mumbai […]
“There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, and no justice outside of the common imagination of human beings,” says Yuval Noah Harari in his book, ‘Sapiens’. Harari argues that humanity functions cooperatively because human beings created religions and belief systems, political societies, financial markets, judicial systems etc… That these common, […]
After the success of his previous volume of the acclaimed Sufi saint and poet – Jalal-ud-din Rumi’s poems, Farrukh Dhondy is back with a brand new collection of Rumi’s translations. The UK-based writer, playwright and activist has selected and translated a new collection of Rumi’s poetries, in a book titled, ‘Rumi – A New Collection’, […]
Avesthagen Limited, with support from the Foundation for a Smoke Free World, New York, USA, is developing a systems biology-based approach for the early predictive diagnosis of tobacco related cancers such as lung, head and neck, esophagus, stomach, colon, prostate and bladder cancers to achieve cessation of smoking. Researchers at Avesthagen Limited are studying how […]
Earlier this week, Adar Poonawalla, Chief Executive Officer of Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, said that an approval for SII’s vaccine by the Drug Controller General of India (DGCI) was at least six months away, as the organisation is focussed on following due processes ensuring its safety and efficacy. “Once […]
The third part of ‘The Zen Series’ shares the story about an old man learning a valuable lesson from a young girl saving starfishes on the beach… “An old man walks down to the beach and sees it is covered with tens of thousands of starfish, as far as the eye can see. Far down […]
Whenever there was a formal or even a semi-formal occasion, Meherwanj’s BP would rise to the rooftop, because like most women, his wife – Meherbai, was never ready on time. Just as philosophers keep asking, “What is the purpose of life?” Meherwanji kept asking “Why do wives take so long to dress?” Oh hello! He was […]
This week, Chef Delzad shares a delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes for the monsoons – the perfect accompaniment with your evening drinks or anytime of the day! . . . BEER BATTER FRIED PRAWNS WITH SRIRACHA MAYO For The Sriracha Mayo Ingredients: Mayonnaise – 3 tbsp; Mafia Chef’s Sriracha – 1 tbsp; Garlic paste – 1 […]
Zarathushtra of the family of Spitamas first heard Thee, Ahura Mazda. No sublime words were heard aforetime like those which he spoke in Thy name in Ancient Iran. The seeingly blind and the hearingly deaf laughed Zarathushtra to scorn and held him up to the ridicule of all. He was forsaken by the faint-hearted. He […]