CRICKET India Grabs Test Series Against SA: Team India has been a dominant side in Test Cricket lately! With 240 points in five Tests, India is leads way ahead in points. Virat Kohli and Co. put up a phenomenal show during the 3rd Test against South Africa and won the contest by an innings and […]
Tag: 2019
NCPA Presents ‘Beyond The Stars’ With Keshia B
Offering an eve of Hollywood nostalgia, NCPA presents ‘Beyond the Stars’, featuring Keshia B – a night covering famous and catchy tunes from Hollywood movies and Broadway musicals that lit up the silver screen spanning from the 70’s to date. Known for her soulful voice, Keshia B is known in Mumbai’s musical circuit for her […]
Dutch Queen Maxima Dons Parsi Gara!
Last week, the nation hosted the royal Dutch couple – King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima – over a five-day visit, to boost economic and political cooperation between the Netherlands and India. Why this proved extra exciting for our Community is because the elegant Queen Maxima donned a specially tailored, pink Gara, as she attended a […]
Children Are Nearer Heaven Than We Are
. Fresh from the land of the angels, the child is angelic at birth. It is godlike. The soul enters the body of a child and it sleeps its childhood. The reason sleeps. The conscience sleeps. The child exists. It has not yet begun to live a reasoned, responsible life. The child is innocent, for […]
The Money Manthra
. Money makes the world go round. Today, by far, the greatest challenge we face is to earn more than our needs determine. Most salaried folks look forward to that wonderful ping on the phone that tells them that their salary has been credited to their account. The upward trajectory of the cost of living […]
TSMC Investigates Parsi Cemetery Encroachment
Officers of Telangana State Minorities Commission (TSMC), led by Chairman Mohammed Qamaruddin, visited the Zoroastrian graveyard, located in Kanteshwar Village, Nizamabad district, on 4th October, 2019. The members of the Commission, including Omim Manikshaw Debara, Trustee, Parsi Zoroastrian Anjuman, visited the site along with local Revenue and police officials, with a number of community members. […]
Shireen Mody Murdered In Goa
Shireen Mody, an artist, originally from South Mumbai, and an OCI card holder, who settled in Goa thirty years ago, died on 6th October, 2019, following an assault, allegedly, by her gardener, Praphul Jana, at her bungalow-cum-studio, ‘Saffron Wiehl’, according to the police. The 65-year-old attacker from Assam, Jana, was living at Mody’s home since […]
Poonawallas, Sachin Bansal To Invest In ‘U Gro Capital’
The Poonawallas and Flipkart co-founder, Sachin Bansal, will invest around Rs. 100 crores in small businesses lending platform – ‘U Gro Capital’. As per the Economic Times, the transaction will be undertaken through two separate securitisation and bond deals. The securitisation deal has already been done with Poonawalla Finance, which owns India’s largest vaccine maker, Serum […]
Uran’s Umrigar Agiary Celebrates 115th Salgreh
On 8th October, 2019 (Daepdin Roz, Ardibehest Mah), over five hundred young and old Zarthostis from Surat, Mumbai, New Mumbai and Thane gathered to celebrate the 115th Salgreh of Umrigar Agiary, at Uran. The Havan Geh buoy bells in the Kebla rang at 7:20 am, signifying the presence of Er. Viraf Pavri fulfilling his buoywala […]
WZC2022 Announces Logo Competition
The Zoroastrian Association of Greater New York (ZAGNY), a member association of the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA), will host the 12th World Zoroastrian Congress 2022 (WZC2022) in New York. It has announced a Logo Designing Competition for the WZC2022. The logo should have a Zoroastrian theme – Bridging the Global Zarathushti […]
Dronacharya Awardee ‘Bawa’ Honoured By Bombay Republicans
On 5th October, 2019, Indian hockey stalwarts got together to felicitate Dronacharya Awardee – Marzban Patel, known fondly as ‘Bawa’ (2019); as also Clarence Lobo (2018) – at St Andrews, in Bandra. As part of the reunion organised by the Bombay Republicans Hockey Club and India Rush SC, literally everyone, including Olympians – Joaquim Carvalho, […]