કાલે આવાં રોજ છે. દાદાર અહુરામઝદાએ કરેલી રચના, બધા હમદીનો ભીખા બહેરામના કુવા પર જઈ પ્રાર્થના કરશે. આવાં અરદવીસુર અનાહિતા બાનુ જે આપણા વહેતા પાણીની રક્ષા કરે છે જે અન્ય માનવજાત, પ્રાણીઓ, ઝાડ-પાન તથા પ્રવાહી જીવનને ટકાવી રાખવા અત્યંત જરી છે. આપણે જરથોસ્તીઓ પ્રકૃતિના તમામ સ્વપો જે દૈવી ઉર્જા સાથે આવ્યા છે તેમની પ્રાર્થના દ્વારા […]
Tag: 24 September 2016 Issue
Trustee Viraf Mehta Accuses Parsi Times And Ends Up With Foot In Mouth!
BPP Chairman Yazdi Desai Responds To Trustee Viraf Mehta Dear Viraf, I had sent the communication to the Editor of the Parsi Times after talking to my colleagues, Zarir Bhathena and Noshir Dadrawala. You sweepingly state that, “Trustees, Munchi Cama, Armaity Tirandaz and I have not been made aware or even consulted upon before this […]
Avaan Ardvisur Anahita Banoo, Glorious Avaan Yazad
PT: Why do we venerate the aquatic bodies? Er. Karanjia: By praying the Avan Nyaish or the Avan Yasht, near any aquatic body, especially flowing water, ‘Avan Yazad’ blesses us with protection and abounding our life with joy, piety, good health, prosperity and wisdom. The 7th section of the Avan Nyaish says “I, Ahura Mazda, […]
Beautiful Beginnings At Navsari’s Sr. Citizens Center
On September 16, 2016, early in the morning there was a lot of tam-dum and preparations for a traditional Parsi Wedding – with some lady members of the staff at Navsari’s Senior Citizen’s Center (SCC) preparing the ses, a few doing the chock-toran – while old familiar Parsi wedding songs played on in the foyer […]
Remembering The Screen Icon Of The 20th Century – Elizabeth Taylor
England lost many of its early actors to Hollywood. The likes of Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Charles Laughton and Cary Grant and many others all found more scope and richer pastures in Hollywood. British actresses have also supplied Hollywood with an abundance of talent, notably Deborah Kerr and Vivien Leigh. But the most acclaimed and […]
WZO Trust Funds And Lions Club (Byculla) Changes Lives!
The WZO Trust team, over the last 25 years, has been involved in welfare activities in the villages of South Gujarat, accompanied by Arin Master, Capt. Percy Master and Percy Kaikobad from Lions Club of Byculla (LCB). They visited a few villages in mid-2015 to have a firsthand experience of the work done by the […]
Google Trips
Google Trips makes it easy to plan and organize your travel. Under beta testing for several months, it is now available on the Play Store (https://goo.gl/hnBejO). Once installed, it scans your GMail account automatically to look for past and future trips. You can find your travel reservations and confirmations all in one place. Besides, it […]
Film Review: DAYS OF TAFREE
‘Days of Tafree’ — whatever that means — uh, uh, it’s supposed to mean your ‘carefree’ days, is an official remake of the 2015 Gujarati film ‘Chello Divas’ (by the same director), alluding to your last day, or days, in college. As you may have guessed, it has at the core of its story (story?), […]
Fiddle With The Riddles!
Up for a few fun riddles? Try cracking these riddles without looking up the answers below. How many did you get right? 1. The man who invented it doesn’t want it. The man who bought it doesn’t need it. The man who needs it doesn’t know it. What is it? 2. There is a certain […]
Sraosha In Life, Sraosha In Death
Death upon earth is birth in heaven, first said He who is Zarathushtra. O giver of both life and death, Ahura Mazda. The disembodied soul is born anew in heaven. As childbirth is attended by travail and pang and the loving mother goes through suffering at delivery of the child she brings forth into the […]
Dinshaw Mehta’s Flip Flop In Court
In a surprise turn of events on the 21st of September, 2016, at the Metropolitan Magistrate Court, the advocate for Dinshaw Mehta announced that they would not be filing the application for Dinshaw Mehta to be brought on record in the said case. In keeping with providing our readers the latest updates on the much […]