Let’s Not Go Back To ‘Normal’ Dear Readers, If there’s one thing the Pandemic has taught us, it’s that we can’t afford to be thoughtless anymore… and not just about the precautionary measures we need to mandatorily adopt to escape being the victim of the rampage caused by the deadly virus, for months now. It’s […]
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 29th July, 2020. WINNER: Rekha: Hey ‘SARKAR’, ‘DON’ ko ‘GUDDI’ ‘MILI’, hame kya mila? Amitabh: ‘HUM’ dono ke beech khadi yeh ‘DEEWAR’, gajab ka hai yeh ‘SILSILA’! By Kayomarz Dotiwalla
In a submission to the Supreme Court on (date), the Tata Trust’s current Chairman, Ratan Tata said that the future head of Tata Trusts could be a non-Tata. “I happen to be the current chairman of these trusts. It could be somebody else, not necessarily with the surname ‘Tata’, in the future. An individual’s life is […]
Cyrus, Rustom and Zia are standing by the colony gate, talking animatedly about the upcoming football tournament. Out of nowhere, a Swiggy delivery guy on a bike, rams into a car. There’s an awful sound and everything freezes for a second. Cyrus runs toward the biker, lifting the bike and trying to make sure he’s […]
– Of The Youth, By The Youth, For The Youth – Our Community’s foremost non-profit outfit, established with the aim of promoting camaraderie and unity amidst children and young adults, XYZ (Xtremely Young Zoroastrian) Foundation (established in 2014), has just launched its Youth Wing, titled ‘XYZ Seniors’. XYZ Seniors are a group of people who […]
During the pandemic which has challenged the very survival of an innumerable number of the financially backward classes and slum-dwellers, Aviva Damania, founder of The Mind Essentials, along with The Banyan Tree team, donated and distributed a month’s ration and sanitation kits to a hundred families, which were in need of basic food to sustain […]
Have you ever come across those individuals who somehow exude confidence and self-assurance in all that they do? Oh! They seem so put together… no task ever too herculean, no scenario unsettling enough to rattle them. True confidence – as opposed to false confidence has a look all its own. Truly confident people have the […]
This week, Chef Delzad shows us how to whip up two delicious Monsoon Cocktails – ‘Peach Bliss’ and ‘Cin-apple’! . . PEACH BLISS Ingredients: Fresh peach puree – 2 tbsp; Fresh peach sliced – 1 pc; Gin – 45 ml; Sprite – 100 ml; Ice – as required; Mint – few sprigs […]
In this fifth part of ‘The Zen Series’, the short story about ‘Chasing Two Rabbits’ leaves much food for thought! A martial arts student approached his teacher with a question. “I’d like to improve my knowledge of the martial arts. In addition to learning from you, I’d like to study with another teacher in order […]
In literature, art and cinema, death has been depicted as a terrible thing… the final end, although in reality, it is merely a release from the burden of the physical body and the madness of the world. Every religious tradition recognises that to reach the final truth, one must pass through death. This is the […]
Thou, the Creator, has never left mankind without religion. Thy sages and seers have, through their wisdom and holiness, evolved religions. Then hast Thou sent from time to time Thy prophets as founders of their respective religions. Thou, Ahura Mazda, didst single out Zarathushtra from among mankind to be Thy first messenger, in point of […]