Hold On To Your Faith, Now More Than Ever! Dear Readers, 2020 just keeps laying it on, doesn’t it? The words of Robert Kennedy prove to be the perfect fit – “Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of […]
Hope Or Fear? Dear Readers, Coming to terms with living with the fear of the novel coronavirus is tough – especially when it’s securely pinned against the backdrop of daily news stories blasting an ever-increasing number of COVID-positive cases, making fear a more warranted response than hope. Yes, this fear is real, but then, so […]
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 […]
Success, Failure And The Numbers Game… Dear Readers, With Board results out this week, we had a good number of excited parents and grandparents sharing with PT the academic successes of our talented and hard-working young students, who had made us all proud with their fabulous results. As always, PT’s ‘Parsi Pride Brigade’ (Pg. 4) […]
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 […]
Don’t Ease-Up (Too Much) Post Lock-Down Dear Readers, The past few months we’ve lived out one of the world’s most severe Pandemic lockdowns. It’s only natural to want to get out and breathe and meet friends and visit places. But even as we get into ‘unlock’ mode, let’s not forget the Covid cases surging daily, […]
A Time For Goodbyes Dear Readers, 2020 continues to steal our Community of some of its most loved and cherished stalwarts. In a sad but not unexpected turn of events, we lost our much respected and loved BPP Trustee, Zarir Bhathena, to an ongoing ailment that he bravely fought, to its conclusion. While the community […]
. Dear Readers, There has never existed a greater learning curve for humanity, than in the times we live in. We have been witnesses to a string of some of the most unexpected events over the recent and the not-so-recent times… battling COVID-19 – a deadly, mysterious virus which we are yet to discover a […]
It’s All In The (Good) Mind Dear Readers, Yesterday, we entered the famous ‘Bahman Mahino’ of the Shahenshahi calendar, popular as the month where many Parsis try adhering to vegetarianism or avoiding meats. There’s much discussion and debate that precedes ‘Bahman Mahino’ – first there’s the heated Veg V/s Non-veg debate; then there’s the even […]
Only Respect Will Restore The Balance Dear Readers, Mumbai heaved a massive sigh of relief when Cyclone Nisarga chose its own, much appreciated form of social-distancing from this Maximum City, a few days ago. Nearly felt like Mother Nature applying the ‘carrot and stick’ method, betwixt Her ongoing ‘Human-Detox’ phase, that has gripped humanity in […]
When Your Journey Is Your Teacher Dear Readers, As Mumbai becomes the new COVID hotspot, with spikes and surges in the number of COVID-positive cases outdoing each other daily, we know that not too much will change for us, if and when the lockdown eases. In fact, greater caution will need to be practiced once […]