Half A Year Of Fear And Learning Dear Readers, Can you believe it’s been six months since our nation went into Lockdown, on 25 March this year? Yes, half a year of our lives has been consumed by the dreaded novel coronavirus – it’s been a half year of sanitizers, masks and social distancing… Of […]
Does Power Corrupt? Dear Readers, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” (by English historian, politician and writer – Lord Acton) is a popular and widely accepted saying. Power is defined as the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others or the course of events because of your standing and your possessions. We […]
Happy Teacher’s Day… Guru Corona! Dear Readers, Education is the cornerstone of a civilised society, a conscientious nation and a progressive world. Educators, therefore, are revered as the crucial architects of a peaceful present and a thriving future. We owe much to our teachers; their influence in our lives extends way beyond the classroom. When […]
Dear Readers, It is said that every truly successful journey begins on a note of gratitude, and as we begin the journey of the new orbit marking the Parsi New Year, I thank all our readers, on behalf of Parsi Times, for your unflinching and ever-increasing support and patronship, through the years. Team PT […]
Saal Mubarak! Dear Readers, It brings me great pleasure in presenting PT’s Bumper Parsi New Year (Super)Special issue! What makes this issue special is the content, in keeping with the times, which we hope, will bring you smiles and laughter, as it is based on the theme – ‘Celebrating Hope’! Hope – much needed during […]
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, […]