The popular and much needed prayer book, ‘MAZDA – YASNA’, the little prayer book which comprises some of the fundamental, daily prayers in Roman script with English translation, has been re-published by Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla, in loving memory of his dear wife, Late Villoo Cyrus Poonawalla, for FREE distribution within the Zoroastrian community. This will be of tremendous importance to those in our Community who […]
Established in 1991, the World Zoroastrian Organization Trust (WZOT), along with its sister concerns – WZO Trust for Women and Children (1993) and WZO Trust Funds (1995) – has been providing exemplary services to support, uplift and empower the underprivileged sections of our Zoroastrian community, as well as taking up causes crucial to the survival […]
Together, We Can Do So Much! Dear Readers, One of the best aspects about a community is that it empowers us to help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals. When we belong to a community as small and close-knit as ours, ‘strength in numbers’ takes on additional weightage. The true greatness of any […]
Twenty years ago, UNESCO requested me to create a programme on the Parsi Zoroastrians, as they realized that this community was facing demographic extinction. With the loss of culture, the world loses a part of its wisdom and UNESCO’s mandate was for us to record this culture. Even as a student and teacher of the […]
Panthaki Baug’s dynamic darlings – Jouyan Panthaki, Pearlyn Siganporia and Gianna Mistry – represented their school in Karate and Judo Championships and won medals in their respective age categories at the Yudansha Kobujitsu Karate Doh Federation – India (YKFF) Championship 2019, held at the Dadar Athornan Institute, on 11th August, 2019, under Shihan Jehangir Shroff […]
Congratulations to BPP Trustees for their wise, bold and progressive move to bring peace, harmony and happiness in our peace-loving Community! We all share a fundamental wish to live a happy life with peace and harmony. Poverty, illiteracy and over population hinder progress and development. Luckily, we are a small community, affluent in status and highly […]
What The Community Needs To Know One of the sad truths, that our Community and its unsuspecting members have had to endure, is the repetitive attempts of those who wish to put a spanner in the works – whenever our Community is on the path of progress. ‘Two steps forward, one step back’, has become […]
– Urging Single Parsis To Avail This Matrimonial Service Dedicated Exclusively To The Community – .The Parsi Shaadi App, an exclusive matrimonial service dedicated to the Parsi community worldwide was launched by Jiyo Parsi on 6th July 2019, at the Banaji Atash Behram Hall, Charni Road, Mumbai where members of the Parsi community were present […]
Greatly Benefit Community WAPIZ conducted its second much-needed, Free Breast Cancer Detection Camp, on 19th May, 2019, at Navroze Baug. This marks the second camp, in a long series of such camps to be conducted across the Baugs in Mumbai, over the next few months. WAPIZ has undertaken this venture in order to provide free […]
Student Achievers From A’bad Do Community Proud! With the CBSE and ICSE Board exam results being announced, Parsi Times congratulates our hard working student-achievers from Ahmedabad for their great success in the these examinations. Heartiest congratulations for a proud mark sheet in the CBSE Board Exams goes to Kayroze Jamshed Shroff for securing 95%; […]
Media Partner Parsi Times On Sunday, 24th February, 2018 XYZ will organise a ‘The Vessel-a-Thon’ – a Vessel Collection and Donation Drive across Mumbai, with the aim of bridging the gap by donating vessels to people who need them. Vessels are one of life’s most basic needs – we use them to cook food and […]