Dear Readers, I thank you all, on behalf of Team PT, for your encouraging feedback on our Parsi New Year Special Issue. It brings us as much joy, as it provides direction for our onward journey and services for the community. We hope the New Year has started on a positive note and will continue […]
Dear Readers, It gives me immense pleasure to present you our Bumper Special Parsi New Year Special Issue, celebrating ‘Happiness’ as our central theme, to further boost the celebratory mood and festive spirit of the community’s most auspicious occasion. Aren’t we a lucky lot to be born into this fabulous, unique Parsi culture! The only […]
Dear Readers, Entering the month of August is always exciting for Parsi households – with the auspicious Parsi New Year just around the corner, with much festivity to look forward to, as we joyfully prep up our homes and our hearts, to welcome it all… starting with the ten sacrosanct Muktad days, which commence on […]
Dear Readers, Every year, Mother Nature showers us with unmistakeable reminders when we get a bit wound up about the smaller things of life – like ourselves. As the IMD starts issuing its rainbow alerts, the monsoon season flexes its muscles and washes away any false sense of self-aggrandisement that we may have unwittingly or […]
Dear Readers, In just a couple of days we would have crossed over to the second half of the year! Yup – half of 2024 is nearly done! Time does seem to fly fast. While some of us lament disappointedly at how soon it’s just slipped by, there’s those of us who can’t wait for […]
Father’s Day is celebrated each year on the third Sunday of June (16th June, 2024). The impact of a father is as incomparable as it is irreplaceable because it has the power to shape the life and the destiny of his children. How a father responds to his child – how he nurtures or demeans, […]
Time To Clean Up! Dear Readers, As we step into August – one of the most auspicious months of the year, there’s much to look forward to and even more to do! We start the ‘prep’ for our Parsi New Year – and this encompasses a lot cleaning-up around the house. We look to making […]
Heartiest Welcome To Our New Indian President – Smt. Droupadi Murmu Dear Readers, As India welcomes our 15th President – Smt. Droupadi Murmu, there is much reason to celebrate and take pride in our nation’s new First Citizen and the Supreme Commander of India’s Armed Forces. At a time when the so-called ‘global superpower’, […]
Times Of Change Dear Readers, The one thing that is impossible to escape in these times is the overwhelming change that we’ve had to deal with – it’s taking place everywhere, at all levels, and very, very conspicuously. I doubt humanity has ever been subject to as many elements of change, simultaneously, before this. Be […]
A Legend Who Will Never Be Forgotten Dear Readers, On 28th June, 2022, Padma Bhushan Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry – the legendary industrialist, philanthropist, nation builder and one of the tallest feathers in the Parsi cap – breathed his last. It is said some people are born for greatness and it shows in them from […]
The Time Is: NOW! Dear Readers, One of the biggest maladies of our times is procrastination. Putting things off for later is the worst habit, and let’s be honest, many of us have been guilty of it at some point or the other. Procrastination is the natural assassin of both – talent and opportunity. The […]