The Zoroastrian Trust Funds of India (ZTFI) held its ‘Youth Camp’ on July 30th and 31st, 2016 at Khandala’s Marazban Sanatorium. Forty participants from Surat, Navsari, Deolali, Dahanu and Mumbai partook of various indoor and outdoor games designed to instil team spirit and leadership. Parizad Irani from Deolali won the Best Camper-Girl prize and Jamshid […]
It was a term originally coined for cricketing greats such as Bradman, Gavaskar and Tendulkar. Budhia Singh, at the age of four, earned the epithet, ‘The Run Machine’, but with a literal connotation. Timed to release during the 2016 Rio Olympics, for which Budhia was trained and slated to run, the film is a sincere […]
Majority of investors in India deploy their savings into properties – they believe that real estate has delivered the best returns. That’s a myth – it is ‘Equity’ that has made billionaires. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Jack Ma (founder of Alibaba), Mark Zuckerberg, Azim Premji, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Mukesh Ambani, Sahpoorji Pallonji, Birlas and many other […]
The interview was scheduled for noon on 22nd July at the Filmalaya Studio, Andheri. I realized I would miss the press show of Kabali at 11:00. No problem… Rajnikanth can wait… I reached a half-hour early. Akshay was shooting for the sequel of the successful ‘Jolly LLB’. I settled myself down in the dimly lit […]
This is my second address as Chairman of the BPP to our community through BPP Connect. On behalf of my Board of Trustees, I would like to update you on all that has been worked upon in the past month. I thank Parsi Times for extending this platform free of cost. Housing: Though the BPP […]
At a shop selling men’s shoes in Mumbai’s popular shopping complex, Heera Panna, a few concerned Parsis spotted that shoes were being sold with motifs of our angel Asho Farohar embedded on them as fashion. The matter was brought to light to Khorshed Meherji who was informed regarding the sale of such shoes, which not […]
OK. The opening and closing frames of the film couldn’t have been more reprehensible — John Abraham (Kabir), a crack member of the Special Task Force and the blue-eyed boy of the External Affairs Ministry (the Minister is a woman, of course!) is shown smoking in an elevator and flicking a lit cigarette at the […]
The Benefits Of Adopting An Adult Dog For the past few months the Shroffs were debating getting a new dog. It was three years since their last dog had passed away. But with the tight schedule the family had with school, tuitions, the cook on vacation, and Mr. Shroff working longer hours, Mrs. Shroff just […]
A press briefing was called yesterday afternoon at the Garware Club House by BPP Chairman Yazdi Desai and ex-Trustee Khojeste Mistree, to expose alleged irregularities by former BPP Chairman and Trustee Viraf Mehta’s father, Dinshaw Mehta in a tenancy transfer matter at Dadi House. The panel of speakers who addressed the Press in addition to […]
Jam-e-Jamshed (JJ), the community’s oldest (184 years old) weekly newspaper has teamed up with its five-year-old and equally popular counterpart, Parsi Times (PT), under the sole management of Parsi Times Multimedia Pvt. Ltd., which will have a common board of Directors. The aim behind this unison is two-fold – to add to the commercial viability […]
There are two men I’ve been absolutely crazy about since childhood. I must have seen them dozens of times and yet I don’t think I’ll ever get them out of my system. One of them is F-A-T (and CHO CHWEET!!) and the other is thin. They are my all-time favourite movie comedians, ‘Laurel and Hardy’. […]