‘Parsi Times LIFELINE’ is a PT initiative that works towards providing rescue and relief to senior community members who are living in appalling conditions of impoverishment. Parsi Times looks to identify and collect the details of our seniors living in unfortunate conditions. This information will then be shared with our generous community Trusts, which undertake […]
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Parsi Embroidery: A Heritage Of Humanity – II
. All Creation is ultimately positive and helpful. It is an optimistic creed which has helped keep a very small, scattered people active across centuries and across several diasporas. This iconography comes to life in traditional Parsi embroidery. Flowers, birds and animals are celebrated as emblems of power, protection and purity. The simurgh and rooster, […]
Do You Have The ‘Guts’ To Good Health?
Water Pickles and Parsi delicacy, ‘Sandhras’, will certainly not be the first examples that jump to mind when you think of healthy eating, but a growing body of research shows that a diet that includes a regular intake of fermented foods, bring in a host of health benefits. Doctors these days recommend people to consume […]
Sad Ending To Iconic Tata-Mistry Partnership
September 22, 2020 marked the beginning to the end of 70-years-plus iconic association between two of our community’s and our nation’s most formidable business groups – Tata Sons and Shapoorji Pallonji Group. After four years of rough litigations, since Cyrus Mistry’s ouster in 2016, Shapoorji Pallonji (SP) Group confirmed its exit from Tata Sons as […]
Tata Group To Launch ‘Feluda’ – India’s First Low Cost Covid-19 Test
– Can Detect COVID In Under An Hour! – On 19th September, 2020, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) gave approval for the commercial launch of India’s first Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) Coronavirus test called ‘Feluda’, developed by the Tata Group and CSIR-IGIB (Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology). ‘Feluda’ has […]
Parsi Embroidery: A Heritage Of Humanity – I
Complex roots and routes lie behind what we call ‘Parsi Embroidery’ today. The tradition grew from Achaemenian Iran, through the Silk Route into China and then came with Indian and European influences back to its originators, the Parsi Zoroastrians in India. Now a tiny minority of fewer than 55,000 individuals in India, Parsi Zoroastrians have […]
Masina Hospital Offers Quality Dialysis Services to Kidney Patients
Masina Hospital and Vivo Kidney Care have teamed up successfully to provide high quality, Dialysis Services that will improve the life-longevity for all patients who undergo dialysis at the hospital. State-of-the-Art machines, along with modern RO systems and well-trained staff, have helped bring back smiles to all patients. While the current Covid-19 situation has […]
Decoding The Need For Coding
“Why Coding? My child is not interested in computers or computer science at all!” you may well ask. Coding, or computer programming, is a creative process to literally tell a computer how to perform a task. At its foundation, it simply involves writing computer programs using programming languages. The future of our world is moving […]
Tata Projects To Build New Parliament Building
On 16th September, 2020, Tata Projects Limited won the bid to construct the new Parliament building – a part of the Central Vista Redevelopment Project, in the nation’s capital. It will be constructed at a cost of ₹ 861.90 crore, as per officials. The Tatas beat Larsen and Toubro, who had submitted a bid of ₹ 865 crore. The Central […]
Principals Benaifer Kutar And Dr. Cyrus Vakil Felicitated With Iconic Leadership Awards By Governor By Razvin Namdarian (Writer’s Box)
The Parsis have always been the forerunners in establishing iconic educational institutions across the country. The city of Mumbai boasts of several such prominent schools and colleges which are a testament to the Zoroastrian spirit of spreading the light of education. On the occasion of Teachers’ Day on 12th September, 2020, the H’ble Governor of […]
Stop Being A Negative Nancy!
Life is about experiencing happiness and living in a relatively healthy, balanced and positive manner. When we decide to become positive, it’s not a simple act of flipping a switch mentally – choices have to be made and hard decision taken to detox your life from all sources of negativity, followed up with correlating action. […]