Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired! Feelings of love can make or break us and this is as true today as it was in the very first century BC, when Virgil exclaimed, “Love conquers everything!” Love makes us feel wanted, cherished and part of something larger than ourselves. It makes us feel […]
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! Winning Caption and Winner’s Name Will Be Published Next Week. Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 4th November, 2020. WINNER: Hardik: What energy drinks give you such power? Pls share the concoction! Pollard: It ain’t no concoction, buddy! It’s all about the auction! – By Kaiwan […]
Dear Readers, It may be Halloween today, but 2020 has unceremoniously robbed it of its spook entirely! After the whole world living the COVID-19 horror-story in real time, I’m sure this Celtic festival must feel robbed of all potency to scare! It’s a little late in the day to respond to the ‘Trick or […]
It is the morning after the annual dinner of the Shakespeare Mandli and Darabsha is nursing a gargantuan hangover. His wench… umm… his wife – Rattie bursts into the room, flinging open the curtains. “Rattie, shut yon window that lets the smiling star of the morn invade mine chamber. ’Tis the morning after our annual […]
In this fourteenth part of ‘The Zen Series’, a Zen master’s answer to a monk’s innocent question, reveals great wisdom to be applied in life! You Are What You Are! According to an ancient Indian fable, a mouse was in constant distress because of its fear of the cat. A magician took pity on it […]
On 24th October, 2020, our community’s young priest, 16-year-old Er. Zahan, who is a student at the Dadar Boarding Madressa, Bombay, suffered an unfortunate accident whilst offering Machi at the Pak Goti Aderan, Surat, where seven generations of his family have served before him. Currently studying in the tenth class in school, the incident took […]
The North American Institute of Zoroastrian Studies was recently launched, as an educational arm of the North American Mobeds Council (NAMC), thanks to Rohinton Rivetna’s initiative in drafting the initial charter, and to NAMC (President – Er. Arda-e-viraf Minocherhomjee) for their resolution to carry the proposal forward. NAMC Vice-President, Er. Tehemton Mirza would be setting up […]
– Elderly Responding Well To Oxford Vaccine – In a recent update, Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) has informed that Covishield – the coronavirus vaccine, being developed by Oxford University and British firm AstraZeneca, could be ready for public use in December 2020. SII is currently conducting the phase-3 trial […]
Alamai Banga, who stayed near Banganga in Walkeshwar, was quite jealous of her cousins – Siloo Sanga and Ketayun Kanga, since they had become grandmothers two decades ago and she was still a katchi-kumari girl of 70! Alamai, or Aloo, was the permanent ‘gharaak’ of Parsi community’s famous match-maker, Koomi Kaajwali. Koomamai had showed Alamai […]
A Time To Let Go And Move On Dear Readers, One of the bigger lessons we’ve been taught, under the unwelcome dictatorship of ‘Professor Pandemic’, is that we have to learn to let go and move on. The wise do it of their own volition – they make peace with the situation, and emerge less […]
In keeping with the saying, “there is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark,” XYZ’s Rustom’s Rockstars (Bandra and Mahim) stepped forward to lend a helping hand to the residents of the National Association for the Blind (NAB) – Home for the […]