Teaching is genuinely a gratifying profession. Ask any teacher who teaches for the love of it. For years, I have taught truly gifted students as also those now categorised as development students… the ones who most has sort of give up on, the ones often told they need more remedial classes before they’re even allowed […]
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TechKnow With Tantra: Telegram
Telegram is a Messenger service and is fast replacing Whatsapp as a more secure service, across devices. You can send media and files without any size limitation (unlike Whatsapp) – your entire chat history requires no disk space on your device, and is securely stored in the Telegram cloud for as long as you need […]
The Divine Energies In Our Wells
Our holy wells contain water which is blessed and charged with invisible energies bestowed by Pak Ahura Mazda. Our Zoroastrian religion enjoins the use of flowing water (as opposed to stagnant water) which is open to the rays of the sun, to be used for religious and ritual purposes. Two easily available sources of flowing water […]
Parsi New Year Contest 2021
Parsi New Year Contest 2021
Rayomand Khambatta Awarded Top Spot At Dubai’s Custom Car Show 2021 With ‘Kraken’
Canadian citizen, Rayomand Kersi Khambatta was recently awarded first place in Dubai’s Custom Car Show 2021 held at the Dubai Trade Center, for his 1200 HP Beast aptly named, ‘The Kraken’. Passionate about cars since childhood, 40-year-old Rayomand has been a Homeland Security Analyst working a day job for Singapore Defence. Raised in the Ontario […]
Letters To The Editor
Dear Editor, I, Sam Chothia request you to please publish the attached Resolution which was passed unanimously at the Meeting of West Zone B Anjumans (Anjumans of Gujarat) on Sunday, 18th July, 2021. Nineteen Anjumans sent their representatives for this Meeting, including Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat. Even the heavy rains did not prevent most from attending. […]
Jasmin Arethna: A Passion For Cycling
Most of us learnt cycling as children. Some consider it an essential life skill that stands us in good stead for the future. As Parsis, certainly that sense of balance is important when our young boys make the imminent transition from bicycles to the omnipresent motorcycle! But for some, like Jasmin Arethna and her sister […]
Jimmy Mistry Launches ‘Della Leaders Club’: World’s First Tech-enabled Business Platform
– Set To Raise 52 Cr In Maiden Funding Round – The community’s Mumbai-based leading business visionary, as also innovator, design thinker and social entrepreneur – Jimmy Mistry, recently announced the launch of Della Leaders Club (DLC) – the world’s first technology-enabled global business platform, designed to create a dynamic and solid support system for […]
From the Editors Desk
“By Failing To Prepare, You Are Preparing To Fail!” Dear Readers, Little could the Founding Father of the USA – Benjamin Franklin have known, how literally live-saving, his iconic quote, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail,” would turn out to be through the Coronavirus pandemic! It definitely qualifies as one of the […]
Tête-à-tête With Adille Sumariwalla
President of the Indian Olympic Association and Executive Board Member/ Jury Member for the Track and Field Sport, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics PT: Firstly, tell us how you’ve utilized this time through the Pandemic, which brought most activities to a screeching halt? Adille: We used this time very effectively doing numerous online courses for […]
TechKnow With Tantra: Dictation.io
Dictation.io is one of the simplest dictation tools available online – a dictation website which uses the Google dictation engine at the backend and supports 67 languages, including several Indian languages. No log-in or downloading/ installing required. Simply go to www.dictation.io and start dictating! Once you’re finished dictating, you can Save, Copy or Print it instantaneously. […]