Sorabji was married for 49 years to Jabra-Jalamai who he called Jaloo-Jasoos, since she was always suspicious of anything and everything he said or did. He wasn’t happy at home, nor at office. When he requested his boss, Mr. Daji, who was Bheja-no-paji for a one-day leave, Daji roared, “You have never taken a day’s leave in […]
Sure, everyone wants a total reset for 2021, and there are indeed many personal habits that you can improve easily. These range from the basics such as exercising more and eating better, to finding healthier ways of saving money and adding more smiles! When combined, they just might add up to a ‘new-and-improved’ you for […]
7 Community Vaccines For 2021! Even before the pandemic hit us, we’ve been living unknowingly, through a number of somewhat equally distressing and harmful plagues… only, these are mental, emotional and behavioural in nature, as opposed to the deadly pathogenic invasion, that is the novel coronavirus. We inadvertently house these hidden contagions, which, like the […]
The story of 28-year-old Shantanu Naidu attained much buzz across social media platforms, as a young boy in his early twenties, who got noticed by leading industrialist Ratan Tata, for his start-up that develops reflective collars for stray dogs to prevent them from being the victims of night-time road accidents. Tata went on to invest […]
On 28th December, 2020, Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine maker by volume, announced the launch of the world’s most affordable Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) in India that aims to provides protection against 10 variants of pneumococcus bacteria causing pneumonia, meningitis, ear, and blood infections in children. SII has priced pneumococcal […]
Hello and Welcome 2021! But, just to be clear – we do have great expectations of you! While 2020 was undeniably a challenging year for us all, the reality is that most of us had found ourselves stuck in our lives, even prior to it. There is always something. Yes, life is, indeed, a roller-coaster […]
Since the beginning of time, humans have followed some form of organized worship. This is well illustrated by the fact that some believed in the souls of their ancestors, some worshipped the earth and its munificence, some followed some pagan gods but what is universal in all these is that they all shaped their lives […]
On 20th December, 2020, a Jashan in honor of Amardad Amshashpand was performed by Ervads Zarrir and Zerkxis Bhandara, at the ZAC Atash Kadeh. Sponsored by Cyrus and Dr. Scheherazade Mistry (New York), the Jashan was streamed over Zoom to an audience of over 40 Zarthostis. After the Jashan, Er. Zarrir lead the online congregation with Humbandagi, in […]
Recent archaeological findings have shed new light on the history of Yazd, the UNESCO-registered oasis city in Central Iran, which houses a Zoroastrian population, proposing that its antiquity could be much further dated, than supposed earlier. As per a news release in Tehram Times, archaeologists believe that potteries recently excavated in Yazd, could belong to […]
‘ASSOCHAM Enterprise Of The Century’ Award The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India (ASSOCHAM) organised its Foundation Week from 15 to 19 December, 2020, celebrating the theme, ‘India’s Resilience: Atmanirbhar Roadmap Towards $5 Trillion Economies.’ PM Modi addressed the ‘ASSOCHAM Foundation Week 2020’ via video conferencing. Marking the finale of the celebrations on 19th December, PM Modi presented […]
I recently lost my dad, Hoshang N Wania, who was a well-known chartered accountant and trustee of a number of religious and charitable institutions. Just a few days after his demise, even as my family and I were still grieving and coming to terms with our loss, some insensitive persons, without verifying facts, unleased a […]