– By Farah H. Kasad Nine Home Remedies for Wealth, Health, Success! As the Parsi New Year approaches, it brings a wonderful opportunity to reset our energies and align our homes with positivity, abundance and healing. Whether you live in an apartment or a bungalow, and whether your space follows ideal directions or not, these […]
We thank all our participants for the fabulous response to our Parsi New Year 2025 Contest, ‘If I Had One Superpower, What Would It Be? What Would I Do With It?’ Heartiest Congratulations to our following Top 4 Winners! [Winners are requested to email us at: editor@parsi-times.com to collect your gifts.] Contest Winner: Meher P. […]
– By Dr. Kaiwan M. Randeria As we welcome the New Year with wishes for health, happiness and new beginnings, we get busy with family, feasting and making plans. But amidst the celebration, one important aspect often gets overlooked – our bones. Even as we enjoy festivities and traditions, our bones are quietly ageing with […]
Parsi New Year is marked with dagli and gara-ni-saree ma greetings, lighting the divo and the aroma of sukhar- loban in the air! It’s the time to press the restart button – not just spiritually, but in our minds, hearts, and yes, even our joints! Us tradition-loving Parsis will keep a pocket-watch from 1952, and […]
In the age of burnout, loneliness and emotional fatigue, the answers to many of our psychological challenges may lie in the roots of ancient wisdom. One such timeless philosophy comes from Zoroastrianism, founded on the triad: Good Thoughts (Humata), Good Words (Hukhta), and Good Deeds (Hvarshta). At first glance, these may sound like moral ideals […]
The New Year is bound to be a year of learning. There’s been chaos and fear, the world is going through a shift. Amid global conflicts and unprecedented losses, humanity has endured. While change is gradual, life offers a beacon of hope: new beginnings. They remind us to cherish progress, embrace fresh starts, and remain […]
Long before Parsis landed on Indian shores with the promise to sweeten the milk of Gujarat, Zoroastrianism was the lifeblood of one of the world’s greatest empires. In ancient Persia, the religion wasn’t confined to temples and rituals. It walked the corridors of power, whispered into the ears of kings, and shaped the very fabric […]
– Sohrab Irani – The Parsi New Year is just around the corner – the sweet scent of sandalwood, sev-dahi for breakfast and ‘Navroz Mubarak’ WhatsApp forwards will come at you faster than Najamai-na-bhona tiffin services! Yes, it’s that time again when every bawa and bawi suddenly decides to ‘turn over a new leaf’… only […]
ER. ZARRIR BHANDARA As we usher in the joyous Parsi New Year, let’s explore a captivating facet of our faith that speaks directly to the essence of charity and selfless giving – the profound symbolism of the cow, and how this ancient wisdom illuminates our path today. Some might assume our reverence for the cow began […]
Every year, on Independence Day, a delightful tradition continues in most Parsi colonies, baugs and buildings – the hoisting of our glorious Indian flag… with the younger lot enthusiastically singing the national anthem with more volume than tune, and elderly uncles standing in ‘attention’ mode, in proudly preserved and pressed kurta-pyjamas from the pre-liberalisation era. […]
New Year (Yazdagardi saal 1395) will soon be here, providing us with an opportunity to pull ourselves out of the gloom of the past. A large part of 2025 has seen multiple global disasters including earthquakes, accidents, floods, wildfires, tsunamis and wars. As if the long-drawn battle between Rusia and Ukraine was not enough, Israel […]