Are you encountering a weight-plateau, where the numbers on the scale just won’t budge, no matter what you try? Do you wanna get rid of those last stubborn 5 kilos… or even those 10 (or more)… and that too in a jiffy? Okay then. Settle down in your favourite easy chair or recliner, with one […]
Jamasji had grown up on a staple diet of Bond films and had read every Bond novel, from cover to cover and even between the covers! His wife, Soona, didn’t ever bother paying too much attention to his ‘lavaro-bakaro’ about James Bond. Because of this, Jamasji made it a habit of doling out his precious […]
Freyan S. Wadia It was 7 :00 am when Jehaan was jolted out of the sleep of the dead by a praying mantis on his face. More precisely, by the praying mantis placed on his forehead by his 6-year-old entomophilic cousin. “Hiya!” chirped Parvez, like a happy cricket, while his cousin was fell off the bed, […]
The Daguerre type and other pioneering photographic equipment of the mid-19th centuries could not do justice to the portraits of our rigid, somber-faced grand and great-grand parents, mainly due to the subject’s restricted movements while facing the huge, cumbersome, cavernous cameras, with the cameramen hidden behind the apparatus, covered with a couple of yards of […]
The Mandli boys and girls (all over 80 and full of love, energy and a lust for life) held a high-tea at Meherbai’s club to discuss marriage. Meherbai, being the keynote speaker, spoke first. Meherbai: I shall begin by saying that marriage is happy, even as life itself is happy, which means that it is infuriating, […]
Aapro Cyrus Broacha, the Brand Ambassador of Humour, is back to trigger unlimited giggles and guffaws, with his hilarious take on the once-famous ‘PARSI OLYMPICS’!!! – in our exclusive column, ‘Cyrus The (Not So) Great!’ New Year is all very well, but we must remember one of the greats – our very own Pestonji Papadwala, when we enter […]
The Mandli was in a nostalgic mood and spent an entire evening discussing nursery rhymes and poems they had learnt at school. Meherbai: I first went to a Gujarati medium school, so what comes to mind are poems like, ‘Aavrey Varsaad, Gebharyo Parsaad, Ooni Ooni Rotli Aney Karela Nu Shaak’. Khadhro Keks: Meherbai, one day let’s have a karela and […]
Meherbai hosted a ‘Chai-n-pakoras’ afternoon at her house. Keks: I’m very sad because I lost thousands of rupees while doing an online net-payment. Meherwanji: Net payments are for youngsters, not for people over 80 like us. I prefer ‘good old cash’ because my Rs. 100 note can’t be hacked. If I’m robbed, I lose only 100 or 500 […]
The Mandli boys and girls (all over 80) had only one problem in life, which was, where do we enjoy our next Mandli meeting. No one ate after sunset as Meherbai had wisely taught them intermittent fasting, so dinners were out. Breakfasts, lunches and high teas had become common on weekdays. Their last trip to […]
Coomi Kaajwali was one of the last match-makers in the Parsi community. She was excellent in fixing up the perfect matches – so much so that not one couple of hers had divorced over the years. In fact, like fairy-tale endings, ‘they all lived happily ever after’. On a sultry Sunday, after a lunch of […]
As readers know, the khanar-pinar, farnar-harnar members of Meherbai’s Mandli were all over 80 years and yet enjoyed life to the hilt! This time, they decided to go for a day’s picnic to Alibaug by the Ro-Ro ferry. As soon as everyone was on the boat, religious Rutty started doing her Kasti prayers in the Havan-Geh. She had […]