Every year, Meherbai’s Mandli, like the rest of the world, would make high and lofty New Year’s resolutions, but they would go for a toss mostly by the end of January. This year was no different. On the first day of 2025, the Mandli Members had resolved to do things which would enhance life at […]
After almost a couple of college years of nurturing a crush, I decided to propose to my Rattie, on the then Valantine’s Day…. 48 years ago. I had started working and was earning a modest salary and this empowered me to propose. My dilemma was finding a place ‘far from the madding crowd’. Romeo, of […]
Meherbai’s mandli always had intelligent, intellectual and meaningful conversations and discussions, based on the latest newspaper and TV headlines. Meherbai also encouraged the Mandli members to be active on social media platforms to keep up with the ongoings of the world. Today, they met at the posh, sprawling coffee shop of a suburban hotel. Soli Saliboti: […]
Meherbai’s Mandli, comprising the happy-go-lucky boys and girls (all over 80) celebrated the last party of 2024 at their gymkhana after the sattar-sau-ne-saat parties they had throughout the year! Meherbai’s philosophy of life was to be happy and more importantly, to make others happy. She always said, “lf you haven’t been happy, or made others […]
When any festival – big or small – comes along, can a true-blue Bawaji ever be far behind? (With due apologies to Shakespeare – I have this this bad habit of distorting his little gems into my, what I consider, humour. But coming back, even at Parsi nuptials, as soon as the couple answers in the […]
Behram-Bawa fancied himself to be a great singer, actor and shaayar (poet). He even called himself Baiju-Bawra since he had grown up on a staple diet of Hindi films, thanks to his cinema-crazy family, who saved money by eating less food so they could see more movies! Behram even bunked school and college to see […]
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, […]