In certain religious traditions, God is perceived as a fearsome divinity (the adjective – ‘God-fearing’ is quite common in the English lexicon) or as the Lord or as Malik (Master). However, in our Zoroastrian tradition Ahura Mazda is neither to be feared nor a master to be pleased. The relationship that a Zoroastrian has with […]
It is once again my privilege to present you our Bumper Parsi New Year Special Issue! This year, we celebrate a key aspect of our life which plays the largest role in securing our happiness and peace, yet one that is usually taken for granted – Relationships… across all paradigms – with family and friends, […]
There’s Plenty Of Octopuses In The Sea! “There are plenty of fish in the sea,” they said. “It will be fun,” they said. I tried online dating for 6 months. All I caught was a cold. And that’s the good news…. Here’s the not-so-good news…. Women are most afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men […]
I congratulate Parsi times on the theme of this New year issue. Relationships, in general, rest on universal values of trust, honesty and mutual respect. So why does society at large and the editorial team give a special place to the Doctor-Patient relationship? Let me illustrate this by the reaction of both doctors and patients […]
It is every kid’s dream to grow up and every adult’s dream to relive their childhood! It’s those in-between ‘teen’ years that cause confusion – are we children or are we adults? We are either too young or too old to do something! We are in our ‘highly impressionable’ phase and our decisions can change […]
The relationship we have with our body is intrinsic. Our body is the vessel or the residence of our soul. Just as keeping your residence filthy, cluttered, uncleaned and overflowing with trash makes it a rabid, rampant site for all kinds of pathogenic infestations ultimately leading to your eviction, so also abusing your body by […]
There is a mistaken notion that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. This is a fallacy. A man is all stomach, especially a Parsi. It is not a via-media to anything else. His love for food has led him to plagiarize culinary marvels from all over the world. I find it […]
It happened one day, the time I was trying to eke out a satisfactory living, satisfactory to my wife, struggling times for me. I had to meet a CEO of a foreign company. I had fixed up an appointment with his secretary for 9:30 am. At 9:25am, I entered her office. The secretary, unused to […]
We thank all our exceptionally talented readers for participating in our Contests. The following are the winning entries for ‘CELEBRATING RELATIONSHIPS IN POETRY AND PROSE’ Contest: Congratulations to the following Top 3 Winners! Marriage – The Love Carriage By Roshan Dastoor Majority of the span that we live our life, We end up as […]
We thank all our readers for sending in an overwhelming response to our New Year Contest. The following are the results for the `CLICK – A – PIC: CELEBRATING RELATIONSHIPS’ contest Congratulations to the following Top 4 Winners! 1st Place: Delreen Gorimar 2nd Place: Zarine Kanga 3rd Place: Zambi Bacha 4th Place: Nina Karma
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