JANUARY: [Lucky Card: Lovers; Lucky Number: 6] Health: Excellent tidings where your health is concerned. Your healing has started. You are advised to embark upon a holistic and healthy lifestyle, which includes yoga and meditation. Finance: You could be looking at a change in your job or even your career, for better financial prospects. Your hard-work […]
Tag: Parsi
The Search Dogs of Bhuj – An Excerpt
The dog stopped dead in his tracks. His little black nose quivered with trepidation. Something was very wrong. He looked over at me puzzled. “Go on, Snoopy, find ’em,” I urged him as I scrambled over loose rubble, trying hard to keep my balance. He stared ahead blankly briefly, then put his nose to the ground […]
Cyrus The (Not So) Great!
Aapro Cyrus Broacha, the Brand Ambassador of Humour, is back to unleash his hilarious take on ……… in our exclusive column, ‘Cyrus The (Not So) Great’! The Million Dollar Question!!! Just a reminder… it is now the festive occasion of Jamshedji Navroz! So, can Behroze, Diana, and Simone stop wishing me Happy Happy Women’s Day!!! […]
Those Seemingly Inconsequential Things Which Make A Big Impact!
Often, we get so interwoven in our daily hectic webs of life – getting pulled in various directions, trying to do justice across multiple capacities within our personal and professional lives – that we tend to overlook or forget those ‘little’ things, which seem inconsequential, but go on to have huge impacts in our lives. […]
Ye Who Follow Shall Not Fall
“All my hope on God is founded, He doth still my trust renew; Me through change and chance He guideth, Only good and only true. God unknown, He alone Calls my heart to be His own. Pride of man and earthly glory, Sword and crown betray His trust, What with care and toil […]
Little Sali Boti And Lots Of Kissi Kotti
In a couple of days, we will bring in our New Year (one of them anyways!) and Zoroastrians everywhere will celebrate…. And not just because the day marks the Persian New Year or because it is the vernal equinox. Of course, these are fine and notably worthy reasons to celebrate indeed. But we all know […]
Meherbai’s Mandli Discusses Jamshedi Navroze
Meherbai organised a high-level Mandli-meeting at her house over tea, and ordered cakes, pastries, souffles, puffs, sandwiches, rolls, pattice and cheese-straws. Keki Khadhro, who insisted on having tea first, demolished most of the snacks and even took the left-overs home in his bajaar-ni-theli. That done, Meherbai asked, “What is on 21st March?” She got an assortment of answers, except the right […]
The Four Golden Keys/Pillars Of Our Religion
I’m sure all of us are only too familiar with the three basic principles or tenets of our religion – Good Thoughts, Good Words and Good Deeds. So then, what’s the fourth one? Is it some kind of a missing link? Like the fourth wise man? No dear readers, the ‘Four Keys or Pillars’ of […]
NCPA Brings You An Eventful February 2022!
NCPA invites you to decipher love stories of the famous (and infamous) with ‘Readings in the Shed’ at 7 pm on 13th February (Experimental Theatre). Relive Greek mythology at the opera screening of ‘Eurydice’, at 6 pm on 17th February (Godrej Dance Theatre) and witness the graceful ‘Swan Lake’ ballet screening at 6 pm on 22nd February (Godrej Dance Theatre). Catch the theatre […]
BPP PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION IN ITS INHERENT AND EXTRAORDINARY JURISDICTION MISCELLANEOUS PETITION NO. (L) 29493 OF 2021 In the matter of Scheme for the Election of the Trustees of the Funds and Immovable Properties of the Parsi Punchayet Bombay (“Scheme”). AND In the matter of amendments to […]
Supreme Court Passes Order Allowing Dokhmeneshini For Parsi Covid Victims
Much to the relief and delight of community members, on 4th February, 2022, the Hon’ble Supreme Court passed an order finally allowing the traditional Dokhmenashini system for Parsis, who succumbed to Covid, in keeping with the terms of the agreed protocol, which confirmed to both – the tenets of the Zoroastrian faith as well as […]