Raell Padamsee’s ACE Productions Presents, ‘The Best Of Alyque’ an evening with excerpts from some of Alyque’s best plays and musicals comprising ‘Broken Images’, ‘Kabaret’, ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, ‘Evita’, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, and more… all with the original casts including Shabana Azmi, Shiamak Davar, Gerson Da Cunha, Sabira Merchant, Sharon Prabhakar, Dolly Thakore, Dalip Tahil, […]
Mumbai has been celebrating International Jazz Day for over seven years now – this year’s eighth edition will be curated by the NCPA and Louiz Banks. The three-hour event will feature a comprehensive array of artists from Jazz Standard to Jazz Fusion – featuring some of the finest musicians and singers in the country. NCPA […]
Good Health is becoming a major challenge for all of us in today’s stressful, polluted and adulteration-filled world. I recently came across a unique and effective concept of Pureganic, which has developed 100% Organic and Natural tasty Agro-based superfoods, which I am happy to share and recommend to the esteemed readers of Parsi Times. […]
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On 10 April, 2019, the Indian Express reported that The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill or CAB, cleared by the outgoing Lok Sabha, proposed providing citizenship to “Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan”. But in the BJP’s Sankalp Patra (Manifesto) released on 8th April, 2019, Christians and Parsis were omitted with […]
Empowering Mobeds invites all Mobed sahebs and their wives to an Open-house discussion on a much needed topic that needs attention – ‘Expectations To Enroll Your Son In Full Time Mobedi’. This will be followed by a parent-child session conducted by a mental health panel comprising Dr. Kersi Chavda, Hvovi Bhagwagar and Tanya Vasunia. Empowering […]
The Mumbai Mazdoor Sabha (MMS), under the leadership of President Chandbibi Zaidi and General Secretary Dhunji Naterwalla, signed a new three-year Wage Settlement on the 2nd of April, 2019, with the B.D. Petit Parsee General Hospital, facilitating an increase in benefits for the Hospital’s Workmen, Upper Staff and Nursing Staff. The MMS is a statutorily […]
The triennial elections of the NPP (Nagpur Parsi Panchayet) were held on 31st March, 2019. While the top five posts were filled in unopposed, the remaining seven were contested by ten candidates. The pre-poll scene saw a bit of campaigning and the voter turnout was 68%. The newly elected Committee of the Nagpur Parsi Panchayet […]
The tenants of Zoroastrian Colony, Chikalwadi, Tardeo, organised an evening Avan Mahino Jashan on 7th March, 2019 to offer prayers to the well, situated within the colony, which was beautifully decorated with flowers, divas and lights. It was attended by over sixty-five Zarthostis from within the colony as well as guests. Chashni and malido was […]
On April 6, 2019, the vibrant Rustom Baug Senior Citizens Group and tenants celebrated the auspicious Ava Mahino with a Jashan performed by the well. Tenants of various age groups paid abeyance and prayed along with the Athornans and thanked Ahura Mazda and Ava Ardvesur Banoo for their blessings.
Firstly, classics – and this one claims to be an official remake of the 1980 Saeed Mirza original – are to be left well alone. Secondly, one wonders why this has been tagged as the ‘official remake’. There are few, if any, similarities – the essence of the two films being the angst and the […]