On March 28, 2019, Toronto-based restaurant manager and sommelier at the CN Tower, Arashasp Shroff, was awarded Ontario Hostelry Institute’s ‘Top 30 Under 30 Award’, 2019, which featured over 150 nominations across the province. The winners, who are chosen from across all segments of the Hospitality and Food Service Industry in the district, are recognized […]
‘Ladies Compartment’ is a dynamic music project based out of Mumbai – it is a tribute to the daily trials of a working woman in Mumbai city, along with the cinematic romanticism of local trains. The members of the group initially came together to share their interests in American Folk, Jazz, Blues, Indie and Carnatic Indian […]
No prizes for guessing why, but films on politics, national fervour and patriotism seem to be the flavour of the season, and the rule rather than the exception. RAW (Research and Analysis Wing), the abbreviation of the film’s title, begins with black-and-white frames of an agent being brutally tortured in an ISI detention cell. Mercifully, […]
The Bawaji love for motorcycles (and many other things from an era of yore) is legendary. We take great pride in the ownership and maintenance of our Classics. It is with good reason that a ‘Parsi owned’ vehicle demands a premium, during resale. The Vintage Zoroastrian Bikers of Bombay (VZBB) is a one such […]
On 21st March, 2019, The Jamshedi Navroz Fund Committee, Parsee Pragati Mandal (PPM) and Zoroastrian Women’s Association, Surat, brought together Surat’s Parsi Community to celebrate Jamshedi Navroze and pay homage to the martyrs of Pulwama attack (17 March, 2019). Much more than just verbal homage, a talent competition with a patriotic theme was held for […]
Parsi Times is delighted to share the great news of 18-year-old, dynamic college student, Ashoi Dantra from Jer Baug, Byculla, who is currently representing India in the prestigious ‘World Teen Supermodel Pageant’, that is taking place over an 8-day global platform (31 March to 7 April, 2019) in Fiji, under ‘The World Supermodel Production and […]
Bringing great pride upon the community and the country, Baroda’s twenty-five-year-old youth icon, Jamshed Bhagwagar, was invited by the Government of Sri Lanka to represent India at the International Youth Conference held at ‘Yowun Pura – The City of Youth’, at Hambantota, Sri Lanka, from 25th March to 3rd April, 2019. Jamshed was one of the […]
‘We, The Doctors’ A Letter From Doctors of the B.D. Petit Parsee General Hospital There are only two groups who actually see, know, realize the value, advantages, benefits to the Parsi Community of the B.D. Petit Parsee General Hospital as also the deficiencies and drawbacks of the Hospital from the ground reality position of living […]
The brutal killing of Australian Graham Staines, along with his two young sons Philip (10) and Timothy (6) in Odisha, allegedly at the behest of a political party and because of forced conversions and those done through inducements, had rocked the nation — and caused a backlash worldwide — back in 1999. Two decades later, first-time […]
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From the time that the journey of his life begins, man likes not to be lonely. His loneliness frightens him. He is afraid to look into it. Crushing is the burden of solitude. Heavy is the load of life that weighs down his spirit, if all alone he has to bear it. Often is the […]