The ‘Good Friday And Easter Sunday’ Message Dear Readers, For all, and especially us Bawas, all Fridays are good, as these herald the weekend. And few other communities do justice to weekends like we do! But yesterday was an even more special Friday, because to most of us, it meant a three-day weekend, instead of […]
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Life Is Duty
Religion is duty and life is duty. The sense of duty is ingrained in man. Man owes duty to his creator and the creator’s creatures. God’s will is man’s duty. Life is a pledge to the giver of life to do life’s duties. Let me not neglect or fail to do my duty. Let me […]
Sports Roundup – 15th April 2017
CRICKET Mumbai Indians Beat Sunrisers Hyderabad: Excellent batting performances from Parthiv Patel (39), Nitish Rana (45) and Krunal Pandya (37) helped Mumbai Indians win by 4 wickets against rivals SRH. SRH notched up 158-8 in 20 overs. Skipper David Warner top scored with 49 while opening partner Shikhar Dhawan managed 48. Strike bowler for team MI, […]
Raw Muscle Power At Zoroastrian Powerlifting Championship
The fifth Zoroastrian Powerlifting Championship, affiliated with and conducted by The Greater Bombay Powerlifting Association, in collaboration with the Naryman Dubash Foundation, was held at the Dadar Parsee Colony Gymkhana Grounds on Saturday, 8th April, 2017. Sponsored by Zarine and Yazdi Daruvala Trust, The WZO Trust, Late Ervad Hormusji Antia and Dinamai Antia Trust, Shapoorji […]
Film Review: AFTERMATH
On 1 July 2002, after taking off from Moscow, a Bashkirian passenger airliner and a DHL cargo plane had collided over Germany, resulting in a casualty list of 271. Director Lester alongwith writer Javier Gullol have woven the story into a film which, while managing to hold your attention thorough the hour-and-a-half, fails to be […]
Kudos Arash!
PT: Please share some more inspiring details about your academic journey. Arash: I’m currently enrolled in the Post Graduate Advanced Wine, Beverage and Business Management Degree Program at George Brown College in Toronto. I received my Bachelors Degree in Culinary Arts Business Management from the prestigious, Culinary Institute of America in New York where I […]
Film Review: BEGUM JAAN
Genre Drama Minutes 135 Director Srijit Mukherji Movie Rating 2.5/5 Shot entirely in Jharkhand and set during Independence on the western border (the original Bengali version ‘Rajkahini’ 2015, was set on the eastern border), Begum Jaan opens with scenes of an old lady stoically rescuing a young women from going the Nirbhaya way. Begum Jaan […]
Energy And Divination
Has there been a time when you have woken up and known that something was not going to be right? Or maybe that today was going to be a very important day in your life? People have told me in hindsight that they did not feel ‘right’. They were anxious, on edge, not being able […]
Befriending Mathematics!
The well-known American politician Frank Clark said, “I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humour in it”. That’s true indeed – add humour to grow a fondness for anything. But how does one make Mathematics, which is feared by most, a friend? Quite a task, but not impossible to […]
Life As Pleasure
Life is pleasure, they say, who preach that human self is nothing more than the sum total of desires and appetites and passions and the object of life is to attain their gratification. They live well, who derive maximum of pleasure out of life. Let all therefore enjoy as long as life endures. There […]