And the onslaught continues! We are continuously bombarded with news… which are the Red-Zone areas, doctors and policemen people being beating up; policemen beating up citizens; people migrating back home on foot with children and families in tow… that building’s under containment… ad nauseum! 90% of us who share these messages are merely arm-chair assistants. […]
– Iran’s FM Thanks Parsis For Help – The relations between Iran and India are age-old. To celebrate these ancient socio-cultural ties and to mark 70 years of Indo-Iran Diplomatic relations, Parzor with the Iran embassy had organised the Derakht-e-Doosti Festival in February 2020. The programme included an exhibition on Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, a Panel […]
The new Freddie Mercury Museum was recently opened in Zanzibar in November 2019, at the home of the Talatis, thanks to the support received from ‘The Mercury Trust’. The organisers thanked all the individuals and institutions for their cooperation and hope that the Museum will soon become a regular must-see feature on the Zanzibar tourist […]
The infamous episode of ‘Bois Locker Room’, where a group of teens created an Instagram group to share explicit photos, graphic sexual comments and objectifying language, has brought about an opportunity to discuss psychological perspectives on a range of issues such as cyber-bullying, sexualised behaviour, gender violence and the like. An incident like this is […]
Decidedly, love, as a feeling or emotional state, is complicated, confusing, exasperating enough… but add to the mix, a pandemic of the coronavirus proportion, and we are distinctly headed for the evolvement of a new kind of romance! The state of affairs (pun intended) at present is in a new kind of disarray. By early […]
Goodbye, Ruby Patel 12th May, 2020 marked the sad passing of our community’s foremost, veteran stage actor – Ruby Patel, a name synonymous with quality Parsi-Gujarati-English theatre and extraordinary talent. The noted theatre personality passed away in Mumbai, at the age of 86. Her passing adds immeasurably to the loss of brilliant Indian acting talents, […]
For Mother’s Sake! Dear Readers, The past couple of weeks has infused greater reality into the presence of the dreaded coronavirus, with an increasing number of community members testing COVID-19 positive. It has well entered the Baugs and some of our houses. We definitely need to ramp up our civic sense and stop making excuses […]
As per a recent media interaction, Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India (SII) – the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines by volume – has shared that his biotechnology firm, in partnership with an Oxford University-led consortium, should be able to deliver a vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the year. As the […]
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 13th May, 2020. WINNER: “It’s official! We’re smarter than mankind! This pandemic proves it!” By Clemmy R
Reliance Industries (RIL) has lost the tag of India’s highest profit-making company to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in the March 2020 quarter, due to the Pandemic! At Rs 8,049 crore, TCS’ reported profit after tax (PAT) during the January-March 2020 quarter was ahead of RIL’s reported PAT of Rs 6,348 crore during the same quarter. […]
Tata Group patriarch and Chairman Emeritus, Ratan Tata recently picked up a 50% cent stake in ‘Generic Aadhar’, a unique pharmacy retail chain promoted by Mumbai’s 18-year old, Arjun Deshpande. Compared to other online pharmacies, Generic Aadhar sells medicines – mainly diabetes and hypertension drugs, with cancer drugs in the pipeline – at much cheaper […]