Merry Christmas! Dear Readers, A distinguishing factor about Parsis is we celebrate every festival with zest and glee. Christmas holds a special place in our hearts perhaps because we resonate with its essential spirit of giving – in keeping with the essence of our very own Parsipanu, oft defined as philanthropy. While no one should […]
Sir Dorabji Tata will forever be immortalised as the man who turned a business comprising three cotton mills, into India’s largest private sector steel company, three electric companies, and one of the nation’s leading insurance companies. Born on 27th August, 1897, Sir Dorabji Tata was the firstborn of Hirabai and Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata – the visionary […]
Community members are aware that Global Working Group (GWG) – comprising the elected Parsi Irani Zoroastrian Federations, Associations in countries that do not have Federations and some prominent Zoroastrians – in keeping with the economic challenges faced by Mobeds (Priests) and widows of Mobeds, 60 years and above – had, due to the initiative and efforts […]
Our racial heritage, our temperamental endowment, and vicissitudes of time have built our communal characteristics, Ahura Mazda. We take life cheerfully and strive to make the most of it. We are full of life and gay of disposition. We are boisterous and obtrusive, talkative and vivacious, amiable and jovial, lively and impulsive, virile and industrious, […]
With respect to everyone’s beliefs, and with the main aim of shedding light on this topic, I share my knowledge and my beliefs on the concept of Organ Donation in order to provide clarity by doing away with any misinformation that may lead our Zarthostis to form opinions based on well-intentioned myths or worse, baseless […]
પારસી સંસ્કૃતિ સાથે પરોપકાર અને ચેરિટી જોડાયેલી છે. પારસી તારૂય બીજું નામ સખાવતથ એ કહેવત જાણીતી છે. દિનશા તંબોલી આજે આપણા સમુદાયમાં દાનવૃત્તિ પરોપકારના ખ્યાલના વિકાસ અંગેના તેમના વિચારો જણાવે છે. સખાવતનો ખ્યાલ સમજીએ તો તમારા હૃદયથી અન્ય લોકો પ્રત્યે ઉદારતા વધારવાનું કાર્ય છે. પરોપકારનો સાર અમે જરથોસ્તીઓના મનમાં ઉંડે ઉતારી દેવામાં આવ્યો છે. આપણો […]
When Parsi Times’ Asst. Editor, Delaveen, requested me to key in my thoughts on Charity and Philanthropy in the Zoroastrian community for publication in this Special Navroze issue, I thought it would be appropriate to expand on the very enlightened editorial, ‘This Toxic Sense of Entitlement’, published in Parsi Times issue of April 22, 2017, […]