Congratulations to BPP Trustees for their wise, bold and progressive move to bring peace, harmony and happiness in our peace-loving Community! We all share a fundamental wish to live a happy life with peace and harmony. Poverty, illiteracy and over population hinder progress and development. Luckily, we are a small community, affluent in status and highly […]
It’s the sequel to the 2017 sleeper hit ’47 Meters Down’, where a couple of girls in a cage crash down into the ocean, with oxygen depleting. This one, for obvious reasons has a suffix: Uncaged. It involves four girls – twice the number, but with half the thrills and excitement. Mia (Sophie Nelisse) and […]
Mumbai, August 30, 2019: In an innovative move aimed at bringing the Parsi Community together and tackling its challenges, the Trustees of Bombay Parsi Punchayet have unanimously decided to constitute a 16-member Consultative Committee comprising of prominent Parsis from different walks of life with specialist skill sets. The objective of forming such a Consultative Committee […]
Dear Readers, It has been a good start to the New Year for our Community – as some of our fellow community members continue to add feathers to the Parsi cap and keep our legacy of pride and achievement going. It is indeed a matter of great pride for the nation and our Community that […]
WZCC’s Women Entrepreneur (WE) wing will hold a seminar on ‘Work Your Way to a Better You – Professionally and Personally’ on Saturday, 31st August, 2019, which will comprise two sessions – ‘Strategies for Mind-Body Equilibrium’ conducted by Dr. Bhavi Mody; and ‘Chair Yoga’ by Shernaz Vatcha, Iyengar Yoga Teacher. The seminar will be held at […]
Edul Daver, Global President of WZCC, (the World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce) will speak at the United Nations 68th DGC NGO Civil Society Conference, which will be held from the 26th to 28th of August, 2019, at Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Edul Daver will address the topic, ‘Can entrepreneurship be the solution to creating […]
Mumbai’s foremost youth hockey coach, 69-yar-old Merzban Patel (popularly known as ‘Bawa’), who is revered to have shaped and nurtured hockey talent in Mumbai – many of them Olympians and World Cuppers – has been recommended by the Selection Committee for the National Sports Awards (2019), to be felicitated with India’s most prestigious award in […]
The Parsee Gymkhana cricket team (PG) will face Surrey County Cricket Club’s Charles Alcock X1, in the United Kingdom, for the prestigious tournament – the third edition of the ‘1886 Trophy’, to be played on 23rd August, 2019, at ‘The Oval’, in London. Team PG, which comprises only Zoroastrians, will travel to the UK from […]
In 1969, a few Parsi art and culture enthusiasts from Pune set up a body to encourage amateur talent amongst local Zoroastrians, especially the youth and budding artists. They would raise funds, by organising entertainment programs and events for the general public, and utilize the collection to help the community’s underprivileged and for charitable causes. […]
Freddy Vachha, London’s Regional Chairman, has been selected by one thousand and four hundred United Kingdom Independent Party members to stand in the elections for the next Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Having run UKIP London totaling 15% of the country, he is now ready to take on 100% of the job! Born […]
“Stories have the power to hurt or heal,” says a child’s voice at the beginning of the film. In this film, adapted from the series of stories by Alvin Schwartz, one wonder what power this film could have – to hurt, heal.. or horrify! Set in 1968 during Halloween (that’s a given), in the small […]