The Indian Association of Secretaries and Administrative Professionals (IASAP), Pune Chapter organised a live ‘Cookery Demo’ on 25th April, 2018, by Chef Saket Sharma, on the occasion of ‘International Administrative Professionals Week’, which is celebrated worldwide in the last week of the month of April. This was followed by the ‘Boss–Secretary Dinner’ on the 29th, which was well […]
Dae Mahino, Khorshed Roj, which falls on Thursday, the 24th of May, 2018, marks the day known as ‘Zarthost-No-Diso’, or the day that our beloved prophet, Zarathustra left the earthly, mortal life to re-unite with Ahura Mazda. On this day, special prayer sessions are organized, with prayers and religious discourses hailing the great life and miracles of our […]
PT: What is a Jasan? Er. Harvesp: A Jasan is a religious thanks giving ceremony that commemorates an important event. Generally, Jasans are performed as a thanksgiving for happy and auspicious occasions like an anniversary, an engagement, house warming, graduation, birthday etc. Jasan or Fareshta are also performed to remember our departed souls on important days like […]
Re: Mr. Arzan Ghadially’s Letters To The Editor (May 12, 2018) Mr. Arzan Ghadially by his letter to Parsi Times has done well in elaborating the financial crunch faced by the BPP and has suggested measures which are thought provoking. Part of the wastage of precious community funds was, and is, due to avoidable litigation, […]
Let’s face it… after that crazy catch pulled off by the fabulous AB de Villiers at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday night’s IPL match, we may as well change the phrase ‘Carpe Diem’ to ‘Carpe Di‘Villiers’! For our not-really-into-cricket friends – like some of my sports-virgin bawa friends committed to preserving our fair-skin legacy […]
‘A Lead Tool Too’ Despite the ‘F’ word bandied about liberally in the film, the viewer is regularly reminded that it also stands for ‘family’, which our hero plans to start with his live-in girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). The opening credits set the tone for the next couple of hours. After a tragedy befalls Wade […]
Genre: Drama Rating: 3/5 108 minutes Director : Harish Vyas In Any Other Language Sometime during the latter part of the film, when the middle-aged couple begin to have their irreconcilable differences, the till then subdued wife utters a cliched but telling remark “Our relationship is nominal, our togetherness even more so”. Set in […]
As we know, Idioms are sometimes silly, sometimes funny but quite often they induce reflection. In our earlier articles, we have shared many idioms dealing with ghosts and death. Here are few more in the same vein… Die hard: Today, influenced by the movie ‘Die Hard’ starring Bruce Willis, the idiom has taken a different connotation. […]
As the summer heat gets to us, it is natural for us to grab and ice cream or jump into a pool to cool off. Our pet dogs suffer from the heat just like we do. Many pet parents notice that their dogs’ eating habits change during the summer months – some dogs reduce the […]
On 13th May, 2018 a large number of Mobeds and their families gathered at the Dadar Athornan Institute to attend the ‘Empowering Mobeds Workshop’. The workshop was jointly organized by the Athornan Mandal-WZO Trust Funds mobed welfare scheme, and comprised a five-hour session divided into three with various speakers from all walks of life, emphasizing […]
On 14th May, 2018, (Hormuzd Roz, Dae Mahino), over three hundred Zarthostis gathered to witness the grand inauguration of the Shirinbai and Khurshedji Hormusji Doongaji Dadgah at Koparkhairane, Navi Mumbai. The proceedings commenced with an inaugural Jasan performed by Vada Dasturji of Udvada Khurshed Dastoor, along with Dasturji Adil Bhesania of Wadiaji Atash Behram, Dasturji […]