Parsi Times brings you the weekly schedule of WZCC’s Webinars which have been conducted through the epidemic and have greatly benefitted community members worldwide, with their insightful, informative and highly beneficial sessions, with speakers who are authorities in their respective fields. Our very own tech-guru, Yazdi Tantra has been holding a series of Zoom Meetings […]
Nature has endowed the world with multifarious beauties all around. The delights and beauties of nature enliven the imagination and elevate the soul. Let me go outdoor and walk and run and roam and exercise my limbs and take fresh air. Nature is the reservoir of health. Let me drink its elixir. One draught of […]
Submitted By Cyrus Dotivala . 6th October, 2020 was a sad day for Surat’s Parsi Community as we lost our Grand Old Man – Mr. Jal Rustomji Katpitia. A gentleman with high spirits who inspired many in his lifetime, with his immense zeal and enthusiasm. Jalbhai, as he was popularly known, started his career with […]
To extract compressed files, we usually employ Winzip which extracts files with .zip as the extension. But for files with extensions reading .rar or .cab or .gz, there’s Archive Extractor – an easy online tool that can extract over 70 types of compressed files, including 7z, zipx, rar, tar, exe, dmg and others. Just visit […]
Re: Intercaste Marriages In The Community We all wish, our children marry within our fold to ensure greater compatibility, stability and happiness in their married lives, and to safeguard the dignity and acceptance of their children. A social stigma exists in our community for inter-caste married ladies and their innocent children. Even so, there is a steep rise […]
Oh, to drink from that fountain of youthful vanity’s ever-consuming desire! We are an exhausting generation of giddy consumerism, fads, fashion and fixes. In the age of social media, beauty has become a lucrative, tradable commodity. Plastic surgery and the cosmetics industry is no longer viewed as only a tool to fight against time. Over […]
. Why are some decisions easy and some hard to make? Why do we procrastinate sometimes while, at other times, are able to be very clear about our decisions? Often, we end up procrastinating because we are unable to make decisions in a timely manner… while sometimes we’re unable to decide which course of action to engage in, […]
. Several elders across Gujarat, recall Chinese men on bicycles who sold garas by the weight. The heavier garas, with more embroidery, were more expensive. Over the years, a close relationship developed with their clients. The Chinese would leave their heavy bundles on a particular veranda during their visits. In the heat of the afternoon, […]
The human body is a perfect example of engineering at its best. The spine, in particular, poses as the perfect model for engineering and architecture students to understand how a good design can provide optimum performance of weight bearing, extreme degrees of mobility with strong stability, while protecting the delicate structure encased within. And in […]
When Lord Karan Bilimoria speaks, the world listens! And so it was on the evening of October 3rd, 2020 (IST) when he charmed and mesmerized the participants who had logged on, to gather the pearls of his wisdom that he was sharing, on the topic, ‘Lessons Learnt From Covid-19 Crisis’, in a webinar organized by […]
This year marks the 28th anniversary of the occasion when Er. Kersi Panthaki and his four friends – Yezdi Siganporia, Farokh Tantra, Ashok Patil and Ramesh Pawar – all embarked on their bicycles on a 7,500km life-changing journey, pan-India, starting from Bakhtawar building in Nariman Point, Mumbai… all for an extremely noble cause – collecting […]