Yazad Jahanbax Chinoy, from Valsad, did the nation and the community proud, by winning a Gold and a Silver medal at the ‘11th World Strength Lifting and Incline Bench Press Championship’, held from 15th to 21st July, 2024, in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan. Yazad won the gold medal, lifting a total of a whopping 505 kgs, and the […]
Recently, I was in a discussion with a friend who felt we have so many factions within our miniscule community – there’s Shehenshahi, Kadmi and Fasli Zoroastrians. These mainly differ in terms of the Zoroastrian calendar and in some matters of religious rituals. Besides these three groups, there are observers of the Ilm-e-kshnoom way of […]
The University of Birmingham unveiled a portrait commemorating Lord Karan Bilimoria’s illustrious ten-year tenure as Chancellor, on 18th July, 2024. Lord Bilimoria, the first Indian-born Chancellor of a Russell Group University in Great Britain, stepped down, leaving behind a legacy of transformative leadership. The portrait was crafted by renowned portrait artist, Benjamin Sullivan, who has […]