XYZ’s much looked forward to annual Monsoon Games 2024 proved even more exciting this year, featuring dodgeball, handball, throwball, football, kho-kho, and more, held at the DPCG Gymkhana, on 28th July, 2024. The event witnessed over 250 enthusiastic participants across age groups, including parents and volunteers, creating a lively and inclusive atmosphere. Participants displayed skills […]
For over a year now, Team WAPIZ, dedicated to community service for decades, has been making a difference in the lives of the community’s underprivileged, especially neglected seniors. Team WAPIZ has been diligently working towards providing our silvers a more hygienic home to live in, with dignity. Recently, a request for help was received for […]
The BJPC Institution inaugurated its aesthetically refurbished junior classrooms on 3rd June, 2024, opening its Playgroup, Nursery and KG doors for new and interactive state-of-the-art, ‘smart classrooms’, equipped with digital boards, in addition to catering to the new curriculum based on NEP. The refurbishment was possible through the generosity of WZO (World Zoroastrian Organisation) Trust […]
Boosting the morale of young Zoroastrians of Navsari, the WZO Trust Funds organised its 19th Academic annual prize distribution programme on the eve of 7th January, 2024, at Sirvai Party Plot, Navsari. 96 of the 199 students, from Junior KG to Post Graduate level, received cash prizes, while all were given a return-gift. The event […]
Give… But Smartly! This is the smart era – there’s smart phones, smart TVs, smart everything these days, except of course for smart people. Maybe this is the downside of modern technology – it robs us, bit by bit, of our self-reliance, in the name of convenience. It started a few decades ago, with the […]
WZO Trust Funds unveiled a portrait of Late Scylla Vatcha at their Bai Maneckbai P B Jeejeebhoy Senior Citizens Centre, at Navsari, on 20th October, 2023, in the presence of residents, trustees, administration and staff. The Centre considered Scylla Vatcha as their Patron Saint. She was also philanthropist and benefactor to thousands of Zoroastrians, an […]
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die… dear Scylla donned her ethereal robes on 17th March, 2020 to progress to the higher realms, where she will for eternity be held in Divine Embrace. It was 30 years ago in 1990, that Bachi and I were blessed to have met Scylla for the very first time, […]
વડા દસ્તુરજી ખુરશેદ દસ્તુર અને દિનશા તંબોલીએ કરેલી મધ્યસ્થી 15મી સપ્ટેમ્બર 2017ને દિને ઉદવાડા મ્યુઝિયમના કેરટેકર અસ્પી સિપોય ઉદવાડા સ્ટેશનથી ફિરોઝપુર જનતામાં ચઢતી વખતે પગ સ્લીપ થતા ટ્રેનની નીચે ટ્રેક પર સરકી જતા દુ:ખદ અકસ્માત થયો હતો. તેમના પગને સખત ઈજા થઈ હતી. તેમને વલસાડની સિવિલ હોસ્પિટલમાં લઈ જવામાં આવ્યા હતા. પરંતુ પગને સખત ઈજા […]
On 15th September, 2017, caretaker of Udvada Museum, Aspi Sepoy, met with a tragic accident at the Udvada railway station, when he was trying to board the ‘Firozpur Janta’, but slipped and fell on the tracks under the train, crushing his legs. He was rushed to Valsad Civil Hospital but having fatally injured his legs, […]
The agenda of World Zarthushti Chamber of Commerce (WZCC) has been a judicious mix of promoting commerce and entrepreneurship in the Zoroastrian community through various chapters spread all over the world, inculcating the spirit of philanthropy in their members. FEZANA, in conjunction with WZCC, recently initiated a philanthropic exercise of raising over a million Indian […]
Navsari Samast Parsi Zoroastrian General Fund, Navsari Bhagarsath Anjuman and Navsari Malesar Behdin Anjuman jointly organized a grand function at Jamshed Baug, Navsari on 17th June, 2017, to felicitate Vada Dasturji Khurshed Kaikobad Dastoor upon his appointment as Parsi Member on the National Commission for Minorities. Commencing at 5 pm, the representatives of all the […]