Parsi Pride Brigade!


On 16th April, 2019, Adar Mah – Ardibesht Roj, Bordi’s Davier Agiary celebrated its 164th Salgreh with a Machi performed by Panthaki Homi Senna, followed by a Jashan at 10:00 am performed by Panthaky of Gandhi Agiary, Er. Aspandiyar Dadachaji, along with other five other Ervads. This was followed by a talk held in the…
Earlier this month, the AMS (American Meteorological Society) awarded the prestigious ‘Hydrologic Sciences Medal’ to Dr. Soroosh Sorooshian in its 2021 Awards and Honors program during its 101st AMS Annual Meeting. Every year, the AMS recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations of the weather, water, and climate community. Dr. Sorooshian, an Iranian-American distinguished professor of Civil…
The Royal Opera House – an integral structure of Bombay’s heritage, and endearing to numerous Parsis with fun memories held close to the hearts, will be brought back to life on October 20, 2016. The inauguration of this beautifully resuscitated splendor will mark and host the opening ceremony of the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival….
On 1st November, 2016 Nowroze Baug Play Centre (NPC) celebrated its 71st year with a jasan organised by the Managing Committee at the MJ Wadia Agiary (30th October, 2016). The Play Center held an entertainment programme on 12th November, 2016 with music, games and a scholarship distribution ceremony for Parsi students from the colony and…
Over the past few years, Parsi Times has been receiving an increasing number of distress calls from members of our community traveling to Udvada via outstation trains, who claim that boarding the trains at the Udvada railway station is extremely inconvenient for most, and virtually impossible for the elderly, due to the huge gap between…
On 1st August, 2019, the Supreme Court (SC) ended the 27-year-old dispute by ruling that the holy, century-old, Grade-II Atash Adaran (fire), at Pestonji Aslaji Doongaji Agiary in Bharuch, Gujarat, could be relocated to the Shirinbai and Khurshedji Hormusji Doongaji Daremeher, at Kopar Khairane, in Navi Mumbai. This would be the first time in twenty…