In keeping with the ongoing summer season, PT’s Writer extraordinaire, Dara Khodaiji presents a hilarious Bawaji Travel Story-Series, filled with humour and fun, to kick off that perfect weekend mood! It’s Sunday morning of 10th March. Rutimai is immersed in Parsi Times. Darabsha is lolling on his easy chair and mulling over the Racing Times….
That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star Man, by and large is an optimistic creature. He lives and dreams of achieving happiness even when he is stuck in the depths of the worst circumstances. Yet, as the above lines by Miguel…
Throughout the Parsi-Zoroastrian history, Parsi women have all been high achievers – in Persia and India, and globally too! We had Artemisia of Halicarnassus (485 BCE) – Admiral of the Persian Navy and a lover of Xerxes I; there was Pantea Arteshbod (Aryash) – Commander of the legendary Immortal Army known as Persian Immortals or…
I remember the first Republic Day of India quite vividly, rather as vividly as then a boy of five could. It was frenzied – I could not understand what the hullaballoo was all about. The word ‘Republic’ meant very little, rather almost next to nothing to me, but I found the mood every-where jubilant. It…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Dubbed as one of the most famous personalities of the 20th century alongside Gandhi, Kennedy and Einstein, 24th January, 2019 marks the death anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill who passed away in 1965, at the ripe, old age of ninety-one. An aristocrat and a royalist, an economic liberal and an imperialist, his wit…
It’s that time of the year – the “get me to the baug on time,” time. The time when the monthly budget goes awry, and if it is a family wedding, it goes absolutely ballistic. The marginal utility of the bank simply does not seem to diminish. Carl Menger who propounded the theory of Marginal…
Ms. Hemavati Pal, the erstwhile Teacher, Principal and Administrator of Sir J.J. Girls’ High School passed away peacefully in her sleep on 12th October, 2018, at her home in Mangalore, at the age of seventy-nine. Born in Mangalore on 26th August, 1929, Ms. Pal completed her schooling and graduation in Mangalore and her MA degree…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]On popular demand by our readers, PT is delighted to coax our brilliant writer, Dara Khodaiji, into sharing another set of his ‘info-taining’ Idioms… [/otw_shortcode_info_box] . Idioms aren’t idiotic. They are replete with wisdom, lessons in morals and a lot more besides being amusing. ‘Being the breadwinner’: Most of our life is spent…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]From the morbid subject of death that we read in the last instalment Of ‘Idioms aren’t Idiotic’, we now explore the subject of birth, especially those privileged ones born to a rich family… [/otw_shortcode_info_box] . To Be ‘Born With A Silver Spoon In The Mouth’: It was back in time, in England, when the majority…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]On this very day, 1st September, 1939, seventy-nine years ago, Hitler invaded Poland, and this invasion sparked the Second World War. On Sunday, 2nd September, 1945, seventy-three years ago, this most terrible war ever ended leaving in its wake, death of a million plus soldiers, and an equally large number of civilians killed……
Daena, the moral and religious conscience of man, accompanies the soul, after his bodily death, to the next world. It leads the soul to the abode of weal or woe, according to the righteous or wicked life led by the soul upon earth. On the dawn of the fourth day after death, the soul of…