Another case of frivolous litigation Without getting into technical details, the bare facts are as follows:since the past several weeks a lot of misinformation, untruth and half-truth seem to have been spread through the print and electronic media. A case in point is the falsehood being spread that some trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet…
એક વંશીય સમુદાય તરીકે હજાર વરસોથી પારસી સમુદાય ભારતમાં અસંખ્ય પૌરાણિક માન્યતાઓ સાથે જીવે છે અને આપણા સમુદાયના કેટલાક વડીલો સાથે તાજેતરમાં વિચારવિમર્શ કરતા સમજાયું કે તેના પરથી પ્રસંગોપાત ધૂળ સાફ કરવી પણ જરૂરી છે. પરંતુ જાણવા મળ્યું કે આપણા વડીલોજ કેટલીક બાબતો અને સત્યથી અજાણ છે તો આપણે યુવાનો તેમની પાસેથી શું આશા રાખી…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Parsi Times brings you the continuation of yet another interesting series titled, ‘Popular Parsi Myths’, written by our Community luminary, Zoroastrian scholar and visionary, and a writer par excellence – Noshir H. Dadrawala. The object of this series is to shed the light of truth on myths and fables and sift the facts…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Parsi Times brings you the continuation of yet another interesting series titled, ‘Popular Parsi Myths’, written by our Community luminary, Zoroastrian scholar and visionary, and a writer par excellence – Noshir H. Dadrawala. The object of this series is to shed the light of truth on myths and fables and sift the facts…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Parsi Times brings you the continuation of yet another interesting series titled, ‘Popular Parsi Myths’, written by our Community luminary, Zoroastrian scholar and visionary, and a writer par excellence – Noshir H. Dadrawala. The object of this series is to shed the light of truth on myths and fables and sift the…
Though Hong Kong is blessed with very few Parsis, they are a united, warm, friendly and generous lot. The Zoroastrian Club is an imposing structure that does justice to the high socio-economic status Parsis enjoy on this lovely island. Many roads in Hong Kong begin and end in a quiet corner of Happy Valley: the…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” border_color=”#d09c2c”] The contribution of Parsis to the socio-economic development and welfare of the country is too wide and varied for justice in a short treatise. The Wadias have built schools, colleges and hospitals, the Petits too have built schools, hospitals, sanatoriums and dharamshalas. Whenever and wherever wealth has been generated by Parsis,…
The Saga of the Shahanshas is an attempt by Adi F. Merchant to chronicle Firdausi Toosi’s poetic magnum opus – The Shahnameh, in prose. Shahnameh or the Book of Kings is the world’s longest epic poem written by the Persian poet Firdausi of Toos between 977 and 1010 CE. Any attempt to translate it from…
As an ethnic community, Parsis have lived in India for over a millennium and myriad myths have been cherished and closeted which require to be brought out and given an occasional dusting. We realised the need for doing this in the course of a recent interaction with some elders of the community. It dawned on…
Holi signifies Change (from the cold winter to the warmth of spring), Colour (with all Nature awakening from its dull winter sleep to a riot of seasonal colours) and Love (which unfolds with the warmth of bonfires and festivity which foster friendship and bonding). As a spring festival, Holi provides one and all with the…
પ્રાર્થના અને ધાર્મિક માન્યતા એ છે કે ધર્મ માત્ર તત્વજ્ઞાનથી અલગ પડે છે. પ્રાર્થના અને ધાર્મિક વિધિઓથી આધ્યાત્મિક ઉત્સવનો અનુભવ પ્રાપ્ત કરવામાં મદદ મળે છે. પ્રાર્થના અને ધાર્મિક વિધિઓનો હેતુ સભાન જાગૃતતા પેદા કરવાનો છે, જે બદલામાં, આધ્યાત્મિક વિદ્યાનું સમજણ અને સમજૂતી જાણવા મળે છે. પ્રાર્થના અને ધાર્મિક વિધિઓ પણ એક માધ્યમ પૂરું પાડે છે,…