United We Stand Survive Dear Readers, Parsi Times’ first issue of 2017 welcomes you into the New Year, hoping it brings you endless happiness, success and prosperity. The new calendar year awakens and instigates the planner in us – there’s always such an infectious, palpable element of hopefulness and excitement in new beginnings. In our…
Happy New Year 2017! Dear Readers, Welcome to the threshold of a brand new year! As we live the last day of 2016, hopefully we are done with the introspection and having identified the needed course-corrections, we look forward to stepping into the new orbit, all fresh and renewed. The new calendar year offers us…
Dear Readers, As the year draws to a close, it’s not uncommon for most of us to take stock of various aspects of our lives. And naturally, we start with those areas which seemed shaky. To some that may be health, to others finances or relationships, and so on… But there’s one area that forms…
Discuss, Don’t Cuss! Dear Readers, Once again we find our community vociferously stepping up the heat on social media about multiple issues – the most aggravated one being the outrage of our community members regarding the annual Doongerwadi Heritage Walk, where a small group of students studying Comparative Religions is educated about our final rites…
Dear Readers, Would you believe it’s December already? Seems like just yesterday when we stepped into 2016 and already we stand on the threshold of 2017! How time flies! We can’t help but look back on the year that was… on the things we’d planned to do this year, and smile on the memories of…
Dear Readers, I understand a lot of us would be excited to read this editorial based on the above headline, hoping to find innovative solutions to help garner some ‘change’ – the most sought after commodity currently in our country that has gone into chaos, ever since our PM proclaimed the ‘D’ word! Now that…
Dear Readers, Let’s face it. Us Bawas are an opinionated lot. We love our opinions but we love sharing our opinions even more! It is this love of opinionating that has seduced us into making digital and social media, which offer free-for-all platforms like Whatsapp and Facebook, a greater part of our lives than most…
Dear Readers, It can’t be said enough. This past week will go down in Indian, American and global history for witnessing two of the biggest upsets ever, in two of the world’s foremost democracies! Most are still reeling under these two national predicaments – ‘Indian Notes’ and ‘US Votes’, but while the former hit all…
Dear Readers, Once again, on behalf of Team Parsi Times, I thank all of you for the abundant response to our Lagan Special Issue. It felt contented, like we were doing something right, to be showered with mails not just from readers who had participated in our Lagan Special Issue Contest, but also from so…
Dear Readers, This week has seen not just our community, but the entire nation and the media (of course) go abuzz with the shocking news about Cyrus Mistry’s ouster by the Tatas. Ever since the news broke out, confusions and speculations are rife within our community, increasingly on digital platforms, as each new day unveiled…
No One Does It Better Than Us! “Khodai! Ek week ma paachhi aavi Diwali! Baddha pagal jewa lok aakkha mara Bombay ma awaaj ne dhumaro karse!” cribbed ‘Granna’, a close friend’s 89-year-old grandmother I visited yesterday. She rocked on her wooden easy-chair with 7-year-old Dipu (the son of Jamuna, her domestic help of fifteen years),…