Welcome 2023! Dear Readers, The New Year bring with it an inherent promise of hope. There’s a subconscious sense of positive anticipation that lies within this feeling of newness when we hang up a new calendar and look forward to the excitement and opportunities that lie in the next 12 brand new months and…
Happy New Year 2023! Dear Readers, What a year it’s been! 2022 had us engaged in the rebuilding process – we have come a long way in rebuilding our lives from COVID’s economic, emotional and social damage. We’ve all faced some dark times and setbacks… but let’s not forget, two years ago, at this…
Merry Christmas! Dear Readers, Today is Christmas eve and many of us blessed with Christian friends and neighbours will receive those yummy authentic, home-made goodies like kal-kals, neureos, bolinhas, etc. along with a generous helping of that show-stopping, special rum-soaked Xmas cake! For the rest, one can always purchase the Christmas specials across various…
‘I-Specialists’ Blurring Community-Vision! Dear Readers, The one question that has been plaguing my mind for a while now, is, why does it take a calamity for us to snap into being the helpful and selfless souls that we are all capable of being? As a community, we have more than adequately proven our sense…
Dear Readers, Within every family or friend-circle, there’s usually at least one, if not a couple, of the typical naysayer kinds – the one who lives either in fear or in doubt, of any and everything, and makes sure to blatantly display the same, behind the veil of ‘concern’ and the default response:…
Dear Readers, As a community, we boast of a sizeable number of seniors, since we are genetically blessed with longevity. While it would have been ideal had the current generation been able to walk shoulder to shoulder in terms of our then population, the truth is, our current numbers predict a sorry, nay, regrettable state…
Dear Readers, If there’s one crucial lesson about life that has been amply stamped onto our souls over the past three years, it’s that life is short and unpredictable. Sometimes, there are no second chances to do those things you should have, or to say those words which so needed to be said… and heard….
Don’t Miss ZTFI’s Annual Fest 2022 Dear Readers, One of the most wonderful aspects of belonging to a community is that it enables us to help people in a way that we couldn’t, as individuals. It is said that the most accurate measure of a community’s greatness lies in the acts of compassion carried…
Happy Diwali – Celebrating The Light Within Dear Readers, It’s interesting how technology can today be considered both – one of the greatest boons as well as one of the greatest banes – of our times. As a concept, it presents itself as an interesting oxymoron related to the human brain – responsible for progress…
Happy Diwali – Celebrating The Light Within Dear Readers, With the Festival of Lights just a couple of days away, the festive season descends upon us all in full swing! And we welcome it with greater enthusiasm, as if in a bid to make up for the having missed out on the festivities over the…
Dear Readers, One of the more common and growing infirmities that ails a good part of our senior community members today, is a steady increase in the number of cases suffering from dementia and/or Alzheimer’s Disease. For many of us who aren’t clear about the difference between these two – Dementia is a general…