Panthaki Baug’s Golden Jubilee celebratory events continue for senior citizens every month with great fun and entertainment! Under the aegis of Panthaki Baug Welfare Centre, an evening of fun and games was organised for the golden oldies on 21st July, 2019. With ‘Monsoon Olympic Games’ being the celebratory theme this time, the enthusiastic participants were…
Thirty young and talented students from Surat’s Utkarsh Dance Academy LLP, represented India at the ‘Yilan International Children’s Folklore Festival’, which was held in Taiwan from 5th to 16th July, 2019. Under the guidance of Behnaz S. Todiwala, Director of Utkarsh Dance Academy LLP since last 25 years, these dance enthusiasts, aged seven to fifteen…
On the 20th and 21st of July, 2019, The Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI) held its Annual General Meeting and Executive Council Meeting in Ahmedabad (Gujarat), at the Sir Navroji Vakil Hall, where 60 Representatives representing 38 Anjumans from all over India were present, including Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) Chairman Yazdi Desai and…
The Xtremely Young Zoroastrians (XYZ) organized the much coveted and anticipated third edition of ‘XYZ LAFA’ – Literary Arts & Fine Arts Festival, on 14th July, 2019. The halls and corridors of JB Vachha High School in Dadar were flooded with young XYZ members from three and a half to sixteen years of age! These…
The 24th World Scout Jamboree, which will be held at the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in West Virginia, USA, from 22nd July to 2nd August, 2019, will witness the participation of Zoroastrian scouts and scouters from all over the world. A Humbandigi prayer, led by Scouter Ervad Ratansha Vakil, will be performed on…
On 13th July, 2019, 69-year-old pilot, Noshir Medhora, who was flying a single-engine Cessna aircraft, died after the small plane crashed into a community center building, at 10:30 am, in West Harris County, Texas. According to the County’s Constable, Ted Heap, the Cessna aircraft is said to have taken off from West Houston Airport and…
As Israel Philharmonic Bids An Emotional Farewell . completion of his impressive 50-year tenure, as Musical Director of the world renowned Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO), in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park. The grassy expanse of the Yarkon Park was filled with an enormous crowd of young and old, who rose almost simultaneously as the charismatic maestro…
Over the past few months, the BPP’s renewed and assertive efforts – to retrieve Trust flats, in Parsi colonies and establishments under its purview, which are being wrongly kept unused yet locked by some Parsi beneficiaries – is bearing fruit. In a heartening and much appreciated turn of events, a number of such ‘holiday flats’,…
Bringing great pride and joy to the Community, Bangalore’s Sherry Bharda, Founding Member of yFX (Yash Raj Films’ visual effects division), has been invited by the prestigious, global apex body – the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (the Oscars) to join as a member. This puts Sherry in an acclaimed group of pioneers…
As per media reports, over the past month, the 100-year-old Parsi graveyard in Rajkot, is in need of urgent protection, with at least seven of twenty-five graves being dug open by anti-social elements who want to encroach upon the sprawling 7,741 sq. m land. Earlier in the week, four persons were arrested for trying to…
On 2nd July, 2019, Dr. Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin was felicitated with the Royal Microscopy Society (RMS) Gold Medal for Scanning Probe Microscopy, in Manchester, UK, for his work in STM microscopy when he was at University College of London at the London Center of Nanotechnology. The award was presented to him at the Microscopy and…