[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]On April 13th, 2019, NCPA’s Symphony Orchestra of India’s (SOI) Music Academy celebrated the graduation ceremony of five academy students, of which one was our very own 15-year-old Leah Divecha. She started learning to play the Violin at the tender age of six and was enrolled in the pilot project of NCPA’s Western…
On 10 April, 2019, the Indian Express reported that The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill or CAB, cleared by the outgoing Lok Sabha, proposed providing citizenship to “Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan”. But in the BJP’s Sankalp Patra (Manifesto) released on 8th April, 2019, Christians and Parsis were omitted with…
Empowering Mobeds invites all Mobed sahebs and their wives to an Open-house discussion on a much needed topic that needs attention – ‘Expectations To Enroll Your Son In Full Time Mobedi’. This will be followed by a parent-child session conducted by a mental health panel comprising Dr. Kersi Chavda, Hvovi Bhagwagar and Tanya Vasunia. Empowering…
The Mumbai Mazdoor Sabha (MMS), under the leadership of President Chandbibi Zaidi and General Secretary Dhunji Naterwalla, signed a new three-year Wage Settlement on the 2nd of April, 2019, with the B.D. Petit Parsee General Hospital, facilitating an increase in benefits for the Hospital’s Workmen, Upper Staff and Nursing Staff. The MMS is a statutorily…
The triennial elections of the NPP (Nagpur Parsi Panchayet) were held on 31st March, 2019. While the top five posts were filled in unopposed, the remaining seven were contested by ten candidates. The pre-poll scene saw a bit of campaigning and the voter turnout was 68%. The newly elected Committee of the Nagpur Parsi Panchayet…
The tenants of Zoroastrian Colony, Chikalwadi, Tardeo, organised an evening Avan Mahino Jashan on 7th March, 2019 to offer prayers to the well, situated within the colony, which was beautifully decorated with flowers, divas and lights. It was attended by over sixty-five Zarthostis from within the colony as well as guests. Chashni and malido was…
On March 9, 2019, the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of India (ZTFI) held its Navroze Special Feed-a-Family programme at Cama Baug. It was a fun-filled evening with numerous games and delightful entertainment, giving gifts and spreading joy and smiles to all the beneficiaries and winners. And rightly so, as Navroze is the season of giving and…
On March 20, 2019, Indian-American lawyer, Framroze Virjee was appointed President of California State University at Fullerton (CSUF), by the University’s Board Of Trustees. Having served as Campus President since December 2017, Framroze will assume the permanent presidency immediately, where he will oversee a campus that enrolls 40,000 students and boasts of over 274,500 alumni. CSUF is…
XYZ (Xtremely Young Zoroastrians) will hold a week-long fun, Summer Camp designed for children between 4 – 15 years of age, simultaneously in Andheri, Bandra, Dadar and Colaba from 5 – 11 May, 2019. The camp will include family games, sports, visit to an Atash Behram, heritage walk, entrepreneurship workshops, games, scavenger hunt, Zumba, competitions,…
On 26th March, 2019, Mumbai’s Sazeman-e-Jawanan-e-Zartoshty-e-Irani (Sazeman), known as the Iranian Zoroatrian Youths Association, held a Jashan celebrating the Birth Anniversary of Holy Prophet, Vaxur-E-Vaxuran Asho Zarathushtra (Khordad Sal as per Fasli calendar), at the N M Petit Fasli Atash Kadeh Hall. Administrator, Darayush Zainabadi then spoke in Persian about the significance of this Holy…
On March 28, 2019, Toronto-based restaurant manager and sommelier at the CN Tower, Arashasp Shroff, was awarded Ontario Hostelry Institute’s ‘Top 30 Under 30 Award’, 2019, which featured over 150 nominations across the province. The winners, who are chosen from across all segments of the Hospitality and Food Service Industry in the district, are recognized…