‘The Hundred Poets For Change’ Book Launch And Poetry Festival

 ‘The Hundred Poets For Change’ Book Launch And Poetry Festival

‘The Hundred Poets For Change’ book launch and poetry festival, held from 26th to 29th October, 2017, was a grand four day event curated by Menka Shivdasani and co-presented by Deepankar Khiwani. The key event commenced on Sunday morning at Kitab Khana, with host, conductor and Former Principal of Queen Mary School, Rati Dady Wadia…

Tata Group Tops Best Indian Brands Report

Tata Group Tops Best Indian Brands Report

In a recently released report of ‘2017 Best Indian Brands’ by ‘Interbrand India’, the Tata Group once again topped the chart for the fifth consecutive year. The salt-to-software conglomerate has topped the brand league with its brand valuation at Rs. 73,944 Crores, despite registering a marginal 0.4 decline this year. The table was dominated by…

Home In The City

Home In The City

The multifaceted and acclaimed screenwriter, photographer and director, Sooni Taraporevala’s second solo exhibition ‘Home in the City’ was hosted by Chemould Art Gallery at SoBo, till 1st November, 2017. Aptly subtitled ‘Bombay 1977 to Mumbai 2017’, the black-and-white photographs exhibited an eclectic mix of culture and communities, the elite and the populace – roadside barbers…

Dina Wadia Passes Away

Dina Wadia Passes Away

Dina Wadia, mother of industrialist Nusli Wadia and wife of Neville Wadia, passed away in London on Thursday, 2nd November, 2017. The only child of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Ruttie (née Petit), Dina was 98 years old, as quoted by family sources, as per the report of Pakistan’s Express Tribune News. After her marriage to…

Bharucha Baug Organises ‘Education Awards Nite’

Bharucha Baug Organises ‘Education Awards Nite’

The Bharucha Baug Education Association and Bharucha Baug Residents Welfare Association held an ‘Education Awards’ night at the grounds on 28th October, 2017. The event commenced with compere Hutoxi Aibara welcoming the audience and presenting a floral tribute to Chief Guest and BPP Chairman, Yazdi Desai, wife, Anahita Desai, and BPP Trustee, Kersi Randeria. Committee…

Community Call: Sanjan Day Centennial Celebrations!

Community Call: Sanjan Day Centennial Celebrations!

As our Community gears up to celebrate hundred years of the Sanjan Memorial Column on 16th November, 2017, the Trustees of Sanjan Anjuman are putting in every effort to make this historic Sanjan Day one to remember for years to come. Media Partner for the Sanjan Memorial Column Centenary Celebrations, Parsi Times updates our readers…

Zubin Poonawalla Awarded ‘Upcoming Professional Of The Year’

Zubin Poonawalla Awarded ‘Upcoming Professional Of The Year’

Consultant to the Tata group of companies for re-engineering and optimising their supply chain in various group companies, Zubin Poonawalla was recently awarded the ‘Indian Cargo Award’ by Durga Das Publications Private Limited, at an event organised in Ahmedabad on 14th October, 2017. Felicitated as the ‘Upcoming Professional of the Year 2017’, Zubin was recognised…

NIH Honours Neville Sanjana

NIH Honours Neville Sanjana

Neville Sanjana was recently conferred ‘The New Innovator Award’ as the outstanding Indian American Scientist 2017, by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and its Office of Strategic Coordination’s The Common Fund. Neville is among the seven Indian-American scientists selected for National Institute of Health Awards 2017. A core faculty member at the New York…