The Class VIII students of Bai M. N. Gamadia Girl’s High School recently visited the home for the aged, ‘Gamadia Clinic’ at Tardeo and entertained its fifty-two (men and women) residents. Offering them jalebis and pakodas, as well as singing melodies from the golden era, the Gamadia girls managed to bring a smile on every…
The Bandra Tata Blocks Welfare Association (BTBWA) organized a visit to the four Atash Behrams across the city on 31st of July, 2016. Commencing with Banaji Atash Behram at 8:00 a.m. followed by Atash Behram at Fanaswadi, the group of fifty further visited Anjuman Atash Behram and Wadiaji Atash Behram. They also visited the Cama…
Team ZTFI (Zoroastrian Trust Funds of India) celebrated Parsi New Year with the residents at Parukh Dharamshala (Mumbai) on the 15th of August 2016, with over 75 senior citizens who had a fun time at the event. ZTFI Trustee Yasmin Jal Mistry started off with greetings, and handed sweets and gifts to all the residents,…
On 30th July, ZYNG and WZCC organized a financial workshop ‘We Are Practical, Not Spenders’, a talk on financial wellbeing to help our community’s youth manage their money wisely, by financial planner and founder of Financial Artists At Radio Club, Maher Dhamodiwala. The event was hosted and sponsored by DSP Black Rock. The full house…
Activity High School held its 6th Inter-House Fashion Show on Saturday, July 30, 2016 with over two hundred and sixty students from four Houses walking the ramp with enthusiasm and fervor. The ‘Fashion Show’ commenced with students being grouped into three categories – Sub-Juniors, Juniors and Seniors, and competing in various categories. The judges for…
The Bai Soonabai Hirji dar-E-Meher situated at Gowalia Tank celebrated its 204th Salgreh on 1st August, 2016. Being a weekday and ‘Behram Roj’, the flow of devotees started early morning. Attended by over fifty people, the function commenced with a Khushali-Nu-Jasan performed by Ervads Farshogar Madon, Shazad Arzani, Homyar Masani and Pervez Karanjia, followed by…
The Deolali Nashik Parsi Zoroastrian Anjuman Trust has been celebrating its Agiary’s centenary with functions and modifications in the Anjuman and its properties, through the past one year. On 29th July, the ‘New Dastoor Quarters’ which include a kebla, prayer and residential rooms for Dastoors, was inaugurated, amid a number of Zarthostis from Deolali and…
The Zoroastrian Trust Funds of India (ZTFI) held its ‘Youth Camp’ on July 30th and 31st, 2016 at Khandala’s Marazban Sanatorium. Forty participants from Surat, Navsari, Deolali, Dahanu and Mumbai partook of various indoor and outdoor games designed to instil team spirit and leadership. Parizad Irani from Deolali won the Best Camper-Girl prize and Jamshid…
NGO- ‘World For All’, in collaboration with Pedigree and Metro Wholesale, organised a ‘Pet Adoption Camp’ on 23rd and 24th of July, 2016 at Metro Mall in Borivali. The initiative turned out to be a huge success, with fourteen homeless pups and kittens being adopted by enthusiastic animal lovers, who visited the venue in large…
On 25th July, 2016 Parsi Times’ popular columnist, Ruby Lilaowala was invited by the Lioness Club of Cuffee Parade to address its members about ‘Journalism in India’ at the PVM Gymkhana. Covering important aspects, Ruby explained that the press is broadly divided into the National Press, Regional Press, Local Press and Community Press, having different…
In an attempt to give back to the society and his alma mater, Prof. Dr. Firdos Shroff recently distributed his book, ‘Pearls of Wisdom – Inner Engineering For Self Development And Knowing Thyself’ to the students of Boys’ Town Public School, in Nasik on 23rd, July, 2016. Indebted to the PN Mehta Trust and mentor,…