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…
Let’s Not Forget… Dear Readers, With the festive season upon us, the excitement is starting to build and we look forward to prepping for the many celebratory and joyous occasions, that we can all now finally celebrate, gathered as family, friends and as a community. What a relief to be able to hug and laugh…
An Auspicious Start To The Year End! Dear Readers, It’s indeed an auspicious entry into the last quarter of the year 2022 – with the 1st of October (Roj-Sarosh, Mah-Ardibehesht) marking the pious and blessed Salgrehs of three Atash Behrams – Pak Wadiaji Aatash Behram (Mumbai); Pak Mody Aatash Behram (Surat) and Pak Desai Aatash…
Old Is Gold! Dear Readers, Parsis are known for their love of antiquities, with most of our homes proudly brandishing exquisite pieces of teak furniture, crystal and other paraphernalia, reminding us of the grandeur of those grand old days, when mobile phones and social media were concepts as futuristic, as teleportation (instantaneous travel between two…
A Time To Heal Dear Readers, Today (Roj – Ardibehesht, Mah – Ardibehesht) marks the parab (or festival) of Ardibehesht, which is the second month of the Zoroastrian calendar, as also the third day of every month. As shared by our extremely popular columnist and authority on Parsi religion and culture – Noshir Dadrawala, this…
A Time For Goodbyes Dear Readers, What a week this has been – we’ve had to bid a heart-breaking goodbye to one of the community’s most cherished, all-time greats – Cyrus Pallonji Mistry, who lost his life in an unfortunate car-crash, last Sunday, 4th September. The tragedy, which claimed the life of the scion…
What Stops You? Dear Readers, So many of us are made for greater things… deep in our gut, we know we could be way bigger and better than where we are at now. Yet, something keeps us back from getting there. We are aware of it, but can’t seem to pin-point this exact cause…
When Simplicity Yields Satisfaction And Less Is More… Dear Readers, One of the many new habits that most of us were able to develop, over the past couple of years, thanks to the pandemic, when we were relegated to being indoors for long periods of time, was to ponder and reflect. Many of us would…
Khordad Saal Mubarak! Dear Readers, Before all else, on behalf of Team PT, I thank you for your very encouraging and positive feedback on PT’s Parsi New Year Special Issue. It is wonderful to see how many have resonated with our theme of ‘Compassion’ and we hope that the New Year will get to witness…