To our madam editor Anahita, like the Swam of the Avon, ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’. Yours sincerely, when it comes to brevity, is like Big Moose of Archie comics – I am d-uh! Anahita likes everything short and sweet, as I used to hear yet another intellectual editor, Adi Marazban say “tukku ne…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Parsi Times brings you interesting facts about our beloved Bombay! Explore this city’s amusing history and get to know why and how so many streets and places got their names with KYB![/otw_shortcode_info_box] Colaba Constructed by the British East India Company during Sir Robert Grant’s tenure as the Governor of Bombay (1835–1838), Colaba, the…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]As we prepare to set foot into 2017, it’s common for most of us to look back at the year that was, and introspect about our decisions and choices which either took us forward or set us back. And of these ponderings are born New Year resolutions! Parsi Times Special Correspondent Delaveen Tarapore…
With the awards season barely a couple of months away, studios are in the race to release their best films. Sing is one of the few, intended for the entire family, and with its title, there leaves little ambiguity regarding its genre. The film revolves around a koala Buster Moon (voice of Mathew Mc. Conaughey),…
Dr. Seth Ember (Aaron Eckhart) is an ‘exorcist’ of a different kind – he is a scientist who expels demons from people who are ‘possessed’, terming the entire process ‘evictions’. Wheelchair-bound due to a car accident in which his wife and son perished, Dr. Ember shows traces of his tragic past by sporting a shabby…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mail.parsitimes@gmail.com by 5th January, 2017. . . . . .[otw_shortcode_info_box border_type=”bordered” border_color_class=”otw-blue-border” border_style=”bordered” rounded_corners=”rounded-10″ background_color=”#c4dbff”] Winning Caption “Modiji ne Eid aur Christmas releases ko bhi chota bana diya! Demonetization ne ek saath saare film…
Loosely fashioned on the popular video-game series and based historically on the crusading Assassins v/s Templars, it stars Michael Fassbender as Callum Lynch, who’s bound for execution on account of capital murder. He’s saved from certain death by Abstergo Industries — father Alan Rikkin (Jeremy Irons) is the CEO and daughter Dr. Sophia Rikkin (Marion…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Parsi Times brings you interesting facts about our beloved Bombay! Explore this city’s amusing history and get to know why and how so many streets and places got their names with KYB![/otw_shortcode_info_box] Portuguese Church The Church of Our Lady of Salvation, popularly referred to as Portuguese Church, was built in 1596 by…
Think wrestling, and the late Dara Singh comes willy-nilly to mind. Aamir Khan was born in the year India’s most famous wrestler made the eponymous Rustom-e-Hind (1965), a title he was bestowed with 11 years earlier. No wonder then that the punctilious and given-to-precise-details actor was fated to make, and star in, a film on…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mail.parsitimes@gmail.com by 29th Decmber, 2016 . . . . .[otw_shortcode_info_box border_type=”bordered” border_color_class=”otw-blue-border” border_style=”bordered” rounded_corners=”rounded-10″ background_color=”#c4dbff”] Winning Caption “Chaal, India farva jaiye. Modiji ne khaali ‘black’ thi nafrat che!!” – by Kayomarz Dotiwalla [/otw_shortcode_info_box]
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Parsi Times brings you interesting facts about our beloved Bombay! Explore this city’s amusing history and get to know why and how so many streets and places got their names with KYB![/otw_shortcode_info_box] Kamathipura Kamathipura, which forms an almost perfect rectangle between Bellasis Road, Duncan Road, Grant Road and Suklaji Street, was until 1800,…