[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Start your weekend with positive vibes with inspirational excerpts from the acclaimed book, ‘Homage Unto Ahura Mazda’ by Dasturji Dr. Maneckji Naserwanji Dhalla of Karachi.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] Credulity sees not and hears not and cogitates not. It is the child-mind that refuses to grow. It thrives where ignorance, superstition and fear lull man’s intellect to…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Start your weekend with positive vibes with inspirational excerpts from the acclaimed book, ‘Homage Unto Ahura Mazda’ by Dasturji Dr. Maneckji Naserwanji Dhalla of Karachi.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] Marvellous is the power of thought. Thinking is as natural to man as breathing. Thought has lifted man above the level of the animal world. It has raised…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Start your weekend with positive vibes with inspirational excerpts from the acclaimed book, ‘Homage Unto Ahura Mazda’ by Dasturji Dr. Maneckji Naserwanji Dhalla of Karachi.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] . Life, to a vast majority, is a disinheritance. Providence feeds some to the fill but leaves many even without their daily feed. Few are born with silver…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Parsi Times brings you the continuation of yet another interesting series titled, ‘Popular Parsi Myths’, written by our Community luminary, Zoroastrian scholar and visionary, and a writer par excellence – Noshir H. Dadrawala. The object of this series is to shed the light of truth on myths and fables and sift the facts…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]PT Reporter Khushroo Mehta catches up with Panthaki of Panchgani Agiary, Er. Hoshang Bhandara on the nooks and intricacies of one of our religion’s most pious ceremony that stands the basis of terming someone as a true Zoroastrian – ‘The Navjote’.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] . The Navjote ceremony is when a Parsi child is formally taken…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Start your weekend with positive vibes with inspirational excerpts from the acclaimed book, ‘Homage Unto Ahura Mazda’ by Dasturji Dr. Maneckji Naserwanji Dhalla of Karachi.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] Zarathushtra brands scandal or slander, backbiting or calumny as an inexpiable sin. Scandal creeps and crawls like a loathsome reptile or flies like a winged snake. Upon swift wings does…
Dae Mahino, Khorshed Roj, which falls on Thursday, the 24th of May, 2018, marks the day known as ‘Zarthost-No-Diso’, or the day that our beloved prophet, Zarathustra left the earthly, mortal life to re-unite with Ahura Mazda. On this day, special prayer sessions are organized, with prayers and religious discourses hailing the great life and miracles of our…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]As we enter the ‘Dae’ month, which is one of thanksgiving to the Creator and is usually expressed by Jasan ceremonies either at home, office, Aatash Behram or Agyari, Parsi Times Reporter, Khushroo Mehta, speaks with Panthaki of Godrej Baug’s Shapoorji Fakirji Jokhi Agiary Ervad, Harvesp Madon, who elucidates the relevance and significance…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Start your weekend with positive vibes with inspirational excerpts from the acclaimed book, ‘Homage Unto Ahura Mazda’ by Dasturji Dr. Maneckji Naserwanji Dhalla of Karachi.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] Man is mirrored in his manners and his worth is valued according to his manners. A well-bred man is a man of good and gentle manners. It is…
Intolerance and bigotry and dogmatism are the bitterest enemies of religion upon earth. They make religion a tyrant, a persecutor, a veritable daeva, the demoniac perversion of angelic religion. The frog croaks that his well is the whole world and the bigot boasts that his is the only inspired and perfect religion. The truth and…
Myth: Parsis are a peaceful and peace-loving community and unlike other communities, they have never indulged in rioting. Fact: Anyone and almost everyone would agree that by and large the Parsi community is peaceful and peace-loving and has always been loved by all communities for its charitable disposition and ability to laugh at its…