The Holy month of Adar will soon end and the Holy month of Dae will commence. Many devout Zoroastrians are disappointed because they could not pray before Iranshah in Udwada or even at their neighbourhood Agyari or Atash Bahram during the month of Adar, which is dedicated to the divinity that presides over fire. However,…
Law-making in India has been taking a dangerous direction. Every scam, every fraud, every wrongdoing results in the enactment of new laws! Our law-makers believe that every wrongdoing can be prevented by bringing in new laws. They do not accept that scams can be prevented by effective implementation of existing laws. The ‘Satyam Scam’ (2009)…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Veera is a published Author (‘Endured’ and ‘#LoveBitesLifeHacks’) and Columnist; a passionate Educator and Counsellor; Poet and Philosopher… but most of all, a lover of all things literary. [/otw_shortcode_info_box] They say, ‘life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother’. Mother’s Day is always special, but in 2020, it’s even…
How very often do we hear Rudyard Kipling’s quote, “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers,” and other similar sayings celebrating the unparalleled importance and irreplaceable significance of a mother. Mothers are more to us than our bestest friends or siblings or fathers or grandparents. Her unconditional loving and giving starts…
The end-result of all things evil is always good. This paradox is, to an extent, similar to the prevailing ‘Lockdown’ situation. My wife and I are keeping a happy distance and our verbal exchanges verge almost on civility! Good, isn’t it? Her cooking has improved, not à la Godiwalla, but one looks forward to her…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]The last two days of April 2020 will probably go down as the darkest and saddest days in the history of Bollywood as India lost two of her most prolific and legendary actors – Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor – way before their time. Parsi Times Film Critic, Hoshang K Katrak pays a…
The WZO Trust Funds and The World Zoroastrian Organisation Trust are pleased to convey that they are now in a position to issue forms to Zoroastrians who have been adversely affected financially, due to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic. Till such time the lockdown has been lifted and our office, which is in a containment zone,…
The dreaded disease has brought relief to a lot of people I know because of social distancing and home quarantine, especially due to another virus that spreads boredom and ennui, the dreaded ‘Coronus Darabsus’. Over time, there are many other cognomen (nick-names) I have received, such as ‘God-help-us Darab’, ‘Darab Pipyu’, ‘OMG’, and so on,…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_type=”border-top-bottom” border_style=”bordered” border_color=”#1f1791″ background_color=”#ffffff” css_class=”boxed”]India’s leading eye-surgeon and globally acclaimed Ophthalmologist, our Community’s eye-prodigy, Dr. Cyres Mehta, shares a few tips on how we can take care of our eyes during the Lockdown.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] . With all of us confined to our homes and a large number working out of home due to the Pandemic,…
We are in the midst of a pandemic, with cities, nay entire countries, shutting down. While some live in areas that have been affected by the novel coronavirus and declared ‘Red Zone’, others live in fear of what could happen next. For most, the uncertainty surrounding this pandemic is the hardest to handle… What if…
Kersi Randeria shares… Dear Friends, Over the past few centuries, many of our earlier generations have served at the forefront of community service via their selfless acts of charity, providing community members with housing, building schools and hospitals, setting up Trusts for the aid of the less fortunate, and so on. They were driven by…