The ‘Accidental Start-Up Investor’ Gets ‘InsTATAgrammed’: 400,000+ Follower in 24 hours!! India’s leading industrialist, revered the world over, and the tallest feather in our Community’s cap – Ratan Tata – is always in the news, for all the right reasons. His life exemplifies a glaring legacy of the very definition of Parsipanu – he stands…
Resurrecting the play, ‘Amarjyoti Zarathustra’, after 30 years, for the Iranshah Udvada Utsav 2019. [otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] For Mithoo Jesia, the Iranshah Udvada Utsav 2019 has been a long time in the making, as she and her all-star production team, promise to put up a play of epic proportions, poignant significance and technical superiority…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Parsi Times is delighted to welcome on board our community’s leading business visionary – Dr. Adil Malia – who has shared his expertise championing diverse roles in Business Management, Law, Human Resources, Marketing and Employee Relations. A much sought-after business coach and mentor, having led companies at the Board level across eclectic industries,…
Diwali is the five-day festival of light, celebrated by millions across the world. The festival coincides with the Hindu New Year and thus also celebrates new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil and light over darkness. Diwali also commemorates Lakshmi, the Divinity of wealth and prosperity. Five Days of Festivity: The five days…
People often ask what the pair of winged bulls with a human head outside several fire temples signify and what is its origin? Sumerian Roots: To begin with, this figurine is called ‘Lamassu’, and it is not of Persian or Iranian origin. The Persians adopted it from an earlier but neighboring civilization. The earliest depiction…
What I am writing goes beyond, far beyond the boundaries of caste, creed and religion. It is about our Home, ‘Our Home in Space’. That is how Sir James Jeans, the renowned British astronomer, had described our Mother Earth. This beautiful blue orb is a miraculous phenomenon. Our beautiful ‘home’ has been blessed with abundant…
. WINNERS OF EGGZOTICA – THE RECIPE CONTEST: WINNER 1: ‘Edaa Paak’ By 80-year-old Jeroo H. Medhora, who says, “Khaaso Jo Tame Aay Edaa Paak, Toh Utri Jase Baddhi Tamaari Thaak!” Ingredients: Eggs – 6; Pure Ghee – 6 Spoons; Sugar – 50gms; Mavo – 50gms; Vanilla Essence – 2 Drops; Crushed Elaichi…
Twenty years ago, UNESCO requested me to create a programme on the Parsi Zoroastrians, as they realized that this community was facing demographic extinction. With the loss of culture, the world loses a part of its wisdom and UNESCO’s mandate was for us to record this culture. Even as a student and teacher of the…
What is old age? Old age is reflective of an old and failing body which will simply not cooperate. It lets one down every so often. Old age is a period of reversal of our faculties. Little babies are born totally helpless but are well taken care of, with great love and immense pleasure by…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]8th September marks the ever-underrated ‘Grandparents Day’. As most of us wonder if such a day even existed, those of us who have been blessed to have grown under the kind nurturing and love of our grandparents, simply cannot deny the irreplaceable and unparalleled importance of their presence and impact in our lives….
What The Community Needs To Know One of the sad truths, that our Community and its unsuspecting members have had to endure, is the repetitive attempts of those who wish to put a spanner in the works – whenever our Community is on the path of progress. ‘Two steps forward, one step back’, has become…