New Year Greetings From The PM!
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Hands That Help
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” background_color=”#c0e6fa” css_class=”boxed”] HANDS THAT HELP As promised, Parsi Times is delighted to bring you ‘Hands That Help’ – a fortnightly column dedicated to our readers, who have expressed a strong desire to volunteer their time and efforts towards helping our community, and our society at large, by selflessly participating in a cause bigger…
Mumbai Press Club Hosts Red Ink Awards 2017
The eminent Press Club of Mumbai held its much sought-after, annual awards ceremony – ‘The Red Ink Awards’ on 7th June 2017, at the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA). In its seventh year now, ‘The Red Ink Awards’ is nationally hailed as the most coveted and distinguished recognition given to Indian journalists for excellence…
BPP Connect
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Yazdi Desai, Chairman, BPP, updates the community about the ongoings in the BPP, with Parsi Times’ exclusive column, BPP Connect.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] Housing Ever since I first contested the BPP election in September 2003 opposite Dinshaw Tamboly, it has been my dream that the BPP should be an oasis for the less fortunate of our…
Thank You For The Wishes!
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]As Parsi Times celebrates its advent into its Seventh year, we are humbled by the wishes from some of our community’s leaders and visionaries…[/otw_shortcode_info_box] [otw_shortcode_info_box border_type=”bordered” border_color_class=”otw-orange-border” border_style=”bordered”] Diana Marfatia: “Parsi Times is that weekly paper which caters to the interests of different age and interest groups. It makes for easy and enjoyable…
Tune In To The Times With Parsi Times!
It’s hard to believe how quickly time flies, but, it does. Parsi Times is now seven years old. Seven is a favourite number all over the world. Many consider it to be a lucky number. There are seven days of the week, seven colours of the rainbow, seven notes on a musical scale, seven seas…
Birthday Special Contest Winners
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_type=”bordered” border_style=”bordered” border_color=”#d9a300″] Best Message in Poetry Form Celebrating With PT Parsi Times celebrating its birth of, Raised to this height by Parsi fans far and near, Spreads its fragrance in every house-hold of Parsi born, Its arrival eagerly awaited each Saturday morn. Let us hail this 29th April as a joyous day, Let…
Darabsha On Diet
‘Diet’ is a four letter word. It is almost as bad as the word which, when we used to utter it, our dear mothers would threaten to scrub our tongue with soap and butara (a stick broom)! It is a different matter now, with the offending word becoming almost an accepted part of our vocabulary,…
Men Of La Mummo-Chachcho
I am surprised, nay shocked, Meherbai and her vociferous, or is it voracious, baug-brigade has not censured all the verbal diarrhoea that is being spewed out by the so-called leaders of our destiny, of our Bharat, i.e. India. Hungry for power, these leaders(?) use a language that would make a sailor blush! Elections seem to…
Meherbai And The Story Of ‘25 Slaps’
At their usual Chai-pe-Charcha session, this time at the US Club at Colaba, Meherbai’s Mandli drove the waiter crazy (so what’s new?) with each one ordering a different dish and different preferences ranging from “Don’t put salt!”, “Put more salt!”, “No Ajinomoto in the soup!”, ” Yes, more Ajinomoto!”, “Make it sweet!”, “No sugar please!”,…
‘Fat And Fit’ or ‘Lean And Mean’? Whose Life Is It Anyway!
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Being larger than the average sized person is seen as not normal and the first perceptions most jump to, are always negative – that of heart diseases, sluggishness, gluttony and unhealthy lifestyle. Noshir Dadrawala busts both – myths and stereotypes – with this article, which elucidates how being healthy is not the reserve…