Meherbai Hits The Nail On The Head! Ruby’s ‘Meherbai’ has indeed hit the nail on the head by saying that Baug Weddings with proper sit-down patras are far better than fancy receptions in hotels and various other places. ‘Apra Meherbai’ always tells home-truths about our community matters, like youngster’s nakhras, late marriages, waste of money…
Trustees Please Realize Your Responsibility We are a community greatly revered and respected for the values and virtues we practice. Today the trend is reversed to an extent that the community is not trusting its own Trustees, in fact the trustees themselves do not trust each other, blatantly alleging each other with serious accusations. It…
Re: Editorial: BPP And OCD Your Editorial in PT’s last issue (BPP And OCD) was totally in synch and in line with what’s happening in the BPP today. At first we used to read on whatsapp and community social media platforms, but now it has become a fashion to showcase fellow Trustees’ faults in the…
Re.: Letter From Zahirab Last Week Recently, there was an article by Zahirab Wadia stating that a Metro tunnel being built under the Atash Behrams at Princess Street is no threat to structures, culture, or religion of the Parsis. That point of view ignores certain facts that show there is a threat to the structures…
Touching Tribute By An Ex-Gamadia Boys Hostelite Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of me. My parents hoped that I would take a Commerce degree and study CPA, but I wanted to study Computer Science. Getting into,…
Re: Parsee General Hospital – Potential Loss of US $ 22.5 Million by Parsee Community Referring to the article in the Parsee Times and other leading newspapers and social media, dated 17th November 2018, the President, Mr. Homa Petit has clearly stated the facts of the potential loss to the Community if this project does…
Re: Your Editorial In PT Issue Dated 10 November, 2018 Thank you for the very inspiring and motivating editorial last Saturday. It’s really a sad situation when seniors have to spend their last days lonely, ignored and sometimes at the mercy of maids who make their lives even more miserable. We, the seniors of Rustom…
The Orthodox V/s The Orthodox! Anahita Subedar quipped ‘From the Editor’s Desk’ PT of 27 October, saying, “To think Zoroastrianism needs ‘defending’… is seriously undermining the glory and the power of our religion.” One can call puny present defenders of faith as having holier-than-thou attitude or being presumptuous or pompous or simply bigoted. The world’s…
Re: The PT Series: The Three Great Zoroastrians Kings. Whilst talking of great Zoroastrian Kings, we must try and perceive the matter with circumstances too. For example at times the circumstances are more difficult yet the leaders performed well and at times though performing well, lose out too. It has been noticed that when Zoroastrians…
Thank You Parsi Times! Dear Editor, I, Genevieve Adil Dubash, Independent Animal Activist and Founder of my Animal Home in Ganeshpuri, with The Learning Space Foundation, would like to wholeheartedly thank the wonderful patrons of your esteemed publication. I had placed an appeal in Parsi Times in August 2018 for donations in kind. I had…
The Just Demands Of The Parsees What have our dear Parsees done? Why should they be made to run? To divert the route of a metro train, And take it to another lane? So that the Sacred Fire should burn. The numbers of Parsees is minuscule, The Parsees always follow the rule. Please don’t…