[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” border_color=”#d09c2c” background_color=”#f0e0c3″] We, as a people, love our drinks, and increasingly, have been taken in by the eclectic and new-emerging delights of wine as a beverage. Here to give us an instant upgrade on our wine-knowledge is Arashasp Shroff, the 25-year-old culinary prodigy from Toronto, Canada, whose recent blog, ‘The View From Table…
An idiom plays a very lively part in making our speech and writings more lucid and elegant, and often makes the point of conversation, debate, or argument more explicit and impressive. Of course over-use of Idiomatic phraseS can reduce it to a cliché, so be careful how you use your idioms. Some idioms often sound…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” border_color=”#d09c2c” background_color=”#f0e0c3″] To us, ‘Light’ means so much more… we worship fire and light symbolizes purity and wisdom. When it comes to lighting our homes the options are endless, yet there is nothing worse than picking the wrong piece that doesn’t do the right job and feels like a bummer when you turn it…
This year, Jamshedi Navroz graces us on Tuesday, 20 March, 2018. The associated colour this year is ‘grey’ and the animal is ‘dog’. In most homes, especially Irani household, a Haftseen table will be set, decorated with seven items since seven is considered a lucky number, and each of these seven items begins with the letter sin (s) in Persian…
મરહુમ મહારાજ શ્રી સ્વયંજ્યોતિના સહકાર્યકર્તા જયેશ એમ. ગોસ્વામી . ARIES | મેષ: અ.લ.ઈ. 13મી એપ્રિલ સુધી શુક્રની દિનદશા ચાલશે તેથી તબિયતમાં સારા સારી રહેશે. દરેક બાબતમાં એકટીવ રહેશો. ખર્ચ કર્યા પછી પણ નાણાકીય મુશ્કેલી નહીં આવે. ઓપોજીટ સેક્સનું એટ્રેકશન વધી જશે. તમને ગમતી વ્યક્તિ તમારા મનની વાત સમજી જશે. ગામ-પરગામ જવાના ચાન્સ છે. લગ્ન કરવા…
For many young Western Classical Music (WCM) enthusiasts, learning this form of music does not progress beyond being a hobby or passion. Even of the immensely talented ones – in vocal or instrumental – only a few pursue a career as professional musicians. In more recent times, the scenario appears to be changing as Western Classical…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” border_color=”#d09c2c” background_color=”#f0e0c3″] “Elite careers in sport are exciting and fun, But the Champion’s mind believes there’s lots to be done. Carving a niche for themselves, looking to garner success abundant, Breaking norms, raising standards, they’re second to none, As they constantly endeavour to be crowned as Number One!” It is always important to…
I had visited the London School of Economics, and after having fortified with some ale and a light lunch at the popular pub George IV, I was strolling along the Portsmouth street when I was rewarded by a quaint sight, The Olde Curiosity Shoppe and under its name was mentioned, ‘Immortalized by Charles Dickens’. It…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” border_color=”#d09c2c”] The contribution of Parsis to the socio-economic development and welfare of the country is too wide and varied for justice in a short treatise. The Wadias have built schools, colleges and hospitals, the Petits too have built schools, hospitals, sanatoriums and dharamshalas. Whenever and wherever wealth has been generated by Parsis,…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]It all boils down to the youth of our community… be it the survival of our culture, the survival of our legacy as India’s most loved, illustrious and respected minority, the survival of our unique ethnicity – the survival of our very community – our very existence. A lot is said about the…
The buzz around the Total Solar Eclipse 2017, which was visible in full glory for Northern USA on August 21st, 2017, drew equal attention of Indian astro-enthusiasts as well. Known as the Great American Solar Eclipse, it started around 9:15 IST and lasted two minutes, forty seconds, with the moon completely obscuring the sun, resulting…