Have you ever wondered why one person is sad and another happy? Why one is joyous and prosperous while another is depressed and poor? Why one has a beautiful, luxurious home while another lives in the slum? Why is one a great success while another, a failure in life? Why is one man a genius and another…
Twins Karissa and Kohana Bardolivala from Mumbai’s J B Petit High School, doubled the delight, scoring 98% (Karissa) and 97.8% (Kohana) in the ICSE Board exams. Both girls worked diligently and have excelled in academics through their school tenure. Karissa was chosen from the school for the ‘Times Group Student of the Year Award’ in 2018 for…
He lives best, who lives virtuously. Orderly, well-balanced life is virtuous life. Virtue shines equally bright in a palace or in a cottage. Virtue in rags makes the rags rich. Glittering raiments affect not virtue. The soul looks at its best when it is clad in virtue. With the death of man, everything his dies…
On 28th May, 2019, Ahmedabad’s Khushnum Avari was awarded the ‘Times Power Women Of the Year Award’ in the field of Education and Professional Training, by the Vice Chancellor of Gujarat University, actor Jimmy Shergil and Shilpa Phugalia, Director – BMW Gujarat. Originally from Mumbai, Khushnum settled in Ahmedabad after her marriage. An ex-Jet Airways…
On 26th May, 2019, the Guzder Agiary at Chikli was teaming with Zarthostis from all around Chikli, Bilimora and Mumbai, as the fifth generation of the Katrak family, Er. Pesotan Vistasp Katrak, performed the thanksgiving Jashan at 9:30 am. The over-500 attendees were then moved to the adjoining Guzder Hall, where the Trustees of the…
Friyana Kaizad Kasad from RA Podar College of Commerce and Economics (Commerce stream) secured a super 89.23% in her HSC exams, to the absolute delight of her parents – Jasmine and Kaizad Kasad. Here’s wishing her the very best in all her future endeavours!
The Bai Virbaijee Soparivala (BVS) Parsi High School in Pakistan, founded in 1859 by Seth Shapurji Hormusji Soparivala, celebrated 160 years on 24th May, 2019 with prayers and a grand Milad. Meant for Parsi children, after the Indo-Pak partition in 1947, the school’s then principal Behram Rustomji opened its doors for to non-Parsis on the…
મરહુમ મહારાજ શ્રી સ્વયંજ્યોતિના સહકાર્યકર્તા જયેશ એમ. ગોસ્વામી .+ ARIES | મેષ: અ.લ.ઈ. 25મી જૂન સુધી ચંદ્રની દિનદશા ચાલશે તેથી કામને વધારવા ગામ-પરગામ જવું પડશે. ઘરવાળાનો સાથ સહકાર મળી જશે. ચંદ્રની કૃપાથી તમારા ડીસીઝન સમજી વિચારીને લેશો. ઘરવાળાની માથાકૂટ ઓછી થવાથી રોજના કામ પર વધુ ધ્યાન આપી શકશો. દરરોજ 34મુ નામ ‘યા બેસ્તરના’ 101વાર ભણજો….
If you thought the giant Anaconda was the largest serpent or that the blue whale was the largest living mammal, you need to brush up on your GK – but after watching Godzilla 2. Returning to the big screen after a gap of five years, Godzilla (from the Japanese ‘Gojira’ opens with a recap from…
When one considers that a young piano-playing prodigy (Mathew Illesley) grows up to be a millionaire by 25, and that four per cent of all record sales were attributed to Elton John, one has a fair amount of idea of the subject. The grown-up Elton John (now played by Taron Egerton), born Reginald Dwight, is…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 5th June, 2019. Winner: Virat: Bowl a Maiden Over, and I’ll give you a toffee! Hardik: Now, that’s a Silly Point, I’d rather have ‘Coffee’! –Aryaan F. Irani (Mumbai)