એક ભિખારી બપોરે એક વાગ્યો એટલે ભીખનો વાડકો ઊંધો કરીને સુઈ ગયો. કોઈકે સલાહ આપી ‘તું ભલે સુઈ જાય, આ વાડકો તો સીધો રાખ. કદાચ કોઈ અહીંથી જતા જતા વાડકામાં સિક્કા નાખતા જાય.’ ભિખારીએ આંખ અર્ધી ખોલી ને જવાબ આપ્યો ‘ના રે ના! કોઈક બે પાંચ રૂપિયાનો સિક્કો નાખી જાય ને અવાજ થાય, નકામી લાખ…
ડાયાબીટીસ અથવા મધુપ્રમેહ રોગ થયો હોય ત્યારે ઔષધિઓ કરતા આહાર-વિહારનું મહત્વ વિશેષ હોય છે. આ રોગ મટી જાય તેવી કોઈ દવા હજુ સુધી શોધાઈ નથી પરંતુ રોગને કાબુમાં લેવા માટે ઘણી દવા પ્રચલિત છે. આદુ એક તીખી અને સ્વાદિષ્ટ વનસ્પતિ છે, જેનો આહારમાં સ્વાદ તરીકે વપરાશ થાય છે. મોટે ભાગે આદુ લોકોમાં પ્રિય છે. પરંતુ…
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On 10 April, 2019, the Indian Express reported that The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill or CAB, cleared by the outgoing Lok Sabha, proposed providing citizenship to “Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan”. But in the BJP’s Sankalp Patra (Manifesto) released on 8th April, 2019, Christians and Parsis were omitted with…
Empowering Mobeds invites all Mobed sahebs and their wives to an Open-house discussion on a much needed topic that needs attention – ‘Expectations To Enroll Your Son In Full Time Mobedi’. This will be followed by a parent-child session conducted by a mental health panel comprising Dr. Kersi Chavda, Hvovi Bhagwagar and Tanya Vasunia. Empowering…
The Mumbai Mazdoor Sabha (MMS), under the leadership of President Chandbibi Zaidi and General Secretary Dhunji Naterwalla, signed a new three-year Wage Settlement on the 2nd of April, 2019, with the B.D. Petit Parsee General Hospital, facilitating an increase in benefits for the Hospital’s Workmen, Upper Staff and Nursing Staff. The MMS is a statutorily…
The triennial elections of the NPP (Nagpur Parsi Panchayet) were held on 31st March, 2019. While the top five posts were filled in unopposed, the remaining seven were contested by ten candidates. The pre-poll scene saw a bit of campaigning and the voter turnout was 68%. The newly elected Committee of the Nagpur Parsi Panchayet…
The tenants of Zoroastrian Colony, Chikalwadi, Tardeo, organised an evening Avan Mahino Jashan on 7th March, 2019 to offer prayers to the well, situated within the colony, which was beautifully decorated with flowers, divas and lights. It was attended by over sixty-five Zarthostis from within the colony as well as guests. Chashni and malido was…
On April 6, 2019, the vibrant Rustom Baug Senior Citizens Group and tenants celebrated the auspicious Ava Mahino with a Jashan performed by the well. Tenants of various age groups paid abeyance and prayed along with the Athornans and thanked Ahura Mazda and Ava Ardvesur Banoo for their blessings.
Firstly, classics – and this one claims to be an official remake of the 1980 Saeed Mirza original – are to be left well alone. Secondly, one wonders why this has been tagged as the ‘official remake’. There are few, if any, similarities – the essence of the two films being the angst and the…
Fifty-three years may not be a long time to reopen a case involving the — mysterious, no doubt — death of India’s second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. That he was grossly underestimated and has been almost obliterated from public memory is borne out with the film repeatedly reminding us that though he too was…