Most of us lead busy lives and have hectic working schedules. Children are busy with computers and television and our pet pooches are left alone at home for extended periods. When the family returns home after a hard day they are so tired that they just do not have time for their pet. After greeting…
On 18th December, 2016, the Pakistan Post issued a special commemorative multi-coloured stamp of Rs 8 to honour the life and work of Dinshaw Byramji Avari, a pioneering hotelier and philanthropist, who became the first commerce graduate from his village and went on to have an inspiring career. Dinshaw’s started out as a clerk at…
47-year-old HR professional from New Delhi, Adil Nargolwala, was recently listed in the ‘Limca Book of Records’ as the national holder of running the maximum long distance races between 1st July, 2015 and 30th June, 2016 (calendar followed by Limca Records). Adil started participating in marathons in 2009, in Mumbai and has so far run…
The Zoroastrian Trust Funds of India’s (ZTFI) held its Annual Fest’17 on February 11, 2017 of at Cama Baug, Mumbai. Comperes Kainaz Patel and Areesh Irani opened the event calling on stage Yasmin Mistry, Trustee – ZTFI, who presented a brief on the history, reach and a list of varied programmes conducted by ZTFI for…
On the 14th of January, 2017, Region Manager of Lions Club International, Lion Percy Master hosted a Region Conference of Region 1, District 323A1, at Worli, which garnered over two hundred and fifty delegates and guests from the thirteen clubs from the Region I, Zones I and II, and dignitaries from 323 A1. Chief Guest…
On 15th February, 2017, Zuleika Homavazir was awarded ‘The Best Educationist Award’ by IIEM, and ‘The National Mahila Rattan Gold Medal Award’ by The Solidarity Council of India in New Delhi. The awards were presented along with a ‘Certificate of Education Excellence’. On 18th February, 2017, she will also be awarded with The Education Leadership…
Kudos Noshir! Parsi Times dated February 10th has an article by Noshir Dadrawala regarding Valentine Day, written beautifully. I always look forward to his articles, which are well-researched and interesting to read. Apart from being a historian he has phenomenal knowledge about Iran and our religion. Thank you Noshir! Nergish Dordi. (nergishdordi@hotmail.com) . . Ruby’s…
Dear Readers, It’s been a week of celebrations in our community in Mumbai, and Parsi Times, as always looks forward to further the noble and never-underestimated cause of such ‘fun with a cause’ community events. These jamborees, which fit seamlessly into our positive default preference for fun and entertainment, foster a sense of the much-needed…
There’s a lot of thought process (read: passion and defining moments) behind the films of Martin Scorsese — whether they be on crime (with Robert De Niro — Goodfellas, Mean Streets), or on faith & religion (The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun). After waiting for over a quarter century to adapt Shusako Endo’s 1966 novel…
Watching ‘Moonlight’, one could be forgiven for presuming that the film was shot in Africa – the locales, the penury and the privative conditions of the principal characters in the film being adequate affirmation. The film portrays Chiron’s life in three stages – as a 10-year-old boy, as a teenager and finally as an adult….
The colour of the skin and the power of the human ‘computer’ are the mainstay of Hidden Figures, directed and co-written by Theodore Melfi and based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly. The film opens in 1926 in West Virginia, in an era and place when racism and segregation were prevalent in the US….