Thoughts About Our Youth Having heard the speech delivered by Dr. Adil Malia at Sanjan on Sanjan Day – it felt heartening and optimistic. He emphasized how the Zoroastrian religion would thrive despite some of the doomsday prophets’ bleak outlook. This set me thinking about the continuity of Zoroastrianism well beyond pessimistic pronouncements of some…
The fourth edition of the Cusrow Baug Premier League, which was held in November 2022, by the CBUSWL, commenced with the new practice where 4 team owners participated in an auction for Football, Volleyball and Throwball players for their four teams, namely ‘Giants’ (owner: Arzoo Dehmiri); ‘Warriors’ (Hoshang Yazdegardi); ‘Raiders’ (Zubin Wadia) and ‘Chargers’ (Phiroze…
As a collaboration activity, members of XYZ’s Behram’s Battalion and Cyrus’ Superstars, along with the NGO – ‘Beach Warriors’, conducted a beach clean-up drive, on 3rd December, 2022, at Juhu Beach. Twenty-two XYZ members, seniors and volunteers were part of this collaboration, and alongside the NGO, in about 2 hours, cleaned up an almost 2 km…
Kiyara Associates, founded by Shahrookh Dumasia, was awarded the IBMA (Iconic Brands of Maharashtra Awards) 2022, by the Maharashtra Societies Welfare Association, for Innovative Waterproofing Techniques and Civil Repairs. IBMA 2022, which honored the late Bal Thackrey on his death anniversary, was held on November 17, 2022, at Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, Mumbai. Maharashtra CM – Eknath…
With diabetes rapidly growing into a health epidemic across India and within the community, Lion Daara Patel (Chairperson for Diabetes, Multiple Council District 3231, Lions Clubs International) has been spearheading a Diabetes Awareness Program, which includes Free Diabetes Detection Camp and Awareness program across many places in and around Mumbai. A free mega diabetes detection…
It’s no secret that physiotherapy is the ‘go-to’ option for treating most injuries and physical impairments. Back and neck pain, sprains and strains, deconditioning and imbalance, sports injuries and aging … these will certainly improve when you have regular physiotherapy. Truly effective physiotherapy almost always involves a home program. These are the exercises that you…
Telegram is a messenger service that allows you to create separate folders for different chats and segregate your chats and quickly find the ones you need. You could have separate folders for home, work, social organizations, broadcasts, etc. You can swipe between the tabs to quickly access any of your chats. The “Folders” feature in…
Dear Readers, Within every family or friend-circle, there’s usually at least one, if not a couple, of the typical naysayer kinds – the one who lives either in fear or in doubt, of any and everything, and makes sure to blatantly display the same, behind the veil of ‘concern’ and the default response:…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! Winning Caption and Winner’s Name Will Be Published Next Week. Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 14th December 2022. [otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Disclaimer: Some of our ‘Caption This’ Contest photos are taken from freely available, public online resources and are published in a light and humorous…
The first seven days, according to our calendar, are named after the Seven Ameshaspands. Each of these also has some helpers or assistants who assist them in performing their righteous duty. The significance of the Ameshaspands is as given under: Dadar Hormuzd – the Wisdom and the Spirit of God (Spenta Mainyu): Every man requires the…
Real estate in prime Parsi colonies seem to rake in more than current market rates of swanky apartments anywhere else! Fascinating, isn’t it? Born, bred and ‘buttered’ a true colony Bawi, I’ve indeed experienced the appeal of living in one, for the better part of my life. I view my lifestyle in and amongst the…