CRICKET India Grabs Test Series Against SA: Team India has been a dominant side in Test Cricket lately! With 240 points in five Tests, India is leads way ahead in points. Virat Kohli and Co. put up a phenomenal show during the 3rd Test against South Africa and won the contest by an innings and…
Offering an eve of Hollywood nostalgia, NCPA presents ‘Beyond the Stars’, featuring Keshia B – a night covering famous and catchy tunes from Hollywood movies and Broadway musicals that lit up the silver screen spanning from the 70’s to date. Known for her soulful voice, Keshia B is known in Mumbai’s musical circuit for her…
Last week, the nation hosted the royal Dutch couple – King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima – over a five-day visit, to boost economic and political cooperation between the Netherlands and India. Why this proved extra exciting for our Community is because the elegant Queen Maxima donned a specially tailored, pink Gara, as she attended a…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Start your weekend with positive vibes with inspirational excerpts from the acclaimed book, ‘Homage Unto Ahura Mazda’ by Dasturji Dr. Maneckji Naserwanji Dhalla of Karachi.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] . Fresh from the land of the angels, the child is angelic at birth. It is godlike. The soul enters the body of a child and it sleeps…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” background_color=”#c2b3c2″ css_class=”boxed”]Daisy P. Navdar is a teacher by profession and a firm believer in the efficacy of our Manthravani. She is focused on ensuring that the deep significance of our prayers is realized by our youth. She credits her learnings and insights, shared in her articles, to all Zoroastrian priests and scholars whose…
Officers of Telangana State Minorities Commission (TSMC), led by Chairman Mohammed Qamaruddin, visited the Zoroastrian graveyard, located in Kanteshwar Village, Nizamabad district, on 4th October, 2019. The members of the Commission, including Omim Manikshaw Debara, Trustee, Parsi Zoroastrian Anjuman, visited the site along with local Revenue and police officials, with a number of community members….
Shireen Mody, an artist, originally from South Mumbai, and an OCI card holder, who settled in Goa thirty years ago, died on 6th October, 2019, following an assault, allegedly, by her gardener, Praphul Jana, at her bungalow-cum-studio, ‘Saffron Wiehl’, according to the police. The 65-year-old attacker from Assam, Jana, was living at Mody’s home since…
The Poonawallas and Flipkart co-founder, Sachin Bansal, will invest around Rs. 100 crores in small businesses lending platform – ‘U Gro Capital’. As per the Economic Times, the transaction will be undertaken through two separate securitisation and bond deals. The securitisation deal has already been done with Poonawalla Finance, which owns India’s largest vaccine maker, Serum…
On 8th October, 2019 (Daepdin Roz, Ardibehest Mah), over five hundred young and old Zarthostis from Surat, Mumbai, New Mumbai and Thane gathered to celebrate the 115th Salgreh of Umrigar Agiary, at Uran. The Havan Geh buoy bells in the Kebla rang at 7:20 am, signifying the presence of Er. Viraf Pavri fulfilling his buoywala…
The Zoroastrian Association of Greater New York (ZAGNY), a member association of the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA), will host the 12th World Zoroastrian Congress 2022 (WZC2022) in New York. It has announced a Logo Designing Competition for the WZC2022. The logo should have a Zoroastrian theme – Bridging the Global Zarathushti…
On 5th October, 2019, Indian hockey stalwarts got together to felicitate Dronacharya Awardee – Marzban Patel, known fondly as ‘Bawa’ (2019); as also Clarence Lobo (2018) – at St Andrews, in Bandra. As part of the reunion organised by the Bombay Republicans Hockey Club and India Rush SC, literally everyone, including Olympians – Joaquim Carvalho,…