Keeping up with the Zoroastrian tradition of giving, the Cusrow Baug United Sports and Welfare League, along with XYZ’s ‘Daraius’ Daredevils’, donated essential equipment including masks, gloves, sanitisers, as well as a brand new desktop computer and colour printer to the Colaba Police Station. These items were handed over to the Senior Inspector of the…
The holy Muktad prayers in Perth were yet again, as has been for the past almost fifteen years now, held at the home of Ervad Aspi and Farida Madan. Though the world is reeling under the COVID pandemic, Zarthostis in West Australia weren’t under severe restrictions, thanks to the Government’s stand on early lockdown and…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Our much loved, respected and cherished community received wonderful New Year greetings from innumerable personalities and celebrities. The following are some of the greetings received from our President Shri Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and the Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. [/otw_shortcode_info_box] The…
Earlier this month, the AMS (American Meteorological Society) awarded the prestigious ‘Hydrologic Sciences Medal’ to Dr. Soroosh Sorooshian in its 2021 Awards and Honors program during its 101st AMS Annual Meeting. Every year, the AMS recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations of the weather, water, and climate community. Dr. Sorooshian, an Iranian-American distinguished professor of Civil…
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 26th August, 2020. [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 vein, which…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” background_color=”#e8e8e8″] Parsi Times presents our readers ‘The Zen Series’ by PT Columnist, Kashmira Shaw Raj – a professional Taichi and Qigong practitioner and teacher, as also a sought-after clinical psychologist and healer. These Zen stories will resonate with you and help you connect within, at a deeper, inner level to encourage and empower…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_type=”border-top-bottom” border_color_class=”otw-blue-border” border_style=”bordered” background_color=”#e5fdff”] Parsi Times congratulates and celebrates the success of our fab students and young achievers who have done achieved great success in their academic performances in Board exams across schools and colleges. We are delighted to feature our young, bright sparks who make our community proud! Do write in to us…
Re: Prayer Hall I had emailed Mr. Dinshaw Tamboly, Chairman of the “Prayer Hall Services and Maintenance Trust” with a request to kindly respond and clarify on some prima facie irregularities I observed at the Worli Prayer Hall. I received a 5-page response but none of the concerns were clarified to the point but vaguely…
Suicide is the most tragic form of exit from this world. It has to be seen in the light of great compassion and understanding, rather than contempt or condemnation. Suicide is the deliberate act of ultimate self-destruction in a fit of temper, fear, mental-depression, momentary despair or great disappointment. In death by suicide, the definite…
Let the passion of learning ever grow in me. Let me learn with a consuming passion. Ignorance darkens my understanding. Illumine my mind, Ahura Mazda, as the sun illumines the world. Enable my understanding to fathom the depths of knowledge. There is heartache in my inner world when my reason leaves it hungry and thirsty….
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Veera is a published Author (‘Endured’ and ‘#LoveBitesLifeHacks’) and Columnist; a passionate Educator and Counsellor; Poet and Philosopher… but most of all, a lover of all things literary. [/otw_shortcode_info_box] There is no knowing what people will do when they are about to die, but one thing is for certain, a human heart…