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 9th September, 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…
The HMS ‘Parsee’ was a ship built in 1868 by Robert Steele & Company. Originally, the HMS ‘Parsee’ was a fully rigged, clipper ship which was later re-rigged, into a barque. The ship initially plied the England-Bombay trade route and then went on to sail from India to New Zealand, until its decommissioning in the…
Human spirit thrills with rapture when man gazes on the beautiful nature. Gardens and orchards, farms and fields ring with the sweet, sonorous songs of the beautiful birds, attired in lovely plumage. The winds waft the fragrance of the fields all around. From flower to flower does the busy bee hit to gather the nectar….
The Indian Air Force has come up with a gaming App which allows aspirants to experience first-hand, the roles of an IAF air warrior, as well as means to apply and appear for recruitment from the comfort of his home. The gaming option has various features, including offline single player missions, an online multiplayer sorties…
Preserve Our Parsi-Panu It has been a constant struggle nowadays to see a Parsi marrying a Parsi. In fact, the numbers are so skewed in favour of inter-caste marriages that the day is not far enough when people in our community shall stop talking about it altogether because it would have become a common thing! …
In the ancient civilizations of ‘Mu’ and ‘Atlantis’, there were certain rules and practices on death, with details of breath-control, mind-control and guiding the ‘last-thought’. In ancient Egypt, occultists could predict whether it was time to ‘to fight for life’ or ‘let go and die’ for their Pharaohs. In the Mayan civilisation, initiates were taught…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” background_color=”#e3e3e3″] Parsi Times brings you Dr. Jasvi’s column on her unique Numero-Tarot monthly readings, based on your month of birth: [/otw_shortcode_info_box] January (Lucky No. 17; Lucky Card: Star): This will be an excellent month for women and girls born in the first month of the year! You need to work on coming out of…
[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…
I have been blessed with a very good memory, so good that I often wish I could forget much, for a number of those memories have been peppered generously by ghotalas, chabardas and more embarrassing faux pas than I care to remember. Recounting all would fill up a tome but here are few incidents I…
WZO Trust is pleased to inform donors, well-wishers and community members, an update of the various relief and rehabilitation measures undertaken by the World Zoroastrian Organisation Trust Funds, as on August 31, 2020 towards alleviating distress caused due to the Covid Pandemic amongst our community members in India. Update: 31 August 2020 THE WZO TRUST…
[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…