XYZ (Xtremely Young Zoroastrians), the community’s leading non-profit organisation which aims at the all-round, social and cultural development of the community’s tots and teens, held its fun-filled, week-long Summer Camp 2023, from 21st – 27th May, 2023. The camp offered all participants a wide range of activities including indoor and outdoor experiences, which helped boost…
Dear Readers, Parsi Times is delighted to present our yearly ‘PARSI PRIDE BRIGADE’ series each week, where we heartily congratulate and take pride in sharing the academic successes of our community’s bright-sparks – the next gen! This year too, we are overjoyed to commend the hard work and efforts put in, by not just…
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…
‘અન્યાયી અને મૂર્ખ બહુમતી સિવાય બીજું કંઇ ખરાબ નથી’ – ‘મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી’ નામના બે કૃત્યના નાટકનાં લેખક મહેત મુરત ઇલદાન લગભગ બે અઢી મહિના પહેલાં જ બીપીપીના ટ્રસ્ટી કેરસી રાંદેરિયાએ તેમના તમામ સહયોગી ટ્રસ્ટીઓને ઝરીર ભાથેનાના દુર્ભાગ્યપૂર્ણ અને અકાળ અવસાનને કારણે ખાલી પડેલી જગ્યા ભરવા માટે વિચારણા કરવા અને યોજના ઘડવા વિનંતી કરી હતી….
Parsi Times is delighted to share that the Parsi Zoroastrian matrimonial meet organized in Ahmedabad last year in October, has borne fruit and great tidings for our community, with at least five couples deciding to tie the knot! Covered in detail by PT, the Matri-Meet, organized by Dhanjishaw and Manijeh Gamir Charitable Trust, with support…
The popular and much needed prayer book, ‘MAZDA – YASNA’, the little prayer book which comprises some of the fundamental, daily prayers in Roman script with English translation, has been re-published by Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla, in loving memory of his dear wife, Late Villoo Cyrus Poonawalla, for FREE distribution within the Zoroastrian community. This will be of tremendous importance to those in our Community who…
Established in 1991, the World Zoroastrian Organization Trust (WZOT), along with its sister concerns – WZO Trust for Women and Children (1993) and WZO Trust Funds (1995) – has been providing exemplary services to support, uplift and empower the underprivileged sections of our Zoroastrian community, as well as taking up causes crucial to the survival…
Together, We Can Do So Much! Dear Readers, One of the best aspects about a community is that it empowers us to help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals. When we belong to a community as small and close-knit as ours, ‘strength in numbers’ takes on additional weightage. The true greatness of any…
Twenty years ago, UNESCO requested me to create a programme on the Parsi Zoroastrians, as they realized that this community was facing demographic extinction. With the loss of culture, the world loses a part of its wisdom and UNESCO’s mandate was for us to record this culture. Even as a student and teacher of the…
Panthaki Baug’s dynamic darlings – Jouyan Panthaki, Pearlyn Siganporia and Gianna Mistry – represented their school in Karate and Judo Championships and won medals in their respective age categories at the Yudansha Kobujitsu Karate Doh Federation – India (YKFF) Championship 2019, held at the Dadar Athornan Institute, on 11th August, 2019, under Shihan Jehangir Shroff…
Congratulations to BPP Trustees for their wise, bold and progressive move to bring peace, harmony and happiness in our peace-loving Community! We all share a fundamental wish to live a happy life with peace and harmony. Poverty, illiteracy and over population hinder progress and development. Luckily, we are a small community, affluent in status and highly…