On 6th March, 2019, Google Arts and Culture launched ‘Once Upon a Try’ – the largest online exhibition about inventions and discoveries ever curated, comprising stories and knowledge from over 110 renowned institutions across 23 countries, including those from Parzor Foundation, highlighting millennia of major breakthroughs and the great minds behind them. People can now…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Tai chi is a 4000-year-old martial art and works on the integration of body, mind and soul, on the principal that every physical ailment stems from the mind and that a proper balance between mind and body can correct and prevent these issues. In our previous article, we discussed how the lungs store…
‘Magic’ as an expression has its roots in the term Magi. The Magi or Magus were ancient Zoroastrian priests belonging to a tribe in North-western Iran known as the Medes. Darius the Great in his historic inscription on Mount Behistun near modern day Kermansha in Iran also speaks about a certain Magus by the name…
Be WARned… Dear Readers, There’s not one among us who’s unaffected by the ongoing tensions escalating between India and Pakistan. We ensure to keep ourselves updated with events, even as these unfold, via social media and of course, television which shares greater detail, analysis and opinion. Our hearts bleed in sorrow for, and beat in…
Throughout the Parsi-Zoroastrian history, Parsi women have all been high achievers – in Persia and India, and globally too! We had Artemisia of Halicarnassus (485 BCE) – Admiral of the Persian Navy and a lover of Xerxes I; there was Pantea Arteshbod (Aryash) – Commander of the legendary Immortal Army known as Persian Immortals or…
. Women’s Day Contest Winners
In keeping with the celebratory Woman’s Day spirit, Parsi Times attempts to do what no man (or maybe even woman) has really been able to figure – the eternal question… WHAT DO WOMEN WANT??? This is our attempt at demystifying this enigma by sourcing the answer straight from the mare’s mouth! But, we didn’t want…
XYZ (Xtremely Young Zoroastrians), under its MAD (Make A Difference) Initiative, titled ‘XYZ Vessel-a-thon’ organised a vessel collection drive, aimed at providing vessels to all in the city who eat off newspapers and cannot afford to buy vessels to cook or eat in. Over the last 3 weeks you have been reading about this drive…
Dear Community Members, Our organisation – XYZ (Xtremely Young Zoroastrians) is organising a MAD (Making A Difference) Initiative called XYZ VESSEL-A-THON which is a Vessel Collection Drive on Sunday, 24th February 2019. Our XYZs along with parents, friends, family and well-wishers will be going to 25 different colonies and baugs in the city only between 9:30…
On 15th February, 2019, India’s leading eye-surgeon and one of the world’s most recognized Ophthalmologists, our Community’s eye-prodigy, Dr. Cyres Mehta was awarded the ‘International Hero Of Indian Ophthalmology’ by the All-India Ophthalmologists Society (AIOS), at Indore, at their annual meeting function. The Award was given to Dr. Cyres Mehta by Prof Bruce Spivey, Founder…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Parsi Gymkhana (PG), one of the topmost cricketing clubs in Mumbai’s historic sphere of the game, has made its way in the February 2019 issue, titled ‘The Parsi Pioneers of 1886’, in the world’s most popular cricket magazine, the ‘Wisden Cricket Monthly’. The first Indians to take interest in cricket were Parsis. It…