Enthronement Ceremony Of The Auspicious Dadgah Saheb At Della Tower

Enthronement Ceremony Of The Auspicious Dadgah Saheb At Della Tower

ByPT Reporter

[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” background_color=”#a6e0ff” css_class=”boxed”]By Vada Dasturjis – Dr. Firoze Kotwal, Khurshed Dastoor And Cyrus Noshiwan Dastur[/otw_shortcode_info_box] On 31st May, 2018, prominent architect and businessman, Jimmy Mistry’s landmark building, Della Tower, hosted over a thousand people of the city’s Zoroastrian community including Head Priests, priests, religious scholars, Trustees of the Parsi Punchayet, actors, business people, cricketers…

BPP Elections Will Be Contested By Five Candidates

BPP Elections Will Be Contested By Five Candidates

ByPT Reporter

The Bombay Parsi Punchayet has so far declared five candidates who will vie for the coveted seat of Trusteeship in the forthcoming BPP Elections, which will take place next month, on Sunday, the 1st of July, 2018. The following are the five candidates: [otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” background_color=”#c2f3ff” css_class=”boxed”]ANAHITA DESAI Anahita Desai is the wife of the…

BPP Trustees To File Affidavit In HC Supporting Writ Petition Against Metro Passing Under Atash Behrams

BPP Trustees To File Affidavit In HC Supporting Writ Petition Against Metro Passing Under Atash Behrams

ByPT Reporter

All Seven trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet have unanimously agreed to file an affidavit in the Bombay High Court in support of the Writ Petition, filed in the same court, with a prayer that the Metro Rail tunnel should not go under the two sacred Atash Behrams.

6th Zoroastrian Powerlifting Championships

6th Zoroastrian Powerlifting Championships

ByBinaisha M. Surti

. The sixth Zoroastrian Powerlifting Championship, affiliated and conducted by the Greater Bombay Powerlifting Association and meticulously organised by Roozbeh Balsara in collaboration with Trustees of NarYman Dubash Foundation – Viraf Panthaki, Rustom Jasoomoney and Hutoxi Doodhwala at Parsee Gymkhana, Marine Lines, on 19th May, 2018, saw an overwhelming turnout with over twenty-three participants in…

High Court Directs MMRC To Give Hearing To Priests/Trustees Of Wadiaji And Anjuman Atash Behrams Who Had Moved Court Seeking Stay On Metro-III Work

High Court Directs MMRC To Give Hearing To Priests/Trustees Of Wadiaji And Anjuman Atash Behrams Who Had Moved Court Seeking Stay On Metro-III Work

ByPT Reporter

A group of concerned Parsis including structural engineer Jamshed Sukhadwalla, senior solicitor Berjis Desai, scholar priest Rooyintan Peer and two trustees of Shah Varzaavand Trust, had moved the Bombay High Court to challenge work on the underground Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro-III corridor, which passes from under the compound of two Atash Behrams – Wadiaji Atash Behram (consecrated…

Noshir Dadrawala Will Continue As Trustee Of BPP

Noshir Dadrawala Will Continue As Trustee Of BPP

ByPT Reporter

It was a month ago that BPP Trustee Noshir Dadrawala had first expressed his desire to consider stepping down from the BPP. Concerned about the quality of discussions and the heated e-mail exchanges, Noshir Dadrawala had contemplated putting in his papers, in keeping with the possibility of an election being held (to fill in his…

Idioms Aren’t Idiotic – They Just Sound So Sometimes

Idioms Aren’t Idiotic – They Just Sound So Sometimes

ByDara M Khodaiji

As we know, Idioms are sometimes silly, sometimes funny but quite often they induce reflection. In our earlier articles, we have shared many idioms dealing with ghosts and death. Here are few more in the same vein… Die hard: Today, influenced by the movie ‘Die Hard’ starring Bruce Willis, the idiom has taken a different connotation….

Empowering Mobeds Workshop: Moving Online

Empowering Mobeds Workshop: Moving Online

ByKhushroo P. Mehta

On 13th May, 2018 a large number of Mobeds and their families gathered at the Dadar Athornan Institute to attend the ‘Empowering Mobeds Workshop’. The workshop was jointly organized by the Athornan Mandal-WZO Trust Funds mobed welfare scheme, and comprised a five-hour session divided into three with various speakers from all walks of life, emphasizing…