In a path-breaking initiative by the Hon’ble Supreme Court, on 14th December, 2017, the Valsad Parsi Anjuman Trust, on the urging of the apex court, has reconsidered its earlier stand and taken a progressive step by allowing inter-married Parsi women, Goolrukh Gupta and her sister Shiraz Patodia, into the tower of silence to perform…
In a letter dated 2nd December, 2017, Member of Parliament (MP) Poonam Mahajan has written to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to name Juhu airport after Bharat Ratna awardee, Late JRD Tata. Former Chairman of the Tata Group from 1938 to 1991, Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata, fondly known as JRD Tata, started civil…
On Thursday, 7th December, 2017, the case of Goolrukh Gupta, came up for its first hearing in the Supreme Court. Goolrukh had married out of the Parsi Community and is currently fighting for her rights to continue practicing Zoroastrian and not be barred from entering fire temples and the Towers of Silence. A bench comprising…
The pioneer in the field of fitness education, K11 Academy of Fitness Sciences, displayed it’s sinews on the 3rd of December 2017 as proud students got together to share their Director’s passion for biking – riding alongside Kaizzad Capadia, covering a distance of 370kms, from Mumbai to Nashik. The 40 member strong pack of students and…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Arshin Mehta is all set to woo the audiences with her latest release ‘Sallu Ki Shaadi’. With ‘The Rally’ already to her credit, Arshin chats with Parsi Times Asst. Editor, Delaveen Tarapore about her recent release, her love for modelling and a career in Bollywood.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] . PT: Tell us a little about yourself…
Parsi Times readers will recall that almost a year and a half ago, work in the BPP came to a virtual halt when two of the Trustees – Armaity Tirandaz and Viraf Mehta, refused to sign any Leave & Licence / Tenancy Agreements, mainly on the grounds that they believed that all the agreements should…
CRICKET India Wins Second Test Against Sri Lanka: Stellar batting performances from Virat Kohli (213), Cheteshwar Pujara (143), Murali Vijay (128) and Rohit Sharma (102*) with great bowling from Ashwin and Jadeja, helped India win the second test by 239 runs against Sri Lanka at Nagpur. Batting first, Sri Lanka notched up 205 in 79.1….
Throwing Light On The Metro III Alignments by Maneck Engineer Kudos to Parsi Times for bringing out an excellent article in the issue dated 11th November, 2017, with an exhaustive explanation along with diagrams, to clear the doubts from the minds of the community members, that the Metro does not undermine the sanctity of religious…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Last month, the greats of the Community came together to celebrate and cheer the achievements and successes of some of the Community’s leading individuals and organisations, at the glittering Zoroastrian Achievers Awards Night (ZAAN) 2017 function. Seventeen exemplary community luminaries were felicitated with the much-coveted ZAAN for doing the Community and the nation…
The Bangalore Parsee Zoroastrian Anjuman felicitated Naval Hormusji Dalal on his 103rd Birthday, on 27 November, 2017. Born in 1914 into a horse racing family, Naval’s elder brother Rusi, who was just a few years older than him, took him for admission to the Clarence Boys School in Bangalore, where the English headmistress christened him…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]On the first month death anniversary (Masiso) of the Community’s much loved Mobed Palanji Pirojshah Dastoor, which falls on 5th December 2017, nephew, Er. Cyrus Darbari delivers a heartfelt tribute for Mobed Palanji, who has been a guiding light not only to him, but to all priests and laity whose lives he touched…