The Zoroastrian Trust Funds of India (ZTFI) held its ‘Youth Camp’ on July 30th and 31st, 2016 at Khandala’s Marazban Sanatorium. Forty participants from Surat, Navsari, Deolali, Dahanu and Mumbai partook of various indoor and outdoor games designed to instil team spirit and leadership. Parizad Irani from Deolali won the Best Camper-Girl prize and Jamshid…
It was a term originally coined for cricketing greats such as Bradman, Gavaskar and Tendulkar. Budhia Singh, at the age of four, earned the epithet, ‘The Run Machine’, but with a literal connotation. Timed to release during the 2016 Rio Olympics, for which Budhia was trained and slated to run, the film is a sincere…
Majority of investors in India deploy their savings into properties – they believe that real estate has delivered the best returns. That’s a myth – it is ‘Equity’ that has made billionaires. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Jack Ma (founder of Alibaba), Mark Zuckerberg, Azim Premji, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Mukesh Ambani, Sahpoorji Pallonji, Birlas and many other…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]As promised to our readers in the last issue, we bring you an exclusive pre-release interview with Akshay Kumar, who plays the lead in the much looked-forward to Bollywood flick that is due to release next week – ‘Rustom’. Film critic and PT Special Correspondent Hoshang Katrak reports…[/otw_shortcode_info_box] The interview was scheduled for…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Every first Saturday of the month, Parsi Times presents the newly instituted column, ‘BPP Connect’ which aims to bridge the disconnect between the community and the caretakers we elected – The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP). Extending transparency, in a never-been-done-before media endeavor, to keep the community abreast of all issues and efforts undertaken…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]This week witnessed an outrage amongst our community members through mediums like Whatsapp and Facebook, as news about our holy angel, Asho Farohar’s motifs being embedded onto men’s shoes in the name of fashion, went viral. PT Special Correspondent Delaveen Tarapore brings you a comprehensive report.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] At a shop selling men’s shoes in…
OK. The opening and closing frames of the film couldn’t have been more reprehensible — John Abraham (Kabir), a crack member of the Special Task Force and the blue-eyed boy of the External Affairs Ministry (the Minister is a woman, of course!) is shown smoking in an elevator and flicking a lit cigarette at the…
The Benefits Of Adopting An Adult Dog For the past few months the Shroffs were debating getting a new dog. It was three years since their last dog had passed away. But with the tight schedule the family had with school, tuitions, the cook on vacation, and Mr. Shroff working longer hours, Mrs. Shroff just…
A press briefing was called yesterday afternoon at the Garware Club House by BPP Chairman Yazdi Desai and ex-Trustee Khojeste Mistree, to expose alleged irregularities by former BPP Chairman and Trustee Viraf Mehta’s father, Dinshaw Mehta in a tenancy transfer matter at Dadi House. The panel of speakers who addressed the Press in addition to…
Jam-e-Jamshed (JJ), the community’s oldest (184 years old) weekly newspaper has teamed up with its five-year-old and equally popular counterpart, Parsi Times (PT), under the sole management of Parsi Times Multimedia Pvt. Ltd., which will have a common board of Directors. The aim behind this unison is two-fold – to add to the commercial viability…
There are two men I’ve been absolutely crazy about since childhood. I must have seen them dozens of times and yet I don’t think I’ll ever get them out of my system. One of them is F-A-T (and CHO CHWEET!!) and the other is thin. They are my all-time favourite movie comedians, ‘Laurel and Hardy’….