[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Daisy P. Navdar is a teacher by profession and a firm believer in the efficacy of our Manthravani. She is focused on ensuring that the deep significance of our prayers is realized by our youth. She credits her learnings and insights, shared in her articles, to all Zoroastrian priests and scholars whose efforts…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Aviva Damania is a Psychologist – Mental Health Specialist, trained at City University of London (MSc Mental Health). She began counseling in 2014 as a Volunteer Counsellor at Charities in Mumbai, and has practiced at Masina Hospital. Having worked with adults, adolescents and children, Aviva’s primary areas of expertise include dealing with…
– Video Goes Viral Globally Even Before Formal Launch! – Over the past week, the global music initiative, ‘The Power Of Love’ – the musical rendition of the classic song made popular, first by Jeniffer rush and then Celine Dion – spearheaded and performed by the dynamic talents of our Community, has gone viral, with…
We are in the midst of a pandemic, with cities, nay entire countries, shutting down. While some live in areas that have been affected by the novel coronavirus and declared ‘Red Zone’, others live in fear of what could happen next. For most, the uncertainty surrounding this pandemic is the hardest to handle… What if…
Kersi Randeria shares… Dear Friends, Over the past few centuries, many of our earlier generations have served at the forefront of community service via their selfless acts of charity, providing community members with housing, building schools and hospitals, setting up Trusts for the aid of the less fortunate, and so on. They were driven by…
otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Shirin Merchant is India’s pioneering Canine Behaviourist and Trainer. For the past 25 years, she has worked hard to ensure that dogs in India are trained using reward-based methods.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] As we all sit around in our homes with our pampered pooches by our side, we have found it easy to complain. Pet-parent…
Earlier this week, ‘Jiyo Parsi’ – a GoI undertaking, which supports our community’s efforts in arresting the declining Parsi population and aids in its increase – reinforced its efforts by launching an excellent and much needed counselling and guidance campaign, via a Support Helpline, publicized appropriately under the title, ‘WE HEAR YOU!’ This Helpline has…
It’s easy to blame China or the wet market of Wuhan for the current pandemic. It is even more easy to blame it on what people eat or people’s modern life-style. However, the fact is that this world has seen plagues, pestilence and pandemics for thousands of years, and not all calamities are because of…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Bringing lots of joy with his chuckles and laughs, aapro Cyrus Broacha, the Brand Ambassador of Humour, unleashes his hilarious take on the ongoing lockdown, in our monthly column, Cyrus The (Not So) Great![/otw_shortcode_info_box] . This (the Community’s number one weekly) is called ‘Parsi Times’… but these are not ‘Parsi times’! If you…
Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by number of doses produced and sold globally, has been working on the BCG vaccine, which is primarily used against tuberculosis and given to newborns, to be used in human clinical trials soon, to test its efficacy in improving overall immunity against COVID-19. SII has received…
A petition started by a user on change.org to confer Bharat Ratna on industrialist Ratan Tata, has garnered over two lakh supporters, and counting! As per the petition, Ratan Tata has been a shining example of humility and philanthropy and has supported and established a number of research, educational and cultural institutes in India. The petition, which…