[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Veera is a published Author (‘Endured’ and ‘#LoveBitesLifeHacks’) and Columnist; a passionate Educator and Counsellor; Poet and Philosopher… but most of all, a lover of all things literary.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] Decidedly, love, as a feeling or emotional state, is complicated, confusing, exasperating enough… but add to the mix, a pandemic of the coronavirus proportion, and…
Dear Readers, Love, Actually With Valentine’s Day round the corner, many get into frenzied brainstorming sessions on gift-giving. From the humble card, which professes all kinds of affections, as if trying to make up for the lack of a ‘real gift’… to the ‘real-gifts’ themselves –dazzling solitaire diamonds on platinum bands or race-cars or then,…
Once upon a time, not very long ago, lived three very eligible bachelor ‘boys’ (all over 60), who were trying in vain for many years to marry a nice, 100% pure-Parsi girl, i.e. both the parents of the girl should be Parsis. But alas! Something or the other always went wrong and either the girls…
Thou, Ahura Mazda, hast put love of one’s country in every human breast. Thou hast made the land of his birth dear to man. Airyana Vaeja, the stemland of the Aryans, was the best of all lands, says the Vendidad, that thou didst create. Airyana, Iran became the primitive fatherland of our ancestors… Here was…
Truth is the paramount virtue. It embraces and embodies other virtues within its fold. It is the all-inclusive virtue. Beautiful and sublime is truth. It is divine. Knowledge is truth and goodness is truth and religion is truth and God, the giver of all, is truth. To love truth and to love God, are one…
Raell Padamsee’s Ace Productions brings the hit adult comedy, ‘Anything But Love’, starring Mandira Bedi and Samir Soni, to South Mumbai. Produced by Raell Padamsee and directed by Vikrant Pawar, this rom-com is a story of two recently divorced people, still very much in love! Will life give them a second chance or will they conform?…
Animal welfare NGO, The Welfare of Stray Dogs (WSD), is holding a Books and Garage Sale till 15th January, 2019 as a fund raiser to sustain the organization and continue working towards the welfare of our lesser fortunate Indie breeds that roam the streets. The sale items offered at throw-away prices include books (fiction, non-fiction,…
An ancient Indian legend tells of a prince who met a maiden with the body of a Goddess and eyes of a gazelle in spring-time. He told her, “I know why you are wearing this black sari embroidered in gold –it’s coz in a primeval forest you were a tigress and I was a tiger….
For all its repute and the amount of research done on the breed, few historians can agree on the precise origin of the Beagle. The dog, believed to be one of the oldest breeds, is one of the few breeds closest in appearance to the original hounds. The breed developed in the British Isles was…
Some weeks ago, we received a mail at Parsi Times from a lovely animal and dog love, Hufrez Mistry, who sought our help in putting out an appeal to help house ‘Whitey’, a senior dog whose time at the foster-home assistance was running out and needed to be re-housed on an urgent basis. Of course,…
A compilation of over a hundred pictures depicting our rich Zoroastrian culture and heritage, ‘Like Sugar In Milk’ is a photographic compendium authored by Italian photojournalist, Majlend Bramo. Commencing this project back in 2014, 30-year-old Majlend states, “While working for the Florence based newspaper, ‘Corriere Della Sera’, I came across an Italian book by Terzani…