Designers at Home: On Ashdeen’s Plate

Designers at Home: On Ashdeen’s Plate

ByPT Reporter

[otw_shortcode_info_box border_type=”border-top-bottom” border_style=”bordered” border_color=”#051f94″ background_color=”#cff0ff” css_class=”boxed”] Parsi Times is delighted to share one of our community’s and nation’s topmost Fashion Designer – Ashdeen Lilaowala – featured in the ‘Designers at Home’ platform, a by-invitation series, hosted by thevoiceoffashion.com, where Indian fashion designers share their thoughts and creative ideas — fashion or otherwise — while working…

The 101 Names Of Pak Dadar Ahura Mazda – Part I

The 101 Names Of Pak Dadar Ahura Mazda – Part I

ByDaisy P. Navdar

[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…

Coronavirus: Neither ‘Divinity’s Wrath’ nor ‘Nature’s Vengeance’!

Coronavirus: Neither ‘Divinity’s Wrath’ nor ‘Nature’s Vengeance’!

ByNoshir H. Dadrawala

The novel coronavirus is neither ‘Divinity’s Wrath’ nor ‘Nature’s Vengeance’. From a Zoroastrian perspective, this virus is the opposite of all that is good, God-given, life-giving and health-promoting. However, there are all kinds of posts on social media about the coronavirus being ‘Divine Anger’ on mankind and COVID-19 being ‘Mother Nature’s Vengeance’ on human beings! …

Serum Institute’s Adar Poonawalla Invests In Mylab Discovery Solutions For Manufacturing COVID-19 Testing Kits

Serum Institute’s Adar Poonawalla Invests In Mylab Discovery Solutions For Manufacturing COVID-19 Testing Kits

ByPT Reporter

On 2nd April, 2020, Serum Institute India’s Chief Executive Officer, Adar Poonawalla, shared that he has invested in the Pune-based molecular diagnostic company, Mylab Discovery Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (MDS) – the first Indian firm to get commercial approval to make and sell coronavirus testing kits (named Mylab PathoDetect COVID-19 Qualitative PCR kit, approved by Indian FDA/CDSCO and ICMR evaluation)….

Coronavirus, Earthquakes And Tsunamis Are Nature’s ‘Tandav’

Coronavirus, Earthquakes And Tsunamis Are Nature’s ‘Tandav’

ByRuby Lilaowala

We know the physical causes that lead to earthquakes and tsunamis, but there are more subtle spiritual issues involved, based on the Karmic principle, that all right actions bring joy, while wrong actions bring grief. When wrong actions reach an extreme, it leads to massive destruction (pralaya) bringing about an en-masse settlement (group-karma) of human…