In a world where feelings and emotions are best kept under wraps, wearing your heart on your sleeve is looked upon with an air of disdain. Ours is a society embroiled in bling, cash, ego and status. Being genuine or real soon becomes a bit challenging. What does it even mean to ‘be ourselves’ anymore?…
Life is not all spring-time. It is fiery summer and freezing winter and fading autumn too. Corroding are the cares and anxieties of life. Crooked are the ways of life. Often does life offer me the cup of bitterness to drink. Great is the agony with which my spirit has to wrestle. Unbreakable is the…
We Flip is a simple app which allows you to focus on the activity at hand and thus helps you achieve digital wellbeing effectively, as part of the Digital Wellbeing Experiments. Many complain of the lack of attention by members of a group, who invariably keep looking at their phones, while the fun is on….
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired! Feelings of love can make or break us and this is as true today as it was in the very first century BC, when Virgil exclaimed, “Love conquers everything!” Love makes us feel wanted, cherished and part of something larger than ourselves. It makes us feel…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! Winning Caption and Winner’s Name Will Be Published Next Week. Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 4th November, 2020. [otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Disclaimer: Some of our ‘Caption This’ Contest photos are taken from freely available, public online resources and are published in a light and humorous…
Dear Readers, It may be Halloween today, but 2020 has unceremoniously robbed it of its spook entirely! After the whole world living the COVID-19 horror-story in real time, I’m sure this Celtic festival must feel robbed of all potency to scare! It’s a little late in the day to respond to the ‘Trick or…
It is the morning after the annual dinner of the Shakespeare Mandli and Darabsha is nursing a gargantuan hangover. His wench… umm… his wife – Rattie bursts into the room, flinging open the curtains. “Rattie, shut yon window that lets the smiling star of the morn invade mine chamber. ’Tis the morning after our annual…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” background_color=”#e8e8e8″] Parsi Times presents our readers ‘The Zen Series’ by PT Columnist, Kashmira Shaw Raj – a professional Taichi and Qigong practitioner and teacher, as also a sought-after clinical psychologist and healer. These Zen stories will resonate with you and help you connect within, at a deeper, inner level to encourage and empower…
On 24th October, 2020, our community’s young priest, 16-year-old Er. Zahan, who is a student at the Dadar Boarding Madressa, Bombay, suffered an unfortunate accident whilst offering Machi at the Pak Goti Aderan, Surat, where seven generations of his family have served before him. Currently studying in the tenth class in school, the incident took…
The North American Institute of Zoroastrian Studies was recently launched, as an educational arm of the North American Mobeds Council (NAMC), thanks to Rohinton Rivetna’s initiative in drafting the initial charter, and to NAMC (President – Er. Arda-e-viraf Minocherhomjee) for their resolution to carry the proposal forward. NAMC Vice-President, Er. Tehemton Mirza would be setting up…
– Elderly Responding Well To Oxford Vaccine – In a recent update, Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) has informed that Covishield – the coronavirus vaccine, being developed by Oxford University and British firm AstraZeneca, could be ready for public use in December 2020. SII is currently conducting the phase-3 trial…