When industri-alist Ratan Tata chanced on a series of pictures by photojournalist Sudharak Olwe, portraying Mumbai’s sanitation workers who spend their lives navigating the city’s waste, Tata initiated an ambitious project, Tata Trusts’ ‘Mission Garima’ (dignity) to aid the lives of 40,000 odd workers of the city who dive into sewers, sweep the streets and work in…
Myth: Parsis are a peaceful and peace-loving community and unlike other communities, they have never indulged in rioting. Fact: Anyone and almost everyone would agree that by and large the Parsi community is peaceful and peace-loving and has always been loved by all communities for its charitable disposition and ability to laugh at its…
The residents of Bai M N Chenoy Agiary Complex in Hyderabad organised a Treasure Hunt competition on 15th April, 2018. Conceptualised by Faram Desai, twenty-four members, aged between five to ninety-five years, participated in four teams comprising six members each. The hunt also included a ‘Scavenger Hunt’ containing props which had to be procured and…
‘The 7 Most Important Fitness Tips’ People often confuse ‘health’ with ‘fitness’ considering them to be synonyms, which is wrong. Health is a physiological state meaning ‘normal functioning’ of the body. If all pathological values are normal, you’re ‘healthy’, but ‘fitness’ is the ability to perform physical tasks beyond what is expected from a normal…
The Senior Citizens of Dadar, Wadala And Matunga (SCDWM) hosted a gala evening full of song, dance and laughter at the Lady Jehangir Hall of J B Vachha High School on 21st April, 2018. Conceptualised by President Tehmtan Davar; Vice President Armaity Tirandaz; Jt. Hon. Secretaries, Najoo Padshah and Armaity Mistry and Hon. Treasurer Percis…
The Ahmedabad Parsi Panchayat (APP) hosted a community dinner as per the wishes of late Parvez and Freny Borka at Naoroji Vakil Sanatorium premises on 14th April, 2018. The function commenced with a jasan in the memory of the donors at 6:15 pm, followed by Secretary of APP, Cyrus Sabawala delivering the welcome address. Trustees…
. .Seth Nanabhoy Bejonji Choksi Dar-E-Meher at Panchgani commemorated its 87th Salgreh on 22nd April, 2018, with a Khushali nu Jashan performed by Panthaki Er. Hoshang Bhandara and Er. Taronish Kotwal, followed by a Humbandagi. Making the most of the occasion, Er. Hoshang thanked and praised the Trustees of the Dar-E-Meher for renovating the Panthaki…
. .Nearly one thousand two hundred devotees gathered at our holiest grail, Udvada to pay homage to Pak Iranshah Atash Behram on 22nd April, 2018, (Adar Mahino, Adar Roj). A jasan was performed at 10:00 am by Vada Dasturji Khurshed Dastoor, along with other priests, followed by a Gambhar catered by Surat’s A1 Caterers, which…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Start your weekend with positive vibes with inspirational excerpts from the acclaimed book, ‘Homage Unto Ahura Mazda’ by Dasturji Dr. Maneckji Naserwanji Dhalla of Karachi.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] .In the midst of the direst need and want, there is a surfeit of the gaiety and frivolity of the dazzling life of society, the glare and glamour…
To celebrate Parsi Time’s seventh Birthday, seven couples from Meherbai’s Mandli met at a restaurant called ‘Seven Seas’. The khanar-pinar group ordered Seven-Ups for all and seven fish-specialities of grilled baby-lobsters, spicy tiger-prawns, chilly-crabs, tandoori-squids, fried boomlas, Hydrabadi-pomfrets and jinga-biryanis. Banoo Batak: Number seven is very significant. Even the human body changes every seven years; each and every atom…
My happy memories about journalism go back to my childhood and my encounter with Homi Mistry, the deputy editor with Blitz. His boss was the legendary investigative journalist Rusi Karanjia and I bumped into him when I was just fourteen. We shared a cuppa that day and many more later… I do not think I…