[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…
– Iran’s FM Thanks Parsis For Help – The relations between Iran and India are age-old. To celebrate these ancient socio-cultural ties and to mark 70 years of Indo-Iran Diplomatic relations, Parzor with the Iran embassy had organised the Derakht-e-Doosti Festival in February 2020. The programme included an exhibition on Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, a Panel…
The new Freddie Mercury Museum was recently opened in Zanzibar in November 2019, at the home of the Talatis, thanks to the support received from ‘The Mercury Trust’. The organisers thanked all the individuals and institutions for their cooperation and hope that the Museum will soon become a regular must-see feature on the Zanzibar tourist…
[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…
[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…
Goodbye, Ruby Patel 12th May, 2020 marked the sad passing of our community’s foremost, veteran stage actor – Ruby Patel, a name synonymous with quality Parsi-Gujarati-English theatre and extraordinary talent. The noted theatre personality passed away in Mumbai, at the age of 86. Her passing adds immeasurably to the loss of brilliant Indian acting talents,…
For Mother’s Sake! Dear Readers, The past couple of weeks has infused greater reality into the presence of the dreaded coronavirus, with an increasing number of community members testing COVID-19 positive. It has well entered the Baugs and some of our houses. We definitely need to ramp up our civic sense and stop making excuses…
As per a recent media interaction, Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India (SII) – the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines by volume – has shared that his biotechnology firm, in partnership with an Oxford University-led consortium, should be able to deliver a vaccine for COVID-19 by the end of the year. As the…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 13th May, 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 vein, which…
Reliance Industries (RIL) has lost the tag of India’s highest profit-making company to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in the March 2020 quarter, due to the Pandemic! At Rs 8,049 crore, TCS’ reported profit after tax (PAT) during the January-March 2020 quarter was ahead of RIL’s reported PAT of Rs 6,348 crore during the same quarter….
Tata Group patriarch and Chairman Emeritus, Ratan Tata recently picked up a 50% cent stake in ‘Generic Aadhar’, a unique pharmacy retail chain promoted by Mumbai’s 18-year old, Arjun Deshpande. Compared to other online pharmacies, Generic Aadhar sells medicines – mainly diabetes and hypertension drugs, with cancer drugs in the pipeline – at much cheaper…