After the long and enforced, stay-at-home vacation thrust onto us by the pandemic, it’s a relief to have some real vacation time! These days, many prefer road trips over mass transport services. Hardly surprising to see many patients complaining of aches and pains after long hours of car travel! Stress and discomfort while driving is…
Meherbai’s Mandli met at Keki’s house to celebrate his 67th Birthday. Of course, being kunjoos-makkhichoos, Keki had asked everyone to bring their own snacks, while Meherbai would provide the cake and Meherwanji, the beer. The conversation at Meherbai’s Mandli was always topical – like the ice-cream flavour of the month, the on-going heat-wave and so, today, they discussed the…
Continuing with the pre and post-pandemic tradition of holding the monthly Ava Roj Jashan and Humbandagi at the Bhikha Behram Well, on 22nd May, 2022, Ava Roj (Dae Mahino), a Jashan was held at the Bhikha Behram Well at 10:30am, followed by a Humbandagi. Erudite priest, educator and scholar, Er. Dr. Ramiyar Karanjia shared a powerful talk…
– Told To Vacate CCI-owned Premises In 2 Months – K Rustom and Company, the iconic, family-run, 84-year-old ice-cream parlour, based in South Mumbai (Churchgate), known for its legendary ‘ice-cream sandwiches’, recently lost a case against its landlord, the Cricket Club of India (CCI), in the Court of Small Causes. However, K Rustom has decided…
In the interest of our community members not falling for the misleading figures published as regards the Stamp Duty and Registration expenses that would be payable on converting their ‘Leave and License flats to Tenancy’, Parsi Times is once again reproducing the CORRECT FACTS and FIGURES for the benefit of our readers. As you can…
Well known author and journalist Christopher Hitchens once said, “The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.” This is indeed a profound truth. Universally and not just within our community, smooth and sweet-talking politicians make tall promises leaving voters feeling short changed post elections. Right now, some candidates have…
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– Residents Of Wadia Colonies Blindsided! – Community members need to be cautioned against falling for the false promise being made – about converting their flat agreements from Leave and License to Tenancy – by some BPP candidates contesting the oncoming BPP elections. The promise of ‘Leave & License to Tenancy conversion’ is just a…
Tenancy For ALL Or Tenancy For THE RICH? On 21st February, 2020, the 3 trustees – Armaity Tirandaz, XerxesDastur and Viraf Mehta – passed a Resolution regarding the conversion of Leave & License to Tenancy. The following is an excerpt taken from the Resolution as regards community members being allowed to convert from L&L to…
Based on a complaint by Team CTC, the Chief Election Commissioner has taken an extremely serious view of the violation of the Code of Conduct by Parsi Junction. The email is produced verbatim and speaks for itself, with emphasis provided by us: [otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] From: Election Commission <electioncommissionbpp@gmail.com> Date: 25/05/2022 14:40 (GMT+05:30) Subject: Re:…
With the basic aim of ‘Building Trust, Rebuilding Credibility’, Team CTC, comprising Kersi Randeria, Dr. Adil Malia, Lion Daara Patel, Hoshang Jal and Er. CA Farhad Hozdar, shares its Vision via its ‘10 Commandments’, broadly covering its Objectives as under: HOUSING: Even as Housing is a much discussed and much debated subject and for obvious…