[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] Peremptory is the summons of death; none can resist it. When the hour sounds and death knocks at the door, nothing in the world can keep it…
[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] Marvellous is the power of thought. Thinking is as natural to man as breathing. Thought has lifted man above the level of the animal world. It has raised…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]PT Reporter Khushroo Mehta catches up with Panthaki of Panchgani Agiary, Er. Hoshang Bhandara on the nooks and intricacies of one of our religion’s most pious ceremony that stands the basis of terming someone as a true Zoroastrian – ‘The Navjote’.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] . The Navjote ceremony is when a Parsi child is formally taken…
[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] Zarathushtra brands scandal or slander, backbiting or calumny as an inexpiable sin. Scandal creeps and crawls like a loathsome reptile or flies like a winged snake. Upon swift wings does…
Dae Mahino, Khorshed Roj, which falls on Thursday, the 24th of May, 2018, marks the day known as ‘Zarthost-No-Diso’, or the day that our beloved prophet, Zarathustra left the earthly, mortal life to re-unite with Ahura Mazda. On this day, special prayer sessions are organized, with prayers and religious discourses hailing the great life and miracles of our…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]As we enter the ‘Dae’ month, which is one of thanksgiving to the Creator and is usually expressed by Jasan ceremonies either at home, office, Aatash Behram or Agyari, Parsi Times Reporter, Khushroo Mehta, speaks with Panthaki of Godrej Baug’s Shapoorji Fakirji Jokhi Agiary Ervad, Harvesp Madon, who elucidates the relevance and significance…
[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] Man is mirrored in his manners and his worth is valued according to his manners. A well-bred man is a man of good and gentle manners. It is…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]PT Reporter Khushroo Mehta catches up with Er. Khoremand Marolia, at Zai Agiary in Bordi, who elucidates upon the importance of the five Gehs in our Zoroastrian religion.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] PT: Could you explain the context behind dividing the day into five Gehs in our religion? Er. Khoremand: The day has been divided into five gehs…
Intolerance and bigotry and dogmatism are the bitterest enemies of religion upon earth. They make religion a tyrant, a persecutor, a veritable daeva, the demoniac perversion of angelic religion. The frog croaks that his well is the whole world and the bigot boasts that his is the only inspired and perfect religion. The truth and…
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…
[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…