In keeping with tradition, Meherbai’s Mandli met for their annual Mango-party at Meherbai’s house. As elections were in the air, everyone felt like saying something about it. Meherbai placed a huge bowl of chilled, diced mangoes and another of mango ice-cream, along with mango cheese cakes and milk-shakes for the Mandli. She loved feeding her…
My friend, Nariman the Noble, (okay his name is Nariman Noble, but because he’s so full of himself, his well-wishers, which mostly consist of himself, have added the word ‘the’ in the middle), on the point of being arrested by whomsoever forms the next Govt. of India, has come out with his own list of…
NCPA brings you singer and composer ‘Ash Chandler and Redux’ – Chandler’s latest offering which showcases his skills on vocals backed by the rhythm section with artistes on drums, bass keyboards, guitar, saxophone, clarinet and more. This versatile ensemble will play the latest and iconic songs of yesteryears, rearranged and brought back in classic Jazz/Swing…
Parsi Times is thrilled to welcome on board the absolutely hilarious and super talented, TV, theatre and Bollywood personality, Cyrus Broacha, known for his inexhaustible and uproarious wit! What better way to ring in the New Year than laughter? And who better than Aapro Cyrus, the Brand Ambassador of Humour itself, to ensure we’re on…
Cultivate The Art Of Giving During The Festive Season During the festive season, we allow our spendings to skyrocket – we get a little more self-indulgent, we are more liberal with our purse-strings in making purchases for our family and treating friends. We revel in a smugly pleasant sense of satisfaction when we give to…
Neomi Rao, who has led the Trump administration’s push to curtail agency regulations as its Deregulatory Leader, will succeed Brett Kavanaugh on the Washington DC Circuit, whose docket is teeming with administrative disputes. Neomi will be nominated to fill the vacancy left by Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the US Court of Appeals for the DC…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]From the morbid subject of death that we read in the last instalment Of ‘Idioms aren’t Idiotic’, we now explore the subject of birth, especially those privileged ones born to a rich family… [/otw_shortcode_info_box] . To Be ‘Born With A Silver Spoon In The Mouth’: It was back in time, in England, when the majority…
Note Of Appreciation From BPP Trustees Very recently, a Parsi Zoroastrian family residing overseas, have graciously come forward and voluntarily surrendered their flat to the BPP, without expecting any kind of monetary compensation. The entire Board of Trustees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), expresses their wholehearted gratitude to this family. At their request we…
The Chameleon In Our Blood Dear Readers, The heat is on… there’s red-hot cusswords on everyone’s lips, perfectly complemented by that dehydrated, prisoner-of-(summer’s)war look on most faces. Bombay’s reputation as the ‘melting pot’ takes on a painfully literal avatar during the summers. Even a measly fifteen minutes in the sun paints most of our fair-skinned…
Why do bad things happen to good people? They happen because of their ‘Karma’. What do we exactly mean by karma? Is it a punishment? Is it a reward? No! It is payback through divine intervention, a universal method of checks and balances. It is divine-mathematics – a ‘spiritual law of cause and effect’. It…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Yazdi Desai, Chairman, BPP, updates the community about the current ongoings in the BPP, with Parsi Times’ Exclusive Column – BPP Connect.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] THE TRUTH ABOUT WASTE MANAGEMENT The brief facts are as follows: The BMC last September 2017 announced that it would not collect wet waste from large Housing complexes (more than 200…