Caption This! – July 22, 2017

Caption This! – July 22, 2017

ByPT Reporter

Calling all our readers to caption this picture! The wittiest caption will win a fabulous prize! Send in your captions at mail.parsitimes@gmail.com by 26th July, 2017.   .[otw_shortcode_info_box border_type=”bordered” border_color_class=”otw-blue-border” border_style=”bordered” rounded_corners=”rounded-10″ background_color=”#c4dbff”] Winning Caption “Modiji, ‘phool’ ne badle tamari ‘Tour Itinerary’ aapo….. Hun bi duniya fari aavu!” -by Kayomarz Dotiwalla   [/otw_shortcode_info_box]

Check It Out (2017-07-22)

Check It Out (2017-07-22)

ByPT Reporter

Frohar Films Presents ‘Dudh Ma Sakar’ Frohar Films’ ‘Dudh Ma Sakar’ series presents ‘Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, First Baronet- Part -2’, on 23rd July, 2017 at 12.00pm on DD Girnar Channel.   DMPZA Organises Exhibition Cum Sale Dadar-Matunga Parsi Zoroastrian Association is organising an annual exhibition cum sale of Sudras, Kusties, religious artefacts, lamps, stickers, chains, and…

Praying The Right Way

Praying The Right Way

ByJamshed Arjani

[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Er. Dadachanji highlights the following important guidelines to strengthen the power of our prayers, by praying in the right manner…[/otw_shortcode_info_box] We should pray one Ashem Vohu in the morning when we wake-up and venerate the ground as Asfandarmad Ameshaspand takes care of the earth. This one Ashem Vohu is equivalent to praying it…

Review: Munna Michael

Review: Munna Michael

ByHoshang K. Katrak

Take a bow, Bomi Dotiwala! After ‘Munnabhai MBBS’, it seems any film with Munna in the title is obligated to have a carrom-playing scene – along with an oblique reference to the queen – and the doctor being ‘gently coerced’ into coming home. While returning home sozzled after being forced to retire as a chorus…

Review: Sing

Review: Sing

ByHoshang K. Katrak

‘Sing’, also released as ‘Mindenki’, is a Hungarian short film which opened at the 14th Asiana International Short Film Festival in Seoul, and has bagged 13 awards, including the coveted Oscar for Best ‘Live Action’ Short Film this year. Written and directed by Kristof Deak and shot in six days, it has the 10-year-old Zsofi…

Review: Dunkirk

Review: Dunkirk

ByHoshang K. Katrak

From 26th May to 4th June 1940, in the French coastal town of Dunkerque, a little over 300,000 troops – mostly British, some French and Belgian – were reined in onto the town’s beach by a sustained German fire – both artillery and aerial. Tommy (Fionn Whitehead), a young petrified British soldier, tries every means…

Jiyo Parsi To Launch Phase-II Of Ad-Campaign

Jiyo Parsi To Launch Phase-II Of Ad-Campaign

ByPT Reporter

After effectively completing its first Advertisement Campaign phase, ‘Jiyo Parsi’ – the Government Of India’s undertaking to arrest the declining Parsi population – looks to kick off its second phase on 29th July, 2017, to be inaugurated by Minister of Minority Affairs, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. The second phase of the Ad-campaign, undertaken by Sam Balsara’s…

Your Moonsign Janam Rashi This Week –22nd July, 2017 – 28th July, 2017

Your Moonsign Janam Rashi This Week –
22nd July, 2017 – 28th July, 2017

ByJayesh Goswami

મરહુમ મહારાજ શ્રી સ્વયંજ્યોતિના સહકાર્યકર્તા જયેશ એમ. ગોસ્વામી . ARIES | મેષ: અ.લ.ઈ. છેલ્લા બે દિવસ જ મંગળની દિનદશામાં પસાર કરવાના બાકી છે તેથી આજ અને આવતી કાલ તમારે તમારા ગુસ્સા ઉપર  કંટ્રોલ રાખવો પડશે તમારી નાની ભૂલ અઠવાડિયાને ખરાબ કરશે. 24મીથી 56 દિવસ માટે બુધની દિનદશા તમારા બગડેલા કામને સુધારવા માટે સીધો રસ્તો બતાવશે. કોઈક…

Singing And Barking In The Rain!

Singing And Barking In The Rain!

ByShirin Merchant

[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Shirin Merchant shares tips to help our four-legged, best friends survive the monsoons[/otw_shortcode_info_box] The monsoons may come in as a relief from summer, but it’s not too blissful for your pooch who’s wondering when the rains will stop so he can go out and play! The season with its dampness, humidity and grey…

Kind Philanthropic Gesture Brings ‘Laughter’ Once Again!

Kind Philanthropic Gesture Brings ‘Laughter’ Once Again!

ByPT Reporter

The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) and World Zoroastrian Organisation (WZO) Trusts, along with producers and directors of the play, ‘Laughter In The House – 2’, have decided to provide four hundred free tickets to our community members who are theatre-enthusiasts but unable to afford tickets at the regular rates. An ode to…

From The Editor’s Desk

From The Editor’s Desk

ByAnahita Subedar

Be‘Cause’ Of You! Dear Readers, It was wonderful receiving your numerous responses to last week’s editorial – ‘A Cause Bigger Than Yourself’ – which encouraged you to participate in a cause and make a bigger, collective difference. It was heartening to see so many of our community members expressing not just willingness, but a desire…