Are You Feeling The Rain Or Just Getting Wet? Dear Readers, It is said people come into our lives for a season or a reason or a lifetime. Ever ponder philosophizing the reason about a season visiting you through your lifetime instead… science and climatology notwithstanding. We’re in the thick of the monsoons – and…
Readers will be pleased to know about the availability of ‘My English Pocket Book of Nirangs’ – or short Zoroastrian prayers – by Er. Rustom Noshirwan Panthaki, the ex-Principal, Dadar Athornan Madressa. Nirangs are short but powerful prayers that can be recited to invoke divine blessings and help for numerous reasons including spiritual protection; inner…
On 10th July, 2019, Mumbai’s Masina Hospital inaugurated its upgraded ‘Physiotherapy and Rehab Department’, in partnership with ReLiva Physiotherapy and Rehab. The facility has been set up to compliment and support Orthopaedics, Cardiac and Neurosciences specialities in the Hospital. It was inaugurated in the presence of Dr. Aashish Contractor, MBBS, MED (US), Center for Rehabilitation Medicine…
– Urging Single Parsis To Avail This Matrimonial Service Dedicated Exclusively To The Community – .The Parsi Shaadi App, an exclusive matrimonial service dedicated to the Parsi community worldwide was launched by Jiyo Parsi on 6th July 2019, at the Banaji Atash Behram Hall, Charni Road, Mumbai where members of the Parsi community were present…
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 have contributed…
Music softens sorrows, alleviates pain and allays grief. It calms the agitated and oppressed mind. The soothing strain of music gives relief to man pressed with anxiety. It is the healing balm to the bruised and broken heart. Music warms feelings. It swells the breast with gentle loving emotions. It touches the inner chord of…
‘10% Happier’ is a Meditation App built for fidgety skeptics, and designed to help them stick with it. It provides free ongoing access to a 7-session introductory course and mindful meditations with daily videos to teach you meditation in the simplest way possible. You also get guided audio meditations for coping with anxiety and stress,…
The best example a law professor could impart to his students in a lecture regarding ‘abetment’ of crime would be to round off the director and writer of ODJD. Jokes aside, while the director deserves to take flak for some hamming by even talented character actors (Rajesh Sharma, Murli Sharma), writer Alaukik Rahi should be…
Winner of the coveted Palme D’or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, and directed by the redoubtable Hirokazu Kore-eda, ‘Shoplifters’ is an affecting and poignant tale of the Shibatas, an impoverished joint family – none of them blood-related – who makes ends meet by indulging in shoplifting in supermarkets. Patriarch Osamu Shibata (Lily Franky) has…
Dear Readers, For most of us, being a ‘follower’ is a slight; it implies one is incapable of being a leader and has therefore been relegated (downgraded) to being one of the ‘sheep’. It’s almost offensive, even insulting. Agreed, being a leader is a matter of pride and great responsibility; it implies being an achiever,…
Continuing with the Panthaki Baug Golden Jubilee celebrations, under the aegis of Panthaki Baug Welfare Centre, an evening of fun and games was organised for its senior citizens on 30th June, 2019. The seniors were introduced to new and unique games which kept them engrossed, excited and entertained through the eve. Needless to mention, a game…