The beauties of nature around me make me forget the nervous tension of the busy, work-a-day world. They make me think of Thee and when I think of Thee my heart warms to Thee. It is aglow with devotion for Thee. Thy divine peace descends upon me from on high. Life is no bed of…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]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…
otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Shirin Merchant is India’s pioneering Canine Behaviourist and Trainer. For the past 25 years, she has worked hard to ensure that dogs in India are trained using reward-based methods.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] As we all sit around in our homes with our pampered pooches by our side, we have found it easy to complain. Pet-parent…
Earlier this week, ‘Jiyo Parsi’ – a GoI undertaking, which supports our community’s efforts in arresting the declining Parsi population and aids in its increase – reinforced its efforts by launching an excellent and much needed counselling and guidance campaign, via a Support Helpline, publicized appropriately under the title, ‘WE HEAR YOU!’ This Helpline has…
It’s easy to blame China or the wet market of Wuhan for the current pandemic. It is even more easy to blame it on what people eat or people’s modern life-style. However, the fact is that this world has seen plagues, pestilence and pandemics for thousands of years, and not all calamities are because of…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Bringing lots of joy with his chuckles and laughs, aapro Cyrus Broacha, the Brand Ambassador of Humour, unleashes his hilarious take on the ongoing lockdown, in our monthly column, Cyrus The (Not So) Great![/otw_shortcode_info_box] . This (the Community’s number one weekly) is called ‘Parsi Times’… but these are not ‘Parsi times’! If you…
Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by number of doses produced and sold globally, has been working on the BCG vaccine, which is primarily used against tuberculosis and given to newborns, to be used in human clinical trials soon, to test its efficacy in improving overall immunity against COVID-19. SII has received…