[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] The little dog screamed in pain and fear as I approached her. If her legs could move, she would have run away…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Dr. Danesh D. Chinoy is a leading Health and Wellness Coach, Sports Physiotherapist and Psychologist. He is also a prominent Facilitator, Educator and Administrator, Physiotherapist (Sports & Manual Therapy), Corporate Trainer and Psychologist. He is dedicated to guiding clients to succeed while inspiring an insatiable passion for learning and helping all to…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Aviva Damania is a Psychologist, trained at City University of London (MSc Mental Health). Starting off as a volunteer counsellor in charities across Mumbai in 2014, Aviva’s practice at Masina Hospital has gained her extensive experience working with adults, adolescents and children. Aviva is the founder of ‘The Mind Essentials’ – a…
As the community enters another year, one is but forced to look back at the last year which unfortunately, has not been a good year for me – as a Trustee, as well as personally. In the last few months, the Trust and the Community, lost a very capable and humane Trustee, my colleague and…
The year 2020 has been a challenging one. There has been loss of life and there has also been loss of livelihood. There has been anxiety, anguish and even a degree of anger which stems from helplessness or our inability to be in control of the situation. However, the best and probably the only antidote…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Parsi celebrations are synonymous with a good spread of delicious food. In fact, for most of our foodies (and most of us are foodies!), food itself is good enough reason to celebrate! Little surprise then, that we elevate this gourmet celebration into an evolved epicurean experience! PT Writer, Razvin Namdarian engages in…
For Old Champs’ Sake! [otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]Aapro Cyrus Broacha, the Brand Ambassador of Humour, unleashes his hilarious take on Maharashtra Politics (we saw that coming!) in our monthly column, ‘Cyrus The (Not So) Great!’[/otw_shortcode_info_box] . Somebody asked a Parsi gentleman as to why Parsi New Year comes so early in the year, in the month…
જે પતિ પત્ની સવારે સાથે ઉઠીને એક સાથે ચાય પીએ છે એને જોઈને જ વાઘ બકરી ચાયનું નામકરણ થયું છે. *** ડોકટર: તમારા શરીરમાં પાણીની કમી થઈ ગઈ છે. છોકરી: હા બહુ દિવસ થયા પાણીપુરી નથી ખાધી એટલે જ પાણીની કમી થઈ. *** પત્ની: તમે મને 500 રૂપિયા આપો હું તમને લાખો રૂપિયાની વાત કહીશ!…
કેટલીક ધાર્મિક પરંપરાઓમાં, ઈશ્ર્વરને ડરામણા દેવત્વ તરીકે (ઈંગ્લિશ શબ્દકોશમાં ગોડ ફીયરિંગ આ વિશેષણ બહુ સામાન્ય છે) અથવા સ્વામી (લોર્ડ) કે માલિક તરીકે જોવામાં આવે છે. જો કે, આપણી ઝોરાષ્ટ્રિયન પરંપરામાં અહુરા મઝદાથી ન તો ડરવાનું છે અને ન તેઓ એવા માલિક જેને પ્રસન્ન કે ખુશ કરવાના છે. ઝોરાષ્ટ્રિયન દીનમાં સર્વોચ્ચ દેવત્વને ‘ફ્રિયા’ અર્થાત મિત્ર અથવા…