[otw_shortcode_info_box border_type=”border-top-bottom” border_color_class=”otw-blue-border” border_style=”bordered” background_color=”#e5fdff”] Parsi Times congratulates and celebrates the success of our fab students and young achievers who have done achieved great success in their academic performances in Board exams across schools and colleges. We are delighted to feature our young, bright sparks who make our community proud! Do write in to us…
Re: Prayer Hall I had emailed Mr. Dinshaw Tamboly, Chairman of the “Prayer Hall Services and Maintenance Trust” with a request to kindly respond and clarify on some prima facie irregularities I observed at the Worli Prayer Hall. I received a 5-page response but none of the concerns were clarified to the point but vaguely…
Suicide is the most tragic form of exit from this world. It has to be seen in the light of great compassion and understanding, rather than contempt or condemnation. Suicide is the deliberate act of ultimate self-destruction in a fit of temper, fear, mental-depression, momentary despair or great disappointment. In death by suicide, the definite…
Let the passion of learning ever grow in me. Let me learn with a consuming passion. Ignorance darkens my understanding. Illumine my mind, Ahura Mazda, as the sun illumines the world. Enable my understanding to fathom the depths of knowledge. There is heartache in my inner world when my reason leaves it hungry and thirsty….
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Veera is a published Author (‘Endured’ and ‘#LoveBitesLifeHacks’) and Columnist; a passionate Educator and Counsellor; Poet and Philosopher… but most of all, a lover of all things literary. [/otw_shortcode_info_box] There is no knowing what people will do when they are about to die, but one thing is for certain, a human heart…
‘Those were the days my friends’, as the song goes, and I thought they’d never end but the days went by, each bringing unnoticeable changes, and over the years came the realization that things have changed, tremendously and the only constant in life is change itself. Of course, making a Socratesian or Aristotalean, face, we…
Dear Readers, It is said that every truly successful journey begins on a note of gratitude, and as we begin the journey of the new orbit marking the Parsi New Year, I thank all our readers, on behalf of Parsi Times, for your unflinching and ever-increasing support and patronship, through the years. Team PT…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Marzee Kerawala is a Certified Financial Planner with expertise in Income Tax and Investment products. Managing assets worth over Rs. 4 Billion, his firm ‘NiveshIndia’, designs Tailored Investment Strategy through Customised Financial Planning for individuals and NRIs, and also handles Treasury Management for corporates and SMEs. You can contact him at +91 9987567667 or Email: marzeek@niveshindia.co.in [Website…
The Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), a global frontrunner seeking to develop a safe and effective COVID vaccine, has registered its second and third phase trials of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine candidate – ‘Covishield’- with the Clinical Trials Registry of India (CTRI). The trails will be conducted on 1,600 healthy participants across India….
On 18th August, 2020, Pakistan-born, Zoroastrian quantum astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala has been named the new Dean of the prestigious MIT School of Science, one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As the hitherto Associate Head of the Physics Department, Mavalvala will take over as the new Dean from September 1,…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Cawas Sorabji Panthaki, our highly regarded BPP CEO, and a much respected and loved member of our community, passed away on 14th August, 2020, at 6:15 am, at Reliance Foundation Hospital, after braving a long and difficult illness. BPP Trustee Kersi Randeria shares a tribute… [/otw_shortcode_info_box] The loss of Cawassa (as I would…