After enjoying rollicking parties for New Year, Valentine’s Day, Holi and Jamshedi Navroze, the Mandli fixed another party for an all-inclusive lunch date. The idea was that a little bit of nonsense makes a lot of sense in life! This time they had two new couples in their Mandli – Dinamai Designer and her husband…
The Heat Is On! Dear Readers, As Maximum City gets back to having us live through maximum temperatures – Summer seems to be well and truly settling in, much to the discomfort and despair of many who have been dreading the travel and sweat and grime, usually associated with its experiences. In keeping with the…
Calling all our readers to caption this picture! Winning Caption and Winner’s Name Will Be Published Next Week. Send in your captions at editor@parsi-times.com by 12th April 2023. [otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Disclaimer: Some of our ‘Caption This’ Contest photos are taken from freely available, public online resources and are published in a light and humorous…
The Padma Awards 2023 were conferred on 6th April, 2023, at a Civil Investiture Ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi. President of India, Droupadi Murmu, who had approved the conferment of 106 Padma awards on the eve of this year’s Republic Day, awarded the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awards. In…
10th April, 2023 (Roj-Jamyad, Mah-Ava) marks the 192nd birth anniversary of one of the most popularly worshipped and pious Zoroastrian saints – Dasturji Jamshed Sohrab Kukadaru Saheb – who was known to possess spiritual powers/potency known as ‘Amal’, which empowered him to perform extraordinary feats, which we know as ‘miracles’. Even today, many of the…
Table Tennis legend, Burjor Khambatta, (popularly called Baji), who created much upsets with his defensive style of play, shocked the table-tennis fraternity when he passed away of a cardiac arrest, on 5th April, 2023, after a brief illness. Born on 2nd June, 1935, ‘Baji uncle’, as he was fondly known, came into prominence in the…
Significance Of The Nowruz Table [otw_shortcode_info_box border_type=”bordered” border_style=”bordered” border_color=”#00″] Noshir Dadrawala, scholar in Zoroastrian religion and culture, responds to queries sent in by readers seeking answers to various religious and cultural queries [/otw_shortcode_info_box] Query From Parsi Times reader, Abraham Mansouri from Iran: “I am an Iranian and interested to know the relation of…
WAPIZ (World Alliance of Parsi Irani Zarthoshtis), one of the community’s foremost non-profit organisations, dedicated to community-service, has announced the launch of its latest project – ‘WAPIZ Helping Hands For Seniors’, in support of the community’s elderly. A much needed and welcome initiative for the community, ‘Helping Hands’ has been conceptualized and brought to…