Avoid Herd Mentality While Investing

Avoid Herd Mentality While Investing

ByMarzee Kerawalla

[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…

SII Registers COVID Vaccine Trial

SII Registers COVID Vaccine Trial

ByPT Reporter

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….

Astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala Named Dean Of MIT School Of Science

Astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala Named Dean Of MIT School Of Science

ByPT Reporter

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,…

Cawas Sorabji Panthaki – A Tribute

Cawas Sorabji Panthaki – A Tribute

ByKersi Jamshed Randeria

[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…

WINNERS OF NEW YEAR SPECIAL ISSUE CONTEST

WINNERS OF NEW YEAR SPECIAL ISSUE CONTEST

ByPT Reporter

[otw_shortcode_info_box border_type=”border-top-bottom” border_style=”bordered” border_color=”#f932fc” background_color=”#dbfff9″] We thank all our lovely participants for sharing your amazing talents, celebrating the most important and dependable, central figure in our lives – our Pappa! Heartiest Congratulations to our Top Winners and Special Mentions. Winners are requested to pick up their prizes by connecting with PT Office at editor@parsi-times.com [/otw_shortcode_info_box]…

From the Editors Desk

From the Editors Desk

ByAnahita Subedar

Saal Mubarak! Dear Readers, It brings me great pleasure in presenting PT’s Bumper Parsi New Year (Super)Special issue! What makes this issue special is the content, in keeping with the times, which we hope, will bring you smiles and laughter, as it is based on the theme – ‘Celebrating Hope’! Hope – much needed during…

New Year (Without) Fanfare
|

New Year (Without) Fanfare

ByVeera Shroff Sanjana

[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] 2020 could very well have turned out to be every Parsi’s worst nightmare. Right now, in this virus-filled bleak world, the word ‘celebration’…

A Heart With Hope Finds Happiness!
| | |

A Heart With Hope Finds Happiness!

ByKashmira Shaw Raj

[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”] Kashmira Shaw Raj is a professional Taichi and Qigong practitioner and teacher. Also, a successful clinical psychologist, psychic and healer, Kashmira runs ‘The Tai-Qi Touch’ with her husband, Dr. Brijesh Raj, a healer and a Vet. Taichi practitioners for over fourteen years now, they are instructors in Sifu Carlton Hill’s Tao Taichi Qi…

Celebrating Hope In The Baugs!
|

Celebrating Hope In The Baugs!

ByRuby Lilaowala

Hope burns eternal within the heart. As Eruchshaw Einstein says, as long as there’s hope – well, there’s hope!! So, I’ll tell you some tales from our Baugs on HOPE! (What else?) In our prominent South Bombay walu Cusrow baug, there is this70-year-old frustrated spinster, called Alamai Banga, who has high hopes of finding a bakro to saprao, and…