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RNI NO. MAHBIL/2011/39373:: Regn. No. MH/MR/South-348/2012-14 :: WWW.PARSI-TIMES.COM :: VOL. 2 - ISSUE 23 :: PAGES 24 :: ` 2/- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012 4 17 14 24 5 10 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012 02 Editorial Dear Readers, And so we are here again, at yet another +RUULILF 6DG 7he distinct identity of a consent then why not. man-made impasse. Here we are waging Dear friends, critically dying race existing We would rather waste a war within our Community about Please read page 8 of MID- on its past achieYements time and energy and precious Vulture breeding. Really! In the larger DAY dated 26th September and glory and dismal future money on 9ulture AYiary scheme of things, in the chance that we 2012 and page 12 of Mumbai staring eYery Zoroastrian in knowing fully well that the may survive the next 100 years, is this Mirror dated 26th September his face will be amply clear if project is a waste of time really the speed breaker we want to be 2012. the mind set of the Zoroastrian stuck at? and resources. 7here may 82 year old Homai does not change and adjust be Vultures in future with With a bird’s eye view on the Community across the country Bharucha died when the to time. 7hey know the rot no Zoroastrians to feed on. and a Ànger on the pulse across the world, it is very simple Áoor of a building at 7ardeo has set in due to inÀghting in to see where the problem lies. We might as well put those collapsed. 7he building is the Community which will In most badly managed societies across the world, the resources to better use to giYe owned by a Parsi Charitable ultimately bring it to the point better educational facilities people and the politicians live in two separate worlds. The 7rust. 7he tenants of the of extinction. people need the organized structure to guide them and the building had written many You only haYe to look politicians need the people to manage. Neither can exist in a cocoon of their own. For the people the problems are letters to the 7rustees to around at Parsi NaYjots, small everyday things like rent, food, education which in the repair the building but the weddings and funerals to larger scheme of things deÀne the success and failure of the 7rustees had not repaired the notice the aYerage age of the society. For the politician’s it is about protecting their backs, old building. If any member attendees is Àfty ÀYe and looking approachable and yet being aloof and making changes knows the names of the aboYe. Where will we be thirty that their social strata and their faith-leanings will approve. 7rustees, please let us know. years from today? Producing People never change... they only become more passionate Since the 7rustees knew that more children in this or dispassionate depending on their circumstances. They the building required urgent competitiYe world where time learn to praise others, blame others or even not give a repairs and yet had not carried is at a premium is not practical damn. Politicians on the other hand are evolvers. They out the repairs, can this be no matter what incentiYes are begin as people but end up as different creatures in the called Criminal Negligence doled out. political arena. Some ostriches, some tigers and some even chameleons. As long as there has been society, these general Leading To Death? Can the In eYery religon the priests trends and characteristics of the two groups have moved Police arrest and prosecute the who are male in general haYe forward but only in this circular fashion that deÀnes them. 7rustees for causing the death aired their Yiews, quoting and Our problem really stems from the same structure. We have of an old lady by interpriting texts which were a Community of hopefully 50,000 plus and a political arena Criminal Negligence? Will suitable to the past period of a maximum of a 100 players. However loud our people some lawyer let us know? and not necessarily suitable shout and however hard they try to make their lifetimes the 2f course, the 7rustees to present. Unfortunately 81st Annual Session lifetimes of change, the politicians use bigger and better can say that the 7rust had no they haYe not always guided The Bombay Theosophical microphones. Hence dispassionate attitudes erupt within money to repair the building. the Community through Federation the youth and high handedness and anger erupt within the In that case, according to me, changing times for fear of The 81St Annual Session on politicians. In the circus that ensues every time there is a the 7rustees should haYe losing their dominance. 7he Universal Brotherhood ‘burning Com Issue’ everyone is trying to shout out what they paid from their own pocket to females in eYery Community at Blavatsky Lodge, Mumbai. feel but rarely does their voice travel across the palace walls repair the building. Why do are the worst hit and punished Schedule as follows: in either direction. Sunday 30th September 2012 rich Parsis become 7rustees for their so called sins of Now look at a well managed society, where politicians are 10.15 a.m.: Opening Address by when they are not willing to commission or omission and Chief Guest Shri M. P. Singhal on truly civil servants and people are truly free to celebrate help poor Parsis? the same is in our Community. what earthly lifetimes are about. If you are going to stand in “Development of Compassionate Your comments, please. 7he Panchayat follows suit Nature”. front of the Holy Atash or even a Divo at home, please take Ushta te. fearing the Yote bank and Monday 1st October 2012: 6.15 time to think about where you want to be. Maybe divine p.m.: Annie Besant Lecture by Chief intervention can help do what 50,000 plus of us cannot do Jal Desai. seats. We are supposed to be Guest Shri M. P. Singhal on “Universal when faced with a 100 of them. Brotherhood without Distinction”. 6WRUPLQDWHDFXS a literate and enlightened Please write in and try to keep making the difference. Contact:022-23800422 (4- 7 pm). Dear Editor, Community who stay diYided On another note, our hearts and love go out with utmost Piroja Homi Jokhi’s article on the Yiew point of whether Listing An Approaching Event Is Free! sincerity to the family of Mrs. Homai Bharucha who lost her Submit information by post/delivery life as the Áoor of the Soona Building of the =oroastrian in Parsi times dt. 8-9-12, Storm childre of females married to to 102, Vikas Building, 11 Bank Street, in a teacup is an enlightening males of another Community Fort, Mumbai-1, E-mail: contribute@ Building Fund, Mumbai collapsed. The Parsi Times is not even parsi-times.com or Fax: 66330406. a year old but like most movements, we are picking up the eye opener to the Zoroastrian should be brought into our Include details of event, dates, timings, address, telephone number and entry fee. strength, the knowledge and the courage to make sure that Community if it does not take fold. If the children are willing Deadline for information is Wednesday no one has to go through this ever again. a conscious decision fast. and they haYe the parents 12 p.m. of every week. Parsi Times is a weekly publication available on every POINT TO NOTE: It’s the message, not the messenger you might be mad at! Saturday, all over India. Listings are free Please Note: The opinions expressed in ‘Letters to the Editor’ are those of readers and contributors and do not necessarily express the opinion of our Publication. We reserve only the right to ‘edit for but inclusion cannot be guaranteed due Freyan Tuality’ and the right to not publish letters intended for this section, that we Ànd less than suitable to limited space. For guarantee contact in tone or expression. If anyone has any doubts and issues about the content of the letters, they our advertising department on Monday to [email protected] are requested to contact the individual authors if his/ her details are mentioned. Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on 66330405. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012 Letters to the Editor / Parsi Point 03 NEGLECT OF OUR PEOPLE AND PROPERTIES On Tuesday this week 82 year and support to our existing is seemingly based on old Mrs. Homai Bharucha lost numbers. hypotheses/uncertainties/ her life in an untimely accident To increase our members contradictions/experimental as the Áoor of her room col- our last and only hope is to use of our grounds by lapsed under her bed where allow our own children into outsiders, etc., — all this she was resting. Mrs. Bharu- our own fold. Let them adopt detailed to us with a rider cha lived in Soona Building, their maidan surnames if other indirectly stating ‘no one of the 23 buildings at the Zoroastrian Building )und in surnames are objectionable guarantee on success of this Chikalwadi, Mumbai. to us to maintain our unique experimental project’. Perhaps In a statement to the local Press, Rusi Master, a committee member of the identity. an exercise in futility Tenants Association of the Zoroastrian Building )und said that despite collecting No prophet is going to Wouldn’t it be wise to have Rs.800/- as rent from the residents, the Trustees have ignored the pleas and requests and letters come along in the near future a hassle free, clean efÀcient sent to them by the residents.