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FEZANA JOURNAL PASSING the BATON to the NEXT GENERATION Is Sponsored By With Best Compliments From The Incorportated Trustees Of the Zoroastrian Charity Funds of Hong Kong, Canton & Macao FEZANAJOURNAL www.fezana.org Vol 32 No 2 Summer / Tabestan 1387 AY 3756 Z PUBLICATION OF THE FEDERATION OF ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA - CONTENT- Editor in Chief Dolly Dastoor, editor(@)fezana.org 02 Editorial Dolly Graphic & Layout Shahrokh Khanizadeh, www.khanizadeh.info Dastoor Technical Assistant Coomie Gazdar Consultant Editor Lylah M. Alphonse, lmalphonse(@)gmail.com 03 Message from the President Language Editor Douglas Lange ; Deenaz Coachbuilder Cover Design Feroza Fitch, ffitch(@)lexicongraphics.com 04 FEZANA update Publications Chair Behram Pastakia, bpastakia(@)aol.com Marketing Manager Nawaz Merchant [email protected] World Zarthushti Shazneen Rabadi Gandhi rabadis(@)gmail.com Community Awards Columnists Teenaz Javat: teenazjavat(@)hotmail.com Page 10 MahrukhMotafram: mahrukhm83(@)gmail.com Copy Editors Vahishta Canteenwalla Yasmin Pavri Nazneen Khumbatta Subscription Managers Arnavaz Sethna: ahsethna(@)yahoo.com Kershaw Khumbatta: Arnavaz Sethna(@)yahoo.com 20 Passing the Tir – Amordad- Shehrever 1387 AY (Fasli) Behman –Spendarmad 1387 AY, Fravardin 1388 AY (Shahenshahi) Baton to the Spendarmad 1387 AY, Fravardin Ardibehesht 1388 AY (kadimi) next generation 60 Return to Roots 66 In the News Cover design: Feroza Fitch of Lexicongraphics 76 Personal Profile 78 Milestones 81 Obituary Opinions expressed in the FEZANA Journal do not necessarily reflect the views of FEZANA or members of the editorial board. All submissions to the FEZANA JOURNAL become the 85 Books and Arts property of the publication and may be reproduced in any form. 91 List of Associations Published at Regal Press, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada FEZANA Journal Vol 32, No 2 ISSN 1068-2376 WINTER 2018 (USPS 021-495) published quarterly by FEZANA 8615 Meadowbrook Dr., Burr PARADIGM SHIFT IN Ridge, IL 60527. Periodical postage rate is paid at Oakbrook, IL 60523 and at PRIESTLY SERVICES additional mailing offices. Annual subscription US $35 (US and Canada) and $80 GUEST EDITOR (air) for other countries; details on subscription form. POSTMASTER: send changes ERVAD ARDA VIRAF to Fezana Journal, 8615 Meadowbrook Drive, Burr Ridge, IL 60527. MINOCHERHOMJEE EDITORIAL PASSING THE BATON In this issue we also see the achievements of two outstanding young people (page 67) which make us proud.There must be many whom we do not know of, please bring them to our attention. lanning , developing and executing each issue of the FEZANA Journal is a pleasure, but the summer 2018 The months of April and June saw a lot of Zoroastrian P st issue was particularly pleasurable and exciting because activity. The 31 Annual General meeting of FEZANA it was executed entirely by the young adults of the next took place at California Zoroastrian Centre, in Los generation, living up completely to the theme “ Passing the Angeles on April 27-29, 2018, hosted by the California Baton to the Next Generation”. The issue is very ably guest Zoroastrian Centre and the Zoroastrian Association edited by Sanaya Master of New Zealand who spearheaded of California. The celebratory Jashan was performed the World Zoroastrian Youth Leaders Forum at the Asha by Mobeds and Mobedyars male and female. Rooky Centre in England., where 20 young adults met, discussed Fitter was elected the new treasurer of FEZANA. and bonded for 10 days and came up with an action plan. Read all about their personal experience as related by them. The 11th World Zoroastrian Congress brought together 330 delegates to Perth, Australia, the first time the adult World In this issue we also have the narratives of the participants congress was organized in the Southern hemisphere. For of the third Return to Roots program.We read of their the first time Zarthushtis from Iraqi Kurdistan attended the amazement and disbelief of the transformational experiences congress and gave us a first hand impression of the hard they had in visiting Mumbai, and parts of Gujarat where life for a Zarthushti in a Muslim dominated Iraqi Kurdistan. it all began for the Parsis who came to India fleeing Community awards were given out to well deserving persecution from the Muslims.. I was fortunate to interact individuals. (page 11) The congress was preceded by and travel with this group when they were in Udvada the meeting of the Global Working Group where current and Navsari. To see their passion and compassion visiting global issues pertaining to our community were discussed. the seniors in the Senior Citizen’s residence or in the We are saddened by the loss of an intellectual giant infirmaries, reaffirmed my faith that we have nurtured and a great friend of the community Prof John Hinnels, a reliable, dependable generation of whom we can be and the other, a giant in the diplomatic field of proud. We must have done something right and been good Pakistan and the UN, Ambassador Jamshed Marker. role models and now we can sit back, relax and hand the reins over to the next generation. They are ready, I end on a very optimistic note for the future able and willing, an outstanding calibre of young minds. of the community, the next generation is ready and burning for change in the community and they will Handing over, losing control is hard. Constantly worrying bring the paradigm shift which we are all waiting for. if somebody else will be able to do the job as well as we did is natural, but it is better to hand over gracefully . rather than wait till power and authority are snatched away from us. We are not going to fade away in the sunset, but we can and should be like the bright guiding star showing them the way when asked, offering them advice when asked. The operative word is “when asked”!! FEZANA Journal 2 Summer 2018 Homi Gandhi, President EDITORIAL Zarathushtris, is your Glass half full or half empty ? concerns the mobedyari: is hereditary for our seniors, offer medical and other a mandatory criterion for becoming a critical assistance when needed? mobed? Can women become mobeds? FEZANA has been focused on These are not unimportant questions, these issues. We have sponsored and taking a stand on them as a Congresses, supported businesses via community is a complex undertaking, the WZCC, and continued to enlarge especially since the character and our scholarships and critical assistance concerns of our communities are offerings. Beyond the community, different. Moreover, our communities we have supported new initiatives are not monolithic. But community such as the World Zoroastrian Youth orn in an ancient oral tradition, leaders should not get bogged down Leadership Forum, Zoroastrians BZoroastrian discourse has evolved in the complexity of the task. They Without Borders and many interfaith past even paper discussion and record- should study the issues, resolve activities, and for years, we have keeping to a speedy, digitized universe. them, and move on to matters that facilitated our community’s As such, it has become more readily have real life consequences. Where participation at the United Nations. available to everyone in the community, different communities come to which is a double-edged sword. Social different conclusions on the same North American Zarathushtris would media and other communications tools questions, one should not assume that have it no other way. We are a vibrant, are used to spread knowledge, but this indicates a division… it merely growing community. 15 of the 26 also unfounded arguments. They can indicates a disagreement. As with our FEZANA member associations now be used by influencers to buoy a personal relationships, a friendship have the privilege of owning their community’s spirits or sow seeds of among communities that insists upon own Community Centers with a place discontent, to create unity or deepen agreement isn’t worth its name. It of worship in each. The community division. is important to note that often our provides generously for its brethren disagreements are about rituals and when times are tough. The community When people consume this information, traditions, not religiosity. At the end invests in the resurgence of without thought and consideration, of the day, we revere the words of the Zoroastrian Studies in the humanities they can get the impression that our same prophet, and it is our actions and liberal arts departments of various community is marked by irreconcilable in line with his teachings, even more universities in North America, where differences that will undoubtedly so than our beliefs and opinions, that an exuberance of interest in our doom it. But this simply isn’t the case. define us as Zarathushtris. religion from scholars and professors A respectful open discussion, engaged around the world cannot go unnoticed. in responsibly, is not to be feared. What our communities should spend The ability to engage in religious more time on, and leverage modern We must stay this course, view our discourse, even though our community technology for, are issues that affect Zarathushtri glass as half full, rather is dispersed over haft-keshvar zamin, our community in a very real way: Are than half empty, and work towards the is a good thing: it can only benefit us our Chamber of Commerce Chapters stage where our “cup runneth over”. and future generations. around the world promoting excellence in business and industry? Are our Aedun Baad! Aedun Taraj Baad! There are passionate discussions youth being empowered to take on raging on everything from how to leadership roles? Do we raise funds spell Zarathushtra and Zarathushtri to for education scholarship that open the perennial question as to who is a doors for young people to improve Zarathushtri? A pressing issue today their circumstances? Do we provide FEZANA Journal 3 Summer 2018 FEZANA UpdateUpdate 31ST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING FEZANA, APRIL 26-29 2018 HOSTED BY CALIFORNIA ZOROASTRIAN CENTRE, LOS ANGELES, CA From left Zenobia Damania, Fezana administrator; Percy Master Secretary, Houston, Erv Ardaviraf Minocherhomjee, President North Afreed Mistry, Asst Secretary, Toronto, Homi D Gandhi, President, LA, Arzan Wadia, Vice American Mobeds Council, highlighted efforts by President.
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