Kersi Randeria Quashes Spread Of Misinformation / Lies On Social Media

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“It pains and surprises me in equal measure, that over the past couple of days, yet again, our common enemy – the ill-wishers of our Community – seem to be spreading their usual brand of fabrications and bilge… at probably the most crucial period of our lifetimes! As the Pandemic ravages the world with death, illness and economic destruction, we have realised, that as a small knit community there is no more important a time than now to stay united in this global fight against the deadly virus.

To create discord, yet again they have started spreading completely false rumours about Noshir Dadrawala and myself. I do not wish to dignify their vile attempts by mentioning their lies, but this much needs to be told, in my capacity as a Trustee of the BPP, as I believe I am answerable to my community. 

The lockdown seems to have seriously increased the scope of the idle minds of the jobless, and whose only real career is to engineer malicious falsehoods and then misuse the social media to misinform and deceive the public. Last week, Dinshaw Mehta and his jobless cronies had spread malicious messages, accusing me of trying to use my own publication, Parsi Times, to promote myself! His totally baseless and usual off-the-mark allegation is for all Parsi Times readers and the community to see, in keeping with my pronounced and purposeful absences from featuring in it.

However, I have been left with little choice other than resorting to reach out to my community members to call the bluff and the lies, via Parsi Times – something that I rarely do, in keeping with the fact that I founded the publication; and for nine years now, it has continued to more than justify its raison d’être as the unbiased news provider and the voice of the community, working in absolute journalistic independence from ownership. 

While I wish to negate and take to task the malicious and crass attempts of this Ex-BPP Chairman and his cronies, I would like to mention that I hold his son, and my colleague Trustee, Viraf Mehta, in high esteem, for working shoulder to shoulder with the BPP Board and collectively working towards the good of the Community, through this calamitous time. 

I understand that as a BPP Trustee, I am to deliver my responsibilities on two levels – Collectively, as a team-member of the BPP Board; and Individually, as your elected Trustee, who you entrusted your faith in. In keeping with the latter, I have increasingly been urged to enhance my availability and connect with community members. I now fully intend to keep in touch with the community through Parsi Times and I also encourage my colleagues to do so, if they wish, and together, we could make a concerted effort to reach out regularly to the community through Parsi Times. 

As I continue to serve the community to the best of my abilities, I invite all community members to directly mail me with any queries, suggestions, grievances or feedback, at kersijranderia@gmail.com .”