20th October 2024, saw one of the community’s leading non-profit organisations, the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of India (ZTFI), celebrating 15 glorious years of community service. In typical ZTFI fashion, this major milestone was commemorated by showing gratitude and offering thanks to all their donors, without whose largesse, it would have been challenging for ZTFI to […]
As the curtains are about to come down on my first term as a Trustee, six and a half years down the road… I must admit that I’ve felt a sense of pride, a sense of satisfaction and a certain amount of despair. This will be my final communication with the community marking the end […]
Kersi Randeria, BPP Trustee and Candidate, Founder, Parsi Times This is indeed a momentous year for me – my passion-project, Parsi Times, which I founded with the aim of providing a free and fair voice to our community, completes 11 successful years… Also, I am before you, once again, as a BBP Trustee Candidate. My […]
Hoshang J B Jal Committed as your ‘Full Time Trustee’, assuring unconditional availability all through the week. A meritorious career spanning 35 years in the Indian Civil Service (IRS) as Asst. Commissioner, felicitated with the prestigious Presidential Award for ‘Specially Distinguished Record of Service’. Areas Of Focus: Protection of Sacred Doongerwadi Land; Re-examine and resolve […]
– ‘Building Trust, Rebuilding Credibility’ – Team ‘Committed To Community’ comprises four community stalwarts – Kersi Randeria, Lion Daara Patel, Hoshang Jal and Dr. Adil Malia – who will contest the BPP Elections as one team of like-minded individuals, who ‘think independently but work unitedly’ towards ‘Building Trust’ within the community and ‘Rebuilding Credibility’ of […]
Need To Implement ‘One Trust – One Rule For All Beneficiaries’ Over the past few months, I have been receiving an increasing number of mails and calls from community members who feel “cheated” and “treated unfairly” by the BPP. This is with regard to the unresolved ‘Rs. 750/- increase in Service Charges’ issue, where these […]
Ten years is a long time and yet, it seems like only yesterday when we launched Parsi Times, after much soul-searching, number-crunching and discussions. Much thought and deliberations went into considering whether there was space for one more weekly, given the integral presence of the much respected and sole, princely Parsi newsweekly – Jame Jamshed. […]
As the community enters another year, one is but forced to look back at the last year which unfortunately, has not been a good year for me – as a Trustee, as well as personally. In the last few months, the Trust and the Community, lost a very capable and humane Trustee, my colleague and […]
Two months ago, when I had shared with the community the article titled, ‘The Virus Within’, little did I know how prophetic it would turn out to be. I underestimated the depth of how diseased and vile the agenda of vested interests could be, and am experiencing the unsavoury consequence of standing up against it. […]
On the 10th of June, 2020, the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) wound up its Food Program that it ran for a month and a week… Within a few weeks of the imposed lockdown, even as the BBP’s Helpline fell in place, the BPP struggled with the challenge of providing good, wholesome food to members of […]
Kersi Randeria shares… Dear Friends, Over the past few centuries, many of our earlier generations have served at the forefront of community service via their selfless acts of charity, providing community members with housing, building schools and hospitals, setting up Trusts for the aid of the less fortunate, and so on. They were driven by […]