. When will things change? Are the Trustees’ egos bigger than the lives of our community members? The Background: Many years ago, there were two sanatoriums for Parsis in Mumbai – the Petit Sanatorium (at Kemps Corner, South Bombay) and the Bhabha Sanatorium (at Band Stand, Bandra). The homeless members of the community moved between […]
. . Founded on the Zoroastrian principles of environmental and social sustainability, The Asha Centre is a haven of serenity that aims at delivering transformative education “to bring about lasting inner, social and environmental change.” In short, the perfect pedestal to host the nineteen excited participants who came in from India, Australia, Canada, Pakistan, the US, […]
In an attempt to help people to learn and gain the various benefits of meditation, ‘Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidhlaya’ will be organising two medication camps at Mount Abu this year. The first session will be held at Shantivan, Abu Road, Mount Abu, from 9th to 14th May, 2018, while the second session shall […]
Asho Zarathushtra is universally regarded as the First Prophet. He was the first to receive Ahura Mazda’s message and yet, there is so little, we, his followers who call ourselves Zoroastrian or Zarathushti know about him. Quite often, we don’t even spell or pronounce his name correctly. Many do not know the names of his […]
Has there been a time when you have woken up and known that something was not going to be right? Or maybe that today was going to be a very important day in your life? People have told me in hindsight that they did not feel ‘right’. They were anxious, on edge, not being able […]
PT: Could you sum up in brief the raging controversy about you allegedly “banning” Jam-e-Jamshed from giving it any more BPP advertisements? YD: I have been primarily looking after the Trust’s finances and working hard with Zarir Bhathena to battle the heavy paucity of funds and liquidity that the BPP is currently undergoing. We have […]
Trustee Armaity Tirandaz was sent a number of questions but chose to maintain a politically correct stand, as under: “My commitment is and will always be to the community’s interest implicitly. I would say that since a sitting trustee is also the owner of your newspaper i.e. Parsi Times, in my opinion it should be […]
PT: You’ve always preferred to stay low key and away from the public eye, much to the ire of your editors. However, during the last elections and the past couple of weeks, your name has been liberally used in the negative context as the owner of PT who’s also a BPP Trustee. Your reaction? KR: […]
PT: The BPP Chairman Yazdi Desai and your three fellow Trustees – Noshir Dadrawala, Zarir Bhathena and Kersi Randeria – have quoted their reason to advertise in Parsi Times (PT) because it makes financial sense since PT publishes the matter for free. Since they wish to save on revenues PT was the obvious choice, especially […]
PT: The ongoing controversies regarding BPP’s housing allotment to Dr. Farokh Master, and the refusal to advertise in the Jam-e-Jamshed (JJ), have taken center-stage in our community over the past couple of weeks. Kindly comment. ZB: The allotment of Dr. Farokh Master’s flat was done way back on the 23rd of March, 2016, as recommended […]
PT: In the past few weeks, there’s been a flurry of messages gone viral on whatsapp and Facebook. Some of these included part rebuttals from you as well. What is your overall take on these controversies? Trustee Noshir H. Dadrawala: There are two main contrived controversies that have been whipped up by a small but […]