Times of India
Mount Abu tale
A K Sharma4 December 2009, 10:37pm IST

Parsee thy name is charity! It sums up Parsees everywhere, Mount Abu being no exception.

The British trusted them to the extend that they not only honoured one of  them with the title of Khansahib but when Khansahib Dhanjibhai Sorabji Contractor suffered a heavy loss in government work then, the appreciative British compensated him with a residential gift, at present housing St. Joseph School, run by his descendants.

One name comes up with wonder and disbelief; it is of Jamshedji Sethna. He was loved as king of Mount Abu for his magnanimity and lavish lifestyle. Alas, fate took turn for the worse, and he became a pauper and was shifted to Nariman House in Surat by well meaning Parsees of the time, where he breathed his last. Before he came to the sad penury he was the proud owner
of Jacaranda Hotel, housed in the present day Palanpur Palace. He was also supplier to the army cantonment of Mount Abu then and had an army canteen too.

Another distinguished name of the time and contemporary of Sethna was Hormazji Merwanaji. A generous soul and a wise entrepreneur, who not only ran Rajputana Hotel, now housing the hostel for ISA (Indian Security Academy), but was responsible for the first bus service between Abu Road and Mount Abu, managed by his deputy, Pestanji. Merwanji contributed for the welfare of the town profusely, that his name plaque till date is still in
“Adam’s Hospital”, currently known as Government Hospital. His wife, Khoorshed Bano, an archangel of the visually challenged, did not lag behind, and after her husband’s demise donated her sprawling bungalow to National Association for the Blind.

Mount Abu’s own Jim Corbet, the pocket sized dandy, Darak Shah Modi, was a brave shot and a hunter, who had shot tigers when they became man-eaters. He was the PA to the agent to the Governor General of India in Rajputana and a great help to many.

It was the same time when Boman Barucha had a well stocked provision store providing the best in the town to all. He too later branched out, indeed with ?lan, in hotel business in 1951, and till recently, whosoever talked about well run hotel in Mount Abu, the name of his hotel, the Mount Hotel, was always taken with admiration.

Moti Shah, another legendary Parsee figure is remembered with great love, affection and respect. He was looking after the electric supply to the town before the present Government Electric Department. People nostalgically recollect, “In Moti Shah’s time there was no load shedding, not even for a minute”.

Many Parsee names are nothing but nostalgia, and the grand parties with the British are long over, but the handful of Parsees left to celebrate Peteti at Mount Abu are still keeping the glory of their community alive and while preserving it well are one with the natives, like sugar in water!

Courtesy : Maneck Bhujwala,

Orange County, Southern California

Attached is a short article on Eduljee Sorabjee, who settled in Los Angeles in 1885 and lived there until his death in 1913.  Sorabji moved to Los Angeles on the advice of his doctor and also since he had “a liking for liberty and equality and a republican form of government.”  According to the article, he was the “god-son” of Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, one of the great cotton mill magnates of late 19th century Bombay. 

The article comes from the Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California, 1914, available in full
view on GoogleBooks.  If you haven’t already used GoogleBooks, definitely do so — it is a fantastic tool for finding information on Parsis, or just about anything else, from books which are no longer in copyright (before 1920s)!

Click here to read the article …. Barrows, H.D. – Sorabjee the Parsee_(of Los Angeles)

Courtesy : Dinyar Patel, Boston, Massachussetts.

India’s new Drone airplane named after a Zarathushti and a college friend, Rustom B. Damania
 
 Friends,
I

t is a proud event to know that India’s new Drone aircraft
(remote controlled unmanned aircraft) developed by DRDO and that will be
used by India’s armed services, was named RUSTOM, to honor the memory of a
Pasi Zarathushti, the late Prof. Rustom B. Damania, who led the team of
engineers that developed the Light Canard Research Aircraft at the National
Aeronautics Laboratory in India in the 1980s.

I lived with Rustom Damania and a couple other Parsi students in a Parsi
lady’s bungalow in Baroda for a short time in 1959-1960, when we were all
studying at the Engineering college over there. While he joined the Air wing
of the National Cadet Corps, I joined the Rifles unit of NCC. He used to
ride a blue NSU motorcycle (which used the Wankel rotary engine like that
used by Mazda cars). Rustom studied aeronautical engineering in the USA and
then returned to India and worked at the National Aeronautics Laboratory and
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited on research projects, and established a
distinguished record of accomplishments.

Rustom also worked as a consultant internationally, before he was diagnosed
with a blood desease. I had offered to donate my bone marrow during a phone
conversation with him (as I was a registered bone marrow donor), and Dolly
Malwa in S. California, had offered to arrange for his stay in California
while undergoing treatment, but he decided not to be a financial burden on
his family, and sadly passed away in 2001. I performed prayers for him
together with another priest as requested by his brother Ardeshir Damania
who is a professor at U.C. Davis in N. California. Rustom also has another
brother Minocheher Damania who lives in India.

Following is an article about this naming of the Drone aircraft as “Rustom”
with a picture of the aircraft that is available on Wikipedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustom

Regards,
Maneck Bhujwala

Jehangir Mehta is the executive chef and owner of New York City restaurant Graffiti. He is also the author of the 2008 HarperCollins cookbook “Mantra: The Rules of Indulgence,” offers a cooking class at his restaurant for children 4-14 called “Candy Camp” designed to build interest in more diverse foods, hosts exclusive in-home dinner parties and runs an event planning company.

He’s a creative genius, one of the hardest working men in the food biz, eloquent and also truly a nice guy. A visit to his restaurant Graffiti will confirm it all.

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Express News Service Posted: Oct 28, 2009 at 0337 hrs

 Pune On Infantry Day on Tuesday Pune got a monument in honour of Field Marshal SHFJ Manekshaw, near the Southern Command headquarters, which was inaugurated in the morning by Lt Gen Pradeep Khanna, Army Commander and General-Officer-Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command.

More …Always standing tall_Sam Manekshaw

 Courtesy : Cyrus Bulsara

My father was born in Bombay and attended The Sir J.J.P.B Institution and was to be the highest amongst those who passed The S.S.C.Examination in 1953. He subsequently went on to achieve a 1st Class Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Bombays Technical Instute for Science and Technology. He was awarded a full honorary Scholarship from The ex-students Jubilee fund to further his studies at London’s Imperial College of Science and Technology during which time he worked alongside Professor D.B.Spalding CBE in the field of Heat Transfer and Rocket Combustion from 1958 to 1961 and was  later awarded The Prestigious DIC ( The Diploma of ‘ Membership’ of The Imperial College ). He later went on to become a Senior Architect at The World Most illustrious Car Giant Rolls Royce & Bentley Motors UK Ltd. Three months prior to his death he was due to be appointed Head of Aerospace ( Civil & Defence ) Archtectural Engineering and Design at Rolls Royce’s Aerospace Divisional HQ in Crew. Sadley he passed away due to heart failure in 1978 aged just 44 years. Deeply missed.

Your Sincerely

His Beloved Son

Neville Cawas Cyrus Bardoliwalla BSc (Hons), MCMI

DNA
05/09/2009

“Ratan Tata pampers his cars”
 
Mumbai: He’s got a thing for cars, and it often teeters on the brink of fanaticism. His partners in crime — Gautam Singhania, John Abraham and Jai Mehta — occasionally try to outdo him on that count. But if anyone wins hands down over them all in terms of pure passion for cars, says Hormazd Sorabjee, it is another Parsi gentleman who goes by the name of Ratan Tata.

“There’s this popular perception about Parsi car lovers and I can’t think of anyone who exemplifies it more fully than Ratan Tata,” says Hormazd, the editor of Autocar. His meeting with the doyen of Indian industry who has pioneered the Nano with one hand and picked up Jaguar and Land Rover with the other, was a revelation of sorts.
 
“He just pampers his cars. His level of attachment with his beautiful machines — though he’s a little partial to his Ferrari and Cadillac — is almost astonishing to see, given his forever jam-packed schedule. He makes it a point to take them out himself for drives on Sundays whenever he can. And he treats them so gently, it’s a delight to watch,” says Hormazd, who’s just as keenly watching the developments in F1, particularly the fluid situation within Force One and the move to bring the sport to India.
 
Giancarlo Fisichella, who raced Force One to its first podium finish, displayed even faster speed in defecting to Ferrari. But what really concerns Hormazd is the lack of Indian drivers in the sport. “For every sport, you need a hero. People don’t cheer machines, they cheer the driver. I still feel Narain Karthikeyan is the best we have — no one’s even a close second to him.”
 
In fact, the move to bring F1 to India so soon, feels Sorabjee, could be a mistake. “I agree with Sports Minister Ms Gill’s view that Formula One is an elitist sport we can do without. Wherever they tried force feeding it to the public like in China and Turkey, it flopped. We first need to develop a culture for motor racing and then look to bring Formula One,” he says.
 
Courtesy : Kersi Limathwalla

In the past two articles we wrote parts of his memories and today we are writing another part of the memories of the selected world businessman.  Our intention is not to esteem a particular person but to take him as an example of a man who was born poor but with his own perseverance he gained international credit.

Click Here for his story in his own words….

A safe haven for people who transcend boundaries. 

Thursday, August 20, 2009

By : Farida Master

 I have always believed that emigrants are a bunch of terribly brave people. To begin with, they are ready to commit professional suicide in exchange of a mouthful of sky and are willing to transcend boundaries and divorce their close-knit families back home for a lungful of fresh air. Starting from scratch, suffering from an identity crisis, coping with a huge dent in their self-esteem when they grab the first job available, adjusting to cultural differences in the way they dress, speak and present themselves, the list is endless…

Click here for more …. The Parsiana Lodge

Courtesy : Rusi J Mistry

Dadadabhai Naoroji

1825-1917
President – Calcutta, 1886, Lahore, 1893; Calcutta, 1906

Dadabhai Naoroji was born in Bombay in September 4, 1825 in a priestly Parsi family. As a consequence of his outstanding performance at the Elphinstone College, Dadabhai obtained the Clare Scholarship. He became a graduate in 1845. In 1916, he as awarded the Honorary degree of LL.D. by the Bombay University.

Click here to read more : Dadadabhai Naoroji

Courtesy : Mehernosh Fitter

Sir Pherozeshah Mehta

(1845-1915)
President – Calcutta, 4 1890

Sir Pherozeshah Mehta was born in Bombay, on August 4, 1845, where he spent the greater part of his life. His father, Merwanji Mehta, belonged to a family of merchants. Pherozeshah entered the Lincoln’s Inn in 1864 and spent three years qualifying himself. Called to the Bar in 1868, he left for home in September 1868. While in England, he used to frequent the house of Dadabhai Naoroji, and these visits were to remain important influences in moulding his liberal outlook.

Click here for More Sir Pherozeshah Mehta 

Courtesy : Mehernosh Fitter

Dinshaw EduIji Wacha

(1844-1936)
President – Calcutta, 1901

Dinshaw Edulji Wacha was born in Bombay on August 2, 1844 in a middle class Parsi family. He worked in close association with Dadabhai Naoroji and Pherozeshah Mehta in the Congress and was active in both social reform and educational fields and in political activities.

Click here to read More… Dinshaw EduIji Wacha

Courtesy : Mehernosh Fitter

K.F.Keravala :

“I have heard him being called an eccentric genius, talent gone wild, even crazy- but he was not crazy, it’s the world around him that was! Here was humanity personified, art and expression exemplified, in a normal, humble, down to earth Parsi gentleman, who wore simple old clothes and possessed a wealth of mind and intellect, that would humble the most enterprising and exactiong philosopher” – Amrutlal Thakker; a close friend of Nari Gandhi.

These words sum up Nari Gandhi’s personality. Every person who was in any sort of contact with Nari Gandhi always had one thing to say that he was first and foremost a complete human being and thereafter a brilliant architect. Nariman (Nari) Dossa Gandhi was born on 2 nd January 1934 Surat, India into a Zorastrian Parsi family from Bombay. He was one of the six children with three brothers & two sisters.

Nari completed his schooling at St.Xavier’s School (V.T) and thereafter joined Sir.J.J. School of Architecture in Mid Fifties. He was brilliant in college. He was an enigma to his professors, who didn’t know what to make of it. Few were equipped to understand his work at that time. Nari completed 5 years at Sir. J.J. School of Architecture.

Nari Gandhi cut a rather surprising figure. Tall, heavy built with a gentle white moustache matching his white khadi kurta and pyjama, a liking for leather kolhapuri chappals, he always carried a cloth bag (jhola) with him. He appeared to be more a restful old Parsi Gentleman rather than the immensely gifted architect. He led a very Spartan life-Spartan life-style, had no vices-no smoking, drinking, or women in his life. He did not even have tea or coffee. He was a pure vegetarian since the age of eight and this is quite surprising considering that he was a Parsi. “Every Saturday was fasting day for Nari Gandhi. He ate only on Sunday at lunchtime after this prayer. He had a certain sparkle in his eyes and radiance in his face”.

“He was so utterly simple until you happened to glance at his face; he had the most radiant face you ever saw; it glowed with happiness, knowledge, realization, it was an absolute face.” Nari Gandhi was a very pious man and he prayed at the Fire Temple regularly.

Nari Gandhi loved his mother intensely and they shared a unique relationship. His close friend Amritlal Thakker says, “He had a beautiful relationship with his mother having heard his phone conversations and seen them together- they were vibrant, youthful and full of life”.

Nari Gandhi had this natural ability of affecting other people’s lives. This he did purely by his simplicity.

A person from Parsi Colony, Dadar, Mumbai ( Bombay) says, “How could one understand a man who had so many dimensions, so much genius, who was so sensitive and magnanimous? When one met him- even in Kurta pyjama he looked majestic-one was at a total loss because all ones stereotypes regarding work, relationship, life, religion, beauty- which one had carefully nurtured over the years- failed completely. The generosity, clarity and intensity of his thoughts shocked one into silence. One felt one had finally met an individual- as indivisible, unfragmented, complete, whole- who was refreshingly new, fearless and very divorced from the ugly, mean and petty side of life. In a world of mediocrity, half-truth and lies, he was the complete truth, a genius, a noble man. He gave us a glimpse of the other side of life which dances which sings, which cares and is pure.”

Nari Gandhi had never thought ill of anyone. “He was so emotional and young at heart, he sat in my office and joked and laughed about little things and wept for the world and the country- I have never witnessed such concern for humanity.”
(for more please click the hyperlink given below)

http://www.architectnarigandhi. org/

Architect Nari Gandhi: Monograph :

http://parsikhabar. net/a-monograph- on-the-works- of-nari-gandhi/

arZan Wadia :

As a fellow architect, I have followed Nari Gandhi’s work since i was a first year architecture student in Bombay in 1992. He is probably India’s most un-sung of architects. Not in the mould of Charles Correa, B V Doshi or even Hafeez Contractor.

He trained with Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1950’s till FLW died in 1969 (I could be wrong about the exact period). It is said that FLW….then the greatest architect of the modern era wrote a letter to Nari’s mother in which he says….that if someone asked FLW to design in stone, he would point them to Nari. That, coming from FLW is the highest compliment an architect can get.

Nari returned to India and was an architect’s architect. A recluse, he was an “artist” in all the senses of the word. He treated architecture as an artist treats his canvas. Most clients never knew how their finished product (houses usually) would look like till they were built. I can go on with more stories like that.

The parsi angle is also very interesting.

He used to wear a khadi white kurta pyjama. And always had our “bhanvani” topee on his head. He used to pray regularly at the Vatcha Gandhi Agiary. I know this because I once mentioned his name to my dear friend Marespand Dadachanji whose father Aspandiar is the panthaki at Vatcha Gandhi. He would make Aspandiar do a jashan at every project he completed before the client was allowed to move in or do their own puja etc.

K.F.Keravala :

Late Nari Gandhi was also a regular devotee of the Paak RustomFramna Agiary(Dadar) .As a practice he would come in the night, do his Kushti , pay his respects to the Padshah  Saheb and Paigumber Sahebs Photo frame and then sit on the silently verandah. He would rarely talk to anybody. He would always be dressed in a wornout  Pyjama,Kurta and slippers. He always carried a Jholla(a cotton shoulder bag) with him. Many in the Agiary were suprised to see India’s Topmost architect looking like a astetic.

One of the nicest things to have happened in the city recently, has been the restoration of the portrait of Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, First Baronet, a great son of India.

For this, we have to thank Kekoo Gandhy (of Gallery Chemould and Chemould Frames) for his efforts in initiating the restoration work at the J. J. School of Art, and Hungarian painter Laslo Seres, who did the job with enthusiasm and skill, not charging a cent for it.

This is called a true labour of love, and perhaps no single individual in the history of Bombay city deserves it more than the philanthropic Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, whose entire life was a personification of charity.

Philatelist Vispi S. Dastoor, an illustrious and industrious research scholar of the Parsi community, provides us with the following interesting facts on the life and times of the noble Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, who was born to a poor Parsi family and became an orphan at a very early age. Yet, he left behind a legacy of tremendous compassion and charity for the citizens of Mumbai.

Jamsetjee, the youngest son of cloth weaver Jeejeebhoy and his wife, Jeevibai, was born in the `Yatha Ahu Vairyo Mohalla’ near the Crawford Market in Bombay on July 15, 1783.

He lost his parents early in life, and did not have the blessings of a formal education, something he greatly missed and which prompted to open several boys and girls schools and colleges in the city when he became an affluent man in later years.

But life was hard for the young Jamsetjee. He began as an unschooled apprentice to his uncle, Framji Batlivala (notice the appropriateness of the surname!), who sold empty glass bottles out of a shop at Fort.  During the three years that he worked with his uncle, he obtained his first hand experience of trade and commerce, and also studied Gujarati, English and elementary accountancy by the dint of his own efforts.

Tales of the achievements and exploits of Hirji Readymoney (notice the `bawaji’ surname again!), the first Parsi trader to visit China in 1756, inspired Jamsetjee to undertake a voyage to China himself.  It was the subsequent voyages that brought him immense wealth. Those were the days when widespread smuggling of silk and opium by unscrupulous traders was taking place, but from the beginning, Jamsetjee displayed his integrity. Although he was then only 17 years old, Bombay businessmen extended finance and credit to the extent of Rs. 40,000 (a grand sum in those days), in recognition of the young Parsi’s genius for commerce.

Through hazardous voyages to and fro, he amassed great fortunes, but tragedy struck him on February 18, 1803, when the great fire of Bombay, that burnt half of the Fort area, reduced Jamsetjee’s home and wealth to ashes. During those trying days when hundreds of people were rendered homeless, two Parsi businessmen came to their rescue.  Naoroji Sett opened the doors of his bungalow to house the homeless, and Pestonji Bomanji Wadia gave food to hundreds at his palace at Parel.

Jamsetjee was not one to cower under misfortune. He undertook his voyages to China again, and made good his losses. By the age of 40, he had made over two crore rupees, a staggering sum in those days.  Further riches came to him from cotton trade during the Napoleonic Wars. He bought his own fleet of ships. Said Lord Elphinstone, then Governor of Bombay, of Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, ‘By strict integrity, by industry and punctuality in all his commercial transactions, he contributed to raise the character of the Bombay merchant in the most distant markets.’

All along, Jamsetjee’s partner was his uncle with whom he began his humble career as a bottle-seller, Framjee Batlivala, whose daughter, Avabai, became Jamsetjee’s wife when he was 20, and she ten. They enjoyed wedded bliss for 56 years, had seven sons and three daughters, of which four sons and two daughters died in infancy.

After the death of his uncle (and father-in-law) Jamsetjee took Motichand Amichand and Mohomedali Rogay as his partners in the firm Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and Co., and their efforts were enormously successful.

Side by side with his business activities, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy undertook several charitable projects, all of a cosmopolitan nature.  He spent Rs. 1,45,403 to set up the Sir J. J. Dharamshala at Bellasis Road, and till today innumerable old and destitute people receive free food, clothing, shelter and medicines. All their needs for the past 150 years, irrespective of caste, creed or religion, have been looked after by the Dharamshala, the first free home for the elderly in Asia.

Jamsetjee later founded the J. J. Hospital and the Grant Medical College (named after his friend Sir Robert Grant, then Governor of Bombay). He also instituted, for a sum of Rs. 18,000, the Sir J.J. Books, Prizes and Medals Fund in order to encourage medical students, and in 1851, for the benefit of poor women, he opened the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Obstretics Institution.

Before 1845, there was no land communication between Bandra and Mahim and people had to be ferried over the Mahim Creek. It was dangerous, and during the monsoons, countless people would lose their lives on dubious and unreliable ferry services. Jamsetjee spent Rs. 1,55,800 in order to build the Mahim Causeway, that was justly named after his wife, Lady Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy. Not only did it save countless lives, but even today, it is a boon to all of us who live in the suburbs.

Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy had to his credit 126 notable public charities, including the Sir J. J. School of Arts, the Sir J. J. School of Architecture, the Sir J. J. School of Commercial Art. As his fame spread, the residents of Poona approached him to build a bund in order to contain the raging waters of the Mulla and Mutha rivers, and the kind man obliged.

He built wells and tanks all over Bombay, hospitals and schools in Surat and Navsari, Agiaries in Bombay and Poona. His charity was not just confined to human beings. He contributed Rs. 80,000 to a Panrapole for animals, distributed money for the feeding of stray dogs, built water places for cattle and horses.

For all his good work, he became the first Indian upon whom Knighthood was conferred. Queen Victoria conferred baronetcy on the first Indian knight, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy who was 74-years-old at that time. He died two years later, and never before and never after Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy has Bombay had a son with such a large heart. His charities alone are estimated at over Rs.100 crore, God bless his soul.

The reason we are telling his story in such detail is that, perhaps, it just might inspire some other young man or young woman who could emulate the example of this poor orphan who made a fortune and disbursed it amongst his fellow citizens.

Yes, Bombay, in the next millennium, needs another Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy.

 Courtesy : Cyrus Aga

Noshir Dadrawalla has been invited by The International Center for Not-For-Profit Law (ICNL) to join their Advisory Council.

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Tribute to Ervad Eruchshah Karkaria by Ervad Marzban J. Hathiram

The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. One of the new members is Dr. Dinshaw J Patel, 67, US Citizen of Indian Origin, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Chair in Experimental Physics, and member, structural biology program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City.

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Given in the attachment is Late Dasturji Dr.Hormuzdiar K Mirza’s opinion of “Ustad Saheb Behramshah N Shroff and His Disciples”.

The article (“The Zoroastrian Religious Studies”) has appeared in “Ardeshir B Homavazir Memorial Volume”, from page 71 to 76 , printed in 1971.

This will help students who want to study about the occult side of our religion.

Click the link to read the article ….. Behramsha N Shroff-Dr.H D K Mirza

Courtesy : K F Keravala

In his first art show, adman Freddy Birdy prefers the mild mortifications of everyday wit.

THE FIRST THING you see when you enter Freddy Birdy’s first show of paintings is an enormous white canvas with a glossy haired brunette suspended sexily upside down, as if she’s being poured out of the giant Heinz ketchup bottle in the top right corner. Her scarlet lingerie echoes the McDonald’s red of the cartons in the other corner, from which bunches of fries sprout like slightly surreal flowers. The label reads, “Your proximity to a McDonald’s is far greater than your proximity to love.” In another painting, Superman rises in his famous underwear-worn-over-tights, against a background of Rupa briefs in Indian comic book colours.

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Click here to see his works in the exhibition

NINTH WORLD ZOROASTRIAN CONGRESS

WZC2009 – DUBAI

 DECEMBER 28-JANUARY 1, 2010

HAVE YOU REGISTERED?

WE ARE FORTUNATE IN NORTH AMERICA TO HAVE DISTINGUISHED ZARATHUSHTIS WHO HAVE EXCELLED IN THEIR FIELDS OF

EXPERTISE AND IN COMMUNITY WORK

THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO RECOGNIZE THEM,  TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD. 

 NOMINATE THEM FOR  ANY OF THE FIVE AWARDS WHICH WILL BE

PRESENTED IN A DAZZLING CEREMONY DURING THE CONGRESS  

Nominations to be sent to wzcawards@gmail.com on or before 31 March 2009. (DEADLINE TO BE EXTENDED  till May 2009) 

DOLLY DASTOOR AND  SHERNAZ JOSHI 

Representatives for the awards in North America

Category A – Outstanding Zarathushti Award :

To recognize a Zarathushti who has made outstanding and well-recognized contributions to further the cause of Zarathushtis regionally and internationally through outstanding leadership and service.  Such contributions could include setting up of Community Organizations, promoting Zarathushti Philosophy, Culture and advancing social and humanitarian causes.

To recognize a Zarathushti who has excelled in the field of performing arts (dance, music and drama) or painting or literature and whose achievements have been recognized by peers within the country of residence and internationally.

To recognize a Zarathushti who has identified a local community need or issue and has provided effective initiative to inspire and pioneer meaningful change. He/she is recognized as a source of strength and heart in her community, and harnesses the time, talent and capacity of others. Minimum service 5 years. 

To recognize a Zarathushti who is dedicated to the advancement of Technological, engineering or industrial discovery or application. Whose efforts have forged new roles for people and created opportunities for future generations in such fields as Engineering, Natural Resources and Information Technology.

To recognize a Zarathushti who is dedicated to the advancement of Medicine. Whose efforts have forged new roles for people and created opportunities for future generations in the field of Medicine. 

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

The G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Enginering    
Manufacturing Research Center (MARC), Room 262
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0405

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YOUNG PARSEE ACHIEVEMENT, worth mentioning.

Click on the links below to go to the page:

http://www.wheelsun plugged.com/ ViewNews. aspx?newsid= 2787
 
http://www.marutisu zuki.com/ Zubin-Antalia- is-Maruti- Suzuki-Autocar. aspx

http://www.thehindu .com/holnus/ 001200903080382. htm

Courtesy : Zubin /  Pervin Antalia

HERE IS INFORMATION THAT ALL ZOROASTRIANS SHOULD READ AND THEN PASS DOWN TO THEIR  CHILDREN and on to posterity…. Rusi Sorabji
Tatas have made Zoroastrians proud, by truly living, by the tenets of our religion, Good Thoughts, Good Words & Good Deeds
This is a fantastic compilation on the House of Tatas forwarded to me by Rattan Suderwalla, the information therein originating from The Tata Power Co. Ltd.

There is a difference between making money for oneself and creating wealth for others. This is the story of a business house that has created wealth for a nation. It is a story of struggle, anxiety, adventure and achievement. This is the story of our fathers.

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