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SEPTEMBER 1971 ^L. VII No II • neir medium for old u'isdom f L'J* ¦?-. .Clt •'X ••¦i’ • Price 50 Paise electronic engineer . A 1. E. R. E. (LJ. K.) A. 1. E. E. E.(U.S. A.) A. I. Mar. Tech. (India). Radio Officer. 'Fl i - K’4- I - .? & ¦7- J « RAHAN SORABJI POCHKHANAWALA B. Sc (ECONOMICS) UNIVERSITY OF LONDON & BAR-AT-LAW CANDIDATE FOR PARSI PANCHAYAT TRUSTEESHIP. Read Inside: Election MatterVOL. VII No. II SEPTEMBER 1971 CONTENTS 3 5 9 Editorial R. S. Pochkhanawala Election Candidate : as a Trustee of the Parsi Panchayat 'Circular The Angel Sarosh Sam N. Doctor, B. Sc. Kisseh-I-Sanjan : An Abridged Translation (2) —H. E. Eduljee Madame Bhikhaijee Cama—Dr. Minocher K. Contractor, Surat Wonder And Stay Spell-Bound—Baniprosonno, Simla Manifcsto-For .the Press 6 9 12 17 21 Managing Editor : P. B. WARDEN, A^VtSQRT BOARD ).p V .) Mr. P. R. E. Casiod. Advocate Rangoon, Aden, Nairobi, Bombay. Major Adarbad Irani, R.A.M.C., D.O.M.S. (Lond.), D.O. (Oxon) Mrs. Cool K. Shavaksha Prof. Nadir Ardeshir Mody, M.A., LLB. Dr. Sdhrab H. Batliwala, Ph.D. Mr. Bejon N. Desai, M.A., B.Ed, Mr. Paribourz Nariman, (Architect) Mr, Horn! Burjor Dhalla, M.A. (Harvard) Mr. Mahyar Byramji Patel Single Copy t SO paise, Yearly subscription for 12 Issues Rs. g. Intend. Sh 12/6 for U.K. and 2 dollars for U.S^A. Office Address : CJo, Warden ’s (Mysore) Pvt. Ltd. 378, Grant Road, BOMBAY-7. Published and edited by Editor-Proprietor P. B. Warden from 378, Grant Rd,, Bombay 7. and printed by him at Kaleid Art Printers, 5B, Shalimar Industrial Estate, Matunga, Bombay-19.CIRCULAR Tel. 456333 R. S. POCEKHAKAWALA, ‘Buena Vista’, Pochkhanawala Road, Wbrli t BOMBAI-18. 16th October 1971 9 T)ear Friend, I am your Candidate for Election as a Trustee of the Parses Panchayat Trust Fund and Properties vdiich is to take place on 13th November 197.1. Several well wishers have been kind enough to approach me to stand as a Candidate for Trusteesliip to which I have^reed, I feel that I can be of service to the Parses Community and I therefore offer * my services and I assure you that I shall execute my responsibilities to the best of my ability, I may mention that I am a graduate of the London University holding a degree of B.Sc, (Economics) and Barrister at Law and I have had over 25 years experience in the Banking field. I was previously the Managing Director of the Bombay State Financial Corporation and I am now Secretary to the Central Bank of India and du­ ring the course of my work I have had considerable opportunity to meet and work with various types of industtialists and individuals. At present there are a number of important problems facing the Parsi Community particularly in relation to enployment as well as for setting up new industries and business which would also help our Country. There is particular need for able and continuous guidance to the younger generation and for helping them in estab­ lishing themselves in the field of their choice* There is of course the standing problem of housing which needs to be tackled vigourously and finally there is need for schemes to assist aged persaas, providing medical assistance etc. I undertake to pursue these matters and biing about such impiovements as aa^jr be possible in the best interest of lhe Community, I therefore urge you to consider me as your candidate and give me your vote and return the undermentioned confir­ mation to me at the above address duly signed by the 6th November 1971. Thanking you. lours sincerely, R. S. POGHKHANAWALA Parsiana: Septeaber 1971 5ir-at- o If Rattan Sorabji Pochkhanawala (50 years) B.Sc, (Economics), Barrist Law having over 25 years experience in the banking field as well as in social service being associated with several social service organisations including the, blind and the deaf, stand for election as a Trustee of the Parsee Panchayat Trust Itmd and Properties to be held on Saturday 13th November, 1971 between 2 P.M. and © 5 P.M. at its office at 209 Badabhoy Naoroji Road, Bombay. You are requested to vote for me and to attend in person. Please bring your certificate, otherwise on request, a duplifcurte certificate will be issued on verification. I ati standing for election with the following objectives. I believe that;- the major problems facing our Commuxiity today are in relation to employment well as for setting up of new industi'ies while the important social problems in relation to housing and schemes to assist aged persons and providing medi- i- 1. as are in -------- cal assistance etc, the electorial vote as at present constituted is very limited and spectrum of our Community should be Trustees become and the younger generation. 5. Community effectively, 4, 2. larger 'epresented and qualify as voters so that- the truly representative of not only the donors but also the educated / a Trustee should have sufficient spare time to be able to serve the Parsee the service term of a Trustee should generally not exceed 10 consecutive years and that there should he a periodical retirement of trustees and if for an.'/ reason a Trustee is to re-elected be may stand for re-election after an inter­ vening period' of a year or two, 5. the availability of a single and able personality. It shall be my there should be elections for the appointment of a Trustee notwithstanding endeavour to bring about such reforms as would be in the best interest of the majority of our Community and to bring about such improvement in their economic standards as may be possible within the framework of their capabi­ lities and I undertake the practical experience at my command. to work towards these objectives energetically with all 6 Parsiana: September 1971tzDITO RIAL PARSI PANGHAIAT’S ELECTION -1971, 4- Social- Fo/^ Fx.ecr/o»J A Of Hou FC LOOKING ASKANCE f e Very many Parsis look upon Elections with con5)lete detachment as if it were of no concern or significance to the community as a whole. Some voters make Ele­ ction a prestige issue of their own ego. Some just get into the groove and sanc­ tify sitting membership and the rest are led by group loyalty. Voting should be taken more seriously as a duty to be discharged in the int­ erest of the vital problems of the community’s future as a whole. During election campaign there is ample chance for off-beat considerations Some posed me a problem that Mr, Pochkhanawala is tender and not tough. In prop­ osing his candidature I was not voting him in for an all-out wrestling bout. Some others posed another problem -that he is immature at 50 to sit in our august "Majlis" Tidien John Kennedy at 35 was accepted good risk for Presidentship of the U,S*A* Election is for the community, its future and its good. Electorate is a cot­ erie for the common purpose of safe-guarding the view«-pcints of the electorate and also of all those large number left out ^dio think but do not vote. Therefore the coterie should be real free and not "pressure-bound" by promise to vote for any of the candidates or their canvassers. It is not a "promise to pay" note for value received -it is only a "premise to oblige", and one can with clear conscience refuse to abide by any such un­ enforceable binding under judicial, social or moral codes. Ignoring the "promise to oblige" vote in Mr, Boman-Behram or Mr, Rattan Sorabji Pochkhanawala. I am , for Pochkhanawala and recommend you Pochkhanawala, Parsiana; September 1971 3Several voters have con5>iained that ballot is not strictly secret and therefore they feel obliged to vote for the candidate promised to their canirass- ers. Cancel all promises and vote for the right man. That is voting. That is per­ sonal digpl by. Do what is good foi t^e community, not what is good for any cand­ idate. Tel. 2626 61 H. O. 254, Mistry Bldg. Bazar Gate, Bombay I. KEROSENE DEPOTS: 15 Colaba Causeway. I2A, Nana's Chowk 177, Tardeo Road, 167. Grant Road Corner. (Ran]! Aglari Compound) I) 2) 3) 4) MISTFY PETROLEUM B ; AUTOMOTIVE SPBCIALITIES ; too ' ... .... .... i ' ¦¦... 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COTTON MERCHANTS I w s I 4 parsiana: September 1971Candidates will come and candidates will go, but the Community will remain what it is -lethargic, listless and lost unless we sensibly -giffing up our petty-raindedness of Hero-worship to-extol the mock-heroic dramatics, ^hit is the status and the social value of us voters, except as ballot and ballot box (girls' who' come to deposit a piece of paper in a box t^at learn to vote seriously and 4 to enter the debating society that is Parsi Panchayat, where mandate obtained to last .for tian years machinery of knowing their woik. called to the Charity Commissioner’s » box boys entitles a candidate the sacred seven meet once a fortnight on a with no check on than and even no On Wednesday, 3rd November 1971, I was Office along with other complainants wnc have lodged complaints in the matter of Godrej Press embezzlement and associated scandals. It was a I© session of adioinistr- ative inquiry when the presiding officer asked us a question whether we did or did not have any liiachinery for knowing the activities of the Panchayat's working xn their mee-t-ings of the Board of Trustees? -We all said NO I -we so?"'In several other Parsi Panchayats.of Gujarat two meetings held during a year when the Trust- have to face tke entire Comiaunity in a general meeting for information asked for. The evil of this onissioh is apparent in the disgusting high-handedness in Godrej Memorial Printing Press in the face of the Community’s disapproval of Bajan and Vesuna; Suffice it to say that in this latest development> all male, members without backrnbone* * are entering election campaign. We shall take that issue next time, after the election is over; >18 like election campaign - - r both sides a& we want in the Panchayat such a men as Fir. Poch- fecnd xhtemal administration both unstinted by --- to which the Kaiser-B-Hind-refers in its last issue. _ ¦ -- Trusts without bickering when seven Ameshaspands are managing the Universe with Jjust one law of Asha--Uprightness. We are taught that all seven * he n-ind but oUr seven Trustees are of two minds. Mr. PocWcha- stabilizing force for ultimate fusion into one mind. That is why previlege. He said '’How is it and 0tiler places, there are one or ees have exposed themselves as men It is under such conditions 'we up to be clean on--- - ---- khanawala who iasists on election party politics, to v---- — cannot canape our '—--- Apeshaspands ere of one----— nawala will be a s— I insist on your voting for hin. In the Kaiser-B-Hind of 31.10.1971, one lyjflnaok Mstry as a double-faced Janus who as a ted Mr. Boman-Behram and as an :------ parsiana: September 1971 do not have any such Seven Trustees "Onlooker” childishly attacks Mr. Trustee of Jaae-Jaashed has suppor- individual has put up Mr. Pochkhanawala as a candi- 7date against Mr. Boman^Behram. Whosoever that "Onlooker" is, he is not a good "Ob­ server", Mr. Maneck Mistry has never in his life-time even once seen or met Mr. Pochkhanawala to propose him as a probable colleague on Board of Trustees. The "Onlooker’s imagination runs riot from will to believe. There is nothing deeper than that* It is absurd, childish or purposely conjured. Nobody but myself thought of Mr. Pochkhenawala and it was I who carried this name to Mr. Bomanshah Minoche3>- Homji. He spoke to Mr. Mis try on phone that I, Varden, had proposed this name, be­ cause I know him for years as an excellent person and now propose his candidature. Tfeere is no question of putting Up a candidate against Mr. Boman-Behram. This si­ tuation is only incidental to any election, but one thing is certain that Mr. Pochkhanawala and I are conscientiously opposed to too long uninterrupted Trustee­ ship because we are witnessing the evils thereof and we sincerely dislike many th­ ings connected with parsi Panchayat and earnestly intend to work to bring changes in thou. Voters will please dispossess themselves of any credence to the rumour that because of a minor heart-attadc, Mr. Pbchkhanawala is now incapacitated. Through­ out he was under treatment of Dr. Aspi Golwala, one of the Parsi Panchayat Trustees, end Dr. Golwala hinself has certified- him fit as fiddle for all work with a proviso "don’t climb too many stairs" as a precaution only. If voters just give credence to rumours, they lower the calibre of Parsi voting rights. We are fighting a very dignified contest and e:q?ect the same in return. We giise fair deal and like fair .. play. Mr. Pochkhanawala has made one request to the Chairman of the Parsi Panchayat that all measures be taken for proper secret ballot and written to Mr.. Boman-Behram also to support him on this stand of the election. I have heard from a very reliable source that Mr. Boman-Behram himself is con­ sidering ten year period too long and was not contesting election but for giving credence to the rumour that Mr. Pochkhanawala was Mr. Mis try’s candidate, I .have cleared this point. On my assurance Mr, Boman—Behram may withdraw his candidature and fulfil his original desire of getting out of the Panchcyat to do more service to greater cosmopolitan numbers. After all, every man has only .24 hours to live in: a day. We would like him to live more efficiently that way. Voters may withdraw their "promise to oblige" given to Mr. Boman-Behram and vote for Mr, Pochkhanawala. Voting is one of the sacred human ri^ts and, must be exercised with prudence and pJrbbity for the greater good of the greater number (of Parsis) and not for the narrow good- of any candidate. "We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly. " •»* I 8 VOTE FOR MR* POnHKHAWAtfAT.A, -Voltaire. -P.B.V. Parsiazia; September 1971THE ANGEL SAROSH by SAIM N. DOCTOR, B.Sc. “Sraosh asho tagi, tanfarman, shekafta zin, zin avazar, salarey damane Ahura Mazda berasad.” May Sarosh the Righteous, strong, embodied with divine commandments, possessed of effective and victorious weapons. Leader and Guide of the creations’ of Ahura Mazda, come to us. It was in a period of remote or hoary Gathas we have Zarathushtra saying • antiquity that Zarathushtra preached his “When I held Thee in my eyes, I realised new religion which embodied a mono- Thee in my mind, O Mazda,’... as the theistic theology of the highest order. Father of Vohu Mano (Vohuman Beh- which centred on the worship of one God, man) or Good Mind, as the true creator Ahura Mazda, ‘The Wise-Lord’, together of Asha (Asha, here, is EHvine Order with some of the loftiest ethics or Asha Vahishta or Ardibehesht is Best morals ever revealed to mankind. The Righteousness) and Lord over the actions prophet of Iran rejected the daeva-gods of life.” (Gathic Yasna 31-8) Or again of the Indo-Iranian people, which in course we have “Grant Thou unto me Asha for of time became devils. *_ ' 3 ;___ dKvine beCngs Zarathushtra would admit (Spenta Armaiti whom I have yearned, pursuing Armaiti X . ¦ i or Spendarmad is in his theology were abstractions, not so Divine Wisdom) for that perfection. 4 much angels as dfivine attributes or aspects (Ys. 43.10) of the One Godhead! This we learn from the Gathas which are the earliest of the extant Avestan scriptures, being the immediate recorded utterances of the prophet himself. Before venturing a detailed discourse on the Angel Sarosh, who occupies perhaps the highest place in the Divine hierarchy of Yazatas, and who, together with the Angels Meher (Av. Mithra), Adar (Av. _ __ is one of the most oft invoked angels, it is Zo-roastrian Angelology has its beginn- Atar) and Behram (Av. Verethraghna) is ings in the Gathas wherein we come across <____ ; ii,rK.ivv« angvia u la the divin^e heptad of the seven Archangels neces'saiy to^ d^ucidate VnTunderst^’d'the these being Ahura and His powers aspects (emanations), and after whom the The Avestan word for Ameshaspand or first seven days of the Zoroastrian calen- Archangel is ‘A-mesha-spenta’, a triple A— A J 1 » «• . * are Amesha-Spent^ are m mortal benevolent one’. Thus, the Ames- ful Immortals.’ The lesser angels arc SIX pow^ within Ihhiself! Thus, in the called Yazads (Av. Yazata, Phi. Izad). Parsiana September 1971 ings in the Gathas wherein we come across or Amesha-Spentas (Boun/tiful Immortals), terms Amesha'*Spenta Tnd'YazatT:' . 3 or aspects (emanations), and after whom the f _____ ................... dar month from Ormazd to Amardad compound literally meaning ’the non- are named. The Amesha-Spentas are in mortal benevolent one’. Thus, the Ames- one aword with Ahura Mazda who is the haspentas are ‘The Benevolent or Bounti- ful Immortals.’ The lesser angels are 9 I‘Yazata’ is derived from the root ‘yaz’, to iul-ddcn things of the spirit to Zarathushtra worship. Thus the Yazatas are the Ones (Yasna 44.12). Dr. 1. J. S. Taraporewalia worthy of adoration, or ‘The Worshipful interprets Sraosha as the Pole Star of all Ones.’ Both terms are employed in the spiritual endeavour, pointing steadfast or less distinct and unerring to the final goal.’’ (Vide Bode '& Nanavutty in their ‘Gathas’, p. 37) less Avesta with two more connotations: In some places, notably in the Gathas, the terms “angels” denote only Sraosha (Sarosh) in the sense of “Knowledge acquired by in­ spiration’; in other places, where the con- and Attieshaspands denote personified Ahura, and obedience unto His Omni- Divi'ne PewTtj or ceiiesCal genii_ (e.g. science (Sraosha)?”, or again in Yasna Verethraghna or Behram, the gejiius of 45.5 the prophet exhorts m.ankind that figure in the post-Gathic Avesta, princi- pSly in the various yashts and Myaeshes (litanies) dedicated to them, but never in Sraosha’s obedience unto Him. the Gathas! In Yasna 28.5, Zarathushtra longs, to see Sraosha: “When, O Asha ! shall I see thee and Vohu M.ano, having 'known the text implies personification, the Yazads dignity in respect of the most Beneficent f- abstract ideas, e.g, Divi'ne ' PewTtJ ¦? science (Sraosha)?” victory). In this later ^nse the Ya?.alas “Ahura Mazda will give them Perfection (Haurvatat or Khordad) and Immortality (Ameretat or Amardad) if they will bring ______________________________In still another Gathic passage (Yasna 43.12) we have Sraosha coming as a Judge to appor- We shall now first see which are the ticn the final reward and retribution to Yazatas that figure in the Gathas, the the contending parties. divine hymns which have come down from , / ’ Coming down from the Gathas to the Atar (Adar), Sraosha (Sarosh) and Ashi later Avesla we find Sraosha rising to great, prominence. The seventeenth day of the month and two Yashts, viz., Yasht 11 and in the Gathas, the prophet himself. These are three, viz. J (Ashi Vanghuhi or Ashishvangh in th later Avesta). A fourth, viz. Daena (Din), may be added, but it is a pure abstraction, the Greater Sraosha Yasht (in Ys. 57) are denoting the Prophet’s Good Religion, (' ‘ ~ conscience, etc. Asbi is sanctity or ilfc tr.a describes as “the most majestic of all’’, good reward as blessing (The word ashish yjig gradual development of aJbstract ideas (blessing) comes from the same Ayestic ©r sign’Iicatims into the names of Yazatas origin) And Atar is the “Flaming Fire of bearing dis 16 Parsiana September 19713»- « MADAME BHIKUA MEE CAMA BORN: 24th SEPTEMBER 1861 DIED: 13th AUGUST 1936 The Patriot whom India had forgotten By Dr. Minocher K. Contractor President — Surat Parsi Pragati Mandal, Founded in 1945 for political awakening and social services. T ifp Sketch • ted. At an advanced age she was married to Shri K. R. Cama, a leading solicitor A hundred years, ago on 24th September of Bombay. Her married life was far 1861 a daughter was born to Sorabji from happy and soon broke up. Faramji Patel a prominent businessman of Bombay and Bai Jaijee and was named .. Bhikhaijee lovingly called Bhikhu. She health she went to England. After some took her education at Alexandra Parsi i Girls School in 1 beginning was interested in social and poli- in fluently. She came in contact with Dada- padhyaya, Mukund Desai, M. P. Acharya, time and^'altLugh young heTwork and started carrying on propaganda for India’s views were much appreciated and respec- liberation from the British Rule, and t ey At the age of 40, because of failing ¦* k n, - -- ------- IX av X months of treatment she went to Paris and , Bombay and from the finally settled down there. There she came uesuunns..... ... Ix coDWet with Indian Revolutionaries tical work and she spoke several lan^ages like^ Vir ^S^ayarkar^ Virendra ^Chatto bhai Naoroji and other leaders of the Hardayal and others. Along with them she fiberation froin the British Rule, and they Parsiana September 1971 17all rallied round this frail patriot and her freedom flag. paper. With this piece of paper Shri Ketkar could secure the whole bundle of papers and the records of the revolu­ tionary patriots. • This bundle contained Madame Cama’s original flag. * On 18th August 1937, Vir Savarkar unveiled the flag which was neatly put in an ornamen­ tal frame and it was taken out in a procession at Poona. Today this framed flag is hung prominently in the library Hall of the Kesari and Mahratta office in to her small boarding-house in Paris. All Poona and is shown to every distinguished were impressed by the tireless energy of visitor, this fragile woman; all were inspired by her fearless and selfless devotion to the cause of freedom for all subject nations. She started the “Vande-Mataram” English weekly from Geneva in 1905 and ran it for ten years, advocating the cause of India’s Independence. It soon spread her revolutionary fame in Europe and the Continental socialists and revolutionaries began a pilgrimage All Indians with patriotic fervour should feel thankful to Shri G. V. Ketkar of Deccan College, Poona, for focussing In 1906 she went on a propaganda tour their attention on the life work of a neg- for India’s cause in America. lected patriot. Madame Cama has declared in one of In 1907 on 18th August, she attended the World Socialist Congress at Stuttgart her leaflets: (Germany) where over a thousand delega­ tes from various countries of the world had come and Madame Cama moved a thing. I have but one life to give, _ 1 J._ T-m J AM rt -*•“ 4- xx or* r****-fx zxzx L_______ . . dence for India. And it wadhere for the lion against foreign rule is patriotism. furled by her with the following historic existence, without principle ? A handful words: of foreigners, a few Englishmen hav, declared war on us. Who can wonder, if “This flag is of Indian Independence- we millions accept the challenge and behold it is born—it is already sanctioned declare war on them ? The price of by the blood of martyred Indian youths, liberty must be paid. We are all for India I call upon you gentlemen to rise and for Indians.” salute this flag of Indian Independence.” The entire audience rose,, bowed and In 1909 Madame Cama left London for greeted it, “Long live India”. Paris where she associated as before with S. R. Rana, J. C. Shroff, Shyamji Krishna This flag was. smuggled into India along Varma and other extreme nationalists, with other records of the Revolutionary She interested herself chiefly in the busi- patriots by the well known Gujarat Socia- ness of preparing and forwarding to India ' list leader Shri Indulal Yajnik and seditious literature and in assisting the kept in a hiding place in Bombay. He revolutionary propaganda with her advice was in Yeravada Jail, Poona, in 1936. He and with her money. She was at this time took the opportunity to invite Shri G. V. one of the recognised leaders of the revo- Ketkar. grandson of Lokmanya Tilak and lutionary movement in Paris and former editor of “Kesari” and ----- —j-j ----- ------- Bharat” and gave him a small piece of presumably Kali. 6C' I have come prepared for every- Resolution demanding complete Indepen- one ‘avatar’ to sacrifice. Successful rebel- first time India’s National Flag was un- What is life without freedom ? What is 'O “This flag is of Indian Independence- we millions accept the challenge and 1........................................... . by the blood of martyred Indian youths, liberty must be paid. We are all for India salute this flag of Indian Independence." rose, bowed and I was Tarun regarded as an incarnation of some diety. 18 Parsiana September 1971 e>• During the first world war, she appealed “To-day, neither a bronze statue, nor a to Indians not to help the allies, this led to marble bust, nor even a clay image im- her internment and was released when mortalises her. name, not even a single the war was over. tablet has been raised to enshrine her memory, not a single biography of her has been written. Historians of our free­ dom struggle have utterly neglected her. Our people, our leaders and our govern­ ment had completely forgotten her. She bravely fought for our freedom, faced exile, courted imprisonment, roamed through the length and breadth of Europe, canvassing support for our freedom strug­ gle. She defied the might of the British Empire. And above aM gave India her first Nadonal Flag, the first ‘Tricoloiir’ that inspired for years to come, countless of our fredom fighters under one banner for one cause, the cause of unity and freedom of India.” She has also given us the following messages. “India must be free. India must be a Republic. India must be United. India must have a common language. Between the two wars, she had to live in exile and in spite of failing health she was not allowed to return to India, since it was her desire to end her last days in her dear motherland. Both the French and the British Governments refused per­ mission because of her radical views and Tevolntionary activities. f of the Great Moguls and the leader of the first War of Independence, the Great . Rebellion of 1857. What love and whaf great sorrow must have possessed him, when he wrote the following tear-raising couplet: At last in 1935 she was allowed to return to India when her health was completely broken and Britain had nothing to fear from her as she was now at death’s door. This permission was only granted on one condition that she should not taken any part in Revolutionary activities. By now she had grown old, sick, infirm and was completely exhausted and one and only one desire remained, to return to her be­ loved ‘Vande Mataram’ — just as it was the dying wish, which even today ’ has not been fulfilled of another great patriot that free India has utterly forgotten, Hindi. Emperor Bahadurshah Zaffar, the last India must have a common script.” Today our country is on the verge of disintegration due to the formation of lin­ guistic States and regional language fana- tism, our government, our leaders. Poli­ tical parties and the people have not found any solution; but when they will have realised the wisdom and the truth of her message, we shall have made her the sym­ bol of our national unity. “I well remember Madame Cama whom- I met in Paris in the twenties. There can be no doubt that she was a brave fighter for Indian freedom and we should remem­ ber her.” “Oh! Miserable Zaffar! how unfortu­ nate you are ! That you cannot get two yards of ground for your burial in your own land!” Same must have been the burning pas­ sion, that finally forced Madame Cama to sign and thus return to her motherland to die. And after returning to her be­ loved country, on 13th August 1936 she died at Parsi General Hospital at Bombay, unwept., unheard, unsung. — JAWAHARLAL NEHRU “ I am fully aware of the brave and tena­ cious part Madame Cama played when Parsiana September 1971 19patriotism was sedition and not a paying (2) A statue of Madame Cama, proudly concern. I have written to Dr. P. Subb- ’ ' rayan to consider the issue of a stamp.” holding our first ‘Tricolour’, be placed at a prominent place in New Delhi. RAJAGOPALACHARI (3) A prominent Road be* named after her in New Delhi, the nation’s capi­ tal, just as Maharashtra Sachivalaya Road has been named Madame Bhikhaijee Gama Road in Bombay, her home town, on Republic Day of 1962. The AU-India Women’s Conference urged the Government of India to take suitable steps to commemorate her me­ mory and to issue a stamp on her birth centenary on September 24, 1961.” 1. All India celebrations were held at every 24th September, Madame Gama s Birth Anniversary Day, should be observed as the “Flag Day” every year, instead of 7th December, as it is observed at present. This way two great causes will be served; the cause of our brave soldiers, the defenders of our motherland and we will also keep fresh for years and years to come the memory of this great lady patriot who also gave us our first flag of freedom. I appeal to our people, our leaders and (5) Madame Cama’s life sketch should our Government to do something so that her memory be kept green permanently in a most worthy and fitting manner, viz: Delhi, where Smt. Indira Gandhi had presided, at Bombay, Poona, Ahme- dabad, Surat and all other great cities. 2. Commemorative stamp was issued by the Government of India on Republic Day. 3. Maharashtra Sachivalaya Road Bom­ bay, was named after her as Madame Bhikhaijee Cama Road. (1) A portrait of Madame Cama proudly holding our first ‘Tricolour’, be placed in our Lok Sabha Hall at New Delhi. Smt. Coomi Dallas has consented to paint one for Surat Parsi Pragati . Mandal, Nanpura, Surat. be included in all our history books taught in our schools and colleges. 16) The house in which she lived in Bom­ bay be kept as a national memorial, fluttering day in and day out the first national “Tricolour” as is done in America, in Philadelphia at the house of Betsy Rose who gave America her first “Stars and Stripes.” 20 Parsiana September 1971f <*« WONDER AND STAY''‘<^cr- SPELL-BOUND Ml WW WIWl# A. I. Mar. Tech ( —BANIPROSONNO • 1 . vruvjkO K . .k v, , ceptible or imperceptible to human sense but the philosophy of the scientific instrumental - ----------- me suicniinc instrumental senses__are eYir/. form and content of Cosmos negates any mely complex forms — forms inside f^^m« existence to any obj^tive reaUty because made of cosmic clay. Whatis cosml/n^ everything is nothing except fleeting is not the ouestion nm__________ i’ energy in VIBES (Vibrations). It empties The search is foTthe for™ made the same space into which it stays blade of grass is a and stays in the same space it empties. numerabWorms- so is a^alavt^^ Zoroastrianism has caught both sides of bryonic sta^ Genes fof vl?Ji the VIBES - their make and break. entZf Vibrations make our ents of cells are forms; so are the ravs of ffi;3K“£sT“" ™(Sa"™;: ".5X2”^^^ Thus wp havp thp bAct bAAtk time us in tune with the infinite wherein Cos- all are forms in the Thus we have the best of both the worlds which Baniprosonno visualised on psychic level and attempted to transfer it on sen­ sory level of human vision. That is art it actually is. Now read his version: The ‘movement-lump,’ cosmos is infinite cosmos. molecular and interatomic ‘empty gaps’ stages of matter are all filled. The hypo­ thesised ‘cosmic corpuscles’ maintain a zero inter corpuscular distance. We mav . highest to which J___ ___ •_ • « IP l_g -I • cosmos-atoms-subatomic elementary par- Parsiana September 1971 as and it is indivisible. The void, the inter- - ite patterns. A joy, pain, memory super complex body- are mats woven with strings of matter. This illusion, this realisation, the “®ss of these forms, the utter ir r search for new forms aware- k ivwuls, tne utter ignorance ^Ph constant in the formless i6 ‘Alles was viiipLj gtips /Tj .1. rnachen ist falsch” which ‘are responsible’ for the different ^^''^^ything we make is false) stages of matter are all filled. The hypo- — thesised cosmic corpuscles’ mflintain a miNoiislN zero inter vorpuscuiar distance, we may . ^nsucst to wnicn man can attain hypothesis© minute fractions of the wonder, let him be content;” cosmos-atoms-subatomic elementary oar- —GOETHE iQ 2122 THE FOREMOST PROPHET” “ATHARVAN ZARATHUSHTRA - by JOTINDRA MOHON CHATTERJEE Published by: The Parsi Zoroastrian Association, 1 Saklat Place, Calcutta-13. Pages : 250 + xvi + index. Price : Rs. 1?/- (postage extra). Foreward by: The Hon’ble Chief Justice Mr. S. P. Kotval, High Court, Bombay. Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. Gopinath Kaviraj, M.A.,D.Litt. Preface by : The book is a reproduction with many further additions, of the intro­ duction to the Author’s Msgnum Opus “Tlie Hymns of Atharvan Zarathushtra”, published by the Parsi Zoroastrian Association of Calcutta, in 1967. Order your copies from : (i) The Publishers, and (ii) Parsiana, 621-Girgaum Road, Bombay-2. BR. iff Pl II,11 'll IBWIWMOBBBfffBWPWBNWBBWeaBBgZKaotagBm BtK It lBtHa^^ § § Q 3 I Q a § P. N. Mehta Education Trust RUNS Boys’ Town NASIK W« IRVIM OtffntlMi of parents to this famous Boarding School for hoys of all ages and all communities. Efficient staff —Individual attention —Hygienically iwholeBQme diet-Opportunity for eut ’Mloer sports- S Open-air games-Care of health —Building of character along with sound education k l TIm late Sheth P. N. 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