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K^tnay not buy their j^^^atixms . cance jdjtj^ayeF attached to it
cannot be made.
The poets ’ reaction to Pai^ be a Par^^^y^e who prof^^.
ec^ttjr ’acoltmui can^t be nS; A »^d hot necessadty
The poets' reaction to Parsi^ be Par^_^^y^e who profe^l
ft is a common ihlsconception or^merican--be<^B»ea
first or a Parsi fest? ” people ask. particular issue to-Lwtite oa a .Zoroastrian the mon^t be
To this searching question your the 'Parsis will always reliiain t - couv^rt^ to the faith, pie Court
Editor wearily i^ie5, “I’bi^ citi ‘- subject for speculation> While r»tf®d that Tw Zoroostit^ reli-
zen of the wbrid first. ’* Thii*Lwhile members.of the community'#^eftd
the interrogator looks on wonder^ . under the sjiock that Tiniie had decisicm stemi
till this day. Time can be for
given for its etror as most Parsis
themselves confuse the issue.
On the > Dopngerwadi beat. On the > Dopngerwadi beat, a
Resolution passed by the Pan
Noble and her group marks one
R«,»SSW J (;!
"Trustee. Clearly, the re^ ifeasiStt
it from highly informed'Stmfoei^
their Bombay circulatidh. ’Suth
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proposed opening a Time Doonger-
wadi bureau.
Parsis were also sore that, while
issue of Time which carried the
Prophet Mohammed ’s picture,
when they approached Ms Gandhi
for the same —this not being an
election year and with rising pi ices,
Keki
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was that Parsiana was eating Into
struck, I launch my all-purpose temerity to write on the PansS
sermon. “To be a good citizen of without their authority, others
the world you have to be a good sought to identify the individual
Indian; to be a good Indian you who had “invited and authorized ”
have to be a good Parsi; to the American newsweekly cor- -------- ------
good Parsi you have to be a good '• respondent to come to Bombay chayat at the behest of Ms Nelie
Jehangir Patel. ” At this stage there (because our own system of elec- "«‘rVc mp
is much applause as people vie tion is undemocratic, the coipmu-
with each other to shake my hand, nity does not always realize we are
primer subscriptions and request living in a democracy). As in aU
me to talk to their children. There matters concerning the disposal of
are those, however, who will stand ^be dead the ‘blame ’ was squarely
back and whimper that anybody put on Shiavax Vakil, who was one
who admits to being a Parsi is among the many interviewed for
“communal-minded. ” So when (be article. Only a community
we approached the four subjects suffering from delusions of gran-
who grace this issue ’s coyer they jgur could believe that an inter?
reacted to the label ‘Parsi ’ Poets national magazine with a circula-
with varying intensity. Adil J^sa- tmn of several million, which eyep
walla decried being called a Parsi tbe President of the United Sh|it^
and in tiie cours^ of two phoi^ cannot control, would at thie
conver^tlbhs turned down our re- beck and call of a
quest for an interview; ICeki \_____ _ ____ ___ ______
Daniwalla found the ethme tag carried the article (we b^ye
irrelevant; Kersi Katrak raised no
objections and Gieve Patel, who
has written a play on the Parsis ___ ______
titled The Princes, agreed willingly, y^as their concern that they even
While one or other of the poets
shy away from the ‘Parsi ’ label
the“mrwTe X
towards a select readership com
prised of their friends, critics and ’
fellow poets. Their books are not J
available on the market and their ’
publisher, P. Lal of the Writer ’s ’
Workshop, shares the poets ’ re- , ’
luctance in marketing their wares. ’
When yfe wrote to Lal asking for '
a catalogue of his books we placed ’
an order for all the published
books of the fpur poets adding* '
that “as w wo^^ intend to
this feature as Kxm as p^itte ‘
"we ......',,
this request your urgent attention ”,
we receaved a
one and a half «wvp-ui3
forming us that Ijil was serving a Justice Daver of the Bou^^ ™gh -
term as a vititing:j:,,|pEofessbr iq. Court noted: “The word ZpK^;.^
(Buo University, X USX and that trian. singly denotes th^ n^gi^"*^
we could the in^vidual; the word PaTJh ,,
sumably wi^t denotes his nationality or- co.mmu .
high leveldedtoaM'tevhoiba^ W^^nd has no religiot^ stgnifr-
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A«sac«n»
'Tkess u
i^ortnges, the rtfilway strike'and a©
OT—she burst a nuclear bothb
instead.
. Where Tzme did sHp up was in
£ ^differentiating between 1>e
communityjjt^ t^ Swroaiar
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would aM^^eMrf^ youtv^.^^ erfdneou^ to state that “the reu;
gjoo does ¦ not accept converts.
printed ppst*<^rd The^religion does. In
months later in- c^e -of Petit vs
»t differentiating between tiae
religion. This led tbrin
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gjon does not accept converts. ”
J that tiian. singly denotes ;
tte individual; the wc
, Aof the blackest chapters is recent address is: Bacha Mansion, Tardeo
son Pars^ jmay ascribe to the bar- ],
ring of non-f^is ar our funeral 400 007.
Parsi history. No matter what re^' Road, Opp. Bhatia Hospital, (near
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ring of'non-f^is at our funeral 400007. . Joshi ’s number is:
ceremonies, the prime, motivation 263820 and his address is: Jiji
for cemtinuing this practice todi^ House, Opp. i^erling Ciheip^
is nothing short of racial discrimi
nation. Parsis must think them-
Raveline Street, Bombay. I.,et iki.
hope' now that the controversy will
selves superior to all others to h®" be solwd and, sohie sanity re
lieve that, while their presence ^t stored to this much divided coin-
the funerals of non-^^ar^is h^ no munity.
adverse effect, the present of non- In other more heartening devel-
Parsis at Parsi funerals is bophd to opments, four trustees of the Parsi
defile the corpse and th^ fife. Panchayat have contributed the|t
are not the only community which mite to this issue. We wrote lOi
venerates fire. Fire is essential for all seven trustees concerning our
most Hindu cerpmooies. The interview feature “Are There Too
custom Of placing sandalwood on Many Fire Temples in Bombay? ”
the fire can hardly be of Persian Eraph Nadirshah, Dr. Aspi Gol-
origin as sandalwood does not walla, Shiavax Vakil and P. P.
grow in Iran. We borrow our cus- Khambatta replied. We applaud
toms, ceremonies, , language (Guje- and greatly appreciate their ges-
rati) and dress (saris) from the ture. It is our sincere hope that
Hindus; it was they who gave us Trustees of the Panchayat will con-
refuge when we had no place to tinue to make their thoughts known
go; it was in a predominantly to the public either through
Hindu India that we thrived, and Parsiana or any other media,
continue to prospei*. And we show
our gratitude by slamming our
doors in their and others ’ faces
when they come to pay their res
pects. These are times when one
feels ashamed to call oneself Parsi.
In light of the fact that the Jamshedpur is situated amidst a
Towers
arouse the most emotions, Parsiana flowering trees, bushes, creepers,
has coined a new word: Dokhma-
nia (dok-may-nya) n: characteriz
ed by mental and physical hyper- Parsecs revere, was installed in <
activity triggered off by any refer- I960. The day was 3rd March, the \
ence to dcAhmas pr dokhma- birthday of Jamshe^i Tata, a d^
nashhu. Dokhmanjac n t of v^iyc^sal rejoicing in Jamsbed- '
characterized by an inordmati^s ojf pur. h^^^
ungovernable enthusiasm or aVer- ^ting ^story. It has been bum- .
sion for dokhmas. Highest in- ing jn.the Cursetjee Maneckjee
cidence among Parsis. - Shroff Agiary of the Khada Parsee
Parsis will be pleased to know in Bombay since 1790. The Trustees
that the intensity of dokhmania is of the agiary, which had fallen on
decreasing (this is not to be mis- lean days, were finding it difficult
taken for any corresponding in- to keep the holy Fire burning and
crease in the concern for the 1 iv- approached the Parsees of Jain-
ing). With the tightening of the shedpur to establish the Cursetjee
laws concerning the presence of Maneckjee Shroff Agiary there. TTe
non-Parsis at Doongerwadi, people offer was accepted and the setting
who did not object to' dokhma- TP fulfilled the long- ¦;
nashini but found the surrounding cherished dream of the Parsees hl
customs • odious, may now choose Jamshedpur to have their place of
alternative methods for disposal worship in the steel city.
of the dead. Both Dara ^ma -“Situated on Straight Mile Ro?^
and Effianjisha Joshi, staunch the solemnly impressive agiary
advocate fpr reform, say they can was planned and designed by Mt.
send p^esta to perform the neces- J. K. Qora of Ballardie, Thomp^
sary ceremonies for burial or ere- and Mathews, the famous archi-
mation. v phone nuna^ tects of Calcutta. By a happy
are: 353207 and 252658, and his coincidence, Mr. Gora descend^
In other more heartening devel-
While on the subject of fire
tenses* Rusi B. Pastakia of Jam
shedpur' sent us a clipping fiom
The Tisco J^ews on the Jamshed'?
pur y4gzan/;
“The Parsee Fire Temple in
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of Silence ipvariably beautiful garden with lovely
roses and seasonal plants. It was
here that the holy Fire, which the J
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S)f Boin^, «the origin^ found^ Miilia lias stated io us in a letter, ing by feaps and bounds and can
bf the aeiaru, Gursetjee Maneckje^ ‘\As fSr as I art aware, ttie Press now boast of rtaiiy large and smaU
Shroff. < is not permitted to be present at ittdustrie^. In diamond-cuttmg
H “Tli asiam Wc^e^ Cortmiftee Meetings. ” Granted; Navsari is ‘on ihe Wrtld nttap. The
ioSand^lirtou? needs of the but Men does the general body of spurt in in^stfy has-rented m
S^S^iri^^^EJeW ‘SuPda^ Federation meet that the press an appreciable dncrease m trade
f nn instractions is Can cover the same? If only com- and commerce and the population
^S^n! mittee meetings are held, then hoW wWch is now on the verge of about
S Sven SSa « the commmiity to know what One lakh is steadily increasing. Un-
X Stan/eTa^HS deeitions are arrived at and tor totttihately. however, it is found
prith the assistance ot .au tiono wratAit hnw? am png the yoiinget generation of
the oortrtunity in Navsari and
^¦s
is pot permitted to be present at
Gcrt “.:ttcc Meetings. ” Granted; , . , ,
but wh^n does the general body of spurt in indUstty has^ ’resulted in
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j Coinmittee Meetings. ’
Ihe Federation meet that the press
_ __ Cere-
rtonial and religious needs of the
parsed commifei^i ^Evifery* SuPda^j
B class on religious instructiims is
peld for b<^s mi^tgjrls; It'is rtan*
^ged by a Board of seven Trustees
with the assistance of ap Jlono-
tary Secretary and ah Honorary , ¦------- 7" xC *
rrXitiiirpr ” ' M 9’dcmocraCy, the voters must
r, , er. 5 X k xi. ’¦ know precisely
j Let us hope Trustees of other representatives
^iaries M^ch are not frequented “ *
^d whdse resources areScarce
will not hesitate to shift or am . .. x.
Committee meetings and no gene-
greater bene3^1^,of, t^C: community.
2 Sappy . Ihn^aw^
Xnjuman, h^ Letters
Page) in d^M
President Of ' _ _
.fanchayat. is not our
intention to quibble we would like
io note that nowhere did we state In other out-of-town news,
|n our (. December issue that th^ Shapur K. Vazifdar has written in
decision to oust Ms Marker from to tell us of. the Navsari Jarthosti
ihe Executive Council meeting of Hunnar Udyog Kelavani Fund;
“The main purpose of this Trust
is ' Specially to divert those
youngsters in the community who
are not suited for higher educa^on
Editor
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bipanjali ap^ ti^^ of the Delhi
Anjuman
^ka^hfedir Mulla,
F^^oMay Pars!
If ’ the press is barred from home towns and villages and to
_ ' ___ ___ _ 2 _ crowd into cities like Bombay
raf body meetings are held Mat One re^on is that in their own
is the alternative? Mr. Dinshaw towns and villages, for lack of pro-
mentions a statement was'released per encouragement, they experi-
to the press. Despite making in- ence frustration resulting from a
quiries with him and Mr. Mulla, lack of employment and opportu-
we have not received the same to nity- The glamour of city life
date. The Press can be a helpful attracts them, often resulting rtt
ally or a damaging adversary, de- ultimate disillusionment. The
pending on how those in power
handle it.
In other out-of-town
the alternative? Mr. Dinshaw towns and villages, for lack of pro-
ence frustration resulting from a
ultimate
scheme of the above Trust ydb
provide Parsi youths with adequate
means of livelihood and wifi keep
them in their local homes where
the air is cleaner, and life more
tranquil, than in a city. It may
be noted that recreational facili
ties for young people in Navsari
are now many and on the incre^e.
“Navsahi is the home of Phra
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to "hSp Parsf youngsters in their . population is therefore a dis-
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ing condition, if not arrested in
time, will prove calamitous to the
community in more ways than one.
Much debate on this point is be
ing heard in the community but,
J seems
to have been done effectively.
The above scheme has in it zeal,
ambition and potehtial! —^but no
funds. A humble beginning with
small dongticttis was made - by
providing financial assistance to
oiie Wy for boarding, lodging etc.
while he was train^ in motor
driving. Two other boys from
poor families from nearby villages
have undergone training in auto-
rickshav® driving, and auto-repairs.
‘‘It will be universally agreed
that such a scheme requires sub-
the Federation Of ' iZ^ioa^naae
Anjumans of India was taken by^
Mr- Mulla. We only stated that he
instigated the removal. The com- xwx xx* ________
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he writes. The trip -will take tunity to determine what exactlyj
^ependently for himself for the son, “ L _________ _
test two montiis and is at the around four weeks. Anyone in»
«une 1’ ¦ ¦ - • - - -
^en by him from the Trust for
0e purchase of the rickshaw.
‘Tt is sinewely Jn-,4Qcal N^al^. j^enoin mlKg^feJm prigea since we;
ffie • jtem -^nek^W al&dssea a "tO:' faa August,;
mvourabljfr1| fei|^^to tt^^miennrtte th0 a. 100, pec Hcrease in the;
4dnationsj^f0>.ia|«^'ye^v^¥Otete , ''’S9th birth anMtrsary of the larte pride .
lift to anybody who wishes to
come along for die trip. The
passenger will have to bear per
sonal expenses. “I’ll pay for the
gas, car maintenance and the ferry be S.H.RH. It seems that Manek^
crossing, which is very high now,
£12 for the car and £3 per per-
son.
time returning the loan terested should write to him at Rur Jamshedji.
14 Harley Road, Swiss Cottage,
London N.W.3; Phone 722-1174.
to tx^jjrnHseny^ate tH
"’S^th birth an^Versaty of the larte
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it was, he chose at random 5
Our parting shot to our reader^
is a painful one. - Due to the
a: 100
^^biy. \W$li hi^ „ ,,rise in the cost of ^tinting, andj
^hnich W-^aen^J 1 a per cent ri^ in the price of|
_ ______ _ „r"~ --- bideks, we are forced to increasej
'What do Caesar/ Napoleon, sO ’ dur rates in order to survive. As-
^4Mt to die
Fai "K. Deboo,
¦eet, ; Navsari. ” and Sam M|^kshaw have In ,our circulation is limited and we-
ij^y nsh gha jntia coBQ&on? ’’ According to the,Field do not benefit from the economies^
pkms-yet Marid^l, “long hoses. ’’ He then of scale experienced by general!
fd' Bombay, his preceded to |hvulge littie known " publication^ ?
-hl iw Jciwo* Tacts about w^f4tnown soldier: ^s we feel the communityj
S0hgk^d and minus Wellix^ton had* mote ladies having a publication;
1. '=J|Je lost it over officers ’ W>ves in his pr^enoe solely devoted to its wfelfare, wei
......I.:.... «« —. than staff nffirsarE tha nioht hpfftre ^j-g reluctant to Change Porsiancii
, *hto any other ]dted..o£ magazine.?
the bsto^ of Waterloo was won Aside from the investment we .
2? fields^ of Etmi^ pm m to launch PoMtanu, we I
and that in Caesar ’s Rome the
facts about w^lf^tnown soldiers:
incur a monthly loss . of over!
Rs. 3,000.
woman ’s husband. ’’ ’ institutional h^iT; we Tiave to;
Now for a little known fact depend upon ou£ readers and
his initials are listed at S.H.F.J. price rise, out be sub-J
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ci^i’Ar rAmtnnnififts ^n inin iftUSZkddt All SUCil CCr^lSlOllWS- O*
theirs eveo^ is wacbine. Why
gestures at the time to other
Towers of Silence;in,
tuinbirag^ow^J; . ’
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^e absi^ hot ajlowr
ing non-ParSis to see Ahe face of
the dead makes hq sense to any
inj^geht amt bi^ad^ihded iwtj :^ropE»te: answer
person. Kismdst urifortunate that an: trnsaelding,: P^ o out^timitye ' j-Th*
ed to respect emf/ w femov^ of these racist walls would
homage to their depained -i^ regenerate^ Paisfe into ibeooming .
‘ • ?.? --. -> ----.‘..¦L. jnaffe^feithful foUow^iOiour Holy
Pro^t Zaratlmshtra, whose) self*
lessv andr beneficent message < of
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Hght and honourable way to act, Devotion, Perfection and Immor-
it would be in our own^ ihtor^f tality i-” *-
tq7^htoyfe:m^7^^dodm^^t^ "
(rather, disapproval) of the ofthb-
majority of the Parsi community,
to /that/way idohcvliea. iho
pust yfe Parsis maMe iidiuman
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Lun^ beings ccnning to ofer their
g^napathies? Let th^ Join inj
le only ceremony of Zoroas-
pianism is^ society. Sedusicm iS
Wrilege. Drive the dog away and
lead the humans in. This will be
the sure way to heaven, for the
Head because the redemption of a
Zoroastrian soul fe t&tb throng
geh-sarna ot no-snma* but through
one ’s humane acts only.
iPAtff reli^pn can such be
f^hich maizes us , mQum the dead
and gone
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Dokhma-Nd&hini, our elders have
found to be inconsistent with the
tenets of our dear religion.'
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their dead as a suggested alterna
tive to their present method is
that fire is sacred, and it cannot
be contaminated by burning the
dead. ¦ '
This' attitude is rather mtslead-
purified and remains untain
ted fOreveri The ashes and tihe
bones c^ the dead can be consi^-
Parsis against die cremadem of priests.
The tenets “of our deib religion ”
are contiahied m ^e Holy
Gathas only and these neither
mention advocate Dokhma-
Nashini.
tog because,mlike othir elements.
fiw.' niirifip^ and eemAiea iintalni queshon fad^^tlw. emstMce of
ted forever^ The ashes and fihe
t. L.--i.'_L j _-. J 1-’'¦
M t6 the Waters of a holy riVet, .
(This method is followedt among
the Hindus). This action is a
syihbdic gesture: just as rivers
ultimately reach the ocean, man ’s
contiBbed m Holy
J
the CtMnmunity ” is the keeping
Of its members in one fold. There
are many instances where Parsis
have left the fold and embraced
other religions just to avoid
Dokhma-Nashini.
_____ __________ ____ ______ Personally I feel that if ^e
life m7y be fin^ly^iged ^th the elders i.e. '^e, Thistees of dw
harnam^.
If were to stretch die logic
of d^ tecred smd die;prp^e, we
can never stoop to us^ 'fire for
any siiCh bur^^d as^^ g^^
washing, lifting smbk^^ dr any
other day to d^ needs Wf Mhn.
The human bo^ deprived of the
soul, remains but clay and if it is
something profane, the sun should
never be allowed to shine on it.
But the sun shines equally on the
Sinner and the saint and the classi
fication of pure and impure is but
dmt e^ human calculate and not
that the sun. What is fireibut
a pordon of the sunl TMs vtew
ought to make the Parsis think,
deeply. > ’ Jaywant DaM,^ An^ old couple
try to convince th^ mdy surviving
^dn abbut^' ‘tJ^.^d^^ of
refofning to
in thi*
ultimate in everlasting peace and Panchayats, j^jumans and Samajs
and the Dastoors with shawls and
iomgnia, «dSot^,j^al fticili^
Iwrials . cremations within
ccmti^ di^ ccffl^yersy
wilt ero a ^idarity
will be maintained in the comrnu-
ii^^.
and the D^toors with shawls and
Shehery&r IQoosji
Sh(NM Parab leave Boi^y?
1 was quite amused to read
Per^ Paymaster ’s interviews
‘‘Should Farsis lehvn Bdttibay^ih
your la$t issue. Fdf your reacts,
I freely translate from a regent
;.. (
't ':
' i)
A. N. Bhai*
____ ,__ ig to Wn sta^ng
in .•^' cMIJeC as he had
been d^g eight yeans.
t jjM. -s aouiE lOT over mgnt years.
In your N^^ttiue^re is an |^dm^llitti^ iri1tat 4i«mxa
• our,wmnu- adt^inr ihe to?^ititer waste iny
time A Sub-iin^erTfere in the
todies ” oyer the iRsposal of the or ask^me tb start >
7 \ " hM^^ess^ Youj'fttst d
mode . OeO
dtifter that^ fevety,-c*i
. J."
> f -
ptecr wherevwft xaa Ccpmo I
ann^tely M bnq«» 27^ Januaiiy,, 1,]
IMng 4»it&^>givea l^atmieoiXB^ b.nobcM^r
They-jhR^R|tlaii^
J.ustic^"^
and so on. ¦ M ? anywhere else* It wily s«^ws,^at t^n excluav^ .
haro shQwn the way. opt to aU if the Parsis, who are probably MuUa but was - tpe
th^ fh^tdides. To get a some of the niorej extroverted view of all 1^“ '’“’“^*’„
ticket you have to wait for an hour pe^le here, suffer from such sad the Council meeting,,
in'', iL--- \ ‘ '*"'**’’
bank on Jusrice Road (Nyaya the most despondeht of times in
are invariably j stolen* . many a decade,
Frankly, Daddy, I don ’t fi^l that ' a,; a/ pita^
these are my people or this can
be nqr country. ”
You will find that this kind of
feeling of alienation and despon
dency is overwhelming people of quested me to point out an error
all castes, race and religions. In in the article “From Delhi with
f ___ ____ .. : : : ¦ ’ .* *~ . ^ *
participating_ in a_ discussion on January 1974) in
that anyone who-genuinely ¦suffers beat mentioned that Parsis ’*faave The Delhi P|^i,,
from a feeling of alien^on and always expressed the desire to be arranged ah open meetihg of all
considers himself a refugee coming c^renwted here, ” The reference to
from-a forgotten home, should be creihati^ is hot correc^
considered an Indiiah. Sb it seems L '
that all of'fis, irrespective of race burial hmhities only, >
or religion, because of bur pre- As regards the incident in
dominantly narcissistic nature face • which Ms Sandber Matker was nbt
this dilemma from time to time
and yet we must realize that there
zlteir rcHHis aftor goVai^ toel cgmpletely at bnne* 27^ January,,
and called them M hict it is d^iih^ whed^r y^ tt^/infppR j^;
Igr Niti Marg, Satya am ewah be a first ^aas citizen not to allow
the 4elegi^e^ ‘, r
: tou have td ^ai# for an hour pe<^le here, suffer from suph sad the Council meeting,. While we
i^0Ue. and pths hr a feelings, then we are prohaWy at support the freedom mid
¦ ' ~ ' ’ . ’ " I pendenceiipf, the JPre»,, VQV^ W
tig) are invariably stolen* . many a decade, appreciate that it womd cai^^
imy, Daddy, I don ’t f^l that A A. Deshpandb more harm if delegates do not feel
¦¦ free to a^ress their views Qp cer
tain issues because of the presence
of the Press. I understand that the
Press is not generally invited to
meetings of management boards,
committees etc*, wheate it is 4m-
portmrt that members should fee)
. free to express their hank views
and opinions.
The Delhi Ouster '
Mr Shiavax Nargolwalla has re-
dency is overwhelming people of quested me to {mint out m
I— ------------,---------- —
fact some time back when I was Love ” (JParsiana, December 1973
participating in a discussion on January 1974) in the ^cond
“Who is an Indian? ” Iliad defined column on page 13 where it has
a
3
5^'ii
the members of the Anjurnan to
meet the delegates who had cbihe
Mr. Mtdla and othej; delegate
spoke on the occasion ahd answer
ed a number ^^estiottstfised^
members relating to the meetihg
of the discussibiis in th^ Bxecutive of the Iteration held the sairie
have a iburial grouhd and provide to attend the Federatibtt meeting.
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reported by tha Ojairn^n; WS-. theyv^^re tol^^ttowards one . ^I^ObWMAB
Mwllfl, tn fhft itieWibers at the open another mspitecsf being-^loSes apart, .
meeting; I hnderstand ftiat W big^^ctoghW lcive^^^resj^
Martcer Was i^sent at ’ -
meeting ^d the recepti*
lowed ahd wiK free to ask any _ _______ __ _
question conOernittg the mornings hiiglrt say, and I, don ’t t
deliberaftons. I also understand be Wrbrig in htatin^ ti , . ¦¦¦.., ___ _ ____ _ _
that the Federation later issued a and her sister Ratah; ahd Nusser- hl^t I have been particulady inr
statement to the Press ^vihg the Wahjefe playedgreat part in in ie Parsi oommjihity f^
decisions reached at the Federation bringing him back. He was great their contribution to bidia ’s deV'^
meeting. . enough to come back. “To rieaM ppment, their foresight and unique
my darling wife ” h^wb^M^y^^h ttaticmmisih' and their traditiwial
' *.......... ..... blending into an alien community.
,1 have known Mary anbwala
jadhavrrather clQsdy. I thought
{l^ J^ditor regrets the: error) that you opght to have brought out
i i the personal tragedy that: be^l
Share it r- - i heri receptb^ Per 44 year 0I4 so^
- _ . * Phiro35e, an only chad, expre4 on
h^ost ,Parsis are conVipced ., ol j^Yth January, 1974. Hers is an
the superiority and ^eoay^44ss ^mide worth emulating, in as
reported by th^'Ojairh^hr Wfr; flK^vlj^re tdl^W^t
It at the op^ eaeh/ ’ofher.
ioh that foi-
Citbwkbi Jai^v .
Being bom by a . historical acci-
(
camq back to thq alwaykheen an
- 7“- ;< Whprity ;Con?imuniMl<^^
- --------- - , bh wrdng in stating tfiqt Mamja their problems, hotenbalSp.afld
that the Federation later issued a and her sister Ratan, ahd Nuss^r- uU^ht I have been oarticularly ini
•as one
ik 15!^
gOwaySi/beeir/^ of
S. J. Dinshaw
New Deihii
{No statement has been received
to date despite (wr making en
quiries for the same.—^i)
n
a mischievous twinkle io; hik e^ !
. ¦ ^BHtlCOb MANBhSHW
NfeW •'Delhi/
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The Green Fields of Habbal
I woidd like to correct an
errw in yotff editor ’s qolumn in k. ***
the last issue relating to the late of the Zoroastrian religjom Xor» much as that, tragedy after tragedy,
Cap tai n Tjikaka. Long before he they are so blinded by njeaqip^ess ^^dees more and more for the
died, he had changed his mind orthQ4o^y tl^at tliey have pe^efted deprived,
^mut being buri^, and told his tei^etS- Xn-f; • . v
wife Manija (whohas passed away
also) that, “for me the green fieW Qf ;
of Habbal, ” and he was put in the J
'of
me utKV iMUe fciavmg lu luc mvv V J,
Captain Lalkaka. Long before he they are so blinded by meaningless
died, he had changed his mind orthQ4p^y tl^at tliey have ppmfted
^ut being buri^, and told his
wile Manija.CwhoT^ Eassed aw
jbeh7 •" 1---—
shet... ,
i^iY remon. fo t^^h a.s^se
eyatePlique
ot HaDoai, " ana ne was put m me «xen7 If our religion is so superior . « -i, c
^Ahma at HabhaLuiad n^buried..
eager to share it with other men, Celebration Committee apd geM-
I lode back Wkh ' “ “ ”
. ¦ ‘ . ..
late Nusserw^jee Dinshaw and advocate
^onfot^^]
I f-l
religion is so superior
Babu V. Patel
1
eager to
repartees that
“K.K.” as he was
lareT it witiii other men, Cdebration Committee and gene-
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forcible conversion, ^ppene4 to the silver
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pared m Bombay by Mr.
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Hira|)^.j^hangi-
sa^'to the Cdhsul OWral of
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Ja^rial Majes^
^"le^angir had prei^nted the
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l^dhbted tour
b mha^ inter- ;
_, ,_fed thh Shah-
MonmnenL The
9W?j(K^red is a ;
> was thrilled
V ^e the silver S
Zoroastrian
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It is all
•^rst haU
^useum
Of^iia. It is placed
'¦ •*¦__ '_^ ¦¦ - • 'ij
’^tilMnn-.to find three
’"7"—; not of silver
off^other .lia^uan workman- 1
^ip, afiiongst />dlich one is from j
the Zoroastrw community of|
T «li«»A *fc/^ AvltlKifC I
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a v«
e m< ,
her Jlt^hes;
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Iran. There are no other exhibits
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that ^canie as ^s.it-
r-^1 ..
^tu(te;. e, btowM
tn feB lli^..toiiSee-
/ D «!- jectv A calendar M existed in the th? pictures of our dear
;
^e absi^ hot ajlowr
ing non-ParSis to see Ahe face of
the dead makes hq sense to any
inj^geht amt bi^ad^ihded iwtj :^ropE»te: answer
person. Kismdst urifortunate that an: trnsaelding,: P^ o out^timitye ' j-Th*
ed to respect emf/ w femov^ of these racist walls would
homage to their depained -i^ regenerate^ Paisfe into ibeooming .
‘ • ?.? --. -> ----.‘..¦L. jnaffe^feithful foUow^iOiour Holy
Pro^t Zaratlmshtra, whose) self*
lessv andr beneficent message < of
. .. «U» „. Bj^teousness,«nd. «l». Univasai
7 77 7^ Good aMiLOyb^iMind*
^rt7,f^l#'jMin„ ‘^_''-^ ,7
Hght and honourable way to act, Devotion, Perfection and Immor-
it would be in our own^ ihtor^f tality i-” *-
tq7^htoyfe:m^7^^dodm^^t^ "
(rather, disapproval) of the ofthb-
majority of the Parsi community,
to /that/way idohcvliea. iho
pust yfe Parsis maMe iidiuman
.••¦¦¦ .. ' . . *’ A.
Lun^ beings ccnning to ofer their
g^napathies? Let th^ Join inj
le only ceremony of Zoroas-
pianism is^ society. Sedusicm iS
Wrilege. Drive the dog away and
lead the humans in. This will be
the sure way to heaven, for the
Head because the redemption of a
Zoroastrian soul fe t&tb throng
geh-sarna ot no-snma* but through
one ’s humane acts only.
iPAtff reli^pn can such be
f^hich maizes us , mQum the dead
and gone
r
e4 r^pectthbJ^
J..' ‘
soul? afti^ tBie vg/ii^su^j c^
mony. . '
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let us make our religion cleaner
and more practiGd.
Dara J. C/oha
Dokhma-Nd&hini, our elders have
found to be inconsistent with the
tenets of our dear religion.'
I feel dris b
been made to 4^ — __
than to the *‘^|cS*^di the
quest to showtnore t^eration and
afford alterha^^i^Bi^s;^^ dis
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ibers of the Coougii^i^ who
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final rites and eeremoid^ the
their dead as a suggested alterna
tive to their present method is
that fire is sacred, and it cannot
be contaminated by burning the
dead. ¦ '
This' attitude is rather mtslead-
purified and remains untain
ted fOreveri The ashes and tihe
bones c^ the dead can be consi^-
Parsis against die cremadem of priests.
The tenets “of our deib religion ”
are contiahied m ^e Holy
Gathas only and these neither
mention advocate Dokhma-
Nashini.
tog because,mlike othir elements.
fiw.' niirifip^ and eemAiea iintalni queshon fad^^tlw. emstMce of
ted forever^ The ashes and fihe
t. L.--i.'_L j _-. J 1-’'¦
M t6 the Waters of a holy riVet, .
(This method is followedt among
the Hindus). This action is a
syihbdic gesture: just as rivers
ultimately reach the ocean, man ’s
contiBbed m Holy
J
the CtMnmunity ” is the keeping
Of its members in one fold. There
are many instances where Parsis
have left the fold and embraced
other religions just to avoid
Dokhma-Nashini.
_____ __________ ____ ______ Personally I feel that if ^e
life m7y be fin^ly^iged ^th the elders i.e. '^e, Thistees of dw
harnam^.
If were to stretch die logic
of d^ tecred smd die;prp^e, we
can never stoop to us^ 'fire for
any siiCh bur^^d as^^ g^^
washing, lifting smbk^^ dr any
other day to d^ needs Wf Mhn.
The human bo^ deprived of the
soul, remains but clay and if it is
something profane, the sun should
never be allowed to shine on it.
But the sun shines equally on the
Sinner and the saint and the classi
fication of pure and impure is but
dmt e^ human calculate and not
that the sun. What is fireibut
a pordon of the sunl TMs vtew
ought to make the Parsis think,
deeply. > ’ Jaywant DaM,^ An^ old couple
try to convince th^ mdy surviving
^dn abbut^' ‘tJ^.^d^^ of
refofning to
in thi*
ultimate in everlasting peace and Panchayats, j^jumans and Samajs
and the Dastoors with shawls and
iomgnia, «dSot^,j^al fticili^
Iwrials . cremations within
ccmti^ di^ ccffl^yersy
wilt ero a ^idarity
will be maintained in the comrnu-
ii^^.
and the D^toors with shawls and
Shehery&r IQoosji
Sh(NM Parab leave Boi^y?
1 was quite amused to read
Per^ Paymaster ’s interviews
‘‘Should Farsis lehvn Bdttibay^ih
your la$t issue. Fdf your reacts,
I freely translate from a regent
;.. (
't ':
' i)
A. N. Bhai*
____ ,__ ig to Wn sta^ng
in .•^' cMIJeC as he had
been d^g eight yeans.
t jjM. -s aouiE lOT over mgnt years.
In your N^^ttiue^re is an |^dm^llitti^ iri1tat 4i«mxa
• our,wmnu- adt^inr ihe to?^ititer waste iny
time A Sub-iin^erTfere in the
todies ” oyer the iRsposal of the or ask^me tb start >
7 \ " hM^^ess^ Youj'fttst d
mode . OeO
dtifter that^ fevety,-c*i
. J."
> f -
ptecr wherevwft xaa Ccpmo I
ann^tely M bnq«» 27^ Januaiiy,, 1,]
IMng 4»it&^>givea l^atmieoiXB^ b.nobcM^r
They-jhR^R|tlaii^
J.ustic^"^
and so on. ¦ M ? anywhere else* It wily s«^ws,^at t^n excluav^ .
haro shQwn the way. opt to aU if the Parsis, who are probably MuUa but was - tpe
th^ fh^tdides. To get a some of the niorej extroverted view of all 1^“ '’“’“^*’„
ticket you have to wait for an hour pe^le here, suffer from such sad the Council meeting,,
in'', iL--- \ ‘ '*"'**’’
bank on Jusrice Road (Nyaya the most despondeht of times in
are invariably j stolen* . many a decade,
Frankly, Daddy, I don ’t fi^l that ' a,; a/ pita^
these are my people or this can
be nqr country. ”
You will find that this kind of
feeling of alienation and despon
dency is overwhelming people of quested me to point out an error
all castes, race and religions. In in the article “From Delhi with
f ___ ____ .. : : : ¦ ’ .* *~ . ^ *
participating_ in a_ discussion on January 1974) in
that anyone who-genuinely ¦suffers beat mentioned that Parsis ’*faave The Delhi P|^i,,
from a feeling of alien^on and always expressed the desire to be arranged ah open meetihg of all
considers himself a refugee coming c^renwted here, ” The reference to
from-a forgotten home, should be creihati^ is hot correc^
considered an Indiiah. Sb it seems L '
that all of'fis, irrespective of race burial hmhities only, >
or religion, because of bur pre- As regards the incident in
dominantly narcissistic nature face • which Ms Sandber Matker was nbt
this dilemma from time to time
and yet we must realize that there
zlteir rcHHis aftor goVai^ toel cgmpletely at bnne* 27^ January,,
and called them M hict it is d^iih^ whed^r y^ tt^/infppR j^;
Igr Niti Marg, Satya am ewah be a first ^aas citizen not to allow
the 4elegi^e^ ‘, r
: tou have td ^ai# for an hour pe<^le here, suffer from suph sad the Council meeting,. While we
i^0Ue. and pths hr a feelings, then we are prohaWy at support the freedom mid
¦ ' ~ ' ’ . ’ " I pendenceiipf, the JPre»,, VQV^ W
tig) are invariably stolen* . many a decade, appreciate that it womd cai^^
imy, Daddy, I don ’t f^l that A A. Deshpandb more harm if delegates do not feel
¦¦ free to a^ress their views Qp cer
tain issues because of the presence
of the Press. I understand that the
Press is not generally invited to
meetings of management boards,
committees etc*, wheate it is 4m-
portmrt that members should fee)
. free to express their hank views
and opinions.
The Delhi Ouster '
Mr Shiavax Nargolwalla has re-
dency is overwhelming people of quested me to {mint out m
I— ------------,---------- —
fact some time back when I was Love ” (JParsiana, December 1973
participating in a discussion on January 1974) in the ^cond
“Who is an Indian? ” Iliad defined column on page 13 where it has
a
3
5^'ii
the members of the Anjurnan to
meet the delegates who had cbihe
Mr. Mtdla and othej; delegate
spoke on the occasion ahd answer
ed a number ^^estiottstfised^
members relating to the meetihg
of the discussibiis in th^ Bxecutive of the Iteration held the sairie
have a iburial grouhd and provide to attend the Federatibtt meeting.
As regards the incideht in
permitted to take verbatim notes
4 rii
NATIONAL AND GRINDLAYS
-the international bank at the nation's 8enriee. “‘"'
' -- .i^
<•• '
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mori^ «8>ed.-'Yes,fbcth^hadcb»ac. vert/ ^
S tbelF^^a^?^fthg'^e ter^^d"^ery5^pi!^i|Vte Jefewfe;/5Yet wdUenrich it; byv
reported by tha Ojairn^n; WS-. theyv^^re tol^^ttowards one . ^I^ObWMAB
Mwllfl, tn fhft itieWibers at the open another mspitecsf being-^loSes apart, .
meeting; I hnderstand ftiat W big^^ctoghW lcive^^^resj^
Martcer Was i^sent at ’ -
meeting ^d the recepti*
lowed ahd wiK free to ask any _ _______ __ _
question conOernittg the mornings hiiglrt say, and I, don ’t t
deliberaftons. I also understand be Wrbrig in htatin^ ti , . ¦¦¦.., ___ _ ____ _ _
that the Federation later issued a and her sister Ratah; ahd Nusser- hl^t I have been particulady inr
statement to the Press ^vihg the Wahjefe playedgreat part in in ie Parsi oommjihity f^
decisions reached at the Federation bringing him back. He was great their contribution to bidia ’s deV'^
meeting. . enough to come back. “To rieaM ppment, their foresight and unique
my darling wife ” h^wb^M^y^^h ttaticmmisih' and their traditiwial
' *.......... ..... blending into an alien community.
,1 have known Mary anbwala
jadhavrrather clQsdy. I thought
{l^ J^ditor regrets the: error) that you opght to have brought out
i i the personal tragedy that: be^l
Share it r- - i heri receptb^ Per 44 year 0I4 so^
- _ . * Phiro35e, an only chad, expre4 on
h^ost ,Parsis are conVipced ., ol j^Yth January, 1974. Hers is an
the superiority and ^eoay^44ss ^mide worth emulating, in as
reported by th^'Ojairh^hr Wfr; flK^vlj^re tdl^W^t
It at the op^ eaeh/ ’ofher.
ioh that foi-
Citbwkbi Jai^v .
Being bom by a . historical acci-
(
camq back to thq alwaykheen an
- 7“- ;< Whprity ;Con?imuniMl<^^
- --------- - , bh wrdng in stating tfiqt Mamja their problems, hotenbalSp.afld
that the Federation later issued a and her sister Ratan, ahd Nuss^r- uU^ht I have been oarticularly ini
•as one
ik 15!^
gOwaySi/beeir/^ of
S. J. Dinshaw
New Deihii
{No statement has been received
to date despite (wr making en
quiries for the same.—^i)
n
a mischievous twinkle io; hik e^ !
. ¦ ^BHtlCOb MANBhSHW
NfeW •'Delhi/
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The Green Fields of Habbal
I woidd like to correct an
errw in yotff editor ’s qolumn in k. ***
the last issue relating to the late of the Zoroastrian religjom Xor» much as that, tragedy after tragedy,
Cap tai n Tjikaka. Long before he they are so blinded by njeaqip^ess ^^dees more and more for the
died, he had changed his mind orthQ4o^y tl^at tliey have pe^efted deprived,
^mut being buri^, and told his tei^etS- Xn-f; • . v
wife Manija (whohas passed away
also) that, “for me the green fieW Qf ;
of Habbal, ” and he was put in the J
'of
me utKV iMUe fciavmg lu luc mvv V J,
Captain Lalkaka. Long before he they are so blinded by meaningless
died, he had changed his mind orthQ4p^y tl^at tliey have ppmfted
^ut being buri^, and told his
wile Manija.CwhoT^ Eassed aw
jbeh7 •" 1---—
shet... ,
i^iY remon. fo t^^h a.s^se
eyatePlique
ot HaDoai, " ana ne was put m me «xen7 If our religion is so superior . « -i, c
^Ahma at HabhaLuiad n^buried..
eager to share it with other men, Celebration Committee apd geM-
I lode back Wkh ' “ “ ”
. ¦ ‘ . ..
late Nusserw^jee Dinshaw and advocate
^onfot^^]
I f-l
religion is so superior
Babu V. Patel
1
eager to
repartees that
“K.K.” as he was
lareT it witiii other men, Cdebration Committee and gene-
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!ne4 to the silver plaque of
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•. Hormuz-
At a recent func-
forcible conversion, ^ppene4 to the silver
'iMWtJprWB W
pared m Bombay by Mr.
with tHMCcea^nwms^
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diar Choksi.
tiop held ^at Cusiow Baug, Lady ;
Hira|)^.j^hangi-
sa^'to the Cdhsul OWral of
• '1
Ja^rial Majes^
^"le^angir had prei^nted the
..—1
be sent as a gift to His
Office:
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liesidence:
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presently; h
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delisted jtQ
Sii
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li«i> and to-
l^dhbted tour
b mha^ inter- ;
_, ,_fed thh Shah-
MonmnenL The
9W?j(K^red is a ;
> was thrilled
V ^e the silver S
Zoroastrian
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It is all
•^rst haU
^useum
Of^iia. It is placed
'¦ •*¦__ '_^ ¦¦ - • 'ij
’^tilMnn-.to find three
’"7"—; not of silver
off^other .lia^uan workman- 1
^ip, afiiongst />dlich one is from j
the Zoroastrw community of|
T «li«»A *fc/^ AvltlKifC I
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a v«
e m< ,
her Jlt^hes;
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Iran. There are no other exhibits
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that ^canie as ^s.it-
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^tu(te;. e, btowM
tn feB lli^..toiiSee-
/ D «!- jectv A calendar M existed in the th? pictures of our dear
India-Bangladi^-U.SArMmico {vie
Coiombo-Cochbi-Caribbasn Pdrts)
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Colornbo-Cocbin'E. Canada-
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India-Bangladmh-lnddnesia-Stieits-
Hong Kong-Taiwan-U.S. Pacille-
VI. Canada.
India-BaftglaOaili-liidOntHia-Seaits-
Hong |(9n8-Wiwan-U.S31.H.*GulU
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Scindia Hawie, Narottem Morarjee Marg,
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JBe Bttngii«uare ipeapt forphe
* ejteluawefiAi^ , jof ¦ r- .
.^8ifas!tri^s.KAF^9W-^®^^^
,^d?W4:ero99S^ parted xuabl ,
^^gti^ i
^m^§fied .. . .
in the Hall of the bun^
retiring rooms. ’
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tifl^
niciv nqpr? _¦
^"wUhi 1
P^chayat ],a»nqhed at the behest I
6t the orthodoxy its strongest I
blow against any move for reform I
in the controversial customs and , J
ceremmiies surrounding the dis- .J
posal of the dead. By bowing to I
the wishes of those Parsis who J
believe that the presence of non- J
Parsis at the funeral prayers-de- J
files and impurifies the body and
•the sacred fire, the Panchayat .
9irted»tqd>a 4PdWing segment sQf=the
SiggnipiHlity non-Parsis
.iQ^d^.and f
ly sUengthsned |he
le J,opponents
h:
»>
of
now
dokhmanashini who may
capitalize on the Panchayat ruling
to initiate the fiood toward the j
cre-ffiatoriumS-Wid burial gfotsidsT" ”^
I With the Doongerwadi estate
ifacing a deficit of Rs 25,(XW
I this year arid a projected od^mt
Parsis at Dooriger-
tl^adi came to a th"' ’
mmeral of Dr. Major Aderbad jB- _
Irani (see Editor ’s Q)lumh> peesr^b df^ant
Ident of the Iranian. Zoroastriaft.* * itts^leait
jriinan. i y.- . ~ >
the ceremonies
^ish daughteri-in-Iaw, Barbara, l^^^rs,
the day of the pcddus hP
ectiott 5vas faydd to her pre-
ice bid two daj® lat€» at the Pam^yafr;
5-“ss:-„=i ““EKKs;
her husband, Dr. Daryush
" ’W: ?
^subsidies.
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jrncome, most of their assets lying rc^.
__ ,
fject is difficult.
A very Holi^-Jhan-Thou attitude
Ad(»bad ’s only ofl-sprihg left Afe
m^ 1 ’ \
The news of Barbara ’s presence
Barbara Irani
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a statement
i^arsis woul|
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-
-— - familyihelnbers tdi^
hall and adjourned td a side to the effect di^
not be permitted to . enter the
duMgZw while the praijers ^re id
sp^ lil« wild fire throdghofit session. Tlie
thecommunity. A letter appeared Doongerw^i staff w^authorw^
^-is^rd-Hind applauding to prevent,non-Zoro^rians from
f«w'4m 'l^r thfc entering.«nd if they dW so to stop
, the pr^pfs. With naounting cr!-
airism the - jesoljlj^n and tl
in J the Kc^
head:.: af< the act
?r AderbadjB. M-e-Jan^t
5
¦al ceremonies wa§„hi^ 'O'
so to sto^
»n and the
.,,, ’uid
in a couit::
^aie ^j^g^adi tru^
used for
^¥^^r^^^^ad and t|
'Would be i '
gg^^G^b-the' trustee^
ter^eind .the . resifiij
the rescrfptipn which required But with Ms Nelie NoWe aud
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to f^m nfes add re^Wti
ptemt Iw '«c^jxeK»* ^
ip’
tme WO1' -'^-K
Si
PX-'tc'S
•^s
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t
pfoiMmifa|ira
say % Se<^Wfi£
^y^^at ,
B&l; Alt w^ > l^o'j
Ag^wn,,^ Ijx Delhi, and.
Jamshedpur it is not the custom.
I’ve asked many people why it is
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whole eotm|p^|
1^
a say in the
^ah is a ver
:‘ ^A survey
,«nd'Wi
.-- i**-' n owivejrj
the ,P&S; Alt w^ dift&jiUJ J^or mbtfoj r^ula^lS^
™< "fathM7m- ’ d^rst^md, cbfoing ’firG^ a fe^ tniiKoW® ’
lat
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a^w« .why;.>im-
ti -^l^wed AU
so in Bombay. "Th^- reply the Parsi ceremony; a Parst j^^
Panchayat mafc^^the
-?T.rJClv^X. " i^i Iwu . •' 'jf!, ji/.' .)^ .
xCi-S .iKicXi*
ing after the poor. It ’s ^ry prafee-
wofthy. The only other community what is in
t
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/‘‘Pcppte ' tell ’ me the Parsi com- ‘’’¦w
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fby^We
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y
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»j'jj ahk-! ¦wiiHT‘W*aiF. .
dbiishedm ^1 the0aM^^' I
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^Misfteeih ali the^fertti ’ j,
- Parsi papers, ttamt^i^-Wft?' > ; . 7
¦¦« Buagtp
(hl iSbee the ‘Sachkaf cei^e-
., m
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’ it
Is dawe vi^h
ift in this contexft^t we !
these fator poets who ihre fait
fObtti
’’9
said Herbert '
to interview awt
tal tfae front fine. '
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DOCTOR
¦r^:e^,frart from his
feiJowLipoets —ihdcthat is stamina.
- Not i^t it is^iSBcessEffily s.virt^
fi^pwipaets —shdethat is stamina.
- Not it is^iSBcessmily a,virtue,
. bpt >&'Ifertwr^ ’s ‘case lamina
endmr$R^^;-<^*E^ ,
* hmk d^Mthfas^iifas
to fate lhe patiblem squarely, which '
^ves .to his, best work a note of
inftegpi^ thati fe haxd to ignore,
4. V 4 V’ _
Sevejral factors serve to distin*
, J.!. -J
them ‘being the fact
8
****"’’”h<^,^ *Uttar Pradesh, he
th^ , somewhat • unique
aatiion.-^ a poheeman who
poetnr. This is, of course,
not tp ,sugge?t that every police-
mam .in Httar Pradesh has new a
TC^.'choice becoming, unique
wHting poetry, but there is no
that , the perspwtive that
Wings to his work is
¦“'* w^ii;hy tbe singular posi-
guidi Daruw^a ’s poetry, not the
gSSasrWteT Of them being the fact
Wttty B^pector General
PnW Uttar Pradesh, he
Sfn^tPtb^: somewhat • unique
SiSe^porti^; This is, of qourse.
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A'
ft dripping bfood aead- haadSts c^awl-
Stalactite, l^om^ h S3y ^;4r
forms itsdf into Jirffatltely
sinister creature aM beeches a
Harattag\ Even if ho wew to.]^
ject his impressions in prose tii^
woifld make exciting reading! in
poetry they take on mythic
proportions.
Daruwalla writes about the
'Indian landscape^ its people and
its myths, witii a tmijitnm au^t
ittg throng »W J2^. J
cosmic vitgflity and a sn^c
» ••i 1j£ l,.L.jii.,^' _•—. iSwAvkli^Alw
S?'L ijuj^ J V*- *’W^ f'*r»<"'!-' ' ‘ '^_
tendency to, pie|E j?wt tiiose asg^
’ that^are mot prtssShle "to view
objectively. Yet he forces himsdf
to view even these with a controll
ed chilling irony that wWps hxs
1 alone p(^.^
my barrel into them as I squeeze
the trig^r ,
The rest cdm into the 5«k !
His poetry reflects the tension poems their driving fc
arising from t^e horror ^foat he of ii^ny is
feel? over a j "7*“
the cool pipfegsumjal, manner in
which he is .trained tq haiyjle it.
This detachment,' which' is ne<^-
saiy to the policeman, is m-
vadhable to tiie poet, for/itji^Ables
. d
(
1
¦d
ii
feelings into shape and
poems their drivingforce.^
luc uviivx IS varied mid ;!rw^
certain situation and euised. in the,m»toreE^^8S^®t tne
- ‘ Joem itsdf, in a.>^ ’»*ch ®®
“To Writers '
Yau u^ f^.iq^te (m Jndiu, ^rl '^
Tins u^ pZeore! s ;
wedding gues^ <» .Coleridge*? W^e-ia a po^ l&e
, iriad,. . w story ..‘.‘i .'*1
m ,
kSXt-* WA*V ¦.'¦¦.?•**»TT^-T»-J.;
ition as relendessly aa
varied and sul^'dis-
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P9«mis fsuch as, , urait,
•fY lwial/ ’ ;Curfew-In a 2ikS “"^e ““ *J"’the ’’^^
*” SS?helTtiiat of, the ufelihg
f. Sigpiermnce, as a j.' , ,j„..
moments, of
‘"P^^S
<*Vi
«* *
which
atone, ti
;no
ority^d^
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r?' »•
L
•e
rS
groiind^jC^
K^ridifti m
s"«it ,ifet*s
c<
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a.^
?ef/- aSrfU*' ’ ¦* ¦’'
'’’h. it
S'«
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kte-
>-<, * s
WiirwiOi^-
p«Hehis5
la <
Ml
e tcs ^ve it a helping
very picturesquely retells a. fai^y Ittrnd. '•• • - 7
weB-kndum m^h and quite amaz
ingly concludes, ‘*we can ’t forget
you in a'huriy ’ and of course
there is quite a generous sprinkling doesn ’t matter What actually lujkS
of Bljotia womm and nasty bandits behind the impressive barrage of
to provide local colour. In fact, - -
at Ae risk of sounding completely
thedhaiitable, cme ’be^s to suspect
why Daruwallahas been published ® poem entitled “Guru ”,
so). ’^xti^isivdy abro^: his' woric in reply to a critidsm made by
cemtahut all &ose elements which the Gum who says,
* a -^^igaer would be thrUled' to
ijnguage, too, is
the atten*
Banw^obsei^_^
This again reinforces the feding
that often in Daruwalla ’s poetry it
words that he shoots out. Is it a
pretense that he hit^self is aware *
s
“*T
IV
a as^b
psxjject the _ drettm
beUnd the word, ¦ '
po^ry behind , , ' '
-yfe
V’ '
I wcndd have^
'.ed *'•
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C-
a'^m^i|i^
and etea’
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4.3 ¦’ it
fe? #?4
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It
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&
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pr ’l
tiiere was
the mask,'
* MWioii
J jigit W to ”4
ab^f, it* J rwroto. iwa '.fl
poems-. h»mediat^ly,. Other po«i»«
.t^dte'Msore ting^..- . ^^zfl
;! “All aft neq^,an audienq/ ’ said " I
DaruMtalla, who seemed to feel has ¦
sense ot isolation very keenly. “I I
miss the need of a feedback. In I
a sense it is like writing in a I
vacuum. You can ’t escape the I!
fact that you are writing in -ah /, p,-.^
ali^n lai^uage, We are not coining
any new worcls. This may be due
to lack of a. (fesire for experi-
inebthridn.
‘"^ere is nothing obscuto 'abqut
Oderh poet^, “ said jSaruwaUa.
“Modern poe^ has a r^evmi^e • iz b.
to modem times. ” He fdt ^ that K^rsi KatraR
poM< written in Pointing to tl^ Bbhe
had a greater awareness of toings
outside the realm of their imme- If, as" Paul Valery says, a poea
diate experience. If not hiany is a sort of a '
people read poetry today it was stimulating a response that
more likely to be due to a perma- the reader to recreato the'* hX-
nent aversion to poetry -that they perience of thb poct, ‘ then I ban
would have developed after being only record ihy 'frustration at hot
__ __________
_ _ W of^^'perh^
hf hhnd. (’’ he was to u large eSent cut away hot worit. becahae dne dflfes
. ¦ . , from traditional Parsi iafluenc4 work
1; ,-Yon ‘^nt write poetry in a and <4id not believe that* these
(< ;? . ko — «t_ -1, .... .... .i.. .
s'
-t
i'*
!
me closer to
itole in the raw,"
j:_ ..__ „„j
ur so ngtany people
pat a policeman
se^ ’^^ , __ ,
i Darnwalla who could
see^ho yeason v|
found" it odd/ ____ ___
should write /poetry. f ‘Why do
1 ' peo]^e tiinagin^ that a copy*writer,
for instancy, Js better qualified to
write poet^ Aari a policeman? ”
lie asked. ’‘‘Every British poet must
haye fought in the war, killed and
got wounded, but this does not
ab^f , i|* '•
I ' -
¦i .'^tt
•f; i
*¦"* t
/ . got wounded, but this does not '
// mean that they became insensitive, modern poet^/
I; - '“Poetry must have an intensity,
11 make n; thrust, if it is to have a
i.L- reljevance,to the times, ” continued
I ” D^walla who has neither the
poet nor the metallic veneer
V*
L.? ii
'•.Win.i-MM^ 'Ll’!
'¦¦f!
I
‘ '“Poetry must have an intensity,
iu^C w uxiual, u. ii IS lu have a
... -Feljevance^to the times, ’^continued
'pMe, fish'eyed look-p^ the ^tereo-
, tjflpe poet nor the metallic veneer
.1 orthe stan^rd^-polic^ihan. Datu-
f i' ’
outside the realm of their imme-
‘macl
I walla who wai-Wt^y ndP'too
’¦ to, Ws ,p^tj^ in
4,^ wu«uu imv^i ueveiupeu alter oemg uu
^rtertwitoS-® fed “feegh doses of poetry Ip sifeool
to answer aU^the kmd^f to S
to. answer all the keep .^*spi^
,,H%^g livai4:im<^''<>.>^di^ ’
z'/
the 1^^ "^'!>trp ’ iijpt
tanpre li^e B:
_ ¦' Is' determine __ _ ____ ____
¦ ¦• questions putWo him^ precisely Sifjlli?
fpuiisuo mm^ precisely
£/ and correctly, ¦> without divulging liv^;ijnohfc' < .hisrdHte
^' - ’ nji^lMng mort than the matter in Ae North,, fel?> t1|nt
f 1.
he was to a large extent cut a ’vay
sji-q
ustfation at not
wC.'g^ .'k^
tdt
ifbt woik/becatia^ dae d^
...._ -------- ----- ------ s l^atrak has collepiiqns of
X vT'' J! ¦¦ could have shaped his outlook on poems to his name, A JourruA
life ivery much. It is, however, the Way and Diversi^ tiie
; Oacuun^V; he went on.
’ completely to take it oqridus to note here that .out of Wayst'Ae, while his mope
the fpurj poets considered, Darur> pvk,«*o Lur*. Mvim iwowi»»,
19*“®*'®;afterwards. People walla is the only one to have pages of Opinion. . . ’..c
^‘ Who write in vague terms about married within the co mmuni ty, •
>. ^ the ¦ moon and the stars are not
sure of themselves. Calf loves and
coffee house despairs sound false.
; Ti^c^ ai^ juvenile preoccupations.
1
Wayside, while his mote
poems have ^n resery^'^-^
- L-
In the earlier
., . ,__________ M^TPorfetfiy*
. juvenue preoccunanons commented, Daruwalla normal, l^^;.^^^IWtiOn,- fen
1 P pations. discussmg/whether his vision was poets to, hsve-A-;Te^ Gmtoe'h^.
‘ I 'i “Pecq^C who ask me about my essentially one of despair,, /‘t immndlalis»d':<^ rcnw^i. ’Oik-fite
Hob^ ’” he commented with
/ no question about it being
%obby ’.. ‘'Poetry makes cert.*,,,. ------ ---------
’Witong a poem entirely corrupt; “I want, to
is I ^ing out of the fe®® W to the reality of it. 'Ifer*^ '?;
blood.- • mally l don ’ii.compromise,. ” sui^
Daruwalla 'With a hafd dpg ’ift *!^^ itj
®^toh«-'?A8dfe "t®n^:^1his v^ec,'
»to-:,achMW» comnMwntsp.c
“I haye been writing poetry, preoccupation ./.WJ
^riops poetry that is, for the last which is no^difll
J
work, often say, ‘How is your think I may have reached the half- h^,jj^«rRB3fs,jydidfc. .A
"**¦?”* ’ _ a mark; There is nd reason ’-to brg(^^'.c^>>*|ght Jmir^
wry laugh^ implying that there was beheve that it Will not fake another IgpiSB^b ’ miilrani —'-i- • s’L’-. ..^Sk .'-j
«> .?.>«n kifJirtShiaao.
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has brou^
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in p
B^did%V,
Sing ' td
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4
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And ti metaphor ^or
'landjdt^,. _... xuv^wui auu ki»
reao6bfr to it. In Diversions by
V
•s'-
— e 4-
I myst s^k the hard interior
, J®fe wst^ei^ the problem
tfibough the is^st of the poem and
then, ends:
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)..f’
and^t^^
?aaf the Wajfside his oon^ns seem
ipere diversions, aU
, his old forays.mto tfa^xfepjv^ ©f
things,are left-.aside, and we.,are '. \ MX V
treated to a \ ___
apparently amusing accent.;,of
dysentery where we come across
the sage observation that, ’ 4
w^lixdc^u^^^Jj^
Tr
m/
to equate his difficulty in finding .
the ^fimate mystery ia the jjc^e,
to his difficulty in writing the
I . /..... ,
problem to a game, where the
poet seems to have chosen a nice
spot : (deserted beach) on an
(«*
m a cornppsition such as
p^ms op' Vanity^ ” Ofr^ -
reyealsjhat bepeath the bapteripg
to his difficulty in writing the tone, he has a painful awareness of
P°^’ — the ^dni^xities of life and the
iPadeqUacy of his attempts to
understand it. This awareness and
-- ... . , ' , the realization Of his own vulteer-
appr<»riate day to have gloomy ability are what give a validity
thOi^ts. (New Year s eve), to to Katrak ’s poetry. < - -
TiHs ’Mre^K^'W= ’’fe tapiK^ngfarprC^i^
(though I admit sbmewhat
since it was obviously not 'the ’L
case) in one of the best poems in'"
the series. “The Shot Crow ” where wm-de-plwt^ol ftksha
tone, hb has a painful awareness of
5*»F.fc*at4‘
on
ill. f
J# regent moi|tfasi^r^!s-|M
i r
the series, “l^^e Shot Crow ” where
the poet shoots a crow, then
agonizes oyer it while the crow
' lies half-dead, exposed to die
u^^ttr'poeriSs xT: ?« cm
" - ‘ mends only. One ^ould not
grudge Um this, since long ago
Katrak warned:'.
My real jofT is this -.
4 re^ospective jotimaf to
be kept precisely,: *
Precisely stedbfg facts that
¦ were interned’ ,;'
Without oi ;'
_ ¦¦ittte^^‘onh
saciuskm than* to n^
¦ -!> ''J - th^
g|£i ' ' ' “ '
K. Since both ihe disguise and
the mannerisips ot fiikshu K.
appear to- be pretentious in the
cuHo^r*^' extreme, it is one sx.^ a
second time, performs a suitable
funeral and then composes an
;3
J i
thing n^ deprived of
.beaslMi^
th3bB3-'t«r< ’
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.4
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would remirtd
. . .
b^n '
1
&
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Caliii
AdVtHlSintr lamytlne .
twit ' ' ’ • ‘
Vaertfyina wfta n»a find. .
eadwaen the tw« | b{da -,
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4.
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euis. Bring haver: w;aifiaiHP8'.. "W^
?, of a well pjcriid and d» ^''
» )\
ot a weu ^nd ,
GOttcemr he of man as a divine creaW \
oaes, sell any image, ceased to have any meaning.
rtOV^Ai*
is oidy to be expected that
disassociated..., MM|
11^ in a splendid garret
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ip
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k
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F\
’’a
^ST *. mJTTX..
•<,ffL-Sfcr ^dY. has tt be a compresslm
rf,
>
'i:
sense data.
“It is not possible to 'undb^ ' j
stand an equation in nuclear
phyrics wi^otrt some* knowHd^
of the subject and the same is
true about poetry. < Most priiple
Sire too lazy to'naake the eflcUt to ]
un derstand wetry. Beople are We
' to ba^^ied.
to form* their own 4
, - ¦ 'r
A reader riiorid
l^rstandj^el
ep an(|
wa|^
i
sb^ am
don ’t WL^ „
opinions so they let others ’ mafc^
it for them. A reader should
make as much effort as the i»et
to arrive at the truth of a poem.
•‘Modem poetry is ob^re,
.earil oOier; ”. said Katr^l^ing
”' 0^ of his window. Th^ are
, “ tihe die ririlfemW ia* Medievri
1^1.
SrcmiS*understand ^5 Other. “Modem poetry is o^re, ”^*
- K is enough^or poets to have these be continued, “becau^ it is deal
‘Thdy are
Wt alight little
f knowledge throurii which to a
^n§^~ wit^ material GIW« PAel .
WAnw*g^ ""^ere may, of course, obscure. ' ft is not a chut^ma * > .
he J^ience, but they bq^. ft la .not . intep^^^ly,. Prt ^fwMMrfamyj'. AnyOfW
w<» ,dA baf A sense only be eaves- ob^re, but^reflecting an obs^rSix-t fW^nwnw „ . <
, universe. ” . " “ L- j. —^,,
Katrak was equafly doi^ ’to-S ThS ?tSfare ”K
Katrak fdt i. was S' i.Sr*5i»*Ss
to keep in mind the g^ poet sl^orna^ oe.
;i;^ngM coMe<^ ajproadj, "4:hat - gains its
next e&tiofi would be read by but they don ’t have a meaning fo^ Jh^ die
KKOOO people. But in the post* religion. What vou have today bri^ it. Like Dsjpwslfa^
Baude$riris» I would ev^. say, -.w- —ar-t.~. - .r,-.-- .- -.-,-5 *--
postwSiot era,, the aadience has Alexwidcr bnmt dowWwRV^^^p^l
¦ .'-¦ ' .,iWry »;>?*-fuwgaet«y.. »^W**y^
-^Wis the ¦ 'WliAw^-^riuh^ •
You have all ' ..j vem warnj'&alttli to- reeoajng frrin, Jt mad^n--
happeniis 4« the 2Qth ceWW- il» pSk *^ftSShd^
life^ry -ftetSa^W -
ip^bleto g^er a cWerei^ Ane^
view. N i .A”- ¦- ’''I'" '
,con»^
view.
‘I hAry^^v^rsa-ii
^i^ds Ibe
»v fr
rf?.
to-
’a
I '''**’^6
R thB MW
«h t||^^
. JjpJgrMmsW
J ¦
‘l^'Jhas aljji^'^ a faculty
obsesvaHon that saves idj:
sd^mentalusing his
for ctample in' these .line
'PuWic Hospital,*
, everything shared '.
Moults skin after skin fb
expose the. gjd?berinfy flesh
'bf ^a need,
;Yet .one can ’t help but-be,^rei
minded of “a ' ' '
i ‘¦•4
-¦,^J
<¦
'-i'.
vl
<
s
the Bo^'W.Md.^r
in tht^ poems
X
Rw*- —
¦ '^^ g-
imi
r dt ap:
,,‘S<^’
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J‘
' jflPil
p
dH? fieal directly with,
Patel is inclined to examine
X'sub)W vdth the routine ,
1 |b(^bd$ prescribed for a post
mortem tot example, in the
first poes^ ‘Qn Killing a Trefe ’ or Auden as tp what
the elegy, for, John Kennedy, make a good j^t.
’i3i fl
Pafol is inclined to examine
}-ar
reipgrk made by
hat he felt wowd •
Ap^reptly* like Flaubert, Patel Uke, commented A^^n,
seeVl^^ incthodical dissection ajpund words, Mia^nfo^ to 'Wfiat
to lay the subject exposed before they say. ” ,Witi5" Patel
us,, but as an autopsy invariably tl» curious'foeliag that he isn ’t
finds a cons^usion, Patel ’s poe.tic much interested in listening to
eyhumatiotts just as jnevitaUy what the words stqr, so long as
impose a (xmdusion. In the poe^ they listen to what he says.
‘C^ Killing IT Tree ’the verdict is
given in ,foe first Ifoe itsdf; '
It takes much tipie to kill
& treei *
While in another poem the eon-'
elusion is framed into a question;
2s. there reason to j^lieve ..
tf^ st^ents ,
Of Dacca University were
l^tet^ ttwoi dur ouml
-.Perhaps jPatei is less conscious whd^-1 „ ,
•wh^ exposing the d^icate webs liVesina flatby^fooklngtheHattg--
fading that bind cme indivi- ing Gardens, around whose shaggy
'^“dual ‘to another as in ‘NargoF or green head, tnrds can be seen
even ‘Grandparents at a Family wheeling around =91 alow practised
Meeting. ’ His technique of work- circles. Patel talks slowly, " There
ing is like the spider, in his poem are pauses as he searches for the
of that name, who sits still watch- right word to expr^s what he has
fag from the comer, weaving his
¦M^eaning matter
Distilled absorbed
rmr^ and heart.
*
»*>
dical dis^^ction acpund words, Mia^nig^
exposed before say. ” WitB Batel
He sholtld
to
I
4
The Doctor Prescribes a Poem
Gteve Patd is a young doctor
who. has at first ^ance all the
solemnity of a general practitioner
who has had to spend his entire
* ; life; looking down at septic tonsils.
, The moment he ^iles however
he, ' Quires the carefree light-
' ' hsM^daess ¦4!r
J^<|^ 1«
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I
in mfod, while in the background,
a clock ticks, fully aware of its
own Importance.
“Any poem is a knowledge of
somet^g which you did not know
are delicate irony before; not necessarily <
foe^ents as for earth; shaking, hut concrete —
, i J sC^
anything
____ . ____ rete a®Bi /’
' ftv^ Uhe epi^ph measurable... usually oyer-^ «
' ' . leo^-^'di tim such
d®*®*^*^ hisnan helaiEdo«yj^||gt
Is
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imifiradictmQr is
ton litoe any
yTf a po.«n i
out,, pur* But e|^. thiqg you pi^ tj||; i
,^rid —a duB''',^4png^
- -x w
it can be made to enrich th'fe .vi
“ .......... ¦ " ¦ - "¦¦' ¦¦
I have tlie. i
', in the
cljifii '
^^use 4^s does fomMrihto a poetic . m^|hQf.,'
,^ere is no poem. If la^^ fb starrf on its own^.a^y-
ii chaUj
P<*t
not'L_ ,^ ... ... ... .,
I Bn0n_^hagi ^^.ta '.svd^tle
, seu^i!H “hdt. lo^ShproVe pie tr^c
or grqw ,ni^« trees-r-but feat it
does <' _
convin^Rk
tion
I \*i.
row n^e tre«
changeWittgrf
?
WQioatt J»u love—lias to
real'jxJet does this. ” - ¦
Talkti^g about himself, Patel
am completely
'' fairly liberar with his mnd-
i parents comingtrom a “rural^arsi
ff4rt its func- village in the West Coast. ” Though
his ^and-
'rtiral^arsi
V
r
h
2
&
1
> V
J
'J
^ke, often Jussawdla* is only ‘
mu^W. Patd tosTstSThi^he''^^ imiw^tfes
iiuxvii a Taioi aud uiaL Lc iciC vuatedj'os ht
a " •‘'biSogical "boS^ “^th" Ws ,-
‘ “Wordsworth ’s face Is a coutt^
cqttage,^ His village loves him ”
of a person he has ' encountered
. . , , , . , - - like the “drab expatriate Land-
I’ve r^d^A phrtlcu^r poem to any- an intdlectual communication, but lady Mendelssohn ”, but he re-
:
whereas reading' in public is a :
. differtmt sort*' qf experience. I still circling around steli^
suspect that a g^eat mtmy people
have not tried to read poetry? Any
thin iff l^ight cannot be acquired
offhand. It is not an advertise
ment that dqiih be whisked off
the, brain. ” j 1
Patd is dsi> qrtist and has
had his own .one-man show. He
has^ a curiouff technique of incor-
pomthig new^per photographs
•into hb paiadn^- Inscribing this,
a critic u^es, “A newsphoto
sqmrEbg.^ ilmqtion 'in honour of
freedoih .. the Chief
Minister p|wi&ig. ,-. nhght be the
poim b<^M«|nure for a painting. ”
anOoiJud
«rtai<7w
certain nu
rin us can
an.inddent^
soh^ivl^O
that a g^eat mt^y people
: tried to read poetry? Any-
’ Part of .tlie. ^joymeht eomes
from the technical expertise he .
’ brings to his work. He has a
Hopkine^ue feeling for' words. ,
-‘ from the techak^al e;
ttsrs ’
\tiiesE 'hwarently
'that
»tes, **A
?(1 sitea-
'K
1e
I
Adil Jussawalla
Last Stop, Land's End
Coming to Jussawalla ’s poems .
one has the rsabsfied f^ing
dealing with a person who,knwa
what a poem, is supposed to- do, .
of dealing with an expei^ who
can examine ' the words, ass^
their < value and place them m
such a manner as to geeh the
maximum effieet out of tfaent«
His poems are; like a kind'of •¦
carefi^y assei^ed ehimihg dtxdt?
whidb^one can ^1 apait hnd
assemlAe widtout danu^'
r
-n
S 3one to'-^e nfedi^sm.;2
t< 1,^'2
J«»a^
y
4
a
^.amd,
f#e
lyiae ’s ii
3
whiqh is spontaneous in a poem
like *Land ’s End ’ bit sK^tly
self-conscious in phr^es like; '
Single flame pods twin; twigs
. > frill to flowers; '' \
'Leaves unfurl (hr&flgh hfami
a greenshape . ,
Or in the poem\^^i^- ’3^iMiaB
servants,
Dark '$kin^ seruiiig'dishes to
the
nigkt than grapes-
‘ ‘ ** ¦*
> there is a frequent ui^
>and.'-^4bt|lM (hfted -
which .
^ y^j^aheaes^
4>
«-• ¦'%'%.
A4«'4.-* ?
¦%*
smug -.
boasts, ’ . -*
,‘; ^y letqfs a
u in haptp;
And-^eace a Uudiine humming,
. m the deep; , *
blind to the irony that her P ‘ that -
rhyme, T'
• • . - ''i| ’ -vxi^ aviiu
the scythe and the pendulum is standing on. There
Cut her together. “o 4nnguish^ -editto-^rltlfrX
He al^ disi^aya'a piquant sense lecturer and
of humour as for example in tlK telephone,
‘Obits, from ‘‘The Wnl^ ’ ^ ^atong why he did fed
‘H 4 iwues inchned to discuss his viewQ
about poetry. “What ’s the use of
?*scussmg my poetry just because
T1'• 4;vr.>. !• am a "Parsi, I d^i*t even pnfi«
^camni^iJus le^i^ifito inspect ---’-
t^ Japa^e fir fiis lawn, i may oe ournle or
has -nothing toX^wito mv
samurai on casual hm-se^ :. noeticph.
Before he could touch iC^
™ tlto^^rammatic conclusion,
.^<^^^in h Si^ SSS , he- «-
whistUng i>ei^nd‘ .
the tinsel
He also disrftavs a 'oi
,» . - 6
*
editor--crttii
t 6
A'; .7
writer, M time lecturer i.„»
octosional poet, over the telephone
explaining why he did l
inclintto to discuss his
about poetry.
.J - ----- con
sider myself a Parsi. In any case
^® . fact that I may .be purple or
nlaz*lr hn« z ¦¦<¦** . -T- !
Sider mysdf a Parsi.
yw isngj. ,''¦¦» W »(^,^-'
^diporaryCj.Jndiap .writiaas
Peogubs;]^ he I
the* nSB^r a fui
- ..¦ fot
^<^^d to ^ve
*t i further considera-
-.WJ
tion. -
• perhaps as
this that Jussawalla
a result of
oa»^ cannot heii ¦
poetry perspeetire.
... in proper
“I don ’t like tois
>< h
J.
-atten-
a to poetry it must be on
'¦ .4, *
s* 'B
r«
:i.li
: N,
' J® attempt to
.-^ "^^Wl^^e^reetine
f of him, ' is^
he hates'm
i -rf'flie jbimdlrt^' h?. s^
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sW^rflSSBOiS^' - %'iTwij:-' s.* 4)W’
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thsrt his {•»
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i a vacuum. ¦
, hot iBUea-estbd in it?
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businessmen,
ofneRj joS.' w ’Ae , 5ie entire gamut of opinwnw^
demanding thfe weekly^s expressed. People felt that me
. : . : community was dying out because
of ¦ Parsis getting married at
a later age in rMPder to hayp a
fairly his^ standard of living and
Girls said ^re is a shortage erf,
eligible Parsi men, since a num
ber of boys are abroad and out of
reach; those here are below them
fer to marry outside the commu
nity. It became amply, evWent that
the Parsis fac^d a. crisis, that
threatened to convene a pub- leading doctors,
s ‘nSroxT4’Me gs wr«?*
niiy ts.tib^ inevitable chain of r® ’
the American neV^
l ygMiA^ly y j ig^tm, discovered vrith
its. inn^W* enough article (Me
,;j'.,-5P-Z' ^,-r y--^- ¦• - , PU.MXXV..1VJ r- a- •¦ , , ¦
among^ Parsis today: the jehangir Guzdar (he refused —
di^^osig of tl» dead. have his photo taken for publica
tion in Parsiana), who photo-
of reporting the Parsi commu-
several others
__ J <------
correspondent be recalled.
. Indeed the sound'and ^ry was
of such magnitude that even a
actimis ^ch coverage trigger^ off. chorus
: ¦•.?¦¦¦¦¦¦¦; .< .’ ¦ ¦¦-*-----;*-x—¦ ¦¦ r*rtt*«»*>cr
weddy discovered with
it»'inamw enough article (Me . ---------------------- --
facing p^) ba tte most exjrfosive publicity shy photographer like ij^ause 1 large mimbet emigrate.
amons^ Parsis today : the ToUanoir Gnzdar (he refused 'to rai-i- —sj ic r- you peally mean to that gveryone was aware of h and very
i yfj^ vwDuld make ite *......... ”
d^cieasihg. ,
niaiiriiihii word of
berths, d^ths add dWrees hnd the
' gap between births ^5®^ deal^. is
increasing. We 'are. physically
dying out, therq- is ho questK®
bearers carrying a Parsi corpse into
a dakhma, was forced to take up
~ , . ..X 'T.'xu.. “rVy
^^y mean to wggest that
s^idated flmt Time had been
”in8mtea"to.wrue rue piw: “’•/“'r a. ta^i^runu, "“*-7- -r —’
beh^ of those .who We faulted cudgds in defence of Trme. •
hfinSff^l^^hanav^? a sef®'
tist ^IZofoastiWi scholar ques-
tioned **on who» invitation and
^n*rltQ i^ty ” James Shepherd of the
iiwe .Delhi Bureau came to Bom-
bay fo write the article; The Jam-
e-Jamsh^d in an editorial alleged
certain Parsis had the article pub
lished *‘in a foreign magazine
under a pMudonym ” and were in
this way “tryiag to spread libel-
* lous views iqijainst our ^iritual
procedure. . .i'we request the
Parsi Kinchayat to meet the
- American Consul General in Bom
bay and enlighten him to the cor-
y .rect facts. They should also meet
the Ambassador in New Delhi and .
him to protect on behalf of the
Paist-CommWty ’ it is neces-
., saryxto- ttBce W help of the Cen-
• tral to do this, even
tif» ‘’<|Mi^'ft|'-.,^
under a'^iuj^ym ’
Oo d9 Mt; ” Nadir Mulla,
Para Panchayat,
I
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pages' available ' for xjBrqp^wuMw
Parsis, ” he wrote hi ad'Mgi^-law
to The Jani'e-Jamsked.' ' z/
Tn an interview with Parsiana
Associate Editor Feroza Pay- 1 ‘x
master, Gazdar said the article about it.
“was ‘inspired ’ by letters to the
editors of various papers by Parsis
who had suffered urfortuhate ' Wi--
periences with the dokhtnas. One
»>.
Accompanied by, Shepherd,
Gazdar photographed “two foa^
rals, one in the afternoon, .^d-
diaiar abotft 1^ ^^toaSwi, tte ioB-
I*»& «»« tsiteire .teeadiBd into-
Shepherd r«d a _he could hardly hate.«rtwvmach
letters and ‘^as inttigu®dh<®ot^^ - . *, — ' _•—: -rx—
to suggest a ptory ’ ^'-bii?d Weat'^wa* — ,
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dtoteest f^dmftial -dovw by We Pacsis$ it » ba^*;: 5i^.i^hier
vf ’ lft a v^»n,,of IBe as eot^t v
' ¦ -iM^en tobW-Ww; \f
and ligW-T>^WaiMma-^d Many Parsis. want- tW; oH - |
'4
-tj ^»rt»re ^d
,-- '; . {^rtm^tsfic^et^dty^teli^.
V
1
•Ih^ween
A spirit of evil and jtorfaaess^ custom changed.
1^' the^ crown of the hill
rernains a jun;^ ’duck with
girded by -two concentric walls
that protect it from the en-
i-croaKdu9ents of civilization. In-
¦ side the ’ vraUs, mid die trees, , .
• are six low, stadium-like m their dead---after the fiesh
fun:^
and b date palms and banyan trees,
Ahriman; The Pabps worship
Ahura Mazda in the form- of
fire, one of the three sacred ele
ments. Because the earth is
also sacred (as is water), they
choose to bury only the bones.
First Cousifts. '¦' Gftet 'Jr^- |
tiotts may have to change d ,lhe v|
Parst community is to sutvive. . I
Indian Parsis number only -1
about 100,000 > woiidwW: I
65,000 of them are concentrated I
100,000 woiidwW:
;* are s« low, staaiam-u^ oj weir acau —’duw «« ik»u . «__un^ Thev am an un
closing Residente^ Bonib^ has beeii stopped away m Ae 1/igigntS ooa^inM^.
towers cd ^ence. Parsis started twdve Of 'fcMBa ’^
‘towe^ of srience. it IS to tjojjj the tower ritual ,, 15 njajoy modem industries-,
these ^structures that the citys the Parsi community itself others helped lead In
Persian ancestors, they are
; Zoroasa^ians^ foUoi^rs of a , , __ _ _____ _ __ _ _ __ ?
• m;^th-enshrouded religious pro- complained, a wall was quickly often -marry fir^^^. »
f ,phet named Zoroaster who built to screen the tower. But Generatios^s of inbrtod^g haye .^1'
•’ Wed some six centuries before Parsis now realize the shortcom- caused a
Chjaa^'-Zoroaster ’s exact teach- ings of the ancient ihethod. ,;qf»h heredat^ imiesses as. T
hfg ;ih as passed The vultures still come,, al9ng dj^tes,^..mlepl^ and ce,^m, ,J
*he^ ’tBsaws. ‘ ' * ’1
hj^irisex apartments go up
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jfti but the tower attendants —a
view of the interior of the
towers, where the dead are left
aS carrion. Visiting one of the
hew buildings, a horrified Parsi
was able to see shrunken
cthpses stacked in grotesque
piles inside one tower. After he
complained, a wall was quickly
- - .<1.
Parsis now realize the shortcom
ings of the ancient haethod.
faith is inherited, Psm^
,iX*
- ' ? lWt| ’s Parsi community has
Wdi further diminished by emi
gration to other countries^ but
that Could possibly the reli
gion ’s salvation. In '.'ISfefW York
last week ’, when Parsis frojh the
Eastern seaboard ga^ered to iL
mark the spring e^uiitox widi I
a New Year ’s testis^,v manyrjof 4|.
' the couples present were mixed
marriages .in . whwif Wfe. ^arsi .
* father raises his children in ihe jf. .
- old rdi^on. -The PhwJs.erf .the J
New. World (as as a if
Intha) have also .hhw» * . if
lutio»vpf the jmri^ ^btej®^,, 1?
inat^g bo^. Aa vl
fcfi jW"T '>
r' tehehi Of dwit. faidhr^ •’
fwsi-m,* WvltM, Am CoA
F0^ ele^ric^ -
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From hia .p«?ch at<^ the buUd- attemirt is made tot
nc, Ga®^ 8a*« ^‘tbc toneml^* teadi it^ cfamn fer^i^-
ng up are the rituads. What does die memorative ^fage
hl tS> of ttot hill where the last i Hn«^t know. India toumaih its 25di
aspects are paid bitor« tbe body
» taken in. Ctooe dnside they
^e nassesf^sc about the^Z^roastriau rdi^^^^t
jftavp the .body near the side of they : —-t, - .
^e wall , where yo«» can't see it tlwir ethnic identity^Parsi^^.
but the birds drag.ythe body while zoroastrianlsin is not a hyu^ reu-
fiearing at it aeft^bring tt into view. gjon. Mo^ of our ntuals , are
eonst^^on v^ers .on the ' ru. u:.,ei„c anH an
|uildina?watch the proceeding,as average
diourii it were a big wms/w. ¦ ’
f5yUow exactly what time tlw
fcnewd wai leave.- where it wll
dome from and where the Jo^ j^ore about rengioiu «u«
Kll be placed. As hmore hi^- means. You have faith that there
5se buildings come up there won t . 2 .^—..An concem-
Se any . point from where you
dan ’t see the bodies.
walls are they (the Pattchayat)
going-to build?
, !. -Ml
lie
V
'¦‘.'•bazi^'^ b«<»]
to teach it.^
are the rituals. Wh^ does the
religion say? I don ’t know.
Pwsis today don ’t kno^^
.hey-swT^^nr^ol ’ **' -?*
memorative postage stag y tor
India toumaik its 25feattto yia^
of ovwfseaacyerations. ” The toW
been woStogfor
,---, is a bwto on
fesdvato to In^. *‘It ’s' 41 im
colour/ hnd I’ll be writtog flie tei^
myself, ” he notes. Among thr
assign mtoits he has
is a Six 1 *
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Among the^
ieirturct
^ment .
I took a picture ofi
adapted from the Hindus, wd -ft^ure^
¦ Parsi only knows the is a six page yitotogi^nc aemurc .
and o^rves Miem because on Zubin Mehta, eminent ,
S^^n^ght to. We W maestro. “About seven or «ght
?ha?^^S w^t to kno ” y«W >»*. I .‘»?k ? PV=»« :
tnat „Kat it Dasturp X>abu sitting inside a dre-
tempto. did not JW any jj^ve the courage to ’«^
jTwetoWtytoii^. yoti could brieve, The Jhto >
quite
ide^ against this
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menders
item. •
to the views of lay parsis, o«vH«y cmwaea
Z “• m
shortcoming we put our question,
^^^® Temples in Bombay? ” fo
Y^® ^®PP®® to be trustees of ^e
J^i Fanchayat. As we anticipated that they would
feoSjS!** ’ “ ‘W'Zwal capaciU we
express their thoughts in their
members |f miv tSst,
js^ato, mstituttpn, committee, etcefera.
^v«i, foij^ Fcpliedi all emjphasbing tot they were
capacities and not as
wal^ Shiavax VaiiCand F
we»a .S^IWa,
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should
rn s
si ¦ ¦
i!^n !: expressed my views in favour jrf rntfrcl
mg some of the Adrans irom public platfon^^M
occasion. I have also tried
C|.e problems to some extent although without
^“'y 21- in my todS'S.
jy^ote to the Trustees of the F. N.
finn?^ that in view of the dwiw dltn^ ' ,
S Trustees had putT^
^peai foR .do»|tions in^e f>ess), z ’ '
S® ^?yj^attendajJcB-
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to the fire temples?
SS5*'a*i«±C' “~ nm
^n large, one felt there were
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(tn order of arrival) with minor editing.
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the number-of Ijfe
xHxgv, uuc icii mere were
We pnnt below the text of their
p.
<lla
the present drcum*
^^Mhe number of Fhte . Temples in Bcanbi^ is
*ne reason; (a) The Farsi
K^*^° .from certain residmttiid
lOrare^htt.jH
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I do fMl. th«, imder the
toore than One
present circum-
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residential
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® e^re^ye two
•rci.not a§e to
(he ^fa^©me;;^
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Names af fenvies ' ,
Grant
Names af Fire Ten^les ^eith Aetdresses
Rntanji Tato, Hill Road, Bandra
r»ia A^an) • ,*?
” Paathaki. Near Bandra
Aafl;«j
Baharjeote
.,^tioa, Turner Road ^thddAiS
Victoria
Qiow^atty jf Soratjji Vachhag^ndhi, Hughes
Colaba
B(P>>Ui)Cohba.BombavS
Agwri, Hibt Btmder,
” ^Cofaba, Bombay 5 «
'^, -?^WWata!raL!Sr<
If. Mwaynn Jiasseraauai Rosthmfa gamna . Pars!
SnSASmV ’ ' ^:j_.
xff 0 P^**^****^^» Bwnbay 2 (Indawalla
f2 Honm^i Maneckji Bhiwandiwala; Adjoining
Girgaum Road,
» xT®® ’“’^Sy 2 ©htwandiwalla Adaraan)
15 a’T'^'S* Bom^iWadia Adaran On Wadiaji ’s
^7“*“ Street, Boo^y 2
CWgdm ’s Adaiaan)
w
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Pars!
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Locality
Jogeshwari
Karelwadi
A* j^b^ ’7 (Mitto^ A^ff ” ’ ’
Mebwaiui h^dgi Pgtet Ja^'
i' ’ BiJb&W
r" (Mehila>Patcl Agiari) - <4^, ^^’'
Bai Motlibid WA
Joge^wari. Bombay 60 ./Qriginally., Rfli
Motlibai Wadia Agiari oF fflha
CowMji Miramji Bannji, (tn Bipii^s; aK
^ST'^mb^Thakordwar nndkC^w^
Khetwadi ^oCov^i A^ecl^i Aahbimtef/ AgiyH gttpgct.
»>
' NearGoltritha,
Pallortii 1“
Girgaon ____,
• (Cama Baug Agiari)
Mahim Bd^ Rustonfli SonnawaUa, b&hah
(Sooaamalla Agiariy, Mori/RQad.n<^
Coatnctm Jtepg, Mtdiim,
Mnrine ^^^Amshe^ DadaMmy Amaria -iKr
Lioe$ walla. Junction onst&farinnSt^;rt^
Road, Bombay 2 (Spdawatarw^^ ^
Mazagaon Fraatji Nassei __ '
M«»ga(m,JSo(nbay-iu '
„ 53NanabhoyJamshedjiSapIa(Rnadmnf« “
powder Road. This Agiari was
and Adaraan shifted as Da dg a ^h^^
Parel
., . Atoshjh^m at J^obi Talgo?* ¦ >,• ?
5U Anjumin, Dockyard Road, "
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JM. Jlonbay J< OCgrani
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&a^ 0a|» Street, ‘
®®™»y 1 (afoBadhi S^Aflffirn
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(WtaoaegjjiSettA^^
AM^asii
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S)»dbji Kai^KCwalla
ir Ccdony, Tardeo, Boml
i*Tla Affiai^ V
waQa ^i^
WalkeidiwaiF i| Sonb^i Khurshedji Thuthina. Wntfa>ri, .i«»r i
.,¦ Bombay 6 (Thuthi Agiari) >¦
Road
Wardell 2,% Honnusii Dadabhoy Saher. Sa l^ s
Road Warden Road, Bombay 2d. ffi»bar in
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, s^eb^ ej^e^ea their opinioh ti&t ir ^hld view "it
not be pmmissiblfi to. have an Adran on or four Sacred Fires wi thin th&
. DOOngeiwadi hAd, .My Obsequent suggesti^ to the building. - -3^
Trustee of theXgwrjf. to ^t it to the new colony , t to......
atPhnawasMt^ptobletolita.
¦ ¦ mto schools because no agzary as It
to be converted into a, school. It
to run a Communal educational
Goverrnn^t gr^t I i L.
of converting agiaries into, communal hospii
is justifiable only in a society where there are
sick persons than healthy ones. But I believe "wf
I am talking to a Gommunity which has not
this nadir Of depravity. Not yet In a society whbre
there is still the play of healthy hearts and virile,
intellects, there is certainly a need' for temples and
intricacies of their design, elaboration of the tituil
_ „ ___ _____ nor the splendour of gold anti wealth exhibited
mor^^an qne Trust). I have been informed con^bute to their essential success. I , am not mf
‘ : favour of converting them into, offices because 8&%
the Fanaswadi At^^behr^san nt sl ve^ la^e of the cgianes are not situated in office-areas. I am-
dential houses; What T am rather anxious to do .is
to obtain the maximum advantage of the precincts
either by selling or by leasing the premises, some
of which are situated in {wominent wd strategic
areas and would fetch'extremely handsome prices.
This would also partially answer query No. 8.
6. If the premises of the agieu-ieis '^iiie sold amd/or
leased, out of the funds . you ,cem,r< apart Ihpm
maintaining agia^es- and Pifiesra® in' a'more
and affluent manner, utilj^ shbst^Wam®< “ts for '
other charitable purposes tike housings the homeless.
Is not a sacred fire burning in the heart of each
and every binmn ,b^gl - r
7, I do riot tltirik that • in respect of. any agiary
there is a vnlj^ defa»|14 or breach csf trust on
part of Trustees^ but callousness and indifference^
yes. There are agiaries with substantial fun^ at
the disposal of the Trustees which cgn be managed
in a better way having surplus, funds or lands which
can be utilised or developed in as •
8. More and* more p^le .
exptom tprop^ly
^W»v«VaWI . ¦
me Parsi population of Bombay, the number of fashW narrid^
^i^ng/s 61 Fire Jempl^ ^should be reduced.
The reason why I feel that they shouid be
reduced is that there are certain Fire Temples which
S more , or less private in .dnmacter inasmuchr as
public hardly patronises .th^. Just as there is
luck .of an irid^dualt eq^y them is the li;ck of
^l^ples whetiior are-Parsi Fire T«^es or
TmiM?166 or Mu^ffin Durgahs or Christian
|W«*es.
3^ fa my ^vww;j
---------------- ___
Id view that if is more eca
¦''
rair two, utrt^
be p^im^il^ to. have an Adran aa.
Tru^ee of the X^SWfK. to ^hift it to the new coKaiy
at Pare! was hot aCcej^able to hhn.
¦ ii I ,v^ld -give first and > oely preference to
' the constructicm of residential, buildings at such
sites since is a very imj^rt^t and urgent need
oi tlw community. We have enough hospitals con
sidering -the arte of the community and one day if
they are nationalised the property and funds will be
, acquired by the Government.
Ci, Yes, where po^ible there can be no objec
tion to selling the agiw land and getting a good value
for the same. The money could be utilised for the . .
construction of buildings. If the Trust has no land worship. And in these Houses of God, it is
of its own, the Parsi Panchayat can offer lands on -
yi^ reasonaUe tem^(this has already been done
wiUi ]___ I... - L__ __
^t ^he (government zof India wa^^ to purchase
price (the AtasU>ehram is completely surrounded equally not in favour of ‘cehverting ’them into, resi-
nbw by non-Parsis) but the Trustees refused and
thus a' large sum of money was lost to the
communitjr.
7* How can an agiary be wdl managed xhen
there are not enou^ funds for kattd and other essen
tial requirements, jet alone painting and repairs?
8. This is, difficult to answer. I see a number
of Parsis, who^ when they commas patients do not
wear the sqdra and kusti. Perhaps the zest for Reli
gion is not, what it used to be. There are certain
a^c^es like the “Dadyseth ” at Fort, or “Asiaji ” off
lainington Road where iZoroastrians flock through-
Ottt the year; there are others which do not attract
more than a handful of devotees per day.
1
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of one
l^tibut
jspitaf^. Ws
ire are mprte
bdiei^e^TOaf
svhs^W axaouni
(ike bousing^he hon
I
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we expiaai .^perly throagbLcnie
the basic pbildsophy
amfliis Creator. It shoold^^MMne
i^uced is that there are certain Fire Temples which
less pi^vate in character inasmudr as
public harfflj^ pa^nis^ .tl^. Just as there is
l^ples whedior Ih^; . are- Farsi Fire 1^]
(fiada T1
I'-
?
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t'
lp ’^oj^ ’0or places of
im‘-U t,
¦ , f >h , .s'> t, f
we to
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.V^.<7®Wr qe^ik.t^reby Att^h Behrc^^,
f ;^y ' ^erfe . are nfjj^ t^
MB yott mean ogiiiirfei >•
m^ peojde to Fire Temples there
j pcHnts I should like to mention as
.0 Fire Temples and are of utmost Ww^
.
fSj
just'places < where a Zatoastrian . tnay bow
Fire ap4 <^er sandalwood It jj
f to the
It is of the
of Wre as
aOrad be
one was
purpose of going to
___„____ _ _____
.iB(m;^y then I would say that compared to our importance
temples. Temples, wh^er Atash Bffhmm or /fettzru are not
..For mstapc© m the Tardeo Area there ar©,as many ^S^ry, are nor
as^ including one pn Gowalia Tank Road j
Utmost importance that, the wgniy^any»
*• y j tfePte. of worshippers visiting fee taught by our Prophet Ma^ShSi sh.
IS dwmdlmg for a vanety of reasons spch correctly understood^S Sould us in our
as ^ivant of time in these jdays of hard life for daily life./iF one doe^^
wSwd fthe high cost of san^l- at the time of leaving fed Rre tempi® feaa
JiTinS when one entered it, thS fell pur^ of going to
of therealpmpose the Fire Temple is not a<^Xd:*l&fo^ately, Fire
properly understood nor , Temples are looked upon by most Zoroastrians as
5^*^*°*’ my note. Naturally, therefore, fee name of prayers, which are hot understood and
Thgre “conionies are perfonnea. »lie significance of
to^dvreth ’^ffi^nZn aS “^“.snch which is not explained. Fite Teii4»es mist be places •
etc. where worshippers of spiritual force from which a Zoroastrian can
go in large numbers as compared to other agiarics. ‘ --- z,oroastnan can
febu^ even in these popular agiaries, worshippers
do- not flock in as large numbers as they used to;
befofC.""'"' ’“"
. depends on the Trust Deed of each
5
the right inspiration, morel and spiritual.
s Tbe second point which is equally important is
of the priests attached to Fire
Temples, in most Cases may not be aware of thfe
agiarg aad^ endownif« funds provid^irft th^
category thoi I do not name of prayers tibtomdi Ae
*>“ community to support formality o? the du^i^ ffXn idea^«O
r Tf rti ’p sheph^ j(^,|^ flock and that he tmnSft
category, then h is for the tnis'te^ of ““>“”8 the ri^t jn^
correct princijgles of l^ie. t'lPKl ’l
not come under the popular category then I do not
name
of prayers, fee"
phest is fee sheph^d(^,|M flock and feat d^ lnmi
« If the < •
trestres Of that
a^iery tb Cl^e down fee same, thep th© pest Use ‘ ‘
the relea^ plot would be?'to build Rebidential
•Quarferaferifee^^r arid lower middle <3asp Farsi!^ •
To the que^iofi of utilising fee rele©^'^plot fet ’
Schools, Hospitals Or offices*, my? ¦ ahig ^er is
definitely NO.
4.1,1 have ahready ejipressed my views m.4he above
answer.
7i Minagemifet is entirely fee affair of the
trustees of ah agiary. It is only a matter of opinion
whether an agiary is well managed or not.
8. The religious education of our children is
nowadays ne^ected. The children are not taught by
feeir parents the basic principles of our ancient
-
Ahura Mazda, the Creator,
r - - ____ ____ _____
a good ahd fruitful life. It is a link which unites
not only man to man but man to God. Religion
te^hes. u^ to be humble, to be kind and merciful 7 In fee maih v&t
and to be 6f selfless .servicp tn tt I:" m ?tn® mBfe. yeSi
i
p ¦
l^b^s th^ two pcfets
att^ed to
P. F. Khambatta ¦
1.2.3. I do not think that there are too many
fire-templ6s in Bombay, though T do* fed that a few
ye situyed in placy whye.little use is made of them.
there is any need to
ly. ll^pre however the
^ly4lL~o£^a particular fire>
Qwut^munity ’s interest to
'iMung schods or hospitals
if' the terms of the trust
permit siuch an applicafiefexif its fends or ah order
can be; obtained from the court for such change.
whether an agiary is well managed or not.
8. The religious ednnatjnn r^f mil"
nowadays ne^ected. The children are not taught by
their parents the basic principles of our ancient
Religion, nor are they taught to have complete faith in
Ahura Mazda, the Creator.
Our Religion only lays down the code of living
“bt oJdy man to man but man to God? Rengion
te^hes. « to be humble, to be kind and merciful 7 In ^he main v&t ’
Kis dq<^ed by the Trustees of a particular. a J
a&ary to close it dpwh, then their fends, should be’
to be utiliaad for th« ?
objects of the'l ’Tttst/ ,
4.5.6. I do not thinl^'^
add to the number in'S^'"
fullest use is not.beii
temple, it would be ii
divert its. fends to es^blii
or for .previ»'**(
Sfc?^
^’ttl
'-^e pi
tadon I Mvl^s^ay is
^1^: .^read.
1
Jll
c
'-I
, *on «w9i*
have to
io the fire tmnple to pray, God
"i in the.Jhemts of people.
ifiiOidd you feocoe or attract
pe^l^^ They idiould.go wfllinf^y. ”
^e iwally bn^' sandelwood
2 .and ' ^aces '2$, 'p^
' **c»ntoms we have
wWch would meam do*
«Arvi4a , 4*1va Ava > **
^t?i^ . The ^^ous djEQa. Ynu wm ’t
in &e.hemts of people.
terested-
- (to >4^t an
l«terd >4pss Ik
Mithi^p^sed
“are suppled -fey Tji
ffgiaries are weU
fare not. ” She feel^^._,_.,.
^t_^vote enoui^ t«K»
room lor improvement ” as far as
>4jess y
iCT'Wthere ‘
il^^jSoine '1
^tuifis do I „ , .
; to Mithi feets the agiaries cannot be
1^ Api^o Both of these she
“customs we have
I fe^owiag since years, doing
wid^ which would mew do<>-
a.^Y with the fire temple. ” fare not. ” She feeli
prayW, ” and - also that “ftiere ’s converted into other institutions,
room Jfor improvement ” as far as “Charitable inkritutiws are very
cleanliness concerned. essential but not at the cost of fire
f - temples, except n^be as a last
SfKthi goes to the bgiflries about resort. ”
J-
¦ J.; ""II ' / '> L:,; '"
„¦¦ " ^Ifiinstied KMi^anL 5^^ A^sUnt Purchaiw Officer,
buoy. TheLiatter he considers “a
type of charity to dasturfls
'. ' ' .* •¦ 'I -
would prefer to give even W, 30
paise 1 spend on sandalwood to
the dasturjis but since it is e;^-
tomary to buy sandalwoody I
do it. ”
I AaecQiafed Br^eries and Distiller!^
I “I feel there are many, about ’
I c . '¦ ¦¦ "
¦' lodt^d after. Ey<
I f<^. of praying or going to the
fipfS^i^tBple, >and the^ is no way to
attract' them; It depends on the
How ’can we attract them? We
cannot decorate the fire temples
• from (^tside. ’WK<
goes tc^theX®^
1 get up '^^earlj^';.. —
^Q4o 85, some o^iOhchfare wdl
'¦ ¦ -- - r^^rone ’s ^tting who have no other wmme.
modeihised, peoplostoday are not
ile, md the^ is no way to
wi^h^^and fvyill, p| the individual.
Kermani would have nothing
t^|^ti^^^|e^ heed arose,
' mthodox Parsis
have nothing to do, so I go to pay wouldn ’t like it. ” He would pre
homage to God.' 3f IhacBtheitiine^ fer st “if the lower jxirtion remahv-
r wOidd go mmre soften? ’^ iKeianahi ed an agiary and 'upper porticms
usiK^y buysijfiindahimadKW * 30 were constructed and used for
paise-^hnd places fife jiame oh the housing. ”
goes tee the
lanUhimself
Lonfis^, and
•83vbl; V«;'V
Y^rnin ^ilHmdria, 26. ^cr^ary tq Inforrnation
Officer, ;lndo;A^hr^^m Chambar qf Cqmrqarca
? “Tfe^e are toq many, not ^ou go when you feel like gbing,
s^re -pf theriiumb^rrsfe^^d >wisk it
iSi ^^but 70.” yOe ;spm® “er^
more, popii^, ,.a,
tj .... . -
fc 5;!u>i fiWtevpf theriiunib^r,,^^t4.,t^^ it and ^on ' good occadons. ” She
L ia; ?^but 70.” yOe .spppie “are usually buys sahd^wood worth
B popu^tr^a nunibe^^^ Rs. t.25 to Rs. 5, aftd places 10
iC yisife^/\ tO^30^ paise oh the haoi/ “dejend-
K xz4.1._4. .lv----3.»^, .a.L ,^jjy
gh^ iHon^ to and to^ die
Bi the fire temple? How would
Yqsmin feels t^at t^reti$,iip yfpy ifig' Ort the oCC^ion.
'j to attf^t people? “K tfeey w^ tp ..-^-2.-
. ,t go aBd pmy tq God th^y go, w]^ people who look after fhe uidceep
shgCmldwe ^e.thw aa ihceptiv;^? ”
Tih? ogiari^s, j phe says,; ; are > >hPt fire, tem]^es exist otherwise ?
PQrti^ by 7Th^,HmtdA-aXt3t^ ;
aosme. of
^rtai^ o^^.,.,do,?4iei^^ ean fee as charftaSfic i^titu-
T^^ould .fee,^^aimdfid; W tibn^W “they^tbhld fee'used fe
la* ’ A the-advantage of the jjp^r and
•jvffi^to therflreitwtopfcfe twaeew rieedy^^H tlfe^id^ caa'fee sold
':. :,J.. x: _______J
-Inetight ^upof«»h-wa5(noQf ‘eea^ ' hde'tte^mBnt^'fetvneeJfy •Pate ’?
J^^
l»*
Ya^^ii' fee^ that ' die a^t^s
1^30^' ffiwA- rB’{ihaw^ri'^beerf ^twe eatfJ^ sdme and¦-
.»¦
Lt coffinnissicm «
.
t
'¦?
J ‘‘t *St
br f*rokk lUHrter
THREE ACES
quiet, air-conditioned room of of mediating between the adver-
“Our advertising agencies have at the same price.
been living in their own dream As for his years on the /am-e-
iivwua.J oxAwwxv*,.* - world uptil now, ” says Pa^. “This /awsfced Pat^ HSC^ “I thought
for The Ttertid^ Statesman; Me is Mt shortage of newsprint is a blessing it was great ,whan '‘JW Jidarzban)
the hub of the Indian National ju (feguise. It has definitely hit asked me to join Mtti jBhi Jam-e-
Theatre, having acted in and pro- the advertising industry balte, of ail my trying to cater
world aiptil now, ” says Patel. ’TMis Jamshed Pat^ “I thou^
in (fisguise. It has definitely hit asked me to' join him Jte
m uia^uidc. XV iiao k*vxi»b*vw*j ***v —.,-------
the advertising industry ba««A T
oiir entire nation is in crisis.
___ _ ___ „ . _ is «ie question of advertisements? It usesd to be a paper to read the
in the advertising world* he was *1^ bhiiefit of the shortage has obitua^ column in. It was treated
elected President of the Advertising been t^t with the thinner paper as a b^mgual daily by tfce adver-
Club of Bombay. there is not enough space for ack tiserM^^li^ause the^pro^cts we
^‘Fve alivays been connected and Vre have had to develop Other adverb ’ “ *¦*
with ads, ” sj^ PateL Stertiug Oudets, such as the film m^ia.
Ms a space-seller on The Jam-e-
Jamshed, he^ worked for
twelve yeara^ he graduated to , i
assistant advertising manager for be anyone to advertise wift th^. u „ r. ..
the TJie Times oi India end tiaet to: the losses of the advertising to That wm ffie time when
yesns later jwited rke Sforesmemi agrades he feds Oiat they “have bol^, jerati and English
Now as Ptesident of the W brought it upon themselves. ” Mod wolfen in Parsi ho^ Md w^
number vMvertising^ C^^ ageBcies only charge a fifteen Oujerati was tau^ m nk^
M
cottrse if the newsprint situa* o^/wdio^^ Hie/awe
tfeih iiwoves sudden^ the news* g|^|^|i^'¥he aflBuent meHibers of tlJe
lose because there^n^t caottai^ but not to the young
4-^ ** In «nf*n nf nil mv trvintt tA Cater
i
¦]
1
1^--
iii-
^e/cii^has-h^Xp?£ ------------------
and as this generation sives wav cA ‘ .
SS5£’^^
After J .. S® a&;»tertainment;
ci^®^.. his studies in Bs a great thins to be aWn r«
on«s61f. Wetyoi^ knows
asrfs'S,?? . -....¦¦I.™--;..
=i: SnSSW .......
^yid to mosrof the P*’’^Pluyu." he saysT^th^ 'West toghter is the m“t^^
hoping in the srrint a* 8 more bedroom comedies and rested in the theatre, “she once
& ejected three or fou/friSds^S
*T believe Adi is oS of X nr^n,>t “ 7 “P a concert. ” In imparting the
geniuses of the theatre world dth ®®‘ ,I*«»ission to his chil^n,
as a director and a writer, but
i^?®5^ his studies in
_-- . . ettoummity tej
or that thaw .Athai; u ™ a jraisi f might be ’
derogatory light? ^^ toterested in really serious play,
pt^ ^ty. county, but ttie
the plays purely
W to hurt the ipom-
a& Wertainment.
merit in the {day.
I^ugh born
»,
_ , — — Bombay Patel
was brought up in Bulsar for ten
“It was
. _ “vuic umereBces 0j he rccaiis,'There was a
^lon in tl^tre, ” Patel stys in >“ngalow and wide open spaced
exntanatmn ki.. i.—.i__ ,_i,. ™ango trees. It had a trei^n?
a uHcuior ana a writer but it nn fr» »» • ”——••••* *««»» J have not made them
writing all his own nlav« ’ various people in the ^hscious of it or tried to deli-
directSg them himself dS^not^ They w^
him a le^ce"™: "““o'- Sf/^. «??“«!->t ‘he&
someone else to interpret his plays
otherwise the style tends to ui-
natfc We were all typecast puppets
‘"1 “» Piaying tailor-made
7^® some of
Marzban s troupe have broken
away, “has probably helped him
inrtivA/^^lvT '* « . *
duce plays off the beaten
him a
to trimslate.
service. He should allow
otherwise the style tends to
The fact that
¦ 3 troupe have broken
«^e<^ by^rcing him to
such; US > Ah, Norman I
t
i
berately influence them,
f ’ ¦ ¦
will. ' 1„„ ..a^axwavu
the faith without
to different directors _________
to_ interpret so that the production '^iU.” His cj^ildren have accept^
retams an ori^nality of approach; faith without “posing any
wWnb rii quality problems They say their religf^
which uirtill recently, I think Adi ’s » £aith. and I feel no amount
n1av« artificiaUy in^l
Stag- We a little fresher, a
plays lacked. ’
Parsi theatre Patel says “will
remain largely as escapism. If a
play was just for _
It would have pnty eight OT*nine
Whereas otherwise it voe<
using new« for around eighty sh “ s
pro
track
is a faith, and I feel
of influence t_„ gusuii
ho one
—------- xto « should be forced intp accepting a
a Parsi audience Particular creed, and that ulti-
“^® are one world
^i^nunity. ”
F/%!*¦*.—A----- «»¦.„ .
™ca
|uw»fcy wM
|h^ uk I w i» '
are
The
j/;
Manji^ PadttanablHui
' f!'
f-
f
.1; ,.
. ¦ ¦i
*n-
pr.
He was bom ' in-Keni^,-
in Mirch nineteen hundred
tw^v^ At the age of eigl|f
sai^ with hi^ parents, j^r^
sisters mid a bro^r for, 1^
His father died of pneumonia on
the trh>. Chi arrival in Bombay
the family lived in a one«^oom
tenement and Aderbad was raised
in an orphanage. But those humble
beginnings did not deter the young
Irani from rising to eminence, mmt- x.,. ,. . -
nor once having risen, turn . his HRt’*, ^tabhshing and (irg^ishig
back on those vho were - less B?.-’’' a Ahmedabad City Civil Court. On
fortunate. Before- he died iof a completion of this assignment he
he«t attack on 16th May, he -'-WPrinciprf Ju^e^
characteristically worked a full I^e to his entry in tl» service
day, at his Cumballa Hill eye as^a judiciary he had to resign :die
clinic i - : i i, Presidmtship of The Surat Pa^
Hs sudden death has left i l^cht^t. Yet he maintamed
vacuum, both in the field of ahd -finally he' was appointed close contact and remained a real
ophthalmology and in the Iranian
Zoroastrian Anjuman, which he
Served and headed for many years.
With the major battle for secii^
ing the Pahlgar lands of tite
Anjutnah fought and Won, Dr. Itahi
ensured a substantial source of in
come for the Anjuman.
Despite his being 'a '‘'-'|iaatt
patient he strove to serve. Itt 51972
he stood for election to the iP^rsi
Panchavat. He ’....Ixsi..... , ¦, ......t ¦)
candidacy in favour of Nanabhoy p^its lop^^dme aflyi
Jwjiblu^ whaa the latter offered .ji ..-.vv;.- i
to contribute a substantial amount NuSSerwanji Cawasji Vakil
of money and land to the Pah-
chayat if elected.
He was active in fostering good
relations between India and Iran
and served on several committees
for that purpose. He served as
an eye doctor on the Parsi Pan-
chayat Health Unit since 1947.
He was also the honorary treasurer
of the Federation of the Parsi
Zoroastrian Anjuman of India.
For many years he served on the
Advisory Board of P^siana, . .
£ His academic qualifications ^'r
eluded a diploma in r^hthalmolo^/ '^S^^
from Oxford Umversity TBit
.^21^
.t *.<
'f'
isH ib le^ practice, ^wasji
the .President of th6
Stm ^i^i P^nci^yat. At pnblic
was
the* B(^ii^ pf Trd^t^ <' * ' th6'B<^d of Trd^t^ of the Surat
j^^hayat iff 1^'and in 1945 he
wa§ dieted as its Vice-Preaident.
On the death of Cawasji, Nhsser-
wanji became the P^ideht^ a
post he hdd for ten years upto
1960. In that year Gujerat became
a, separate state and •'his- services
were called (Ml for hiitiating,
ahil- 'fihaHy- ;was appcMh^d
Ophthalm(>lbgist4n^charge of ’'’the help to the last in solving its many
ftp,W. camp hl ’ Dehta Dun.
ptoihg ’the first yeaf Of his'sei^ Was a^iQinted a judge of the
vicei he was de(;orated-for * (hs^ Gujerat High Court.
flnguii^hed serviefe'at thfe-firoht and in 1970. '
he alsbAset up ^ d^artmenta in
Ran^I, pdkutta and pehrathin.
'in* E^yoa/ber' '1945i ;ii| ’.^ci4c4
to Ipaye the arp^ ^anit '^rt ^fris
biii^ E^^ilospitld
intricate problems. In 1962 he
He retired
Iiiihiediafely thereafter he was
apptointed Vice-Chancellor
Mahafaja “
Barbd^ a pci^cm whic# needed
a^ipanjbf ^tdcft'taleht ahd-,tnd^ena^
withdrew his to th^ jj^^veej iamjy Student ferert. At the expiry of
<*- 1 I ’ w.- -T penttrf h® was reinstated as
oh4 mdst suitable for the job as
he ’ had done laudable work in
stabilizing the otherwise eruptive
h^H
¦'ml
Jwjibhoy wh©a the latter offered
, ______ .-J of
Syajirao University in
I
Niis^rwanji was the fifth in an situations,
unbroken line of vakils lawyers, __ ;__
fcivestigate the causes of the com*
, characterised his pattern of AMe.'
With these traits he left a matk ’
on the soil of Gujer^4h' b^^d
1
1
He was also appointed to in*
a^ j^unal riots in Gujerat for which
-1 4. J u— 4U. _£ ii-x.. submitted a reliable and
T^^d report. At the time of hi$
---------- - „ —,-----Nusserwanji was 66 yeari
witnessed by the <:rowd of^g^hup;, -old. Due to disrupted railway
dred thousand who camesvtoW -services his family members could
him their last homage i#t»a ’fealt-' ’ - •
atBaroli when his bo^;
carried from
THwaWMM mbed' j&fiact .aj^toCki! '
short\^ness,«4nt''..4Jfree
^jBning .^on -4^ karaing, ;
1942 he came vim thip.B^A^.^^^^^I^Ml^trative'''*abffi^
to India. Three mouths ¦ ¦''•'¦ ¦¦ '*¦
got married and the next month '^miiwWWH the,.^toden^ i
Advisory Board of Ftfrstona. . .
iffuded a diploma in nphthalm^j
D.O.M.S. from Londtm.
When war broke out, he
¦ 11.'ll-.
not fravel to Baroda and it was-
Bom-
^ara, the present
%Jifiaji •.aj^chi ..................- —
IMBsll^t and Dhunjishah Gyara;
a seniontra^f " ^e of Surat Parsi Pan^
led to Baroda by car
?y^rs and his s(»
L S
to India. Three ment^ Ihpi
got married and the next _____
he was given his first posting in
Ranchi.
In 1943, he was posted to Nusserwanji joined Ihis father
'(gj^ycars ttiiu ms suns^
liters, other relatives and 4
V—„jMdmber of friends, accpiainl
of diity^^Hb w^-^^ * “tences'and admirers of all commij^-
the ji^sthd^ht^ hities were awaiting to pay theit
to and the author!^ re?p«<^. h<>mage and to attend the last
After taUng relij^ous rites at Drongerwadi.
34Mahoney
‘T3i^ knew hardly anything of Ms Bengali, who is a professor
wHet I might call Parsi-lore: folk and counsellor at the St. ^vi^ ’s
legend, old songs, the significance Tnstitttte of Education, was in^ir^
of the/oshon ceremony. But they to run the course because “1
were terribly keen and at the end wanted to do something for the
everybody was singing Chayye community. I had run tlds stwt
hc^ Zarthosti” So explained of course befeire but never solely
Dr. Mehroo D. Bengalee, who for Parsis. We charged ten rupees
along with Ms Perin D. Adrian- per head. We had an extreme
walla of the Parsi Panchayat mixture of wealth and poverty, erf
Counselling Bureau recently orga- kids from the subsidized housing
nized a nine day training pro- colonies and those from expensive
gramme in leadership for sixty-four boarding-schools. I wondered how
Parsi youngsters at the Byramjee this grouping would come off but
Jeejeebhoy High School. The finally a great spirit of comrade-
youths attended lectures and ship developed. ”
visited several institutions in
Bombay.
'One day we asked the kids principals of the Parsi schools “was communal schools, such as St.
• , 1 _1. J. 1! .Ml ** « .1 __ R a
Ms jBengalw, who is a professor
. ji aX xlkj» ' Cx
H
¦ We. bj Farokh RtpofWr
Bei^alee: Results 'dismaying
While the students ’ reaction was before the course was due begin,
* I reluctantly wrote to the non
Xavier ’s and New Activity. The
response from these was excellent.
“I just, don ’t know what is lack-
heartening, the response from thj?.
to write about what religious very disappointing,'
problem was uppermost in their Bengalee. “I wrote to 23 Parsi
minds. One boy wondered whether schools, asking them to send the
problem was uppermost in their Bengalee.
Christianity was more in touch five best Parsi stu^nts^who had
with present day life than Zoroas- ’ ’ '
trianism. .___'
prayers should be said in a Ian- „ ...
guage that was not understood by to contact their pupils by writing
the majority of the community and five postcards. Anyway, two days
why women should not be allowed
inside the fire-temples when they
had their period. Others question
ed why we did not accept converts
and placed restrictions on marrying
outside the faith. The findings
showed they were perfectly aware
of the problems facing the com
munity today. ” _
To further probe the attitudes - wth the best of opportuni-
of the youngsters towards the
community a questionnaire was
which were “even more dismaying, ”
L duy liw vuoix just done thek SSC or ISC. I had ing in the running oL our Pam
Another asked why hardly any response. Apparently schools. I ve been in the tead^-
it was too much for each school training field for 18 years now.
(Continued on page 40, col- /)
ATTITUDE SCAL^
Below are the results of the questionnaire filled in by the participants
Strongly Agree
Agree
Utfdedded Dtsagra Strotvly
Disagr^
The community provides me
ties ............
enfchance to dewlopin^vidual
lies ... •••
The community gives me sumci-
devised (see box) the results of expression •••
which were “even more dismaying? ’ Th® community provides me
said Ms Bengalee. “Our young
. ..............................! ____________
(^ered by the community —the in ah *ny
people had no idea of the facilities
with facilities for physical
development ... ............
The community encourages me
intellectual endea-
funds and scholarships, nor had Se ’^omAunity has leaders iii
they ever been informed about . ..
them. They were just not com
munity conscious. For instance,
wl^ asked to name prominent jjjj . ............
Parsis, the only names mentioned i will not change my leligion
were (Field Marshal) __
Mhnekshaw, Farok Engineer, Vice- _ ______ _ ____
Admirid |al Gdrset jec, Navail Tata
aad!(MftyOi^ JBcnBen-Bduram. They civic ra^nsibilidw and
co^ ndt eff Miy otiters. So “
we kpew direc^n we had
to work i^ what diet we had to
feed •Aeik* ’"" >?* -? ' ‘r:
asked to name prominent
The community hw leaders in
every sphere of activity
The connnunity has enough
economic means to help every
member to realise his poten-
Sam for any other ... ... -
The conanunjty ^rq^ares me
for great deetb in Ufe
____ . coufttiy ... , ,...
TL« \.w^an^ hiS^ . ®® t®
ineulcate social and moral
•ihiiiitiniiiiiiiiiiii*
tions to my cojpfttiy
Tbe coaonw
i
virtoes ...
15
25 9 10 2
6
5
6
25
16
50
n
12
9
21
22
2*
29
14
15
18
6
11 17
9 2
26^’'
12
33 10
13 5
16 '; -3
34
12
io
- ¦ ' )
2
14
8
4
4
2
1
1
1
35
r*;-'the Xi
JangoOf Mifietb and Ronnie '
the Air Foree their career,
in re^um '^hey re^ed the hi^^t
horujws j^he Amed. Forces^i^
the coti^ry could bestow / '^n
them. April 1st is Air Force
Day end to mark that occasion,
Parsiant^e, Executive Editor Geeta
Doctor interviewed Air Marshal
M. M. Engineer who retired from
the services in April 1973.
The four brothers
Flying
High
Roxdnne, Gul, Feroza, Kaikhushru and Minoo
dom unless the Air Force man- them to avoid civilian targets,
ages to keep the^ skies^ dear. The They attacked the oil dumps
1""“?’:" 2"J 1?'? which sent up a dark screen of
of their air supremacy. In our smoke hanging over the whole
ovm^ IndO-Pak^w» we kept the city. I believe this had a terribly
of Karachi.
“The only time I got shot down
was by my wife, ” said former
Air Marshal Minoo Merwan
Engineer with a smile as he ___ ___ v tuv vn x uciicvc ¦»¦>, uau a ternoi
P^istani air force all the time demoralizing effect on the people
of v,vac.n,,« fiid ©n the dUfensive, didn ’t give '•
„ , , . . - J, th^ fUuch of a Chance to do
Selvel Agencies could hardly what-* they did'in 4965. My views
combined with wffely pride in
speaking of her husband ’s
achievements. ___ ____ _
stood three medallions mounted
on wood with the simple inscrip
tions, “Karachi, December 1971,
Hunters attacking oil storage offensive in
office of his vivacious wife Gul,
who as the Managing Director of
contain her professional instincts
Israelis succeeded in 1967 because
In our
are borne out by the review of
the -1971 campMgtt<^c^ a Pak
Major General. He has stated in
one of the chapters that the
Pakistanis kept asking, ‘What has
happened to our Air Force? ’ The
Pakistanis had planned a major
_ _ * the deserts of
dumps ”,“Langew'ala, December “which if it had
J attacking T 59 succeeded would have created a
tanks , Raiwmd, December 1971,
Attack on train ”, commemorating
Air Force victories during the
1971 war.
“My husband was Commander
in-Chief Western Command dur
ing the last war, ” she said. “It ’s
the first time in India that air ThC' Air Force is generous; ”
strategy was given proper appraisal, he added with a quizzi-
Nineteen sixty-five was just a cal glance at his wife, “we allows
Pyrrhic victory. But this time other services to get the recogni-
our boys were simply magnificent. ”
In India there is a tendency to
give all the credit to the army. I
don ’t think many people resize
the vital role that the air force
played. ”
The Air Marshal went on to ex
plain, . * . "
Force plays a vital part. The Karachi. “Naturally when we
'When people ask me where I
wa$ born 1 always say Karachi,
thoiigh actually it was in Hydera-
bad, Sind, ” said Engineer describ
ing how he started off on his
flying career. The family left
Karachi in ’37 and came to
Bombay where he studied at
Elphinstone College unf^ World
War II broke out and as Engineer
puts it, “Hitler came knocking at
my doorstep. I joined the Air
Force much against my elder
brother, Aspi Engineer ’s wishes.
My brother Jangoo joined Tata
Airlines which \ gate a grejt
deal of opportunity to young
sters in search of adventure.
Scores Of' Parsis joined. The
pilots morale was very high,
J maybe this was due to ParSi
¦ impatience or perhaps a craving
.. „ - ~ for o^tement. I remembet dfip
RAF '^ound ittstrheW^ TO
By a strange irony of fate the Staith-Barry whd was a pilot in
Air Marshal had to said hiS; WoiM W^ I. He used to lau^
fighters to bomb ^he ye^'^C ; at-the very idea
where he had ^ent his .earlyi ptthaehiites? Everything depended
childhood? “In war w a doi^ ott^^^it sebo^
schools which gave interislvediort
training. ’
Since. tbi^« the Xtr Marshal has
blow and evMs with a missing
cylinder the aircraft earajed you
backto the base, fhad pne auch
eigperience while flying out to sea
iiMr Juhu. In another aircraft
flown an innumerable variety of
n^f Juhu.
[bters tbat
Modern sophisticat-
ed aircraft cannot be used like a
—J » is part
You must
u<
planer aud had till the time of his such a thing was not possible,
retirement led the spectacular d|ST - - - - . • --
play of supersonic filters that
climaxes the Republic Day parade
at I^lhi every year. , He admitted
that aviation h^ changed greatly
since he first started hut rqaintain-
ed that in most eases it .was the
naan behind the machine, who was
important.
sword, ” he explained,
of a weapon system,
take into account the type of wea
pons you can carry on the aircraft
and you must use them within the
parameters if you can do, that. ” It
was not without spm.e nostalgia
however that he described the days
when, he sat in the cockpit of a
“Westlarid Wapiti ”.
“Of all the planes I flew it was
my favourite. It used to be a bio-
plane which used to have no
brakes.
and landed at 80 niph. It was the busy and during the ’62 border
first combat aircraft. You sat in skirmish with China he was in
the open cockpit with goggles and the forward areas of Assam.
helmet. You had a navigator-cum-
gunner and he used to be also in
the open cockpit. You could feel
the kick of flying, the wind around
your face, your scarf flying about.
Your engine was very reliable,
Occasion^ly the odd plug^wSald to w^r.
A
Once it had trouble it invariably ' I
failed and you had to do some- I
thing'quick about it. ” I
It was perhaps due to these high- I
ly developed reflexes that the Air I
Marshal dodged marriage until I
“pretty late in life. Your effici- I
ency goes down if you have to I
worry about your wife, ” he re- I
marked and recalled how he used I
to tease his mother when he was |
stationed in Juhu in the early days I
of his career. “She had a flat in I
Worli at that time and I would I
tell her, ‘I am coming to call on |
you ’ and would fly down low over I
the flat but instead of coming out I
she would go into a comer and I
start praying. ” The Air Marshal ’s I
career' also kept him almost con- |
tinuously in the combat zone, for t
after Burma he was sent to Japan
in command of a Spitfire Squadron,
You Cruised at flfl rnbb during 1947-48 Kashmir kept him
I*"
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With J. R. D. Tata in Lek
“I don ’t go around praying to
God the whole time but I am reli
gious to the extent that I respect
is established in childhood and
the Zoroastrian religion does in
sist that the child should be made
aware of the basic tenets. After
“I always wear a Sudra so that religion. The religious foundation
in case I should die tomorrow at -----.......................
least I would be easily identified.
But the Kusti I only wear occa
sionally. In the services due to the
rush, I always found it difficult th^^|t is left to the individual to
fr. dfe^dS what he wants. ” Engineer
felt that if many Parsis were going
, o^ey to other rebgipns tod^ il
“ w^s because, “The Pariffs do not
seem to be paying much attention
to their religion as such.
The children drift away. They
< do not make an
‘ *¦ Study their religion carefully;
if J they find that they get greater
‘ * cdmfort in some other belief I
don ’t condemn them, they are wel
come to get their own peace. As
for all these Babas, these so called
great Saints of India, they prac
tise some form of ESP. The peo-
I pie who go to them are com-
¦ pletely in their control. When you
go to some of these Babas you go
far something, otherwise there
would be no need to go.
"The Pars! community is by
and large very broadminded, ” he
conimenfed aaid felt that those who
; dung to rigidly orthodox views
on subjects Such as intermarriage
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[l^alhi, 1931:
Minoo, Horn!, Rashid, Merewcm, Ronnie___ ¦ 'J mother who teaches her religion
the min ority. “It doesn ’t nu&e to the children.
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vultures or the worms have a tea great pride about the community
shrug. “Though I can understand that
' \ • ¦¦ _
feel particular about it.
matter of sentiment.
of these religious
were <
priests who shaped them, ac-
might have happened in the past.
Personally if you ask me I think
Gyrus was buried. But it ’s likely
and the towers of silence wiat ifi
I ”
The Air Marshal spoke with any difference to me-whether the
party, ” he said with an amused reserved sp^ial mention for
shrug. “Though I can understand that £_____ ___ . ‘ ”7
why the older generation should Dhansak. “Food and language are
, , It^is a the two things that keep_ the
practices is the great uniting factor,'
But, ” he continued in a more
serious vein, “there is no doubt
that Parsis have played a very
important part in Indian life, par
ticularly its economic life. In
...
Parsi will be holding an important
position. One thing is noticeable:
the Parsis are generally well to
do. My colleagues in North India
used to pull my leg and say that
all Paras are very rich. It ’s not
just that. Maybe it is that they
have a generous outlook. They
have this habit of forming trusts
that look after the welfare of the
community. If everyone else in
other communities did the same for
their own people I am sure it
would raise the standard of living
in their communities also. Parsis
are by and large progressive. They
have managed to merge with the
mainstream and yet preserve their
identity. I don ’t see any reason
do so, though I realize that some
' • ex-
Parsi marries a Chris-
In
sserved special mennon ior you will find that a
famous Parsi speciality, . -ii k. UrtWino an imoortant
.It .is a the two things that keep the
of sentiment. Some parsi community together. Dhan-
these religious practices is the great uniting factor, ”
established by the bld he said with utmost solemnity.
____ ' ¦ • “L_____
cording to what* they thought a Parsi, Good foo*d is his main
_ < 5_ T A««» TLX*>•»_.
Personally if you ask me I think
“Food is a very important thing
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weakness. I remember Air Mar
shal Dhatigara. He sometimes used
to get so wild at the food in
the mess he used to go and cook
accouri and wherever he was
that after the Muslims came, those __ _____________
of the old faith would go quietly his own food. His speciality was
and leave the bodies of their dead ___
on hilltops. It is perhaps time that he would go and make his accouri,
they changed to something more
progressive.
“It ’s a good thing, ” he said as
regards intermarriage though he
felt that it was unfortunate that
“if a woman married out of the
community her children should — . - y , r-----------
be prevented from becoming ing and if you find that they are ample a
Parsis. Fathers are not religious, swearing and cursing at each other jg they celebrate Papeti or
the religious foundation is maiidy you can b ........ . -------
the Jews for example. Jewish curse one
mothers are famous for the power are
that they wield and it is the each other.
so much so that even today you
can go to any Air Force mess and
ask for Dhatigara Bhoojias as they
have come to be known.
“As for language, you know ^hy they should not continue to
what the Parsi language is' don ’t ------
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Liiv J_______________be sure that the party is jg they celebrate Christmas?
influenced by the mother. Take a great success. The more they
Jewish curse one another, the more they
mothers are famous for the power are showing their affection for
“One could make a lovely
fusion! ” said his wife ebulliently,
thereby solving the whole problem.
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tWs^Wh^; ’^ ® surprised by
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we train
seven or eight
chain ¦ van be formed
Saturday in June, for
the group turned _ _ _
received any not"me*
> come. Anyone can
J or she
years old and has
. — .. 2 met
a special conference
Saturday i„ June, for example sl been done.- ’
Elt/OT rESX^d “£y*S
can Ebout it
join the Chain, provided he ’
IS at least 16
passed the tenth standard. We
rhe parents at - • ’
and they were ail
hard to untostM^thE'roSEca ’' “’d ''“nbug,
tions ot the present edXSEEt • poignant^
tern —the ten-plus-two-plus-three asked ^be *’'? '^nirman
EuEZee""'*?". ?’“'• “c carSE : .Y>'c>l>cr th^
guidance school-leaving kids
Bramme showecT aa? our ‘%oun"; ‘'*c "¦"¦nary
people are enthusiastic young events consists merelv nf =>“cnce. vouio it be that
U has sdm„S%S “?i,: 7 nneda benefit if a PaiS f^tsbave surrounded themselves
1 existed. The idea has been Sd
before, and apparentlv tbr. f,.Lr, °£™yal^ary tfiapt is impossible to
reach out to them?
—lucsc seven or
eight are all women. There are
ho Parsi men coming forth wanting
wh^t teachers. I really wonder
what Will happen tv
ools. There will be
cipals. 'Wq vvill find
t _
Parsi'teachers
women. There arc
coming forth wanting
to our Parsi
! no trained
- -J prin-
ourselves in
J all non-
m our schools! We
teachers for them, and no
find Ou
the position of having
Parsi teachers i- c;.,
are failing miserably in this!
Crete has yet been done?
work it would be pointless talking
about it.
This did not however deter
him from reading out three ' of
his f - ’ •
Authors'
deter
poems during a ‘Meet ” the
*1. programme organised at
the National Book Fair last Fehrii-
The career
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course of
would like to ask the poet anV
questions. There was a vast em
barrassing silence. Could it be that
T 11 9— __ .it _
? The Leadership Training
gramme showed that
people are enthusiastic,
pody has stimulated
group developed such -
Touth ^adership Chain. Each kid
JS to adopt another in order that befr^ ’ raised
mat before, and apparently the funds
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our young
once some-
them. The
of mystery that it is impossible to
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