Oct 1974

NOVEMBER IW4 _____ \ :{ *'4V387 4 O Q, October-November 1974 CONTENTS EDITOR'S COLUMN LETTERS HIGH NOON AT THE PANCHAYAT A DESCENDANT OF THE SUN .. by A. D. Gorwala JEAN STORY by Manjula Padmanabhan FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD THE WHEEL TURNS FULL CIRCLE by Pervin Mahoney OF COMMERCE AND TRUSTS . . ARE PARSIS RICH? by Feroza Paymaster HELLO INSPECTOR A MYSTIC FOG by Geeta Doctor Page No. 2 7 10 14 18 20 23 25 26 31 32 IN MEMORIAM 36 Parsiana Cover depicting the three wise men (one of them a Persian priest) bearing gifts for the infant Christ by Manjula Padmanabhan.editor ’s column pleaded not guilty. The prosecu- Greek historians, with their pro- fr.- o ?oil rv,o„ o verbial bad spellings, Hellenized the name to Pandora.) Defense : How now, how now, the learned lawyer is mistaking the events for the cause. I do not wish to enter into a legal discourse on the landmark case of Pandora vs. Public, suffice it to say the evi ­ dence was circumstantial and in no way proved any relationship I object, Milord. My between the opening of the box and the presence of evil in the world (murmurs of disbelief in the tor, a tall man with a shrill voice and streaks of grey in his hair has risen to address the hushed court ­ room. Prosecution: Your Honour, the defendent has maligned an an ­ cient, and time honoured system for the disposal of the dead and thereby caused the custom grievous harm. Defense: T client has been critical of the said system but he has not caused it _______ __________ ______ injury. Time alone has done that, crowded galleries. Judge bangs - , . . , , , The damage is a result of people gavel: thump\) The six plaintiffs gaudy string of coloured crowding into the city over the allege that the method of disposal pnt nff flnn in fnpir cfpan . Y . . Sitting in that dark dungeon of despair, the Parsiana office, many thoughts cross your Editor ’s mind (or the closest thing to it) as he tries to write his column. Just the various possible opening lines he bangs out on his faithful, portable Underwood (legally im ­ ported) in the wee hours of the night could fill the entire column. Below he lists two which show him in the best literary and intel ­ lectual light : “The t • , - • ’ lights went off and in their stead a neon light bearing the number 1975 flashed across the moonlit, midnight, December sky. We gaz ­ ed at the electronic masthead as people in a desert do a mirage. Every brokendown nerve within us strained to say: 1975 will be a good year. Mainly because 1974 was such a bad year. Not that it was the poor Year ’s fault. We must not be too critical of Time, for it is our final judge. Let us instead place the blame elsewhere, preferably on others. After all it is their bad influence which cor ­ rupts us. This opening was rejected on various grounds, the main one be ­ ing, that I had opened two of my columns in the past twelve months by referring to the New Year namely Jamshedi Navroz and Pateti. Somehow I overlooked Diwali. The other opening con ­ cerned the controversies relating to the deaths of Dr. Rustom Jal Vakil and earlier. Dr. Adarbad Irani : “Every time an eminent doctor dies, there is a crisis in the Panchayat. ’’ This beginning was sacrificed because I couldn ’t think of a suit ­ able second line. Readers who feel they can do a bettter job of this column are welcome to give it a try. After searching for a beginning fault, for several hours, I hit upon a but hwi Sohrabi: 'Quietly knowledged' Never mind about me. 1 a 1 with ice snapped back ? ® - ^1--'------- is functioning well enough, yet one of them approached a renown institute of fundamental research and asked the landscape specialist how best to increase the foliage at doongerwadi. Does this not confirm our suspicions that things are not as rosy as they are made out to be? Prosecution : (rising slowly) What a poor opinion my colleague must have of the jurors and you my Lord to present such a fatuous and fallacious argument. Judge: (It may be noted here that in the notorious case of Oscar Wilde vs. His or Her Majesty, Wilde when questioned about his drinking habits commented that he drank particular alcoholic beverage h ice “very much against my ! doctor ’s orders. ’’ The prosecutor ‘ “never mind your doctor ’s orders. ” To which Wilde replied, “I never do. ” Back to the s case). 3 Prosecution : _____ _____ be pleased to know there is plenty of vegetation at the said Malabar Hill. Why in 1890 a noted orni ­ thologist pointed out there numerous vultures present and if in these hallowed halls of justice. Prosecution : Nonsense, your (points to bird droppings in seclud^ Honour. It is solely the defendents * Everything was going smoothly till he became a trustee of the august, the supercalifragi- ,. .. ..... , . • • « ----- ------- X T MV The incident in the (applause. Judge issues first warn- Ao lu. J \ tj _ . . . 1 « a la entering the Towers of Silence, 1 I 4 Your Honour will Jt ! K K (Pte.:F. Reporter) numerous vultures present and if years, by the tall buildings —I get I may be so bold as to note that vertigo when I go up them —by in these hallowed halls of justice me lack of vultures, by. ... pigeons flutter from ledge to ledge Nonsense, your (points to bird droppings in seclud ­ ed corner to prove point). I ask you Milord, if pigeons can sur ­ vive without vegetation, why not vultures? (applause from gallery Panchayat on the right. Judge orders evic- ' • tion). ing.) Jt was the accused ’who by Defense: Your Honour, the com ­ munity is dwindling in numbers, the trend toward crematoriums and cemeteries is increasing, on what will the vultures feed them- but selves? The said doongerwadi vertigo when I go up them —by for several hours, I hit great second paragraph __ __ __ ___ couldn ’t decide what the first listicexpialidotious should be. ¦ ¦ ’ : * ¦ second paragraph takes place in a courtroom where a trustee of ____ the Panchayat has been charged opened, as they say in literary cir- with criminal assault on doonger- i ’ " ’ ‘ ~ ---- wadi, the most heinous crime in L-------------- - the book. The defendent has by Pirojbai Boxopenwalla, 2 . .. / ' i cles, Pandora ’s Box (Editor ’s note : Pandora ’s box was actually opened.2 __ J . but was told due to the huge back- My apologies, your log of cases, his appeal could not be estate is running at a deficit of your point adequately enough, thirty thousand rupees a year, how ~ long can it survive? Is it my client ’s fault that the community only weakness is a fondness for is shrinking or that it is approach ­ ing economic bankruptcy? No ______ _ your Honour, he is being made a Prosecution: Keep your mother was abolished shortly after the scapegoat for all the ills afflicting out of this. You are trying to get landmark case. this crumbling institution of the the sympathy of the jury by all • My English teacher in school dead, an institution that Time this talk about your mother. Talk (yes, I am educated) Ms Amy Billimoria once asked it jest if 1 wrote my column by myself. I replied aside from the beginning and the end and most of the humour in between not to men ­ tion the spelling and grammar, the column was “all my own work ’’ as Busybee always says. So and return after visiting cafeteria) readers, now you know what agony Gentlemen of the Jury, your Editor goes through for your sakes ’ why not write in with sug ­ gestions, little anecdotes, true life confessions, tear jerkers, anything that ’s fit to print. While researching a paper on university autonomy, our Execu ­ tive Editor Geeta Doctor came • " ¦ requests defendent to rise. Cap across this interesting bit of infor- quote is placed on Judge ’s head). In light mation: the-first women to gradu- of the Jury ’s verdict T pronounce the most severe punishment any judge has ever handed to any de ­ fendent. You are sentenced to be a trustee on the Panchayat for life! The rest is history. The poor Defense : My apologies, your log of cases, his appeal could not be Honour, I get carried away.- My considered in his lifetime. After : two years, however, he was put on rhetoric. My mother once told me, probation from the Panchayat for “Son. ... good behaviour. The jury system Prosecution: Keep your mother was abolished shortly after the Keep your mother the sympathy of the jury by all this talk about your mother. Talk (not the magazine) is destroying about your client and his heinous (gestures with hand towards crimes instead. Let him be Parsiana calendar on wall. Editor ’s note: No calendar printed this ciety. Let the punishment fit the year due to shortage of funds, crime. (Cries of “Yes, yes ” from the Apologies). Your Honour what crowd. Judge orders court cleared, we are witnessing today is a fight Pandemonium prevails for a few between two individuals, a clash of personalities, if you please. One of the plaintiffs has a personal tiff Judge: with my client and is using —I have you reached a verdict? should say abusing —this disposal Jury: What a question! issue to slander him. (Murmurs of Judge: Well? disapproval. Judge glances with Jury: (in unison) Guilty! critical eye at crowd. Silence Judge: (after pontificating on the follows.) Your Lordship, like the order of the universe the need for honourable prosecutor, I too am understanding and brotherhood, well versed in literary works. If I .... _ may be permitted to Shakespeare: ‘Two stars in one of the Jury ’s verdict I pronounce ate from Bombay University was orbit cannot keep. ’ For those of the most severe punishment any a Parsi, Ms Cornelia Sorabji. She a nationalistic bend I would like judge has ever handed to any de- passed her B.A. examination in to quote from our own Kabir Das: fendent. You are sentenced to be 1888 with a first class and was also ‘Two swords cannot co-exist in a trustee on the Panchayat for the first woman to appear for the one scabbard. ’ And for those life! bar examination. who are Latin lovers I have the The rest is history. The poor In the cultural world, Ms Doctor saying “Dulce et decorum. ... defendent appealed to the highest interviews Bahram Sohrabi, the Judge: I think you have made court, to the Judge of all judges current director of the Iran Culture crimes instead. punished for corrupting our so- minutes. Jury leave to deliberate FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE I SAVING ACCOUNTS CMAC'Mn « 3¦1 ¦» ¦¦A • House and reyi^iO^ a Bharat ing at problepis arising cpqpr. ' Natyam dance recital byfKhurshid - * --•— — S. Irani for the t^umn “1 am alw^^Mteing' asked about my name, ” sud Skihrabi, who often finds people giving his name a Pars! accent by adding a “ji ” at „ the end of it. Though he has been meant “a change in'our values, in Bonibay only for the last nine months, Itohrabi is not a stranger to India. He has been working on a doctorate from Delhi University for the last few years, after receiv ­ ing a fellowship from UNESCO. “I was always young for my I job, ” confesses Sohrabi, who is twenty-nine, and who makes no secret of his fondness for the quiet charms of an academic life. Ever since he finished his M.A. in Sociology, however, he has been involved in a number of assign ­ ments which, like his present one, have meant a very active life. Within the marshmallow pink walls of the Iran Culture House lavishly adorned with photographs of the Iranian Royal v Family, Sohrabi presides over a number"of activities such as cultural evenings with lectures and , film shows, photographic exhibitions showing the spectacular progress Iran has made in recent years and, most important of all, Persian classes. Indeed ,there is so much interest in the activities of the Iran Cul ­ ture Hoi^ that kohlrabi hopes to move to place so^^Y Persian cl^|Set lar and that they will pro- < “1 am alwa }g|^ more convenient lie finds that the !S are the most popii- vide a n^ impetus for tto'^^dy of Persiap'.whl^h is partj^t many-spl<|Oport from t^ orches- jwbieh Was of a h^ calibre . that such wide-ranging ..chuoges —---j —1- be like piling out a thread from could brine cfigiculties ’ J ^tj^otot the evening. Khun hid :7Sf^luig grace the whoielfabric of the past. ” In spite of ibse routine tasks Soh- rabi man$^ to keep up his re- ------------1- TX, --J -’-3 J to. Compile a short >ut Bombay and its u* search foA^s Tfa.D. and has also found ti| thesis al inhabitani Sohrabr value of yrhat he calls an “oriento- 1__ •__ •«»» *__ • ¦ » _• « . • and performed exceedingly well said this much, it must _ ,_____ f in his capaciQ^^ • - , an urban sociologist, it was, >g- ¦. ahro be pointed out that Khurshid ’s and if she showed grace she lack- adjustm^t. marked Sohrabi, of great interest, performance was only a beginning, to observe the development of a ' ’ ’ .. -v- 1—1. city like Bombay with its 6 mil ­ lion inhabitants. He was of too polite to , adi,. that "firtnly m the ever) a master plan for' Bon^y ed the strength whiqh is a^ vital went ,of Bharatha ,Na^m. Her movements, though they im- logical ” point of view when ^k ^of Bharatha .,Ma^m. ^oved towardk the latter part of had beenjnade nobody had^&«Mh^ the pfrformance, lacked cripness of providing acCpranjodaljon n tor 'apft her abhinaya though adequate, irformance, lacked cripness 5Jf ‘ - fc *-• did not always carry convi«ibn. Satosh Nayar is grilled as to his note on Khurshid in the pro- reading habits. gramriie mentioned that she was Editor: Master Sarosh, I believe also prbficient^in ballet. One can ­ not help but wonder whether it is this which has contributed a ' cer ­ tain lack Of focus to her Bharatha Ed.: What are your favourite Natyam, for there is no doubt that comics? the two forms are completely anti ­ What: other c<^ics have M.S.: I’ve seen Superihan on tele ­ . ¦ M.S.: thetical to one another; while Disneyland, ballet soars, off the ground, Bharatha "Natyam derives its Ed.: you read^ Editor^ Master Sarosh, I believe E__________________ you are very fond of reading vision and I like hjm because he comics? can go flying up in the air. i . . Master S.: Yah. Ed.: Allright that ’s ehou^. Ed.: What are your favourite E_- 21E_E E, to start the jReW; Vear right, about sending alt those pretty greeting cards you rbcOiyed to Ms Jerbanoo B. DebOo. ‘ With her band of devoted social workers, Ms Deboo will reincarnate the cards and sell them; the proceeds of the sale will be distributed I like among the needy. The cards may be deposited at Leach Webomey v®r Guinea-pig. Washing Co. at Tlamam Street in Ed.; Between Tarzan and Phan- the Fort area or at Ms Deboo ’s tom whom do you like? residence in Tata Mills Housing M.S.: Tarzan. But I read Phantom Society, Building NO.' 3, Flat No. 5, Parel, Bombay 12. can go flying up in the air. Ed.: ¦ ¦ 7^ * ¦ And for ^Bsb of you who wish' I like Jack and Jill and Ed.: Why do you like Jack and Jill? strength from the ground. By her M.S.: very obvious dedication to. the art, Khurshid has shown her willing- _ _______ ______ _ ness to submit to the demands th^re are more stories. E 12 Bharatha Natyam, but if she is to Tiger Tim, Bruin Boys and Gulli- excel, she will have to sacrifice “ ’ herself even more totally, for the art is not only a jealous, but an air absorbing, one. Like mother like son, and so of jhe time because it comes Do you read Laurel and mX? Yah. Why? Its funny that ’s why. On Because it has got more nicer pictures and more nicer stories. At the back of the comic Ed.; Between Tarzan and Phan- in a magazine. Ed;: “ Hardy? Ms Doctor ’s seven-year-old son, Vikrani has also caught the jour ­ nalistic bug. For the past few motiths he has been producing a typewritten magazine entitled Fine Star which eventually he hopes will, put the Illustrated Weekly ovA ot probaUy clothes away. So they go to a having folded long before). To get shop which is a Lady ’s shop be- technique ,we carry an exceipt front Books Wanted : the poetic works of Beramji Malbari. Contact A. H. Sethna, 96 New Park Street, P. 0. Circus, Calcutta 700 017. Wanted : Vol. I and Vol. II of "Parsi Lustre on Indian Soil." Contact Sean Mahoney, Sputnik, B. D^sai Road, Borhbay-4dd 036. ' . - —Wahtdd ; "Darlypra.y'er bt the Zoros- a flavmr of Vikram S interviewing cRlEse that is the first shop and trians'* part I by FarGttimze 'Ru^torhji. when they come out th^ are Contact Dadi Dapba?f, ’^f^fjett House, Five Star in which nei^bour wearing ’dresses. Forjett Street, BbmtftyAbO 03^. Ed.: MS. one story they go for a swim and a robber comes and takes their clothes away. when t|iey come out they are a I So you*ve told your wife you^re not getting a TV Set until you’re sure of o SUPER QUALITY Sei ' ¦ > offers you Superb Picture Clarity, HI-FI double speakers for distortion free uniform sound and prompt aft^ sales SE RVICE L Ifrish TV A Gff^AT BUY AT A^t^fiAT£ PRICE i For further enquiriaav^: ' THE NATURM GA$ COMPAIIY PVT. LTD. 1^67. Laxmi Insurance, BuilrSng. Sir. P.M. Road. Bdinbay-400001. Phone: 265435 Mehta Chambers, Behind Opera House, 13. Mathew Road, Bombav-400004. Phone: 353322¦ ¦ s ¦ LETTERS ‘fl 1 h I • K "*7i> '"I/O W * J»v *Tf«B /-o’*-/ -tf 2s 1 '—10 —t —* ’’3 t , ¦ I I I I well placed, are afraid of any re* forms, just because orthodoxy pre ­ vails. should not blame out ted the absence of proper economic priests who dajre not oj^t tbeir :liBi,$ in the commtmity. In the end, mouths when the trustees them- he promised to coach our young in selves are not bold enough to ini- • certain technical lines, if I would tiate reforms. find young, hard-working Parsi Framroze F. MuliaAN apprentices. I was delighted to read the let- tefs of I^di E. Mistry of New Delhi and Hector H. Mehta under the title Young Entrepreneurs in your last issue, it is high time interested parties met and chalked out ways and means to help our young entrepreneurs. Dinshaw B. Irani Next day, I met him at his office. We had a frank talk. He regret- Udvada Window Shopping • What amazes me is that Parsis study Christianity, Islam, Buddh ­ ism, Hinduism, etc. very seriously, but when it comes to our own religion, there is either blind faith or just a blank. And for this state of affairs, we are all to blame. There are no regular catechism issue of classes amongst TZ__ ___ ye only balled in to teach the Shyness Some time back the Young Collegians ’ Zoroastrian Associa ­ tion (Y.C.Z. A) organised as one of „ its manifold activities a document* yy film-show-cum-discussion on Shyness ’ which was conducted by the;-,; Indian Council for Mental Marriage Education & Counsel ­ ling Bureau. The discussion rang ­ ed from general shyness to the kinds of shyness which our Parsi As we Mve not troubled to youth possess. *1.- U— - . . Delighted 1 read with interest your Editor ’s Column in the, last i Parsiana. What a delight that Mrs __ ____ Dolly Advani is planning to have kusti prayers to our children at ceremony of her two the tender? age of seven or so, and, children performed; and that her unless parents keep their interest hncEand rdigion alivc, the children sodn forget what little the priests , - have taught them. What is, more, tion, and after the Navjote they the entire ritual of the kusti is should get guidance and knowledge dismissed as mumbo-jumbo, arid u„„- . - --------- of the faith and their mother should the symbols of our faith, the sudra and was sponsored by the continue to wear the sudra and and fcMsti, laid aside to be put on o. 1 kusti, otherwise there is no sense only at the time of marriage or US. The priests husband favours the idea. Her children should come ‘ into the Zoroastrian fold through convic- should get guidance and knowledge dismissed as mumbo-jumbo,""and continue to wear the sudra and - --------— no sense .. in just performing the Navjote for death! the sake of it. There are certain rituals which know the basic n„r t* „ 3 can “S defcn ” pjli ’^ys £ Of great learning but relatives can ourselves adeauatelv It is this oirU “re snyer tnan Farsi reche prayers such a? satoow-no- indifference tc^our faith whicl| in Sohis warS^IatS^of^nr^" ^°d e™^d& iiTenX &’B“:V/SyS tives generally care? Nobody Wants i L , to take the trouble. Almost all what one writer described want hired rituals. In olden days Parsis used to call priests to their homes to perform the rituals and relatives themselves used to make the arrangements, mainly preparing Young Enfi-epreneurs fire, fruits, flowers, water and divo etc. needed for the occasion. But those days are gone and the pre ­ sent generation is lazy, under the . pretext that there is no time. The behdhins have forced the mobeds tO" become caterers as well as pittas and then people grumble that our rituals are expensive. Let t , r j thtdbeWAin® do this primary work t? c University and see for thianselves. of tt s a t I Tbe-^ruste^'Of the Parsi Pan- chaSW^Whbti^ educated and oiily be performed by priests religion, We < ourselves adequately, indifference to our f . i to take the trouble. narrow and bigoted, or drift into as § FJKROKH REPCmTER New Delhi a “spiritual window shopping. Ms PlI.OO N. JuNGALWALLA •n Photograph The Parsi Press is full of un- § productive controversies. Hardly g any lead is given by the Parsi M press for the economic upliftment fl of the community. 8 Last week, I attended a lecture .. B sponsored by the National Alliance ' of Young Entrepreneurs by Pro* of U.S.A< la that gathering, I saw a lonely ParSi Mr.'S. H. Cn mniaiqi * riat, who is the office bearer of that' body. - ? § ‘ i. J- * FASHION 0 ADVERTISING INDUSTRIAL CINE T6MM &35MNI r Phone: 263723 ¦• Patel Chambers, 5th floor, unbow Street, Fort, r-^mbay-T I.JU. -^1^4 1 W" How about a few speedy tricks todeiiehttbemwitfi the flavourftil fin of custard? .V r J « * ¦s '• •fit s :L^' Variety Custard Powder pack with t# super flevoursi , * L. Orown » Polaon Cystard _ ffewow sS? Contains no ^ •99» J M«t« fioni the MneM - i t ineredicnt*, proceMaU wilh txtra care, truly Uw beat Custard Powder you eaa buyl Keep e peek on your aheM... always. Corn Pradvcis Co. (ImBo)^ LtCBooAor ai W *«iin boys have no maBness, are crude and unpolished, Jack initiative and drive, and can barely converse in ­ telligently with girls. Boys, they claimed, usually join a bank aftet completing the S.S.G. exaihination because they consider it to be a ‘cushy ’ job. They are not pre ­ pared for hard work. After join ­ ing they do little to improve their status by either applying or work ­ ing for a higher grade in the banks, it was felt. Some members felt that com ­ pared to their counterparts in other communities, Parsi boys are lazy and lack ambition. the other hand, Parsi girls, they believe, are ambitious and hard ­ working. Though partially agreeing with the girls ’ views, the boys felt that Parsi girls are known to ’ be flighty and pleasure-loving com ­ pared with their sisters from other communities. They are less inhi ­ bited and coy and thus unfortu ­ nately labelled ‘easy game^ by those who find social contact with young girls from their own com ­ munities difficult. Paul Axelrod of North Carolina University who did his Ph,D. thesis on Parsi demography maintained that the average marriage age for Parsis was around 33 years —a much later age than that of our fellow Indians, and this was partly due to the fact that Parsi boys did not earn well enough to cater to the standards of Parsi girls. Some of our boys also felt that non-Parsi boys were able to come up in life because of push and p.ull. In the Parsi community, people occupying high posts seldom give encouragement or help to deserv ­ ing Parsi boys, they claimed, wjfh the result that Parsi boys get frus ­ trated when their ambitions are not realised and end up as bank clerks. It was also felt that rich Parsis tend to look down on middle and lower-middle class Parsis. The rich Parsis move in their owa social milieu and do not try and mix with people who are not so ­ cially on par with them. But on second thoughts, one wonders if thee a«e sowing the seedsv of disintegration. Hqmai N. Mody •i 9* i '¦ 1^21 .L s JI 2*' i % ¦j. Jfe! >1^ l^t jm 'IL. w j^^r*** ¦ > ^’otTy^ (NnO***^ * J. Th I M'-' r> 3 fW- w* I * /*^ DadaMoy Naoroji Road {Pic. by Farokh Reporter) Boman-Behram favoured Vakil ’s offer and cleared the matter with Bl suu.i auopxvv. the Panchayat Chairwoman Lajr K. Boman-Behram voiced a Hirabai Jehangir. A two-hour rneet- Police van and jeeps in front of the Panchayat building on High Noon at the Panchayat On the day Dr. Rustom Jal Vakil rialize. It was the first time in recent died I received a phone call at 10 p.m. history that the trustees had met His relatives were roaming from under such auspices and an angry Dr VM wtiM ti be them. In a stormy one-hour meeting gr'Ued .°f J' ’"fe «e,^B placed In he labelled the nmvencl : trusty ^^ent ‘"““mg M the Towers of Silence. The priests “ a disgrace to toe Panchayat, and NobU, ^r Uhondy ana n^i “'se« X“ee.=s sSst —F; MxxvwvxzC letter to anyone other than Guzder. had been To ensure that Guzder is elw^ , has demand^ that at least 170 out ojffice-going lad. Being a priest myself resign from the Panclmyat truste«- I sat on the ground and started to chip :. J^mc-e, recite the Sarosh Vast in a loud elected in h^s J’lace^ tone. . ,. t" — With the enactment of this deed of several companies, and the telling of it before a packed -----z “7 ’j ’’ audience it the K. R. Cama Hall pendent Orthodox^ party six days thereafter, Shiavax R. i Vakil triggered off a chain of events 1 that climaxed in the ’ fortnightly are led by —~.. „ meeting of the Bombay Parsi Pan- ' , chayat Trustees being held under Register heavy police bandobast and i threatened morcha failing to mate- of the Parsi Panchayat. nenruni anu ivia iwuv x^vu/xv xxm.v* —- ------------. . reduced the charitable trust meeting ’¦®se ’^,^tions.^She ^is^^ex^t^^^^ to By* Christmas matters came to such a pass that Vakil offered to ship if Jamshed N. Guzder were 1- 1- a prominent entrepreneur director of several eoiiipanivo, had been - ------ —¦- ~ e.. proposed and rejected by the Ind^ to the truste^hip after hm, Vak neiiuciiL GiihudwX paTtv fet the has demanded that at least 170 out fit vacated by NadiPMulla earlier of the 189 “E” Register voters this year. The Independent Orthodox sign a statement to that ehect. in are led by Boman-Behram and Ms the meantime the disaffected trustee Noble, and control the crucial “ E ” has refused to sign any cheques on r h J block of voters who along behalf of the wito the donors elect the trustees a has refused to signr any cheques on 1 offer is in earnest. Matters came to a standstill by month ’s end, however,I liniBI .UM. •i*r , as Boman-Beht^ ^fifered two heart | attacks; t(> the I intensive/ " General The drama began 4n the thii» weot of November when xrOYtr ¦ j|^,p1^t ?df the Parsi lya^t drama began 4n „2 -i_ ’-¦'I V^l'^O^e a one year vow of silence-following his disclosure on the plight of the dokhmas last October and delivered the first of a two part critique on the Panchayat and the community at the K. R. Gama Hall under the auspices of the Youth ’s Own Union. After deliver ­ ing a discourse on the religion, and an attack on the “ so-called ortho ­ dox ’* members of the community, he pointed out the large material wealth of the community that was lying unexploited because people did not subordinate _their_ egos to the held on ’’November 18 and the Wb ajsomu * 5 w ¦J a**5» • 1 ?'> ’^1 . ij ! I:'s'. 1^ J < * L2 « xffi s-!i ' ,«? ¦ 4 common good. The first talk was held on November 18 and the 6 second was scheduled for November 25. 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There thosti lives his religion, so that had felt no need, firmly settled in was a frown- upon his brow for almost by osmosis Zarthosti chil- that, to seek strange gods. The he had been set a task which to dren would have grasped its -question arose in his mind, can him before that evening would essentials from the conduct and a man explain that which is nearer have seemed quite unnecessary, general behaviour of their parents to him than his heart ’s blood? Thft young of his religion, he was and older relatives. What need Can he convey its meaning in told, ^d not know what the could there be then of exposi- words? religion was. They knew a tioh? In any case, he was no He cast around for precedents, great deal about other reli- j * " gions, about Christianity, about he could give no guidance Islam, about Hinduism. But points of interpretation. about their own religion, they, Zarthosti faith was very work-a- unknowing, perhaps a hostile, Zarthostis, children of Zarthosti day. It had been throughout his audience? His mind came to rest parents, were at best very vague, long life the source both of in- on oiie name, Dastur Meherji, he spiration and consolation. It had His feeling was, the true Zar- penetrated deep within him. He What need Can he convey its meaning in a tioh? In any case, he was no scholar of the ancient languages; Who in the past, he wondered, ! on had been obliged to explain the But points of interpretation. His basic tenets of the faith to an , Zarthosti faith was very work-a- « 14V ¦¦ * US goodi*kUeness, intemper^uied, whom the anOnymoUs versifier of the time had characterised thus: Mekerji Rana, ¦. Extremely wise Peart beyond price Called^ Akbar Badshdh To his hall of discourse He spoke so well and truly. So simply and pointedly None could confuse him, None could confute him. Would that the great Dastur, the basture Dasturan, were here now, he wished fervently, and with a sigh, relaxed in his chair. When next he stirred and his whole anjuman' was that an eyes opened, instead of the dark attempt at a pretence was con- night, he saw before him a well- trary to our principles; that as lighted square marble hall of we were, so should we appear moderate size, along three sides before the greatest monarch of the of which were ranged learned time. Here then I am, and truly divines and theological leaders of what I have to say is as simple as the various religions of the world, while along the fourth, on a raised seat covered by a silk cushion, sat the Emperor, with below him bn the right and left the statesmen, commanders and artists 'known commonly as his nine jewels. The discussion following on a speech had just ended for there was a hum of conversation in the air. Suddenly the Emperor raised succeed or he may not. If the I.............................................. - Akbar with his characteristic winning smile, “Greatly have we been enlightened about the nature highest virtue which is virtue for of the religions all of you who the sake of virtue alone. ’ To be come in delegations of three or disheartened, to give up, to aban- more represent. Now I would don the fight for the good, we hear from the one who comes by consider a sin, something to re- himself, yes, you sir, dressed all pent of and not to repeat. We in white without a speck of serve the Good best by serving colour in your garments. I have our fellow human beings, people observed you for some days listen- of our own faith and people of “Your Excellency ’s excellent ing most attentively. Now your other faiths. We consid.er cruelty memory will recall that Firdausi, turn has come to speak. ’’ a vice, consideration for others the king of poets, dealt with that Rose Meherji in his place, and and charity great virtues. Truth- point himself. His verse runs having made deep obeisance, said, telling, forswearing the lie, is to ‘Say not that they are fire-wor- “Protector of the poor, I hear us an essential element in the fight shippers, say rather that they are and obey, I come not with a train for Good and against Evil. From worshippers, of the one pure God. ’ but by myself for the religion to which it* follows that a Zarthosti ’s However, since this is a charge ¦ • - - ¦ - - - - • - • ’ ’ ’ often urged against us, let me greed, vices for which payment: will have to be made at the final accouhting. After death conxes speak for themselves, and lead him to salvation' or otherwise. This then is the essence of my religion. Oh King of Kings, the Religion of the Good, that is one in which the good is the motivating principle, or the Good Religion, as some have termed it. “I have been brief, considering the pressure bn ?your Majesty ’s time, and I may in the process of compression have represented the religion as a stern, a joyless faith. Stern it certainly is in that as you do, so shall you be requited. But far is it from being joyless. Gaiety and laughter are part of being good, fighting for the good, and there are no fears inbuilt in it. The Zarthosti faces the world cheerfully, knowing his duty, and not that Oie|r accounung. /Micr uvai-u are lire-worsnippert, judgement, when a man ’s deeds^ say rather that they are worshippers of the one pure God?* 5 ¦ t '3' ii vicissitudes of time had shrunk to its present low magnitude. The conclusion, freely reached by the whole anjuman. trary to our principles; that as I my appearance, “We believe in one divine power whom we most often call Ahura —vj, Mazda, the Lord of Wi^om. In j^nowing if he does it, he need be the world, there are both good - - - - • - • and evil, and the conflict between them makes itself apparent in al ­ most all human transactions and affairs. The Zarthosti ’s duty is to strive against the evil. He may his hand and all fell silent. Said latter, he must try again and again, remembering that the first of our prayers says ‘That is the of the religions all of you who the sake of virtue alone. ’ To be afraid of nobody and nothing. We worship God, Great King, and fear no man. No spirit, no devil; distresses us; we face it boldly if it appears, and soon, unable to trouble us, it departs. ’’ After a few moments ’ silence the learned Abul Fazl looked at the Emperor and on his nodding, said, “You and your people are the same the deeds, of whose ancestors the noble Firdausi re ­ counts in the Shahnameh, are you not? ” And on Meherji saying, “Yes, Greatness, ” asked, “Then are you not. fire-worshippers? You made no mention of that. ” “Your Excellency ’s telling, forswearing the lie, is to for Good and against Evil. From worshippers of the one pure God. ’ which it* follows that a Zarthosti ’s I’ and obey, I come not with a train L_ ____ which I have the high honour and word is sacred, not to be broken, privilege of belonging is now fol- ' " lowed only by some thousands, mostly agriculturists. When your command came, summoning me . to attend in this distant place, ing, fraud j)f any nature, there wa^ much discussimi among us,'should I come as would have ward, frank, prepared to speak them? In both cases short, dark become the* representative of a out and act against wrong-doing, and brutish. Man came into his faith, «nnng whnsp mflli nns of whoever the doer. Justice and own, was able to face the jungle followers but a few hundred years courage we count among the first of huge frightening animals and ago, were numbered the rulers of weapons in the fight against slithering serpents, the forest of half the World, or of one that the evil. Industry, hard work are to hiS own mental fears and of the out and act against wrong-doing, whoever the doer. followers but a few hundred years courage however difficult the new circum- explain. We honour the sun and stances. What we promise we do. fire, both light, as the most for- A Zarthosti cannot have recourse midable and beneficent rqani- to duplicity, double-dealing, cheat- festations of Almighty God ’s __2 ____ _____ , 2 2-. bounty. Without them what^ was Sr must be honest, straightfor- Ufe? WJiat would it without and brutish. Man came into his half the Jrbrld, or of one that the evil. Industry, hard work are to 15?*' 1 3*‘ many spirits and devils that he rots under the ravages of the thought were lying in wait for elements,, makes no real difference, him in the dark, when' God sent We have followed an old custom **Ours is a land most light to his aid. We recognise -of ; our ancestors in our former this ¦ most friendly influence, land, and that is all. I have heard fruitful in SllpCtSti* TheMfO^,' it is that we turp to it argued, for what it is worth, i lighft wlfen-we pray to God, we that feeding wild birds and animals tlOnSJ OUt^S aFO a con^ntrate ohr minds upon the with our dead is also a form of ‘Sum oKlhC 'flaoie better to get the charity so i , rid of I^Mross from^ur thoughts upon us by .religion, but I while wahkijj^ ©r making sub- make,ho point cff it. ” missitm to Him. It is not that we worship;the sun qr^fire as the the musician T^nseh. creator.^' ”’ , > . x . . x, to be Ahura* Mazda ’s creations, but worthy of'* a. special status because |pf the power and useful ­ ness hq has bestowed upon them. _____ „ I beg your Majesty ’s pardon for have talked about your religion having -taken so long on this ’ ’ ' „ . . ’ / simple point. ” miracles, great penances and high “I am glad you did, Dastur, austerities. Surely there i^ 'some- f/it is that we turn to Thei^O^, it is that we tun> to lighU wnen-we pray to God, we is also a form of * «. strongly enjoined people full oi peliei .«¦ «zv« T Truly, a lfcgr< mind, ” said Theyi too we understand frankness. Tdl me, Meherji Rana —I call you Rana for- all that you need to loqk a perfect descend?mt of the sud|is a curved sword by your side —you without mejitioning proph^ or in, or longing for, “I like his miracles, the short- oh D^stur en4^» personal? ’ great loss, ” ended Meherji. ( “Shrewdly said, a palpable hit, ” r emar ked Akbar. “What I find ipiiuci vu*« ux uvaxxo, xwou Kiissing iu your description of You foUcrw mention the Prophet in my ^hort .*yonr region, is - - • - - • ¦ tXuuoe its fofiowm bound to believe this, what'* “he *^nt or the other? Are only acts, deeds important? ” “It is very much as your gracious Majesty sees it, a smidl per ­ centage of faith and the rest works, what we call good thoughts, good words, good deeds. There must be belief in the divine you .have made it understandable thing wrong here. If not, very now, ” said the Emperor. uj^usual religion, yours! ” “I have heard, ” Said, “Master of music and i Winner Todarmal, “that you , neither/bujna of hearts, kimw that I^y not nor bury your dead. Y... 5 '2.,, ‘ ~ ’ the gruesome X practice ofc leaving respme of the religion, b&ause them exposed M high places to be my emphasis was on v;h2.t he got rid of by ij^s and animals of taught, rather than on him per- ,pr^ Is this correct and if so, sonally. Truth to tell, Sb, we what is your rationale for it? know very little with certainty You omitted this in your descrip- about him, beyond the fact that tion of your religion, I noticed. ” he was a truly great man, that he “Great Minister, ” said Meherji, spent some years in contempla- “I omitted this because to my way tion m the wilderness, that he j j u of thinking, the method of dis- preached the religion of the good power, in Twura Mazda, and be- posing of the corpse IS no part of life and turned the people away my telson. Once the spirit has from bad practices. Consider the fi^, what is the body, ,^even of - position of our ancestors, on the the gr^test? A piece of ‘steadily morrow of the shattering of our deteriorating flesh-' disposal empire, a few hundred i^bple leaving helter-skelter in a few vessels they found by chance off M high places to be my emphasis was on - imds and animals of taught, rather than on him, per- the gj^est? A piece of-steadily do^ not atffect the further pro- grC^ ’of the:spirit that has left it. That wilT hje judged on its deeds the coast of Pars, no time for whjle alive; not ’on how its corpse preparations,, no time to get even is dealt ndthfc A^hether the flesh the extant scripture together, no is corisiitpcd by fire, eaten by time for anything except to leave worms, ^ter burial, or by birds if they would be free and hot bow and animhls, on exposure, or just their heads to the conqueror. Knowing little, therefore, I said tOHIIIlilHHHBHBagaaillMHBqBlHIHqiliqiHBMI nothing about that revered figure. He lives in the good lives of the **lle|*g the re Is austere people who practise Ms highly sin^plidty > de^nt coihittct an4 ittr^ war4^ notitilUtion of the'sensra„nd stipiulation of the ' .^^pMsh^s*” # moral faith. As to miracles, I have none to offer you, unless it be that you consider our. few continuing here among friend'fpr so many centuries, a in itself. That certainly catir|q^jsom- pare with the vivid miracles we have heard about in the last few ^.,days. Their absence in my re- ” ligioh no doubt renders it less ¦ picturesque, which I agree must I seem to your artistic nature, a yond that his service in action. No belief in any interceders is called for, prayer is for one ’s own mental satisfaction and spiritual comfort, but a person ’s salvation is not dependent on it. So, too, with the ritual, . which accumulates wherever people come together in society; some of it is good and helps identification, some does no harm, some is irk ­ some to the free spirit, ” said Meherji. An admirable religion for-the man of reason with an awareness of consequences, ” said the Persian prince, Akbar ’s cousin from Shirdz. “Do you accept converts?" ^‘We have not upto* now, sir, ” said Meherji. “You see we are bound by a promise we made to the ruler of the territory^ who allowed us to stay and gave us land. We promised we would not take into our faith His neople. ” “Any other promises? ” asked the learned Faizee. . . - , ‘‘Yes, Highness, ” said Meherji, qn page ^9) ; * 17 t4 *¦ When Bomi Gamat and his wife Lalita, returned to India after a career-hopping stint abroad, they didn ’t know anything about jeans except that they were comfortable. Two years later they are the proud parents of a growing empire of jeans, with centres in Delhi, Indore, and recently, Bombay. And plar^ are already under way to open more Jean Junctions, as their enterprise' is known, in Calcutta and Madras. “We hope to have little Jean Junctions all over India, ” says Bomi. The Bombay centre, the first jean shop in the city, is cradled under the Kemp ’s Comer flyover at the confluence of four major roads. Here, below the thunder of traffic overhead, an air of in ­ formality reigns as plump teen ­ aged customers rifle industriously through the racks of vari-coloured jeans. Drowning out the hum of the air-conditioner and price quo ­ tations, is the pervasive throb of music. “We want it to be more than a jean shop, ” explains Bomi, “a place where people can meet and listen to music and maybe buy some jeans. For instance, some ­ one came over from Simla asking us to supply them with 500 jeans. I had the jeans and I needed the money but they weren ’t willing to sell them with the music so we turned down the deal. Unlike Van Sobers, we don ’t want our jeans to be sold in any manner. ” And in all their centres, young people are left in sole charge. We ’re very youth oriented, ” notes Bomi. All the jeans are designed by the couple, “from what we dream at night, ” says Lalita. Despite the great demand for foreign jeans and patterns, Bomi says, “we try to ( forget trepds and do our own i thing. When someones comes in I and asks, ‘Where can I buy • American jeans? ’ we tell them, ‘In America ’ ”. Some of their designs are completely innovatory, ex- plains Boipi, “Like we designed the first really reversible pair of jeans. ” Indicating a somewhat bulky looking pair, he turned them inside out to demonstrate that one side was printed while the other I •ft - by Manjula Padmanabhan prom fop; Bomi Gamut, Rita Gora, Lolita Gamqt (tfui ifrivtr' {Pic, by Farokb Reporter}, 4 18'4- 4 ... • » ing . around buying shoes, when I heard this music, so I went into Z " He So enthused by the shop owners Boftii expressed an interest in -I shop in Bombay, he got talking ” with his father, Phiroze J. Driver. “He eeid, like orhameptal flaps turn out to he metLalit » _ see her whole environment. My father be air-vents. •‘There are twentj. Hong «e ^^r financier-with- Aev met agjn in Delhi and out him.n°ttoe ha ve^,^ where there had once been only Place, one of Delhi ’s main ship ­ ping centres, through an agency. Tracing back to the earliest be- ,j of Jean Junction, Bomi T Jived tep years in Lon- Was plain. Closer analysis i reveal" raws oftuttons on either side as ginnings of Jean Junction, toni wm wS, iieniousbi ,overlaK>ed so aS says, “I,Jtved ten. yf* ’. tn make the inVer^n quite com- don, domg all sorts of things. The L plete “People like tO- wear heavy idea had been to sti^dy m Luton openi g Snis »ml, “be- Tech., but I dropped that, woik- ont talk, " fails "*^ellZ But heavy ed as a factory hand, salesman, tckets and but- enough. tons'and ev^ d^him shoes, for ineaiis evyij v.x.xs6 ...w. th p Government those^ose ho^ns are tinted is Puniab. thou^ her coradilond t^ Gove , in shades of faded blue. “We started with two young tailors and now we have eight, ” says Bomi, adding that they were „ all Muslims arid that they “make they “had had enough.^ very good artisans, or tailors at :__ ^Nevertheless, he notes wr^y, took us frorh February- I...z:*' ' \ ’¦ first pair of jearts. lot qf mistakes. The tailors could a not Ainderstand what we ’ wanted aid watching them go wrtmg we decided we ’d do ,it ourselves. ” I” put down came off. Used a , ———— — *. — r- ” j —x.-~ • pattern out on paper and jnoceed- place, nor for advertising. , pd to ent the cloth themselves, used curcclvec as models, „ - - . . __ though savs Lalita “we couldn ’t Bomi looking round at the large we enjoy selling the jeans our- SSxitTa Ita! ” Then posters of jeals-clad torsoes. They selves. ” If it s«ms untKud to thev*EOt a tailor to stitch it up and got publicity in the press through find a flourishing busmen m these ae W«e-;Ji^r for Idito ’rlals aZd features wrhten » of ”O-r their later efforts. “We Still super- several journals, such as Femme, vise them very carefully, ” says Junior Statesman smd Debonair so ¦ Lalita. ‘Tf.even one line of double- that they “did not have to pay a stitcliing is crooked we make them penny. ” open it oUt and do it again. ” Pro- The Jean Junction agency in duction,started at the end of July Bombay belongs to Cyrus Driver^ ‘ ' - .................. student at vest-like garment in of “extras ”, such as a fancy collar, or v------ - “in case ypu want to go pht at *’ T’tiarA flrft deniip beljte e IS it suuii aitwiuj Ultvi --------------------- , denim onto don. Bpmi had^no Wlm^ab^ ^6"a^^eauty parlour owned TWe are Manlz6 yltharas. vauiuuv, 11.^ >«> sSrts , K ¦ ¦ ’ Se"*!:*'"iW !V=-^ltare. ^e Msgs XMTre'T «• driveS- S “Pitalt cov^H !1’-*” “ah doXSl ”’°‘'a™iz- ol-aam„. _^t. , i with mosquito everywhere. TSE hbngaiows irtxzip* -m,. V-j -„“‘‘"g ’, patents ai jn^t, their off-spring n ?“ ^^s ? ally ,^rth:'¥2^ h°.t M It fumsh^ an urban* being laraAi,, f ni< residenf ^f all — Tbwn. ing I’s . i thfere W?»d a /OOd.; hs wfe * /w- ^ow«j -Ct^ery . ,mQ^!ent^ '¦’' '^'¦a'’i^C ^rfeht iS ' ' appt^oi^i --^.. X wellihei>®^“ tones later that hioik^ '^vraa- W-schobr^^iffi^>^^;W- - “.S Warn chSre a'an ‘nm; • . .............................. “SX S,-^’=.-£^ p,.ji ..?? °ne encbHTit-.o<»j.j other house ’ Riitories 'Pr r*,^ • ’ ' ' dOP» ^acious and aii^ J , **^iu ctiiyi ^.double.decki nets and colour- a cross. jyho has s mas- ,^ent ^f^'^ their - ..riUg jp commS^°S'g !?’^5ely j "^as partly tn^’ deadly, r. — • " oy to remedy, *Tt-/ .wwuungg that hk 5~*’ SSSBi^S s: =~-X“?.i 7°?dt Ihiblic ™hMl insh couhtPvci,?'Located in noted Santb- aU "Walt mdulates M S? ‘’“I' “ y^ewd grandeur ofok® prileJ? horizon is the 2I on the are . houses over 300 stu^^^®°^ which For insta^ upset about todX!!^^’.?vei economic means tbif -3^ hmited - fSiSKs ’-’SS is?’S.s Pre-primary to’'^ ?® S^’aJ®b^miship. for Parsis “\eans, thte 30 of limited ard inic Wel fam where TiL’k"'* ' own vegetahi ^row ’'ork and own is given. ahoney vii of fui bed^i nis own livino r. who n-e ’a htouse, Mr. ‘chai5"“' naif an 8atti„g%" “A»h the vZv their -- «*oiance, everv tT nmething. ^9 heal with the nr^r ”® have With nt^'fe o'kome. ii y/ve^ ‘ to it they nway, Patankar charge oi Wadi, noted he tOj see '' to ,)VelUheing j • -¦ breadths yarjf- ¦> olfets r wood- runs a ’ grow '^nnous faiths and in and _J improvement ¦"^- , - A;eyen ‘bto-^ might have i names or bov« , ii ‘^nnnmg Apart ship between ’^^^ation- fhe older boys P«Pils. At 7.30 the ,- ‘^nngry amion “?he i^^ them and dinner beJl sounded cally; ^^pr^ tX^ ^^Shts Out tne matrnn 1- a ] like, '*0 ^oke to •y'i I ¦sS*. ^ysteoi^ia/ 'f the ‘thdse Of who ‘'dealt' * *1 Probtems she wn - -he quite dh^ept “that house" te^„'''° “ "* * fjs * K”** •»«r, «¦• * 4* ^(1 I ¦¦Hill II » [ADDING CROWD check aroynd midnight imd a»6und obviously ¦ 5 a. m.* that everyone is sleeping p5B^i^y. ,But there Was one^feby • 7falling but of yai icopviisiuimy is proviaei ’ ’ everything woul^ brightly painted pagoda-like be in prd^, but at S ’a.m. I wbuld • ture in the center of thp ar, real politicians start young. A sugar-coated lesson in practi ­ cal responsibility is provided by a mwaer, putat b -a-m. 1 wbuld - ture in the center of the gro^Ads- 1, ^d -an empty -bed. the tuck shop: Previously ' Thenv^ !: outsider, thf shop is now managed binVfast asleep On the- by the boys themselves. The ‘ ' ‘ to a Urge hall de^qratod with \ ™m^nacKs- SSF’S the food is sold, any profit is ^symTOiSj pi different religions — -i— ‘The Amn Master, ’ ‘The, Naza- rene ’ ana ‘The Bodhisattva ’ were lotus, a ; crescent and ____ _ David-^^'rt. prayers from differ- heard some Zoroastrian tene ’ am. painted alongside a fire, ’%• struc- run by an : school y- — - ----- ^op money with Wto^ to buy mets arid snacks; , nil J, pivut iS ploughed back, _ into the school ’s trust fund which subsidizes the low income students. Other ameni ­ ties are a post office —with its a cross, a uca arc a post omce —with its own ^ranking machine —and a bank. ent religions are chanted. ’We heard some Zoroastrian prayers (especially written in . thb Deva-' schools or convent schools, where ­ as ours is equally good. Academi ­ cally our result at the S.S.C. this year was 93 per cent with 12 first classes and one distinction. Recent ­ ly one of our ex-students got the Vir Chakra, Lt. Purvez Jamasji, and another received the Mahavir Chakra, Lt. Commander Bahadur Kavina. Any other school would have tom-tommed these facts to the public. ‘.. but we don ’t want more boys as such; we have a good number already. However, we are a Parsi endowment, and we would welcome more ParSi boys. And not only do we have fewer Parsi pupils ' than we would like,, but we have hardly any Parsi teachers. Re ­ cently we advertised for the post of assistant principal. Only one Parsi applied and he was on the verge of retirement, ” noted Mehta and' Desai. As we walked through the grounds talking of how the school could attract more Parsi students, Desai took us past the school ’s model farm, to his cacti collection, and showed us a unique plant whose leaf, after it drops off puts forth a new bud. “This is where I ^ay back we passed a suggestion suggestion has been received but the most shattering criticism so far had been “There was too much salt in today ’s dal." It showed a certain satisfaction with life in Boys ’ Town. iVter their pocket money is depp- siteb.to the bank at the ..fegginning of every term,, the boys can write out their own chettues to withdr^ “I want all the boys to Re- hsgari script so that everyone money. __ - passage know about all gubiects. ” exolained' sung bhajan. After the pray- five-minute paper Written ^uld , reg^ , theto bUt), ‘ 0 and ers, pne the boys reads out --- ' ¦ . subject of his choice. The ,morning assembly is con- jouya ruwn out or thp ellctil'as SZ’ '"'‘’'‘nd IW are from the foes stat^g their ^iSevements and ^pectatibns; then-a^proper Voting ^ssion is held; cbtoprete with bai- iot i«pers and ink marks ,stamped op the . Voters^ hands after they a a on any no time. The older boys are now asking me, ‘When shall we find time to bathe?' But despite all the amenities the school offers, not enough Parsis attend Boys ’ Town. Out of the 310 US a pay The full fees of Rs. 230 per ¦ bring my boys, ” he smiled. On the month; i54 Parsi boarders pay less - - than ^.100 pei-^bhth. box. I asked whether any°Sfois Perhaps poor Parsis think they - ------- - - ’ ’ ‘ will have to shdl out 80 to a 100 rupees per month, whereas if the will work out cheaper. Many poor Parsis are enamoured of prestige have cast their vote.,But in spite boy liv^s at home they 7hink “it of these precatitions, six extra bal- - - " ’ - “ Ibt papers were cast this year — r¥ ** ! J Photos by: Sean Mahoney r 1 i iOi ¦H i irt ¦* The Wheel Turns Full Circle In tke age ofaemnaattcs, travelling mainly entails obtaining rarsis set out to see Mahoney tells of what it meant being a Zoroastrian Among the celebrities they ' met were Archduke Prince Joseph of Hungary, the Shah of Iran (while he was still Minister of War), Lord^ Birkenhead, Secretary of State for ' India, and of coyree, scoreS of “prominent citizens. ” ^t the same time they had to contend with a whole list of troubles : , illnesses (at the outset all the labels had * . fallen off their medicine bottles), I eye-disease, lice, punctures, broken axles. Bedouin robbers, whirlwinds I and sandstorms (every few minutes ! they had to unearth themselves and their bicycles from the sand in order not to be buried alive). Different countries reacted differ ­ ently to the quintet. In Italy they were imprisoned as German spies, to be let off only when they pro ­ duced Mussolini ’s autograph from ' out their pockets. In the Alexan ­ drian YMCA they were told there was nofliing special about them: 7,.'/'the whole place was infested with globe-trotters. And in, Japan they stayed with a Mr. Nakamura who had bicycled round the world in fot Oiina, they found it positively “vibrating with an ir ­ resistible and indestructible idea for national self-consciousness ”; idols in temples were being replac ­ ed by benches for school-boys. But they also found that the regulations in Indo-China forbade shelter be ­ ing offered to foreigners. Initially fund-raising proved troublesome, but ultimately die —tube joints generous patrons, although they ------- had to earn much of their funds en route. Freny Pochkhanawalla, the daughter of one of the I some of ‘the ways in which her father and his companions had to earn their keep. “They gave lectures, sold photographs of themselves,' received donations when they toured foreign factories, and gave performances of physical feats such as bar-bending, fencing, box ­ ing and judo ” At one such perform- ance in Shiraz “one of us heaved a stone on his chest and had it broken with big hammers. Rustom T„ _ __ _ Bhamgara proved to the audience i strength of his powerful jaws by dragging an Overland car, with ‘UK.. 7 i—“z "1111 a rope the held with his teeth. The Shirazis ^.. iruveiiin^ ma a seat belt. But it wasn't always that J,/.. .. ,j t . -------- abroad 40 ^ears ago. „ a visa and fastening way. In 1923, five Parsis set out to see li!?' •I d». *v . II v» ij* ’ I f J ¦ ) i . ... irouDiesome, out ul tim ately the mfief^f journey-onions in hats-€17 cyclists were successful in finding SSkd? desert-the whirlwind-we badiTne J 7 -r-y—«¦***< vivoviv jvmucv—uiuoni miles of sandy stretch^the tramp through the desert —135° another goodbye —buried in sand —without food and'water —saved "by •E"'‘»>««''J--Aleppo —Damascus —the parting travellers, recalled It sounds like the synopsis of a story written by an inebriated Boy Scout, but it —and much more — all happened to five Parsi youths who decided to bicycle round the world. Our heroes Were Jal P. Bapasola, Rustom B. Bhumgara, Adi G. Hakim, Keki D. Pochkhana- walla and Gustad D. Hathiram. Starting in 1923 their journey covered 44,000 miles, lasted four years and five months, and is re ­ captured in a delightful book With Cyclists Round the World. Part travelogue, part memoir, it re ­ counts in detail their intricate pre ­ parations and bring to life the I It evokes in the reader the sense of the sheer art of travel at a time when you travelled not because you were well-off and bored, but because you were adventurous and had plenty of stamina. And some ­ times it recounts incidents which top the tallest story one could dream up. The travellers alternated bet ­ ween being feted with feasts and starving in the desert. I______ towns they were guests of gover ­ nors and received banquets and citations galore —and once governor so much appreciated our enterprise that he accompanied five passengers i^ it, with quite held their breath when he {Continued on page 37, coZ. 2) countries they traveled tbrou^; on"hOTK-brt' “to''T9^tXs “”¥ »’ V CE & TRtJi ¦it -s • "i li ¦ - 'ib* 4* * ¦ -4: Trusty bestow, a mixed blessing and the late Maneck Mistry, an ­ on the institutions they create, other trustee, wanted to amalga- Widle^hey help to provide the mate the Lying-in-Hospital with • ¦ to nidna^e the institu- Parsi General Hosirital, recalls imns. Thus c-^q^s flourish, ' # ct^i^the trustees often lack the sortie ward in the B. D. Petit te to rhdnage the institu- Parsi General Hospital, recalls Thus while a few such Mehta. “But the other trustees [, most flounder. The said ‘we can ’t consider the proposal. : . J - College of Commerce is The hospital must remain. ’ itmqng the small number that has “There are several agiaries in thrived. But whether it will con- the Fort area which are rarely iH tihtie to do go will depend largely frequented. If their fire could be bn the su^ort it receives from merged with that of some other W other P(trsi trusts. Whether that fire temple, we could construct a fH help is forthcoming or not will building on the land. There are so 'i ^determine to a large extent how manv things the communitv could responsive the archaic institution of the Trust is to the multiple and complex demands of the commu­ nity today. “Destiny appears to be frowning Ion the college, ” says Homi D. w P 7—<*?' ij >¦1 T'^' £ • I * fnr' Mehta: Nothing is happening. bureau, notes Mehta. ThojUgh the College is cosmo- Madressa Trust. The Trustees of eligible Parsis, says Mehta. But the the Parsee Panchayat went to court number of iPareis is decUni^ "in mercial education, says Mehta. .9i many things the community could do if people would come forward 1 —^but nothing is happening. Each trust wants to have its own inde ­ pendence and autonomy. ” The Sir J. J. College was started and has an active placement inl953?intheSirJ.J,PasrsiBene- Mehta, honorary director of the Sir volent-Institution building,'out of __ _____________ J. J. College of Commerce. “A the unutilized funds of the Sir J. L Cpncessions'are given tP stage is coming;j^hen it wfll be- Madressa Trust. The Trustees of eligible Parsis, says Mehta. But the come impossible > to continue in the Parsee Panchayat went to court number of Parsis is decliniqg in thisi old building. Already there to divert the money for com- nearly all the courses except the is .so much pressure on it. ” mercial education, says Mehta, secretarial, where 60 per cent are The 21 year-old college, among “Twelve thousand rupees a year from the community. Even those the three leading institutions of sanctioned. The institution Parsis employed in banks are not its kind in Bombay, is at present ^51 eager to improve their positions housed in the aged four-storied Dhun Building on Nanabhoy Lane in the city ’s bustling business cen ­ tre. The brainchild of the Parsi Panchayat, the College offers a wide array of courses in the secre ­ tarial, commercial and business management fields. But its mush ­ rooming activities are hindered by the limitations of space and the huge expenses incurred in maintenance and repairs. “There are problems with sanitation, waiter. ... still we are pulling on, ” says Mehta. “E’^ery year I men ­ tion in the* aamiid report that if nothing is done, it- will mean an end to all our activities. “We have requested Parsi trusts building was used by *the College^ to give us some other place in the ’ '— _ Fort area. There are so many jiu.ivu onu institutions in the neighbourhood Centrar^Bank ' oi Indk^^arscT sent Wh^C utilization is not very high. ” An attwnjft to convert the Parsi Lying-in Hospital on Bastion Road fizzl^ out, says Mehta, even Luie oi oanxers. auo! though' the maternity institution College increased its is “running ar a deficit. ” The late Thv xxvw recognized by the Indiaa Mer- there was a lot of underutilization were sanctioned. The institution parsis employed in banks are not was started in a small way as a __ part time morning and evening hy taking courses “despite all our college for typewriting, shorthand efforts to encourage them to do and some commercial subjects. ” ---- In 1960, when Maneck Mistry was }_¦ College, Dhun Building was donat ­ ed to the Parsi Panchayat. ' first floor was vacant and the typewriting and shorthand classes were shifted there. Courses in Banking and Government Com- tut'ion. We should run like atey mercial Diplomas and for Company other corporation. We are not de- Secretaries were started. In pendent on any other sources. ” 1964 the college shifted its The Parsi Panchayat, however, morning classes to the Bengalee still has a say in matters, aS two Girls ’ High School. Gradually the of its Trustees are on the Cpllege ’s- tenants who occupied Dhun governing board. Attempts to Building were moved to alternative make the ‘College an autonomous places and three-fourths of the unit are under wav. As Mr. BflL so, ” says Mehta. * In the past, the College was given the portfolio for the subsidized by the Panchayatf?' But TM D,„i.4.for the last three to four years, The the College has been self-support ­ ing with a surplus accumulating. “We felt we should not have the^ stigma of being a charitable insti ­ tution. were In its governing board. Attempts to imit are under way. As. Mr. B.’1L . - Boman-Behram noted on the Insti- In 1966 the first Personal Secre- tution ’s College Day function, in mries Course was started and The February last year, the- cJhildf ha§ 7 -- ----- -I— growjl up and now wants to stand their clerks to the college for train- on JtS own two feet. And Prof, ing to qualify for the Ass wbuld start a foundation, to be named after himself, to accomplish that goal. Course in Business Management, 1* * It ¦V-1 Ai*i •i i K^le Waghmar, 32, Sacratary and Controller of Accniinte ImnrlM* wwiiirwi^r P»4. of Accounts, Imprint ‘Yes and no. Yes, beehive those I No, because those who I r I fathers did and have thereby I mained at the same level. ‘___ I money of the rich is concentrated afford "to' I in a few families and is not dis- I tributed because they won ’t marry I below their economic station. “Basically, the work ethic is missing in the present generation. In the past it was not so. There was also less competition. Two annas ’ labour gave a return of four annas. Today it is less than four annas. There is also a lot of pettiness. If a person does well, someone else will try and pull him down. If a person wants to study or do anything, many peoj^ will con- iTk! ® snob. Children are ’’ . J go to movies. . ^^^og at home at 6.3O p. m. is con- The sidered a crime even if you can ’t ------- .J go out. “Parsis invest in shares and securities in well-known companies like Tata ’s. Even if the return is less they don ’t invest elsewhere. Many Parsis were swindled in the Dena Banking Corporation fraud where a thirty per cent return was promised. With laws restricting dividends, I feel fixed deposits are best. If you want to invest in busi ­ ness you must be prepared to bear a loss of capital. You must have excess capital, which I don't have. ’’ who are rich are becoming richer. No because, those who arc p... tX™ by parents to g_TJ Sitting at home at 6.3O p. m. is con- ftl/iAMAz] ____ _____ • S* con- I 8 1 ...... *. A How- are as I G^eral Cahsulate- ‘‘Compared to other communi ­ ties, Parsis are better off. ever, I don ’t think they „„ well off as 30-40 years ago, when we heard names like Sir Pheroz- shah Mehta and Dadabhoy Naoroji. The present generation does not have the initiative or the urge to do things for themselves, or help others. Our forefathers „ ., ----- o-, — did a. lot for the community and looking after their for others, like Jamshedii Tata at business, not studying. Jamshedpur. . - There are educated paupers in our community, people who could them i,,.^ “P’ because of Roshan herself apathy or laziness. Many families S/ .0. I*. i ‘Vv I are living on the interest received on their capital, be it shares or fixed deposits, instead of ins?e|ting in busings. As a result, the^aRh will dwindle after some time. ” However, Roshan feels ^at on , the whole. Parsis are more inter ­ ested in business than in service. “When I was in college, most fatbers ’ business, not studying. Boys whose fathers don ’t have money, can ’t afford to go into busi ­ ness, and sheer necessity forces *’-“1 into white collar jobs/ ’ — -- f would be inter ­ ested in investing in a boutique. Rustom Kushesh, 40, Partner, National Reetaurant . - w However^ they ate still hard- his money in whatever business he “"’d rr:.t.„L “if you ask me J ( I r * '5 not. Whatever money there is, is the balance kept from the older generation. Previously Parsis were hard-working and took an inter- est in business but now they are a after pleasure. They don ’t want to :F shoulder any responsibilities. They B are only interested in having holi- uppunuiuues as oetore Previ- ¦ to movies. They oUsly all the big posts were^lSld i deoSfts^Thek sons of the i have come and the Parsis have 1 Sdw^bh^ ’ '^5^' >en displaced. As a result, sdme -I snouia we labour? Iranis on the otty hand invest in business. But begga'.i ’ fn ”“ihe^StSdrS they too have changed of late, prertously there were Z?” working. ” Kushesh would invest his money in whatever business he could control. “If you ask me now, I would say a restaurant or a wine shop. • * . .' ‘Parsis are not getting as many opportunities as before. Previ- spil have come and the Parsis have been displaced. As a result^ some are very poor, and today one i^s> Adar ^ama, 66, Sedr^ary, K. ft. Cams' Oriental Institute of Parsis are rich,,, 10 per. k^nt are >) X'' I ¦ - A ft I » ift Cama feels close to, go ^er cent of Parsis are lrich,„10 per/c^nt are middle class" and tO^per cent are poor. “The money is well distri- for the poor, hospitals, schools ships. Further distribution would The-. ’COnimunity is decently rich. 'Ilwi^ver, our ' gradually getting less. not so many in business or indus- try as before. This could be due buted. There are housing colonies I to the lack of finance and the de- for the poor, hospitals, schools sire to work hard. As a result of and charities which give scholar- this, more and more are joining ships. Further distribution would [ the ranks of the employed. ” The be possible if affluent Parsis start- Parris, ” he adds. _____ ___________ , , . “Parsis invest mainly in shares, did in China. Here we don ’t stand They have been cheated of their a chance with the others, because money in certain cases and mil- J income is There are “The money is well, distri- this, more and more are joimng remedy for this, Cama feels, is^ for ed industries and employed fellow Parsis to leave India and start bust- oHHc nesses “like Jamshedji Jeejeebhoy chance with the others, because money in certain cases and mil- we are ’ j can ’t do black marketing, we don ’t 1 specialize in that. If we did, we would get caught in a trap. No Parsi smuggler has been caught, so it appears we are not in that field. ” very small in number. We lions have been lost, but I wouldn ’t . -----..... .4say it happens often. ” Cama says he would invest in fixed deposits. He does not want to start a busi ­ ness, “not now after 40 years of service. ” i “ >¦ Rosban Mistry, 42, Housewife “Parsis are getting poorer. They trated among a few, *aBd it could can ’t afford anything these days be distributed among ’fl^. cbni- ' ¦ ’ ¦ munity if Parsis went into busi- Most of them are ness.Opening co-operative stores at baugs and Parsi gyms and Hubs would also help, ” she adds. "Parsi too "much work and headache study- They should be provided - -- - ' " "'L '¦ caOve and study. Only tb^ vrill munity if Parsis went iiito bu?i- 1 \ - at baugs and Parsi gyms and Hubs j and they don ’t seem to have any ­ thing saved. selling their businesses, because at baugs and Parsi gyms and Hubs their sons do not have the cour- would also help, ” she adds. "Parsi age to go in for it. They feel there youth ’ should be encouraged to is toomaeh work and headache study- They should be provided involved and would rather sell the witifi accommodatior^ wl^r^fthey I business, get . the lump sum <........ ' - — I and invest it in banks and fixed they have better prospects, I deposits. ” This money, Ms Mistry . . I feels “only lasts for one genera- Coming from an orthodox I tion, and consequently there is family, Ms Mistry feels she would ! less money in the community. not have been allowed to start a I ’ “My cosmopolitan friends say business herself, but if she had B Parsis are rich. Certain individuals children, she and her husband I are. But the money is concen- would have invested in one. . Coming from H But the money is concen- 1 i 28 Homi Shroff, 24, Merchant “In what way, monetarily or cul ­ turally? Monetarily, a few are rich, the majority are middle class, some are poor. There are too many beggars, though. ” Parsis richer before, says Homi. economic status has gone down work and pray for the best. ” because there is much more competition today. Parsis are not working hard and keeping up with number of them used to invest in the times. shares and fixed deposits; T' ^n ’t “Other communities are coming .know if they still do. ” 'S^ere he up, and Parsis are being pushed would invest would depend on the back, ” he notes. “There is a lack of great Parsis .who could inspire the community and spur them on. There should be some guiding force. Moreover, the whole nation is passing riirough an economic crisis, so naturally Parsis would feel the pinch. The only 'th^g one “Their can do under the circumstances is Parsis go into business as much as serrice, according to Homi. “A ___ :__ _____________ ; ¦ I shares and fixed deposits; T' ^n ’t were economic situation at the time, but he' thinks business would be the best choice. *¦f / a HELLO entertainment. GOODBYE DRAMA J , T “Hello Inspector ” produced by bit role. It is not, however, with- Burjor ‘ Patel and directed by out importance because it is on Arvind Thakkar is the kind of him that the murderer is counting play which makes a critic ’s for the successj Qf^t^ murder. presence entirely superfluous. For, reveal anything further would be even after a run of several weeks, to destroy the very meaning of a it was obviously so popular that I “whodunit ” but this is a whodunit would have made more money in with a difference —it shows that it selling my tickets in the “black ” is perfectly feasible to commit a than in putting my comments down murder and get away with it. One in black and white. Reviewing it only needs to keep one ’s wits about, in his breezy style. Busybee comes The production is slick and fast- to the unhesitating conclusion moving with a set designed to im- that, “Aban Patel must have the press, and special effects such as best pair of legs on the stage. ” —* ?v*- T.*«nArt«r Now while this may be saying a _ great deal about Ms Patel ’s legs, terrified wife on the stage, and pro- it does not say much about the • ...i—u play ’s action, for if a critic ’s atten- , _ . tion is wandering in this irrelevant course the temptation to over-use but no doubt delightful manner, it these tricks and in the case of a would appear that the action is not flashback where the heroine relives providing the sort of stimulation her past, it becomes unnecessarily it should. long and tiresome. There is also a More specifically “Hello Inspec- scene in this film which is not tor ” belongs to the whodunit only vulgar but completely im- genre of drama and to the extent plausible, which shows a couple that it managed to keep the audi- in a car with the man ’s hand ence guessing till the end, it was placed all too suggestively under most successful. It kept to the the woman ’s skirt. The incon- classic Hitchcock formula, of fast gruity is in that both of them are action leading along carefully laid supposed to have been involved in false trails, ending with an unex- a fatal accident, whose impact one pected twist at the climax. In can be certain would have made fact the story “adapted from an it impossible for the man ’s hand English original ” by Tarak Mehta to remain where it was. These appeared to have elements from kind of lurid touches as well as Inspector ” would certainly make various Hollywood thrillers spiked the filmi clothes worn by the ladies, appear so. with a dash of Agatha Christie, in particular Ms Ruby Patel, sug- * Geeta Doctor There was the neurotic wife (Ruby gest that Hollywood was not the Patel) who feels that someone is only influence and that it would deliberately trying to drive her be easier to trace the “popular ” out of her wits (Spellbound! Dial success of the play to its subtle M for Murder! Vertigo!) Her imitation of the standard Hindi re-direct them. But nearly always husband (Noshir Ratnagar) appears film. they come back because they say, to be the long-suffering sort, but Could this also be the reason, ‘There ’s not that much difference with Aban Patel hovering in the one wonders, why the audience, in- anyway. ’ ” He finds that in Bom- background in the role of a not stead of applauding the actors bay people seem prepared to spend too sympathetic nurse-friend, he after what must have been for them more and buy more of the ‘fine ’ gradually begins to look, “definitely a long and demanding performance, materials. “The velveteen jeans suspicious ”. Various characters s' are thrown in to provide diyer- (--------- ----- --------- ---------—w ------------- sions and allow ; the other regular had witnessed an extension of the longer to move. ’ members of the cast to do their f’ ’ _ * ’ *' ' ' ” . bit. Among these is Inspector not required to make a response? Jean Junctions in three years, Hitchcock tradition, plays only a they not only did so, but enjoyed “t might diversify.*' for the success of murder. To to destroy the" very meaning of a with a difference —it shows that it is perfectly feasible to commit only needs to keep one ’s wits about. ___ The production is slick and fast- the unhesitating conclusion moving with a set designed to im- spot lighting to show the Inspector in his office room talking to the jected film sequences, which are skillfully employed. There is of ¦ * k these tricks and in the case of a It kept to the the woman ’s skirt. Th^ incon- iHWcemnVi • • • the sensation, make these questions irrelevant? The success of “Hello Jeans (Continued from page 19) shuffled out in silence? Were they ' for instance, are almost sold out deluded into thinking^ that they ’ here, but in Delhi they took much 4.1... t-n Looking to the film on the stage and thus wire future Bomi visualizes “sixteen Grant (Burior Patel), who in the And finally does the fact that after which, he says cryptically, . 4-1..... M..4. .II-J .... 1...4. ...3J .4'1 ? A JEENA & COMPANY (ESTD. 1900) iAta air cargo Clearing, Forwarding Warehousing/and Insurance Agents 10, Veer Nlrlman Road Fort. BOMBAY-1 »» Cable: “Justltia Telex : 2313 PHONE: 250^ 52 Branches; E. Merc House 19/B, Shakespeare Sarani {Formerly Theatre Road) CALCUTTA-16 PHONE: 444711 •‘Jeena House, ’’ 50, Hanuman Road Connaught Circus NEW DELHI PHONE: 310821 r k T ¦« - X- J . * S, A Mystic Fog *¦ a itofl^rstanding. its down to the _____________ _ __ _ ite a book, the medium denwds that fofm of real * , , moment one sits down to one does so in the diy, l^t clear li^t of rational inquiry, rather than in the misty fogs* of spiritual ambiguities. Either onp admits that certain philosophical ques ­ tions cannot be explained on paper, or one finds a way of doing so; to merely say that be?- cause the matter is incompre ­ hensible, it should only be dealt, with in an incomprehensible manner, is to invite criticism. SpenCer has written a number of previous books on certain con- [ Cycle and Sequel The booklet Tinder re- in 5 The booklet on Zoroastrian Tradi- lions, Customs, and Ceremonials* troversial subjects, as The Aryan by H. S. Spencer and Dastur Ecliptic Cycle and Sequel K. S. Dabu comes as yet another to the Mysteries of God in the reminder that it is easier for Universe. The booklet Tihder re ­ Faith to go about moving moun- view is intended to be a condenW tains than for it to produce a version of the latter book. To good book. The only consolation begin with, one must commend ‘ is, that unlike H. S. Spencer ’s certain aspects of Spencer ’s intel- other productions, as for example, lectual ardour and wide-ranging The Aryan Ecliptic Cycle where scholarship. In The Aryan Ecliptic the introduction alone is 100 pages Cycle he has marshalled a for- long, the material here is greatly midable amount of evidence to i condensed. It is condensed to the support his theory, and provides \ point of being fragmentary examples from a varied number of one^ cannot help but wonder for ancient civilizatiomi and religions ¦ • ’ ’ ’ ’ - to illustrate what he has W say. His theory is also interestjug, for, unless the layman were to refer geographical, astronomical and to the previous books of H. S. textual evidence, the origins of i Spencer he would be completely the Aryan race, he establishes that at sea, while a learned man would the early Indo-Iranians must have find that he would simply be once had their abode in the Arctic wasting his time with such super- regions. By his manipulation of ficialities as “Why should dogs not complex astronomical data to be allowed near the dead? ’’ and decipher various references found other such problems which are in the Vedic and Iranian scrip- also dealt with in the booklet. tures, he manages to project a The unfortunate thing is that fairly consistent picture of the there is obviously a great need Aryans in their first home in the for a book on the subject, since Arctic, during the time that the most Zoroastrians admit to a sense early heroes of the Shahnama,^ of inadequacy about their religion, Keyumars, Hushang, Tehmurasp, but unless it is presented in a l.™ J——1-12 1„ coherent manner it is doubtful These periods also whether it will be of any use to according to^ Spencer, anyone. Spencer makes it a “ ' point to extol the virtues of a _ mystic approach to studying Aryans, and since the various metaphysical truths, over what Manus that we come across he refers to as the “dry and obscure light of philosophical punditry ’’. Now, while we would not deny that there ate a.pparently soate who can apprehend certain truras through direct spiritual communion, and while this may ^igo onTrie af ’u^n Press, ”Homji view is intended to be a conden^d version of the latter book. To certain aspects of Spencer ’s intel- whom the liook has been written. It deals with the main points in a , - mariher that is so episodic that by exploring with the help of and Jamshid were in command, coincide, __ „ -- _______ to the Paleolithic, Neolithic and Metal ages in the evolution of the i be t®e best, and perj^^s Wy, ' ’Extracted from Seqnd to the Myste^ rii9 of Gbd in the Unlvene published by H. P. VaswaoL A/6 Sadhu Vaswani Kunj, 3 Sadhu Vaswani Path, Poona 1. /aK.*' a* TTniAM 1*«^ec ' UAmaj Street, Fort, Bombay 1).< W in Hindhism^. twere sible J for the accomplish- _____ ______ s i aa raents, - >es^(ides that the hidden, and by his painstaking Manus ^dwd be taken , to cor- scrutiny of various ancient civiliza- respond W the personages tioned by their individual names nf Tnmci, H 1 Similarities which ’he 5eaks “o?Na7ayana/k iracSy After the reign of Jamshid, also |eels. cannot be ascribed to mere referring to Zarathustra known as Yuna (Yhrna in Hindu coincidence T to '^ce^TSSl' ’fi?S; Oifly 4c^nced^ qnfortu^, for the?^^iOi^x>ther popular household detergent con- tairts more than 20% active matter. Ours contailns 25% guaranteed. For further information call at pur 'offk^ industrial ^ghemicals 20/50 KG BAGS Both blue ancf .cream powders are avat^ible in 20/50 kg plastic-lined hessian bags. Repack in small plastic containers and sell under your brand name. 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Spencer sup- drawing of a spacecraft, difference 1 Spencer is ---- —. that he is putting forth a bizzare theory and Knows rnai wuuc ^TZartiKstra was the originator, has full '^Similarly he demonstrates that the will remain Skeptical. V^e iW Bethlehem, is the same fri Kpiiwe in them star that m ^^t^l'^^hence ^t" that it ’ liai bee as shown above Zarathustra, hence yet, tnat « he deduces that ^sus Chnst is a as the chief defuse witness reference to the idea fire of whose worship the Prophet get "Some £«»--------, . we don ’t, have to believe in them for it is obvious that for every scrap of evidence that he marshals in support of his thedry, there are others that he chooses to ignore. He realises this, and ^ven poses his title in die forjn of a^^uestion. Spencer on the ^—, says that his conjectures are incontrovertible facts, but insists that we accept them as the Gos^l he" holds. In short he expects us to accept his theory as a revela ­ tion. .Jf, . . Spencer ’s most si^ificant re­ velation is that Spitama Zara- XS or^Aind, has appe-arad is a wide one, ™ Krnnah successive reincamatious need, to widen it tether hP iUie Standard to uphold bis and well-known publications, no cold by the Almighty himself ^that 2^rathustra, Shree Krishna Bhag- wan and Jesus Christ are the Kvelato and wSy He finaUy did so in such a casual nnssed as we^ _ _____ F__ “Ztobt .he rift between the “Surras supporter of Faith and oi Reason down, to Ae year and nay, _ _ a wide one, but there is no while these may all be popular 5 ennsi arc u*c and well-known publications, no accept his theory as a revela- .f' ¦ . -c Spencer ’s most si^ificant re- thustrp, though the first great 1 - through successive only be dis- 13 able to provide dates r personages living in the past Spencer is example Shree Krishna Bhagwan, iContina^d on pag^ 3^> col. 3) % : Trans-worid maritime trade routes meet at SCINDIA 4 .s'" Scindia ships ply through INOIA-BANGLADESH- stAiertAN-SRi vV^i^,;. s ^-euawA^esT asia sulf- asb SEA-WEST AFRICA- A oX-eONTINENT-POlAND- SCANDINAVIA- MEDITERRANEAM’ABW^^ A.R.E-BLACK SEA-SINGAPORB- L MALAYSIA-INDONESIA- V HONG KONG-TAIWAN-U.S.A^ GREAT LAKES-CANADA- ii W MEXICO-CARIBBEAN* IL B SOUTH AMERICA- « * CENTRAL AMERICA 4 fcverv man ’s clich^ —• wK 'The world's a small wjR place*, and most Mh businessmen ’s thoughts: 'SCfiSIDIA visits every major world port*. Eart * West, North or South — SCINDIA ships your carg^ to safety with her fast, efficient economic ^lyiceai ¦ S^gjOlNDlKL * THE SCINDIA I NAVIGATION COn j^inidia Hous*, Harottam Morarjaa - ‘^Billiard Estibte, Bortitay-T. Tel«Dhoda2^1B1 Tolw on -2265^11-38t» agents in all principal FOBTS. OF WW9RU3 , STfAjM C¦ . lirf •s Darius S. Jhabvola {Boston Globe Photo) hl memoriam Died: Dr. Ru^m Jal Vakil, 64, lege. He proceeded to London to chemists isolated five active alka- the father of Indian Cardiology study medicine and cardiology at loids from Rauwolfia plants, whose studies on the use of Rauwolfia St. Thomas ’ Hofepifal and obtained Dr. Vakil ’s clinical studies provided Serpentina relieved the suflFering of hjs M.R.C.P. at the ago-of 24 and the breakthrough which established high blood pressure patients through- after that his M.D. degree. the drug as one of the main jgzeapons out the world ; bf cardiac arrest in In Bombay he wm connected against hypertefision. Bombay - Hospital on November with several hospit^ including the He did a prodigious amount of lOtjii- He was ’the first Asian to KEM, Sir Nanavatty, Sir J. J., research, including a study of 25,000 receive I the International Albert Parsi General, J. R. Railway, Bhatia personally observed cases of .coro- Lasker Award for Medical Research and Bombay Hospital. He lectured nary thrombosis in India. Hje once in 1957, and was awarded the in medicine and cardiology in the noted that the ability to do research, Padma Bhushan and nominated for G. S. Medical College and the like the ability to write verse or the Nobel Prize in 1958. Grant Medical College. compose music, is an inner uhdefi- , Often referred to as the ‘Heart He was a witty speaker whose nable quality —some are bom with Man ’, Dr. Vakil was an elected interests ranged beyond the field of it, some are reared into it,"" while fellow of over 20 international and medicine to history, music, culture others acquire it by diligent endea- national medical and scientific bo- and art. In his writings he has refer- vour. Homi Banaji, an old friend dies. He was past president of the red to the medical practices of of the Vakil family, recalled that Cardiological Society of India and Babylon and Egypt, to archaeolo- when the to-be-doctor came to him , to take French lessons for his ma- Register of Inter- Atharyas and Ayurveda and ancient trie examination, he did not express " The Physician In Shakes- Dr. Vakil came to specialize in de- He once wrote of medical seases of the heart and blood pres- .they with their newly ac- sure because his mother and other ~ . ___ 2________ cil, the Shanti Swamp Bhatnagar longer conform to Voltaire ’s defi- blood pressure, notes Ms Katie and Industrial Research and the cribed medicines of which they knew r — ¦ ¦ " ............ " - • - - ________ “ most outstanding medical per- knew less, in human beings of whom days after suffering a Teart attack sonality of the year in India. ” The they knew nothing. ” u., u.o institute of cardiology and research Dr. Vakil ’s research on Rauwolfia at the JCEM Ho^tal was named Serpefitina bears testimony to the after him, an honour bestowed on stbre house of knowledge that has him by his past students and ad-, . bei^ added since those bleak times. mirers, I^. Vakl was the authof -Thmigh the small woody plant ,, rj. . of over 380 afticks, editor of several! Whieh ’’takes its name from a 16th. York Herald TnbUne axtd a medical journals, and wfker of nine mmtury Germaft botanist was ap- one-time assistant pditor of News-* books on cardiology and related ' p^bfitotly known to Indian medicine of a heart attack on Novem- subjects. * for;around 4,000 years, European her 19 in Boston. He was past pre- * Dr. Vakii Iqjned the PJ tute of ? were ‘^lined ifo dismiss Correspondents, Association and hk ^liminary studies at the ]^arda it as the native superstitions of an was known among his colleagues High j^hool and Elphinstone Col- ignorant people. In 1931 Indian and the diplomatic community for his M.D; degree, In Bombay he was Grant Medical College. _ __ He was a witty speaker whose nable quality —some are bom with fellow of over 20 international and medicine to history, music, culture others acquire it by diligent endea- national medical and scientific bo- and art. In his writings he has refer- vour. Homi Banaji, an old friend dies. He was past president of the red to the medical practices of of the Vakil family, recalled that recently his name was entered on gical excavations, to the Vedas, tll6 American ** Tn+^r_ quA Aimn/Prlo and anniflnt national Notables. ” Among the nu- folklore remedies. One of his essays any inter^t in medicine at the time, merous honours and around 40 was on “ t,. ------ *--------- j. awards, prizes and medals presented peare. ” to him were the first Dr. B. C. Roy men^ '. Award of the Indian Medical Coun- quired knowledge of doings, no family members were patients of high f Award of the Council of Scientific hition of doctors as men who pres- Vania, his secretary for 22 years. ' and Industrial Research and the cribed medicines of which they knew The man who put India on the First Dhanwantri Award for the little, to cure diseases of which they world map of cardiology died seVen ** Aiifcfonzlino -rir*o/4ir'o 1 -rM*r_ Iacc irt I'kiiman KAinrtc rtFitizliAm zloxic sonality of the year in India. ” The th^ knew nothing. ” He is survived by his wife Jeroo. Died ’: Darias S. Jhabvala, 46, Diplomatic Correspondent for Boston Globe and former United Nations Bureau Chief of the old It ' kiQpiped the Royal Jnsli- doctors who heard- of 4ts curative sident of the State -Department were ‘^lined ifo dismiss Correspondents, Association and 35¦*» ' W; ¦ i * Ms wit, charm an* * ’ « S, |it|< I X ¦ Many years ago, Tata coneaived I philanthropy as a nation-building activity, to I equip the most gifted to serve the Nation beat Today,this philosophy finds fulSiment in the various Tata Trusts, tike the Si|^ mab Tata and Sir RrianTata Trusts and the J. N. Tata Endowment which provides the gifted bpd the talented, regandaaa Of other ebdsiderations, with the factnties to develop thei&talents further. Thust t philobofi^Vdtirit want beyond merely clothing the ragged and feeding the poor, ie today providing a strong technical ahd inteilectuat haw fO'^natioitei deys(opmem. TATA B^hVRfSRiaKB ' is. -%-¦ ¦ ’had a travelling medicine chest and was a frequent loser in “Liar ’s poker, ” (a favoured card game). It was not infrequent after a press conference for other reporters to buzz around, asking “Darius, what ’s the lead? What ’s the lead? ” He usually told them, and shortly Moscow summits and in Peking thereafter wire-service tickers and and the shuttle diplomacy in the network baritones would echo authoritatively what he said. On his last ride abroad the diet and sleep, the nagging fatigue Kissinger whirlwind, a 33-day is offset by adrenalin. The body journey to world capitals, Mr can stand a lot of punishment Jhabvala returned to his native when it makes history or is wit ­ country after a 27-year absence. As the plane approached New Delhi airport, Kissinger wandered editorial page column for the aft to joke with reporters and said, Boston Globe, analysing events “All right you guys, where is my that had shaped world history, arrival statement? ” (US-Indian re ­ lations have not been the most harmonious of late.) “Mr. Secretary, ” Darius replied for the group of reporters, “I can ’t provide you with a statement, but I can provide you with an accent. ” Kissinger, like most world diplo ­ mats, held a fondness and a res ­ pect for Mr. Jhabvala. The Secre ­ tary once gave his travelling com ­ panion an autographed poster, signed, “To Darius Jhabvala, the real Boston Kissinger,' grinning portrait and the caption. “Hi, I’m Henry! Fly me to Damas ­ cus. ” Mr. Jhabvala was the Boston Globe's most travelled reporter, logging a quarter million miles to witness the quest for Vietnam peace at Paris, detente at the Middle East, about which he wrote: “In the absence of adequate a ness to it being made. ” Mr. Jhabvala wrote a weekly He was slight and seldom weigh ­ ed more than 120 pounds, but josh ­ ed his heftier colleagues, saying “I bet you can ’t get your clothes at the boys ’ section at Brooks Brothers. ” He leaves his wife, Sarica, whom he met in 1947 in New York when she worked for the Columbia University student newspapers. He also leaves two sons, Murzban, 23, a graduate of the University of Rhode Island and Northwestern; Henry and Jamasp, 20, a graduate of Is on sale at : Faredoon and Burjor Sandalwood Shop, Prin ­ cess Street, and Karani Booksellers, Sir P. Mehta Road, K. 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Annual Rs. 30 subscription ’ Foreign : Seamail Rs. 35, $6 or £2.50 Airmail U.K. £3.50 (Rs. 60), U.S.A. $11 (Rs.75) 0 I I ' t h I 37Letters (Continued from page 9) are following our religion as profes- Spencer (Continued from page 34) to their respective colonies, after rebuilding the old houses in Maza- gaon Mathar Pakhdy, Ganga-bodi Road, Mazavar Pakhdy Road. The saintly persons who never sleep and old Mazagaon Castle belonging to ' Sir Jamsetjee Jijibhoy could be turned into a modern Parsi colony; Doctor Captain Mazagonwala ’s pro ­ perty could be used for a new hou ­ sing scheme for Parsis. Parsi philantropists rendered great help to the National Govern ­ ment by relinquishing their lands for public road to build Umarkhadi, Dongri, Bandra, Mahim, etc. Still there are some plots of lands be ­ longing to Parsis which could be put into use and thereby make the name and culture of the Parsi com ­ munity as great as before. George Fulgodo sed before the advent of the prophet Mohammed, i.e. 600 A.D. ap ­ proximately. The village is guarded by four said to have been born “the mid ­ night of the 19th (20th) July 3228 B.C. Shree Krishna is said to have lived for 126 years and to have died on 18-2-3102 B.C.’’ He does so by the astronomical methods which he believes to be infallible. We can only murmur one word —Incredible! To go back to the booklet On Zoroastrain Tradition, Customs keep vigil at the four comers of the village in the mountains and whoever approaches with nefarious thoughts near the village cannot see any people, animals or houses due to our strong mystic prayers. Others, with more open minds, have seen the place. One of these and Ceremonials with its references was Behramshah Shroff of Surat. He was taught our religion in de- _____________________ tail at the age of 12^ by tho^ quick exposition of The Divine Existence, its short scientific discourse on the Earth ’s Magnetism, followed by passages from the Gathas which support the doctrine of rebirth in Zoroas ­ trianism, ending with questions and answers to sundry spiritual to the parallel ideologies of the Avestic Yast and the Rig Veda, its savants and was guided by them throughout his life later in Surat. He started a stricter type of Zoroastrian Religion as per 600 A.D. standards and called it Ilm-E-Kshnum. noteworthy features was that he upheld the disposal of the . dead in the Towers of Silence. Thus and technical problems, it has only the link with the past is restored as regards Towers of Silence, and One of its was Mystic Mystery There are about two thousand per ­ sons staying in Mt. Alburz, north considered as aberrations as far as of Teheran, Iran. They arc more possible. saintly than we over here. 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BOMBAY DYEING Export -4^^ I (jy?^ ¥-1 Sun {Continued from page 17) “that we would not bear arms against him and his descendants, that we 1___-- .1, -__ _ . . language and dress, that we would selves, and whose miracles they win them God ’s grace or His mercy. Let their deeds, follow ­ ing upon their thoughts and words, be such as can, after His strict accounting, be approved, and come the four corners of the worlds, temporal and spiritual, in arms, headed by all the living saints, babas, sais and other so- called spiritual leaders, and they will shock them. “Ours is a land most fruitful in superstitions; ours are a people full of belief in, or longing for, miracles, the shortcut to all desir ­ able ends, national and personal. Think hard, be honest, rely on facts, examine situations dis ­ passionately —tush, gery! No, no, get that celebrated ^‘Gaiety and laughter astrologer ’s reading of the horo- arp narf-nFftAltio “a* ’ MCmg Other shrine, wear a necklace, goody lighting for the chain, a ring bestowed by the ” _ ® ® sacred hand or place, and all will good. be well, in fact all must be well, so let ’s go ahead with the multiple blessings of all these mighty forces, massed behind us ! Alas, God ’s rule is different. Do what you like. He says, and pay for it. ‘Things are as they are, and their themselves. No gurus, sais, babas, pirs, saints etc., of this 111 aiiu ma ucavcimama, world, however greatly reputed, would adopt the local before whom they prostrate them- No ¦•I not kill the cow, that we would speak of with bated breath, can perform our marriages also in Sanskrit. ” “How long ago was this? ” “About nine hundred years, ” said Meherji. “And you still keep your vows? My congratulations, ” said Akbar, “Well, Dastur, you have given me much ground for thought, send for you for a private talk. You will be here for some time still. ” And he rose, dispersing the assembly. This then is the Zarthosti re ­ ligion in essence, very largely a practical system of ethical con ­ duct which is well within the m situations , what drud- capacity of any Zarthosti who tries to practise it. There is about it nothing meretricious, no ad- ventitous aids does it use. Here - . there is austere simplicity, decent consequences will be as they will conduct and its reward, no titil- **“' ...... lation of the senses, no stimulation of the passions. Instead a purer, ampler, more ethereal air to breathe, in which magic does not intervene, in which man needs no intercessor with God. On this point it has been said: “Truly in all men there is both the spark of God and the stain of the Devil. No so-called bhag- wan or guru can kindle the first in any man into a steady, long- lasting flame or wash from his heart for all time the second. Only the person himself or her ­ self can do either. For the majo ­ rity of sensible people, then, the wonderful, eight first-rate horses general guide should be, ‘Be a in the stables, four carriages. Lamp unto Thyself. ’ Know thy- countless servants and so on. self and amend thyself. Seek God ’s blessings by prayer if you will and request His assistance in those tasks. C~ forthcoming to the sincere. Such, however, need no interceders for be; why then desire ye to equivo ­ cate? ’ Admire good works and the doers of good works, by all manner of means, better still, devote your own energies to doing them. But leave it at that. ” And if you would like to know the Zarthosti point of view on worldly affairs, listen to this con ­ versation between a father and his Zarthosti son : “A boy of eight in his best clothes was chattering away full of enthusiasm to his father about a party he had been to at the local magnate ’s house. They had this, they had that, everything was Zarthosti ‘You would like to have all that when you grow up? ’ asked his father. ‘That would make you Often it may be very happy, would it? ’ ‘Oh, yes,' said the boy. ‘Well, do you know, for once we BOYS’ TOWN Public school, Nasik 2 CHOICE SCHOOLING FOR YOUR SON Recognised as a Public School by Department of Education —for Merit Scholars, ^cellent Climate —All-round cation : Indian Edu- All Academic Subjects — Technical Subjects : Radio and "Wood-Work Tech ­ nology, Farming —Training in Self-G o vernment through Elected Boys ’ Office-bearers, Games — Physical Training —Daily Assembly with Congre ­ gational Prayers —Weekly intensive Geeta —Koran Excellent Modem Kitchen and Dining Room facilities —Airy Dormitories. Mode ­ rate Fees. Concessions to Deserving Students. Zoroastrian — classes — APPLY TO PRINCIPAL FOR ADMISSION i 1 - i iji ii, if I! H h' !| I' :! i: !1 J! ) ¦^i iihave here a very rich man who he puts on —and sooner or later lying, cheating. For a man who is is honest, so may he enjoy his he can ’t avoid becoming aware of a man, for a son of our family riches! But remember usually it —he is indeed a very unhappy for instance, there is only one way one cannot be very rich without man. All the power and wealth of living: do right and don ’t being quite a rascal, and you ' ‘ ----- - would not be happy in rascality away, and when death will come whatever its rewards. You hate to tell even conventional white lies. Money is necessary primarily to ensure independence. If you have enough for that, you need no more. We are not rich, we are not even well-off, we just manage, but we are independent. We flatter no ­ body, we ask nothing from any- body, we never hesitate to call a both the spark of Goa wrong a wrong and a wrong-doer and the Staill Of the a wrong-doer, however rich or powerful he is. We are able to do this, because we are content to live within our very moderate means and are obliged to no one for anything. It is possible much wealth, great power, will come to you in an honest way, without your doing anything evil or low for it. If that happens, the im ­ portant thing for a man is the use he makes of these two, not the enjoyment he gets from having than death, them. If the salaaming of a thousand men puff you up, you may be in a great position but you are a small man, and when a content while striving one ’s small man becomes aware of the hardest, doing one ’s best, always real smallness below all the show without malice, envy, dishonesty, he can ’t avoid becoming aware of But remember usually it —he is indeed a very unhappy man. of the world cannot keep death bother about consequences. From that comes the peace of mind that is worth more in real terms than all the treasures of the world. And if you say how shall I know what is right, the answer is don ’t worry, you will always know when the time comes if your pre ­ disposition is towards right. An ­ other thing, never hesitate to look at yourself as you are, don ’t run away from your faults or pre ­ tend they don ’t exist or are in fact virtues ! Even if you can ’t correct your faults, as happens sometimes, at least be aware of them. Did you follow all I said? ’ The boy who had been listening most earnestly nodded his head and on his father saying, ‘Well, tell me then the main points, ’ repeated with understanding almost the full text. ‘Good, ’ said the father, “now what you will become I don ’t know, but whatever you become, if you may have in short spans, it just follow this you will be a good man. And that is infinitely better from the country ’s point of view than being just a great man, a ruler or a billionaire who is an indifferent or a bad man. ’” • no one can say, though all can be certain the dead can neither take away nor enjoy wealth or power. So you see how silly it is to be envious; I don ’t say you **111 all men there is Devil. ” are now, but you must never be, for who is man envying? other creature like himself whom death may take away at any moment from all that he is enjoy ­ ing, on whom life may at any moment inflict pain, suffering, loss, making living itself worse Happiness a man An- does not go on forever; but con ­ tent over a life-time is possible, content while striving “QUALITY IS NEVER AN ACCIDENT-IT IS ALWAYS THE RESULT OF C C INTELLIGENT EFFORT.” —John Ruskin LONDON if CXPCHTLY MEWED FROM THE FINEST MALT ft IMPORTED HOPS export] OUALIY «MNU BOTTLED BY AUTHORITY OF* HASELBACH BREWERY ESTD^IZOT MUNICH, WEST CCRHANY t BY: A.B.O.. CORTALIM. 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