May 1983

1^., i; k ? ID Vi cc. co co 05 I, r. > < 51.- •S' < ] May 1983, Volume's Number 11 EDITOR Jehangir R. Patel ASSOCIATE EDITOR Abraham Mathai ASSISTANT EDITORS Hutokshi D. Doctor, Gouri Wagadarikar and Gita Vasudevan. DESIGN CONSULTANT Mini Boatwala DESIGN ASSISTANTS Kranti Shilotri, Yasmin Irani MARKETING DIRECTOR Veera Patel ADVERTISING Zarin Billimoria, Hanita Irani and Meher Parakh. CHIEF EXECUTIVE R.P.Thanavala CIRCULATION D.B. Chinoy, Yezdi Gandevia MANAGEMENT Cheryl D'Penha, Minoo Patel and Jasmine Driver 3 Readers' Forum 8 Events and Personalities 16 After the Navjote... 18 Jehangir Baug by Hutokshi D. Doctor 20 Tracing Traditions by Gouri Wagadarikar a 26 Savaksa by Saleem Peeradina 30 Business 35 Art and Music •J 40 In Memoriam Cover: Achaemenian and Sassanian coins Parsiana is published by Jehangir R. Patel at C/o H.L. Rochat, Navsari Chambers, ground floor, 39 A.K. Nayak Marg, Fort, Bombay, 400 001, printed by hirn at Jyoti Industrie, 324 A to Z Industrial Estate, Bombay 400 013 and phototypeset at Decora Printers, Bombay 400 009 and Multi Media Aids, Bombay 400 051 All ri^ts reserved. Address all editorial and business correspondence to Parsiana, G.P.O Box 892, Bombay 400 001. Phone: 268730 Annual inland subscription: Rs 30 for one year <12 issues); Rs 55 for two years (24 issues); Foreign subscription rates: Seamail Rs 60 for one year, Rs 110 for two years; Airmail Rs 120 for one year, Rs 215 for two years. For U.S. personal cheques add $2 to cover bank charges. For Indian upcountry cheques add Rs 3 for bank charges. Cheques and drafts are to be drawn in favour of Parsiana. Single copy price Rs 5 and Re 1. All rates subject to change in postal rates. ¦J •3*- W; '1¦s* *••4 ; +4 r proposed function, combined with the the Hare Krishna Movement will come I ¦ s I S' t I r I possible lack of a broadly held and clear up! Will they then the true I understanding of the roles of ZAGNY, Zoroastrians? Or, let ’s put it thfe way, the Darbc Mehr Trust (of N.Y.) and the wall theiiy be in future, the neo- Guiv Foundation, may have contrib- Zordastrians —sans ancestraJ line^e, uted to the confusion as to ZAGNY’s blood or culture? role in the planned Peterson event. Why are our Zdroastrians afraid td With respect to the Darbe Mehr, die out and not afraid to defile the very which is owned by the .Arbab Rustam essence of Zoroastrianism? If need be Guiv Darbe Mehr, ZAGNY is a tenant let us die out in the property and, in addition, has the Zoroastrians. responsibility of managing its use. Among the uses of the property are both official ZAGNY events as well as private ! functions —both religious and secular in nature —for which the premises are Some 3,500 years agO when rented out The use of the Darbe Mehr Zarathustra addressed those who for the Mfarch 5 function was requested would listen he said: “Listen with your by the Arbab Rustam Guiv Foundation ears to the best things/Reflect with a of California for a private event, i,e. the clear mind —/man by man for proposed navjote ceremony of Mr. himself. Joseph Peterson. Further, attendance at this function by any member(s) of the Board of Directors, being in their per- I sonal and not their office-bearingcapac- ity, should not be construed as being in any way representative of ZAGNY’s |||||^9 ‘participation ” in the event. Likewise, BHhB the inclusion of the event in ZAGNY’s log of social events at the Darbe Mehr should not be viewed as concurring any subject to editing Tor.reasons of space particular ecclesiastical significance to and clarity. this or any other particular event. In conclusion, our unity is of para- mount importance; with all our differ- ences in language, customs, culinary preferences or opinions on this or that are Iranians or Parsis, whether we hail . , from Bombay or Surat or Karachi or Peterson with Xhtll and HoijRwzdlyar ' Bhagalias ’ or ‘ Udvadias ’ whether we Then he presented in the Gathas & are ‘Behdin ’ or ‘Athornan ’, whether doctrine. Those of his listeners who we speak Gujarati or English or Farsi, found in the doctrine a clear coftcep- ancestry or marriage and being theTirst /York —in the ultimate analysis, we are life and a workable moral code, such known ceremony in North allZoroastrians. becamehisfollowers — throughcon- America —is eontfoversial. Nonetheless It is my sincere hope that this message viction. Being convinced of a concept' _ .. , other than the one being held should be prt^te qjQQr/r which has neither the the current issue. the only reason for anyone wanting to . > sponsorship nor si^port nor condem- farope g. can dhi convert from one faith to another — < nation of ZAGNY as an association. Presidem, zagny. u s. a and that to© after sufficient delibera- ", Bven though this position has been tion. NM because of the convenience stated before, the continued concern The article on ‘The Naviote of Joseph of marriage, offspr ing mixfd nninns voiced both by our own members and by Peterson ’ (Parsiana, March 1^3) set or the fear of diminishing numbers other North American Zoroastrian me thinking. Very soon we will be hav- __ ___ _ associations, I sense the need to reiterate ing many such Joseph Petersons on the though devotional are largely ignorant this position which perhaps may not scene! Maybe later they will want their of the tenets of the religion beyond the have been clearly enough articulated so own places of worship and who knows, good thoughts, words and deeds con- far. 1 also suspect that die venue for the a big Zoroastrian Movement akin to cept. Too many have abandoned die 3 Parsiana May 1983 Meaders' views are welcome on any subject of interest to the community and should be sent to the Editor, Readers' Forum. Parsiana, G.P.O. Box 892, Bombay 400 001. Letters are but let us die as true COLLY DASTUR Pune To convert or Oot? »> (Gathas-^Yasna 30 w. 2) Peterson’s Navjote The Zoroastrian Association of Greater particular issue, we are all —whether we New York ’s cdOcial position is that a navjote ceremony, how»wc “controver- _ _ ____ ____ ________ sial ” it may be, is a strictly private affair. Kerman, whether we regard our^lyes as Admittedly, Mr. Joseph Peterson ’s nayjote-rrepresenting the conver- sion/acceptance of an adult individual with no Zoroastrian linlw through whether we reside in New Jersey or New tual framework of God, the purpose of such known ceremony in North all Zoroastrians. becamehis followers — through con- America^s controversial. Nonetheless It is my sincere hope that this message viction. Being convinced of a concept' , it too is and should be regarded as a helps to clarify ZAGNY’s position on private njfjOr/r which has neither the the current issue. y or the fear of diminishing numbers. Parsis are bom Zoroastrians and ii® 4S >* 'A H' > ¦¦« ’ 4 1 itiirn'itt Mil present dly inspired «idrhh and kusti and the 'NQtf beingasclioTarin^sfcma.ite% * ne2d fpr-r^ ind old ‘ ‘^Seeat mjipttb has been mspuw How can we^^is mvite a jooddin in- the cprrectnMS o ¦ i-vmanT feel to exnr^s hir dSpSb^n to the teaching may° “be . iorfitwhifc to re- of tt» ^thwfito »d. he is , the doctririe? How can'wre offer them that it may " examine r “ and spell out in specific terms, deed a Zar^^^cj^/ physiCally? men- J*- ' S' , R; , I, , 4* t tally and S^ntuaHy. For our microscopic commumty «us will be a great achievement if the spon ­ sors are properly glided by the spiritual heads of our coinmunity viz. pasturjis, and not by western mterr follow revelations on the of his own scriptures to put these aside or is the objective to revita- triiin community, with a view to inspire preters, j Or , trian communny,-wi , lift not compiled or written by human be- ing s blit directly transmitted. Only then authentically. Bharucha intends to ^portray Zarathustra as healing a sick horse and this' is definitely improper and thatisto weaT ’ the badge of his conunuiuty the initiation fnavjote) With dur own . examine t-.,_ siidreh and taisti oh a liattgCT? Arid the real olyectives of making this fllrn, above aU how can we ask the jdoddiri and the message it is meant to com^. Is JSS^ aSadrit^some undersUdtog Ute objective to present a histoncald^ Uwres to put these aside ument of XfivTto mvto- and join lis in reciting the Avesto which scriptures, or is the f hiectiv^t^U miMt of us are ho^lewly unable to Use the sagging contemp<^ary Zoro^- The logical answer seemsrto be to ^e presem day c^nt oF^ earthly sojourn is given, iwar the badge of his community — going about it the wrorig way. _ the sudr^ and kusti. To be united in Today ’s young men, liytrig in t our acceptance of traditions and space-age, rituals... and then a5k ‘he “j "" utS ‘‘.rf bl'a ’sphemous'. ' ln actual .. fact ••Listen wtth your ears to ?;«X "d byX succeeding Parsis to Zarathustra was when one of Parsis are £Tbem an^^rt^ cat^ufia^ the es«nce^nd tenets oOhe About Zarathustra ’s d^. as-per tion of conversion. __ o^od ^i ’and Good Deeds, which Zoroaster was trying to propagate. If -----------; j«„s„.t,,Tga_iw therefore, the film is directed towards me/- ____ _______ the youth of the community, which we wL/toc now, there has been a hope it ‘b'"j “‘''?HifitTh™id perform any miracle or erj»te.super- tnin^ g^teSd on Good Thoughts, revelation in the he was^ true religion oab _ _ voluntarily allow^ . If hims^ftd TJc destroy when he realiz- Uons and not by knife attack as men ­ tioned. A.B. BHIWANDIWALA TINA MEHTA Calcutta Quest for Zaratliustra 1________ — spate of comments published in various puulications -— i have to be re-oriented. The film should like the Jam-e~Jamshed, depict as to 1— former greatness and meteoric rise i this country was mainly due to its fol- | lowing these basic tenets of the Zoroas- | trian faith. It must simultaneously | portray the rather steep downward i trend of the clan, due to its clinging on | to rituals and dwelling on its past Iran- ; ian glory, instead of adhering to the simple three basic teachings around j which the entire religion revolves. I In conclusioh, i again wish to repeat I that before we go on any further with I the film, let us get its objectives correct. I If the objectives are correct, the details « will automatically foU<^, and will fit in, ? their correct slots without much effort. 1 If however, we are' ndt clear of Our objectives, then there is a danger that I we may end hp producing perhaps even a first rate film, but for the Wrong rea- : sons. This will be tantarriountto J^Ving our youth perhaps thft correct answers, how the community ’s in ? The filming of the ‘Quest ’ even is; I I * li r , I \ •a€ rue Bombay Samachar, and Pb«iazifl. our youth perhaps thfrcorrect answers, on ihe filming of Zubin Mehln ’s-Quest but “ the «ong p^lems.^^^^ ¦¦¦¦IBBMi for Zarathustra ’. The bulk of these com- . . , « . , . ments appear to be focussed on the , that th^ Tithftl SjlIlWpnUIIl cprint of the film. Some feel .^hat the . S t- ’r-lm^S'orth; Zuw‘m:^ S '—urn ’ appeamd to Jtas while Others have commented on tne wrong interpretation of the Gathas. . 4 Parsians May ;1983 . , some .Oy»m ego, .he .rus.ees.ofj Owest .for'Ziu'athusti'a, ’Zubin Mehta —- - . x- CVrus toiarucha. are trying to approached, the trustees . of the Sun ^d cyfiis ^arucha, are trying toed in them is not to be treated as gospel ment of heretic priests, evil caused by truth? In the Videvdat or Vandidad, prostitutes, etc. * There are other subjects too, some tions put to Ahura Mazda by of which are interesting, e.g. Fargard Zarathustra and the replies given by XX which names a number of diseases him. This in itself is hardly believable, which were prevalent at the time and and seems to be a ruse to impress the which Zarathustra is said to have common man that these are edicts of countered “with the juice extracted Parsi Panchayet to take possession of present times, and everything contain- disposal of hair and nails; on punish- that rich estate for development. The _L___’___ ‘ ' _ . ' "' . ’ . '* ’ ’. Surat Parsi Panchayet having decided not to accept responsibility of managing the text is often in the form of ques- charity estates outside Surat, declined the offer of the trustees. The file of correspondence was received by me some 10 years ago and I began to take interest in the trust. Thanks to one Homi Charna, one of God. At best, this treatise can be look- from medicinal plants ” which “Ahura the trustees, Ms Shirinbai Narielwala ed upon as of sociological and Mazda caused to grow abundant by came to see me. I was then informed by historical interest, but not as a religious many hundreds, thousands and tens of Ms Narielwala that besides herself, treatise. thousands all round our energetic other trustees were P.A. Narielwala, Shapoorji Barielwala and B.K. Boman- Behram. I requested Ms Narielwala to ask Boman-Behram if he would give his treatise. Apart from the subject of hair and world. ” The names of these diseases nails (commonly referred to as convey nothing to us today and unfor- “nasso ” by the older generations) the tunately, none of the tens of thousands Vandidad contains several other mat- of medicinal plants have been mention ­ consent to my taking interest in the ters which were obviously of interest to ed by name or described. development of the estate. the people of those times. I have a copy The Vandidad plays an important Word came to me through her that Boman-Behram had told her that the made by Tehmurasp R. Sethna of ceremony called the Vandidad trustees would do what they could. But 1 Karachi, who has painstakingly ceremony. What exactly it consists of am sorry that even with the passage of translated into English several others and on what occasions it is performed Vis per ad, Yeshts, Niyaeshes, Yasna, recited in toto. What however is known etc. Going through the contents of the is that the Vandidad ceremony has to Vandidad, the following chapters or be performed, along with some other Fargards appear: the people of those times. I have a copy of the English translation of this work role in our religious rites and there is a years the estate remains in the same neg- of our ancient books, such as the is not known but presumably, it is lected condition as it was before. R.N. RUSTOMJI *Of Clippings snd Cuttings Pargards appear: ceremonies over a hundred times in The article ‘Of Clippings and Cut- Number of days for .aourning for a order to purify and prepare the fire tings ’ {Parsiana, December 1982) is an dead relation; on dogs and their care; on which ultimately is used to consecrate eye-opener in many respects. Firstly, how many of our old sins which make men sinful; on precau- (religious?) books are not relevant to tions for women during menses; on punishment for killing dogs; on five an atash-behram. What is very surprising is this: how can a book of ancient purification laws Match your AMBITION to a CAREER To do so we offer you : • Diploma Course in Business Management (Oral/Postal) (|MC) • Banking : C.A.I.I.B. Course (Postal) • G.C.D. 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There exists a veritable treasure in like reciting the Indi^ Penal Code and May those in authority consider this such old books and the Institute is glad the penalties prescribed therein as a with advantage to the community to be able to do its bit in the preserva- form of religious worship. The situa- especially those in Andheri and tion of this treasure. Once a fair-sized tion is totally incongruous. If the Jogeshwari. If athornaU boys can work collection of microfilmed books has mobeds who perform the Vandidad at the S.S.C. curriculum along with been built up, the Institute will take up ceremony were made to do it in its religious lectures, the behdin boys can programmes to promote their use by translated form in Gujarati or English, do the same. If behdins do not pass this various scholars and research workers they would soon realise the absurdity religious exam then this need not be inside and outside the community and of their action. . - . It is obvious that enlightened as we the S.S.C. examination, are considered to be as a community, we are unable to think for ourselves where religious rites and ceremonies are concerned. made a hurdle in promotion towards the country. Our work on this project is in con- PERiN H. MEHTA sultation with a small advisory com- Mirrnfilmino Prniopf mittee of some of the best scholars in ivuvruiiinung rrojeci community today. With their This project, undertaken by the guidance, the Institute has done con- ¦Zoroastrian Community Development siderable spade work and rescued old Institute, will put on 35mm film some books on Parsi literature, of the old but valuable books of which one or few copies are known to exist. Reprinting is an expensive and time dard cardboard slide mounts so that N.H. VAJIFDAR Ootacamund Religion for Behdins valuable books of which Some 30 acclaimed books have been . one or few copies are known to exist, put on microfilm and mounted in stan- In his Aek Atmakatha, Dr Dhalla has Reprinting is an expensive and time dard cardboard slide mounts so that written that due to a dearth of athor- consuming process; commercial they are readable by an ordinary 35mm nan students, behdin boys were admit- microfilming is less expensive but still slide projector. Persons with good ted to the Sir J.J. Zarthoshti Madressa quite so, and it suffers from the major eyesight can also read them through an {Parsiana, February 1982). difficulty that the book has to be taken inexpensive slide viewer, against good It is learnt that there is a dearth of to the microfilm machine —something light. athornan boys in our Andheri not advisable or not possible in the case There still remains a herculian task Madressa at present. If the rule was of a number of rare old books and for the Institute in rediscovering “the broken at that time the same can be manuscripts. By techniques and equip- lost heritage ’’ that is sometimes found done now and the curriculum for the ment developed within the Institute, in the dusty attics of homes in Surat, I The & Bigger Better Lemonade 6 Parsiana May 1983 Navsari, where the owners of these gems themselves do not know the worth of such books. A very interesting and worthy off ­ shoot of our microfilm work has been that individuals (and in one case an in ­ stitution) have given us some wor ­ thwhile old books for preservation and safe-keeping. Interested individuals, book-lovers and institutions may contact, Mr Noshir H. Dadrawala, Project Manager of the Microfilming Project (under the auspices of the Zoroastrian Community Development Institute). N.H. DADRAWALA Dahanu Calling It still seems to our Bombay Zoroastrian community that the only way to work in Bombay is to live in Bombay, in any deteriorating condi ­ tion, forgetting that if they took the trouble to travel a little further out of Bombay, they would end up in natural and peaceful surroundings, with no maddening crowd around them all the time. The place is Dahanu, IVi hours by rail from Bombay, with all trains stop ­ ping here. Flats are being built by Zoroastrians here. My advice to fellow Zoroastrians is to come and check Dahanu for themselves and I assure them that they will not regret taking the step out of Bombay. OUSTAD FARHAD IRANI Dahanu With Compliments From EMPIRE ESTATE The Baba Cult Zoroastrianism is ethical, not magical. There is little occult involved in it. Un ­ fortunately however, its ethics have been subordinated by giving over ­ importance to superfluous churchian rites, rituals and ceremonies which leads many a weak-minded Parsi to babas and their gods and into mandirs and mosques to try their luck from there through other gods. The need of the day is to tell the community that there is no god but . God, that there is no equal of Him and there is none in opposition. There are no interceding angels to help nor in- terfering demons. The Law of Karma, good reward for good actions and punishment for bad acts, is infallible. Zoroaster in the bygone days of the then pagan beliefs in many gods is heard in the Gathas addressing Ahura Mazda, saying “I only know Thee, aU . others I dismiss from my mind. ” DARACAMA Liberiy Building 41/42 Marine Lanes Bombay 400020 -':h 1 Parsiana May 1983 JEvents and Personalities bio-data, Satarawala has served as Ad- Bhushan this year, retired as vice chief visor to the Governors of Gujarat, of army staff on December 31, 1982. Sethna was awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) in 1981 National Awards Several Parsis were among those to Orissa and Jammu and Kashmir in receive Republic Day awards at a several crises. special investiture ceremony held at A graduate of the Staff College, “for distinguished services of an excep- Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Quetta, his bio-data notes, Satarawala tional order rendered by him, ” notes April 3. The list included Lt. General graduated in economics from Bombay the press release, in addition to the Ati Adi Meherji Sethna (Retd.), former University and did his post-graduation Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) which he vice chief of army staff and Kershasp in political science from Punjab received in 1971 for his “significant T. Satarawala, vice-chairman and co- University. In 1963, he studied the contribution ” during the Indo- ordinator of the Asian Games special British iron and steel industries on a Pakistan conflict. organizing committee, both of whom Nuffield Foundation Fellowship. During the Asian Games Sethna was received Padma Bhushans and Dr Dara Beginning his career with the Indian appointed deputy chairman of the Kaikhushroo Karanjavala, nephrologist Administrative Service after six years Special Organising Committee and and kidney transplant surgeon who was in the army during the Second World chairman of the Ceremonial Commit- awarded a Padma Shri. War, Satarawala has held several tee, notes the press release. As vice Besides Gen. Sethna three other responsible positions including that of president of the Equestrian Federation members from the armed forces who general manager and chairman of In- of India, Sethna was responsible for were selected for the national awards dian Airlines and secretary-general of the smooth conduct of the equestrian this year are: Air Marshal Minoo the Family Planning Association of In- events held for the first time in India. Jehangir Dotiwala, Flying (Pilot) who dia. Sethna, who served in the Rajputana received a Param Vishisht Seva Medal After 39 years in the Rajputana Rifles Regiment throughout his career, was (PVSM), Colonel Jal Master Regiment, Lt. General A.M. Sethna, conunissioned in 1944 after graduating (Parachutes) who was awarded a one of 17 to be conferred the Padma from Doon School, Dehradun and Alla- Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM) and Sub Lieutenant Homi Dady Motivala who Satarawala being sworn in as Lt Governor received the Shaurya Chakra. The military investiture ceremony however, was to be held at the end of April and H the citations for the awardees are not ’s|" yet available. Sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of Goa, Daman and Diu in February this year, K.T. Satarawala, an outstanding ; civil servant, received the award in i recognition of his services as vice- I chairman and co-ordinator of the I special organising committee of the I Ninth Asian Games held in New Delhi I in November 1982. I “Following the success of the Asian I Games, Mr. Satarawala was drafted I for the organisation of the non-aligned I summit ” which concluded in Delhi I recently, notes a press report. I Appointed member of the Minorities Commission in 1981, according to his .’US c 8 Parsiana May 1983 .f' I. 11 i .i flL F 'i rii "<£¦ al* L a 1 ¦habad University, notes the write-up. tions. Starting his medical career as face up to, and deal effectively with. Honoured with a national award for resident surgeon at the K.E.M. the problems and misery inflicted on his significant role in the- field of Hospital, in Bombay and the Lambeth the city and its residents by the ex- urology, Dr.D.K. Karanjavala, reci- Hospital in London, according to his cessively large and rapid influx of pient of the gold medal from the bio-data, Karanjavala has been involv- people. ” He blamed this failure not to Urological Society of India in 1981, is ed “100 percent (with) urology since inefficiency or ignorance on the part of presently the honorary consultant in 1958.” the Government of Maharashtra, but urology at several leading Bombay to a “misconceived populist posture ” hospitals. Crpnfiptnnn obviously to safeguard the votes of the Credited with 43 published papers on his subject, Karanjavala is a The doyen of Indian industry and member of urological associations in India and abroad, notes his bio-data, and a visiting professor in urology at some universities in the U.S. After completing his M.B.B.S. from tjon of his contribution to the city and its “absence of any restraining action I” the Gentleman JRD feted masses. Describing the living condition of pioneer of civil aviation in the country, the hutment-dwellers “so appalling 78 year-old JRD Tata, was accord^ that one would hesitate to inflict them a civic reception by the Bombay even on cattle or beasts of burden, ’’ Municipal Corporation “in recogni- Tata regretted that the municipality by the Seth G. S. Medical College, Bom- its industry and his epochal Karachi- had virtually encouraged bay, and his M.S. from Bombay Bombay flight, ” on March 11. wholesale occupation of public lands '¦ University in 1948, Karanjavala col ­ lected several other medical qualifica- citizens of Bombay including Sheriff Sethna: military distinction Karanjavate: medical merit In the presence of several leading by hutment dwellers. He urged the State government to Sohrab P. Godrej, Mayor Pai, High take “urgent and determined action ’’ Court judges, ex-Mayors, Municipal to prevent Bombay from becoming Councillors, and members of the con- “perhaps the greatest, most-wretched sular corps, Tata was presented a shawl epidemic-ridden collection of slums in and a replica of a plane in silver filigree the whole world. ’’ Giving the example work. of Jamshedpur where the Tatas bad At the reception in the picturesque tackled the same problem though on a Kamala Nehru Park, in his reply to the smaller scale, Tata said it was possible honour, Tata lamented the deteriora- to take effective action without causing tion of Bombay, from a once- hardship, beautiful, clean and well-ordered metropolis to “the site of the world ’s accommodation, he said that “the largest collection of hutments and plight of the city over the years was ag- dilapidated buildings, congested streets gravated by Government retaining, un- largely occupied by unlicenced changed since 1947, the Bombay Rent hawkers, plagued by hordes of beg- Act which has frozen all rents at their gars, its air heavily polluted. Many of level of 42 years ago. ’’ As a result of a the city wards look more like disaster heavy loss of municipal tax revenues it areas than parts of a city fit to live in. ” has become impossible to maintain the He was indignant at the “failure of 30,000 or so dilapidated buildings the successive State governments to which desperately need repairs. About the biggest crisis in Bombay, A''- ¦¦ A ¦A ¦ JRD: Citing Bombay ’s problems 9 Parsiana May 1983His panacea for the problems con- the Indian judiciary tor the last thirty- 1 J Bandra, has been working at the J.J. College since 1971. NIPS grew with the < r izy support of this college which she says. Secretary me the freedom to perform because we had the same kind of Ms Homai Mehta, the first Indian goal. ”At J.J. Mehta helps conduct the LjC" The question the biennial congress Bombay, ” says Mehta, and NIPS, I ! r;- ! .. His panacea for the problems con- the Indian judiciary for the last thirty- which are important. We don ’t want fronting Bombay was a four-point eight years. A graduate in English gold medalists but native intelligence “action plan ”: Literature from Elphinstone College, must be there. ” From a society of * To accelerate the development of Bombay, and with a first class in the seven top secretaries registered in 1970, New Bombay as an alternative centre LL.B examinations, Madon was ap-. NIPS is now a professional body vwth of business activity. pointed judge of the Bombay Hi^i more than JOO members, with its first * To stop further influx qf immigrants Court in 1967, and Chief Justice of the chapter outside Bombay recently into Bombay which Would frustrate ef- Bombay High Court in September established in Madras. forts of relocating slum-dwellers. 1982. “It was a personal obsession, ” said * Transfer all wholesale markets to The other three judges appointed to Mehta earnestly, sitting behind her New Bombay to decrease congestion, the Supreme Court are Sabyasachi desk in a pink and white flowered sari. * To amend the Bombay Rent Act to Mukherjee (acting Chief Justice of She was herself a stenographer, at Telco enable additional tax revenues to be Calcutta), P. Thakkar (Chief Justice of when she conceived the idea of a pro ­ raised by the municipality to repair old Gujarat) and R. Mishra (Chief Justice fessional body of secretaries. Mehta, a buildings. of Orissa). graduate of the National College in "j He proposed the participation of Bandra, has been working at the J.J. large business houses like the Tatas to help beautify the city and also the teaming up of citizens action groups under an apex body to help solve the problems of Bombay. Lauding the role of JRD Tata and president of the Association of personal secretary ’s course which the Parsi coinmunity. Mayor Pai said Secretaries in Asia will chair the “covers every aspect of smooth con- that the Parsis though relatively smdl organization ’s Sixth Congress to be duct in an office. ” in number, had played a vital role in held in Bombay next year. “We ’ve performed quite well in shaping the destiny of Bombay and the The question the biennial congress Bombay, ” says Mehta, and NIPS, nation. He praised Tata ’s contribution will ask is “Are we being recognized as through its lecture meetings and tr ain - to the development of civil aviation, a profession? ” notes Ms Mehta who is ing programmes has helped foster a and his historical Karachi-Bombay the Faculty and Administrative Co- professional feeling amongst the flight in a twin seater, single engined, ordinator at the Sir J.J. College of secretarial fraternity, keeps its Leopard Moth in October *82. C ~ . Earlier JRD Tata was selected awareness of the secretary ’s profes- ‘Gentleman of the Year ’ (1982), draw ­ ing the highest number of votes in a reader poll conducted by Gentlemen magazine. Described by the magazine ’s press release as “probably India ’s most distinguished industrialist, ” Tata was selected for “not only his contribution to India ’s industry and his philan ­ thropy but also for the spirit of adven ­ ture he displayed in re-enacting his historic Bombay-Karachi-Bombay flight in a Leopard Moth. ” The Gentleman of the Year trophy, a handsome gold plaque, is awarded an ­ nually to “the man who contributes the* Mehta: promoting professionalism most to society in his field and displays a dedication to the pursuit of ex ­ cellence. ” ! Commerce in Bombay. While members informed as to the latest developments in the field, provides management with a top cadre of secretaries as well as keeps its members in touch with the top executives so that “there ’s education both ways. ” Mehta has ambitious plans for NIPS: “The Professional Secretaries International of America is very active. The celebrations of Secretaries ’ Week are inaugurated by the President every year, and most Asian countries have followed suit. We are very much wan ­ ting to do this. ” The scope for personal secretaries today, Mehta says, is “tremen ­ dous...The cry everytime is U want a secretary and I can ’t find one. ’ The sional role is acknowledged in the market is 110 percent and they are private sector, “The concept of a never able to fill the demand. ” secretary as we view it is still alien to the Government, ” she wrote in The Personal Secretary, the quarterly newsletter of the National Institute of LobOUrS Personal Secretaries of which she is the Madon for Supreme Court Chief Justice of the Bombay High founder and president. Court Dinshah P. Madon was ap ­ pointed to the Supreme Court, the highest judicial body of the country, along with three others in March tWs Award for NavaVs For his “exceptional services in pro- NIPS views the personal secretary as moting employer-employee relation- “the centre of communication, co- ship and outstanding contribution to ordination and co-operation. . .The the promotion of industrial relations in power centre in the organisation. ” The the country. ” Naval H. Tata, promi- year. secretary as distinct from the nent industrialist and president of the One of seventeen Supreme Court stenographer, must possess “inter- Employers ’Federationoflndiareceiv- Judges, Madon has been a member of personal skills...personality traits ed an award from the Union labour 10 Parsiana May 1983r ‘ •S’."* * », K -iX > / Tata: peace prize gratitude and reverence we urge all benevolent businessmen, industrialists, charitable institutions and individual Zoroastrians to donate generously, ’’ notes Noshir K. Daboo, chairman of the committee. A donor who contributes Rs 1,000 or more would be entitled to have his name “chanted in the Tandarosti prayers, to be followed by a Machi . ceremony on any one day during the jubilee year, ’’ notes Daboo, while the names of those who donate Rs 3,(XX) or more would in addition, appear on a marble plaque at the Aadaraan. Those who gift Rs 5,OO0 or more would have the third benefit of having a Baj ceremony performed “in the name of the donors ’ dear departed ” once every month during the Jubilee year. Cheques may be drawn in favour of the Vakil Anjuman Aadaraan Golden Jubilee Committee, c/o Ahmedabad Parsi Panchayat, Khamasa Gate, has been issued by the Vakil Anjuman Ahmedabad 380 001. ¦ A 8 iiRSal minister Veerendra Patil. The award was presented at a two-day convention Aadaraan Golden Jubilee Committee, organised jointly by the Employers ’ (constituted by the Ahmedabad Parsi TVhn Hnnniir Federation and the All-India Organisa- Panchayat). The donations will also tion of Employers in New Delhi in ensure “regular supplies of wood ’’for Firoze Rangoonwalla, media critic and ' January this year. the aadaraan, help the “upliftment of historian and the author of 10 books on A member of the governing body of Mobeds, ’’ and will, according to the films and film personalities, has been the International Labour Organisation appeal, “create general funds for the honoured with a mention in ‘Who ’s since the last 30 years, according to the A^araan. ’’ citation, Tata ’s 20 years as President of the E.F.I. “reflect his untiring efforts ned by the committee, which include and abiding interest in promoting har- religious ceremonies, tree plantation 30, 1982). monious relations between workers drives and religious discourses will be and employers. ’’ The golden jubilee celebrations plan ­ Who in the World ’ published by Mar ­ quis Publications from USA, notes a press report in The Daily, (December 'll Expert Lawyer Noted lawyer J.B. Dadachai^i par ­ ticipated as the legal expert for the Rangoonwalla: honourable mention Asian region in the United Nations commission on international trade law experts meet in Vienna this February. The meeting was to discuss “the drafting of a legal guide on contractual provisions relating to international contracts for the supply and construc ­ tion of large industrial works, ’’ notes , the report. “I am a shy person and I play a low wrote the Delhi-based “Earlier, Rangoonwalla ’s profile has assisted by the donations. been included in ‘International Authors ’ “The Zoroastrians have prospered Who ’s Who ’ issued by the Biographical with the Blessings of Vakil Anjuman Centre of Cambridge, U.K. and in the Aadaraan...(and) as a token of our sixth edition of ‘Men of Achievement ’,” notes the report. With “complete practical experience in the different branches of film mak ­ ing, ” Rangoonwalla “was associated in film direction, screenplay and editing with Basant Studios and Wadia Broth ­ ers for about ten years, ” states the press release. His recent book is entitled Indian Cinema Past and Present, while the other nine include Indian Film Index, Indian Filmography, Guru Dutt, key, Dadachanji in reply to Parsiana’s re ­ quest for further particulars. .< Pictorial History of Iridian Cinema and Aid for Aadaraan An appeal for funds to be used for “overdue repairs and restoration work ’’ on the 50-year-old Vakil An- juman Aadaraan at Khamasa Gate, Satyajit Ray’s Art. Winner of the Press Institute of India ’s award for film journalism, Ran- goonwalla has written extensively on Indian and world cinema, both as a staffer on Screen, a weekly film journal, and now on a freelance basis. At present making a Hindi feature film ‘Om Swaha ’, sponsored by the National Films Development Corpora- • 5 11 Parsiana May 1983^’' bundi^iPBw 40>tmnwte tdcHi cinema, and .1^ (P WliiS^^ssCwdMawwa ** '‘ -;-w5i^E(er^ttfl'‘priii^^^'s4hissroi^-'il0t(» | L <^ newspaper files... rf the yS^rs 1896 the report^, and “was jpresidrat for i I onwards,* which wasdisplay^ in a tra> some years, of the Asian n^knud I veiling exhibition entitlM ‘75 years of. ?BSociat|osefof soci^ wortt^?* I Indian Cinema ’, notes Jhis bto-data. ....... ' r . - btdWa. " »> t L smne years, of the Asian re^onai a sQe^l interest in family and ' ch^ welfare, I>esai 1^: r^x^tedy “p^oa^^tecfas a k^ resource peam in several liationsd and inlemirio^ Fnglneer: to^tbe resc^ I Fk$1fe^ mt alumnus of the TISS, citation proposed by the di^b^ ' ixjbp dollars last Christinas by the DtoaCis^lherM.A^ therein 1917, magistiateof Jhansi. . i avlines tm s(dma$ttiag jxqpos^ pn lAtoined a doctorme front Chicago “&i A,. En^neer displayed fii^-, f hi^ to ; Univ<^ aCcofding to the cotu^l^andeahib" f i£ " F0port, “and has been widi Ixt^tute in tackUng ¦-< ; vi^owjuu wvgj ; K^Fh^’s idtos'could"result in “a last 18 years. ” ' saving o( bmwMn l^OOQ gad 2,000 kg Bravery Nomination Sk^jqx^ Ihtematipnal Airies pilot seii^nms/* Ct^tais N. Kaiwdfai was awarded F" on ; university te^M: ¦» g^ wftSr^^'w of Sodal Work at CHurchgate for the demanded a ran^sl^'^ib the return of therdiild, nmwMhe^ji^ ¦" posed citation. . _____ _ .^.^vr'wv ‘‘Inspite of bcb^ >s h ho^ I’ dicaj^jed child, ” writes H.KWmdtaw,, >‘The\«M^d .is tttt hn^est'J|^^1 tftgfinet, wrestling aq^metgut ~b] ' toQfipetirio^ is JSInary and accorthi^l^lMnalmw,^^ - >« one of the City FaUi^ fcr five yeun, ' r. »x- 'S^', -J r »- l-c <> I 1 -J. r , i'* r ‘‘ ? ah^-' P^^WS^'^uting.frM ’ ule'^table. death. ' f Canthe patientchooseto die by refusing pB^^ifeeat .Zz. * « .r' > * * « .'xAii 9 ¦> ^sa 4-^ F Bylsa^, whi^'h^s.l^n asso- it'J* ..- ¦¦ :i.' .<-.'¦ V.... - I twted with the; Hiwii}Stan.J^etroleum A '"i ir? r-^hqgnity holds that every human beingof <' SQUhd mind should have the rigbCIp. ' choose to live or^ die within the UiB^ : jtha0t may bfe>l»d*'dow» by law.- ' ^^^npo |fasani, a fot^r mem^r o|*' and presidenf^sai^^m o^. ‘' ' it.T ' choose to Use of^ die within the fia ¦i^ . : »sysd*| Jo®K m^wras general t ^^pahyk^Ms^ ;rnary this yeaFi.as^di»gto pwss.^>..±A. . -- -- - ._* ^¦ - .K. . . ' ' < '^l I ^ath& ' : the UK,' ?»« '4le ” '5 JlL rsit- >Z^ 'y z - ] 4^ >’?¦ 1 ¦ <*d - 'd I '* 1 *1. IS » 'the r^t tohad^^^ ‘ re^" ' * sahfcl'.- , ‘ «».'; -¦' “ ¦' • '^ *. . ..... s vplunUJ^liwriafcBt^aignthe ’^rfflersti the point. The article ptwtulated that the right to dio^: ¦'> r . ^He quoted an article frOHi The Exa^ He said mercy mng was unlike whser, a Chtholic journal, to illustrate ?a ; ulatodth^;A^Of^,Edr^rdecidetoput ght lead to C beii C /Svhen inevitt^le death is imminent in f . Cjbeing spite of the means used, it is permitted in bumped olf. - ' '• conscience to take the decision to refuse Mf,, Ma^iani said voluntary euthana- forms of treatment that would only sia si^gesud that C could assert the secure life, so long as the normal care L- wish to die in advance and when in due to the sick personin similar cases is t sound mind through a “living will ” not interrupted. ” I which called upon the doctor and rela- In Hindu tradition, Mr. Masani said I |iws to respect it when the time came, the concept of sanyas was espoused by a i The will, like any legal document, would line of saints; Bhoodan leader Acharya have tp be sworn jjefore a notary public, Vinoba Bhave was preceded by Sant ’ •. Tukaram and Sant Gyaneshwar. The < EHstinguisldng betweai active and latter attained samadhi when he was 21. t pa.^ve euthanasia, Mr. Masani said “at Vinoba Bhave thus followed the great present, we only support the right of tradition. ; doctors to withdraw treatment. ” Doc- He spoke of karma which held that » tors in 14 states of the US were immune storing iS penanceTorpa^t action. “We . 2J'\ " ' / are not asking for a law that is compui- vSHt^^W'treatmeht, sory. ” Cowtesy Indian Egress, Febnaiy 28, 1983 . t to sleep and Utis might k t r HMdOffH* 376 GriMt Reirt Bo(ntey400(X»r •ntfSraniiiMK ' T«i. 371464 Quality tandalwMd Aggarl^jea, ^lan baraaiii (LotMn) and (M^ Parfumaa ••••^ I / «i ( from civil of ^m ijjal liahiKtfes^if they allowed pafiWte towithdrawtreatment, , he polntsd^iiub k irt c W I Pure Dis^dn^ JEWELLERS . s' ^^ Panivu/Aav tSta 3U. ROAD. ^46S APPOINTS VALVEKS BY tHDIA < W ¦MHM6 ? .* »,’• .‘*’5 ilMte li- W >• A<' xl . ?i5? r X^9-’ j.r ¦¦ ’¦j^i r-vST^: 7 1? ?<« ^i. - ¦• ^1 c- * -t*’- '^4 ^} k ’>^s >Sj» -S n* frXs *’t _,v £^'>, >? ;' A ’ ' i-''' After the Navjote .^tbeisa$ch<^, ashesfaouidknow Ztsrc^istrian^ ai^ a letu* 09 ^^9^^^j^2^>*year-did Jfld^P^or- by . now tlmt Z(wos^triaBi»n has «io ftieir '' |(m(Mh4K0«sOta,U.S.A. havebectnne (XMOversion) will be pi^ormcd. Of I Anbfti^Writa-threatened to ft^t to _ Darbe Mehr at New York and tlds has ft|ht toget Kei^.Anfta«Ed.Nd9Utin^t * -esto^ ; Zorddstriaa Association of Chic^o ZOrnihstriaa Pri^ of iMew one ; ¦¦'<nveTaon/ fftstl^er , attack on the priests started udtb a are insisting that the Navjote Parst ha^ irffojjie tfion of w^:y^ ' Oif otie i^of CUca^l opposed tWftnict^. "If they could be excommunicated from Priesthood, it would be who can be iavestea j^ ’Sbs Sacnsd ¦ ¦ ¦¦• ¦¦ Shift aod Sacred Thr^ and a 'Ncm- Parsi can never be invested with these. >1 of the M.F. Cama AthtnnalS' Rrst letter dation fii^ced. the DarbeMehr and h^. Jiose^:^^F;9hW h^ ftcm a ZAC member, Sar^ "^ST be perfcn-medih^eagidnsll^^ Zoroai^ri^f^i^t^n;|g|^(treadbr which appeared in the wishes of the Zqr6astrian.Assodi^dn studied th« W mx Februtny IS. The of New Ypfk. We in Chicago are split dds does not mean that he canl?e 9^ lettnt ’.ji^a^t- about this Navjote and I, as you know, verted into Zoroastriambnn. Semaimng , _ . . . - - •' - - ¦¦ - —¦¦¦ —¦ -¦• ¦¦- ..¦- .about,A which appeared in the wishes of the 2qr6astrian.A^sodi i&tiOB studied the Zoro^stdah bid ¦v;”' !S Ik verted into Zoroastriawbnn. S^maiE^ *?Tlbot^|ll^4hat I must let yo^know «m against this stupidity. We are hjurt steadfast to his own rdSgion he may ' ”------ "“*--------- ------- ......................................................................................................•* ~ ZoroaiblMIJ^'.^?^ai]i^ *w^ he is nan Instittile or" any other religious Zoroastrian Scriptural, vii: Ave^ . fad; New t?wp Zoroastrians are diatour priest Kcrsi Antiais eneoufi^- al^p follow the teaehu^ of the Pro- ^|ii!a^ 5,1983, in ing this disaster. ptetZarathus^iaib^imily life. There ^|B‘9ereDta^ of one . f ^uld y^ please dd too a favour? are many J^ti^E^i^^'Scholars who teye (not a ..Coi|» you kef^rbath the Cmna Athbr- studied Zoroastrian Religion and - Mr -XW ¦ : ____ ................................. ............. _______________ ________ __ - - _______ ___ _____ _ --.•. _________ aschc^ri&l^li^^ion^don ’Hl^hey^ lBp|y.whi^'cm we if you would please manner as Mr. Khambatta « n.'L— J ' Kjf«» r '.ITltatolannOA -nAB : wo^ mite to Jam-^amshed clarify- Dr. Kersi Antia had gmie out of his. t? Mav {383 deles toen Ite was >i, no involved **Mr» ghamhaifa h^d jAiemy CRg ZAC as a I*rj«t day cerrtnony. (Sato^has stated that he ZAC and a Board a^,comfort, bm to. Witobatta has CofMm^m page 33 .a. •r>.\sfr if S’*' - mF th^-^bsSKme b;, w 4^* r< V w -as- ’ 4^* B- ¦y-T 4/ " ' 'A fesi^^^tnjeofidingr'a.'oeeB^^^'* le^ah and. a^ck^ com^ise Jehata^ Bthg; bri^,^o h^ fli^ the wre, day. oisconseaamk^diehffiumerablehotds, w^'a^wss flie Mdntkiws ' J,;__ _ _ __ ______________ _ _ restaurants mi^^hungalows . of flhn sMt ’^eral times and utensifelif^ out rangements, ; stars not far fr(»n the beach in Juhu, of the kitchen window, so that it is Ghadiali, who lives in jossaw^a J one of Bcnnbay ’s posh suburbs. Behind now dangerous to keep the windows' building, next do^ to Ms Katrak, with. ^1.-1-------------------------------- .....I-!.....-! --------- 1----------------------xl.-------:._J .zl-x— O1------------------ to the Flying Club and behind that; a creek.'.. On a working day Jehangir Bang is covefs of the water tanks, the building dud Khorsh^ says, “If you crime on the night of Sej^mber 3, in. ” Three families are housed therein. 1982, according to the residehts,* They The front doors are made o^f peding ment, assault and burglary. broke into a vacant flM on the third plywood; instead of glass panes, a -. -f ..._ - -- - ..... ... . . Baug allegethat the slum-dwellers who ing to force open an iron cupboard, windows which open to rev«d a dmrk i live beyond the creek juinp flie bang ’s They had latched the doors of the other interior behind the wooden bars that 1 wall, which has been broken in one tenants and only fled when some peo- stretch across the make-shift windows, i i:4ace, sometimes at night and often pie from the sanatorium opposite rais- There are gaping holes in the matting even in the daytime. ed the alarm, luckily, they took that serves for walls. Rusted cor- ; On the ground flifor of Jussawalla nothing of value,i but the Jehangir rugated iron sheets sa*ve as a low fotrfi huilding, which houses twelve families Bang residents now live in fear, Two old women Wpetticoats, sudx^ lives Ms Sheroo Katrak, old and esp^ially since the older residents are and *mathubanus ’ snuffle out to t^ , Jehangir Baug: Insecure Homes Jehmngir Snug, has no security ar- stars not far fr(»n the beach in Juhu, of the kitchen window, so that it is Ghadiali, who lives in Jussaw^la the baug is a wasteland which belongs open. her mother and sist^ Sheroo. The Apart from the routine stealing of Ghadialis lived.Jn the shack for 12 clothes, coconuts; Utensils and metal years before shifting to Jussawalla I deserted except for the old who potter miscreants attempts st^ Uiore serious kick the door of the shack it will fall around while the young are at work. And the aged live in fear of harass- The 21 families who live in Jehangir floor, upsetting the furniture and try- squarepf wven palmleaves serves for Hiitokshi D. Doctor SB Ml' ’,*5' - I J * : Ji ri 18 Parsiana May 1983 b' 'fi' :L rjistsi* * Therehav©!^ th© i^ckxw© having been stit s©veral times. h^verat i E fc^' 1 1^ >> f F'. p I Thf^fla{Hdated ^UKlt wMdi tonscs . three fimdUes Below: A Indent points to the hr^en Wall behind die bang i-ij T •¦ I “Nowadays there are mainly young f married coufd^^ who move from sana- . . y J Su-Lt^’ X 'l^fvrsunt Mtv:i9^ , tap outside their home widt shiny brass [ buckets. [ “Only we know how Pmsi people torium to sanatorium, hunting.hon- i me struggling here, ’’says Sheroo who ting, to<. stay in the Jehangir . Baug she puts it, for a place to stay teeming city. They are allowed V adds in woeful acceptance, “There is i H no housing. ’’ ¦ Referring to the sanatorium which is sanatorium for three . months, K. managed by the Seth Jehangir McT" thereafter for an additional month. I g vmnji Jussawalla Trust, with two flats Then they must move again. Fa ; oh each of the three, floors, each flat __ L. _1,_ Z___ ¦ being shared by two pmties, Sheroo pewspaper r/ie JDa/Zy whidi bronght „ I says, “You don ’t think there are any light the attempted robberiw and old people who come to sanatminm harassment of the irfwmgir Baug ¦ now, or sick people, ’’ as tl^y once residents concluded with, “Will the ¦ came to convalesce in the fresh sea air . police allay the fears of the residents? ’ A recent news iton in the Bombay But although the police have been alerted and complaints made, acG^« Exttinneleft: Jehanillr wukatoritmfleft) and ttw rcsddflh^ ding to the resists, little has been buttdingiri^M) ' W^i^atpHdld , "*>*** Ifhotdgn^ilis by '/4 ,%»*- And oide^ arrangements are ^ovided, the resv^ts;^, J^angir . 6Mn% wiU^ as the papers , headline ^^ovided, the resideats . of, J^angir smted, continue to “Uve in fear/ ’ litS; V Is** S.B- he-' S V fe > laNfts^^ A- one-storeyed, nondesaipt building Field Marshal Manekshaw and oti^. tion by the Bombay Munidpfd Cor ­ in the heart of Bombay houses the only An unusual addition is Dadabhai poration and are now per man^ ' •f . and e^eentual ' kt^l^' »•» r cbir^ses the ' ft^a^^m'KX^eates life in Susa, a settled village in about 4000 B.C. As you walk around one of the wooden dividers . which effectively create sections, the I nugradd^ of the Parsis to India is trac- ed. One wooden partition is studded ] with photogf^u:^ Parsi notables IBce Dadaldtai Ni^o^i, Jamsetji Ta^,J Pherozeshah Mehta, Homi BhsA^, ? Veer Nariman, Sir THnshaw Dava^,^ j Pestonjee Meherjee, Zubin Mehta, ' 20 Parsiana Mw^ 1983 MSit eui^t^X ¦;!«> f 5 1 » ,1 : ^Sm S IT f' «¦< ,* . < ’'•i .> 1 . ¦'iDi?^. . .-¦ ( i-S' v’ ,'• - L>- A prhtad exhildt K a beautiful sun- a remuid^ of an entry into a ^i<^Wi4pidarfl»r'y ' 5, /V BI4WU cAiuuii UV««WA„> »«.. a .v»u.»„v^ » PaTsi installed St thc cttfranceto [ bwst type rosewood et4>l>oard with wad, ” ^ys Ms M^ta. It was brought The entrance was sp^HhUy J'S fi ffl iws z>f Zaraf^ istra carved on its to Boadw^ by Dr Jamshed Unwallain conunodatethesis®oftlmatrved. ’wgH*^ doors. The (^f^^tatd was pmt of the late 1950s. informs Ms Mehta. , " r AAiiw.*iAa A womtan door with brass studs and About 85 percent Of the ctme cyro ^ luiuos ociwHBuig IV UK ivd.-;5J. v.,«- housed in tt® smscuta to<^< tiify with ‘‘carving typical of Gujarati Ms Mehta, accumulatad by Mfkf figures of 2^adtostra carved on its to Bosdn^ by Dr Jamshed Unwalla in . collect*^ ; A wooden door with brass studs and At the en t ra nc e is an imposing 17th knobs belonging to the 18th-19th cen- centwry carved wooden gateway to-die ----- -vs -^r—-— — u, , , t t., Polia-Desai Wad at Navsari, ‘‘kept as woodwork of that period, ” has been Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwall^^ * . - • S. "^4 The Alpaiwalfe Mu^umt promises the viewer ¦^T '6 J''^7i ^'glimpses of Parsts’W^^ their roots in Iran Wy migration and ev^ integration into Ind I life/' Kig . - » . »j:* ?”'-a Left: Postcard of4*ld|l0B^ H Bdow; Rosewood cafOM^ n W ^m^of 2tarathustfti 8r6i^:eMneiiig Darias i betas cccctaetljrJbejweds aod (below) ^taned yfCwmeta; ma" •n M -1 ’¦ST .. lAMUbll ¦’tt’ Ss' r b u‘ i>; fe' S' ¦“! pf! x* f wl* ' . laterimr late 19tb century Parsi house recreated,with a focus on the furniture ¦ ¦¦ ¦¦'¦¦¦¦A ¦¦'¦¦¦'¦¦¦ •' ¦ ¦ r (1881-1952), who hoped to set up a the Great. French archaeologists have k ‘Parsi Historic^ Research Institute reportedly been excavating Susa for L and Museiw< Acceding to a press over a hundred years. t release issued Parsi Punchayet, In the 1930s Unwalla brought back i Bombay, on die occasion of the in- terracotta figurines of mother godd- I auguration of the museum, esses, coins, cuneiform tablets, s^s, I Alpaiwalla ’s aim was to “make future metal objects like copper arrowheads. In the 1930s Unwalla brought hack auguration of the I. generations fully aware of their great axes and vessels and a glazed decorated I- ; ; ; / ' brick, part of the famous ‘Frieze of the " ' ' ' '' Archers ’from the palace in PCTsepoIis. Another fascinating find is a five feet tall 5th century B.C. inscription of the genealogy of Artaxerxes III. The last of the Zoroastrian Sassanian emperors was defeated at the Battle of Nehavand, probably around 641 B.C., and Unwalla has brought back Neha- I heritage —-Indian and Persian. ’’ And vand pottery tiating back to 1500 B.C. L so he assembled antiques from ferias. Excavating the Dakhma of Yezd.Un- L7er(pMrfl«aw//¦5hni shi^»^><^W^M~ ’ Na'^ Alfcet^adias. 5ifltely. fr^W^toitaprc- J iSftSdrte^ to th® Alpaiwalla would be a vwy difficult task, Bm rX^«v,> icehce with a S^lion ; wtigr atiAn to ln®h a«l telly the jset- Catalogues of the antiques he collected, S>; rW SB < »•- 'Mi V ”5 < i -; It .:'^2 " 'i:- Ir, ft p I f r fei I' ' _ _________ _ T;. ''’-.'J I- •$r\ B*’- s? 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" ~' |MMB' than 10 years after Ms which won the merit cer- in Padamsee [% oota^y^^n amt ,^ms <{aro ’ fll^PIB^|||||||^^ abW iHSJtt coBEMfCtion Itert I * ¦*** T by Thi»^^roup]n ”19lK); ~ relationships heart i g - FOT'^iG^Mi^f^et, ¦"' the situation in the - reflects what he finds ^’’pund himself — in the T Thdtwo stories together created a family, among filends and ideMtiii^n^ emotional manifnita- .fittmu 44«» u^*) ^u. ^u _*_ ¦ ‘' in fits broader ^itfcal ti^dre. w»i tht^* I ward..ttrseratclfy t fe red, bht^. First it^aerit^fjimtsfd, ^ar i^^ch se^, ^iu^ it. 1 ¦ " «cn^ )ai|^aq>W 'i. ' I^^gdcy, toctd Vl^i and oowte |h The. purice U ’ V ¦> Sgui'.-^-'J? . ?* V J t ' " i V '¦f-' U1 *-v H I3 ’ 1 "A J £^’'" ft fife P^ ‘U s %,-SiSg HB. , nCT;,B makes and cha^ the J fe«as tended and coneCra, ii^ ] ontfs^ rules of w- 'Jbjbene^l^ ford, brt ?»U bn« | Ades», younger ^"(whq b 30>,. r ’s am U an is tetarded'and compM^ da^d^t i| it' a Jto. 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'• ir‘4? - ¦¦ V*- -' H tetosd'^' stories < V’ / lljRoger Pereira in the title role is struggling to discover the soul of sums it up in a single word — unac- 50,000 to Rs. 75,000 these days. He III countability. “You can do or say had organised a couple of private H anything and contradict it the very next readings for friends and interested pro- I day and feel no twinge about it at all. In fessionals, and eventually settled for a I Savaksa, it is the constant yes-no-yes- small-scale production by a team of H no flicker throughout that plays havoc dedicated theatre people, led by Direc- H with the lives of people. ” The only an- tor Pearl Padamsee. A grant by the I chor in this continuous vacillation is Tata Press and free use of the Max I the feeling of “love ” that takes hold of Mueller Hall helped. None of the ac- I Savaksa. “Love ” exposes a need, a tors or actresses made any conditions H dependence, demands accountability. — Sabira Merchant, Roger Pereira, H Savaksa deliberately evades, refuses to Meher and Nosherwan Jehangir and H allow this feeling to attain any degree others all agreed to work without pay- fl of clarity. The only pure moment in the ment. For them, as well as for fl play, the admission of a painful truth, Padamsee, the play was the main con- fl is when Savaksa pleads with Petin to sideration. fl consider his offer — ‘ ‘You can laugh at Sabira Merchant who plays the fiery fl me because I have no power, ” he Hutoxi, has a throat infection on the ¦ w him pers. In reply. Perin cradles his afternoon I go to see her rehearse. She ¦ head in her lap and strokes and kisses is present and participates fully but ¦ his eczema. Savaksa whines softly like a sp^ks in a whisper, fl stray dog who has received his first __ kindness. „ , “You cannot know — 1 feel many The moment he reveals a human Savaksa. At this point in time, the role things. ” vulnerability, he becomes subject to is still taking shape and Pereira will ’ counter-manipulation by Hutoxi who have to combine in his frame toe discussions about toe kind of violence ultimately foils his desire to marry authority that Savaksa possesses with ' that women can exercise in family con- Perin. Of course, in the end, Hutoxi toe putrefying odour of decay that sur- flicts; also from stories related by pa- suffers a greater defeat by Perin ’s run- rounds the old widower; toe folds of tients of terrifying physical violence ning away and is thus completely Savaksa ’s skin will have to convey his between sisters. ” But toe character isolated. insatiable and unrepentant lust; and Ids really jelled when these stories could be Power that is self-flattering can only wily, cussed nature will have to stalk given depth and power by involvement create the illusion of authority, can toe stage like a menace. in the writer ’s own psyche. Witness make at best only token offerings. Pearl Padamsee as the director hfis a Hutoxi ’s speech: Quoting an instance of the time when superb grasp of the material she is “So when the time comes, do call Savaksa was praised by toe villagers handling — the script as well as toe me! You can rely on Hutoxi to perform for bringing scavenging pigs to clear her sisterly duties! And I will help you the village muck, Dorab continues: — I will pull out for you — those half- Dorab: But now there are more and formed children one by one! (Pause), more pigs, and they make more dirt “Yes! I will pull tt^m out from your and they eat only vegetables from the body — with all their twisted faces! Do rubbish! They are spoiled! They won’t you think such an old man can give you eat the muck! So people are not happy, healthy babies?*’ And all of Pappa’s actions have This image is taken almost directly become like that. Useless. from a dream experienced by the After a pause his wife, Jer, urges writer. Were there other sources and him to continue the story about pigs. ----- __ . ,, . other forces whidi helped in the con- Dorab: Pigs! (Pause) Reforms! That she shouts orders, describes toe needs ception of toe {day? is important! Because I gave you one of a particular scene, demonstrates . Temperamentally, I’m a bit dreamy example about pigs you can’t unders- various roles, sits back and nt^s ap- and la c ka daisical and T allow external tand what I am saying? What is impor- provingly and generally supplies toe events to hit me and filter through me; tant is reforms! For the poor that is im- vigour and push to bring the tc^t and whereas Toni, my wife, takes them in portant! toe performance as close together as her grasp and works out bold choices , of attitude to these events. In that ror of ironies reflecting our political sense, she is politically more alert and culture today. Pigs ys. Reforms! the constant presence of this alertness r_ -11— "J -L -J written has left a profound mark on putting up a serious play in Bombay people will have toe chance to see this the final product. ” i~-------11. 1* - Fot Gieve Patel, toe situation in toe is likely to be small, the gate money play reflects what he finds around may not square up the expenditure on himself — in the family, among friends it. and in toe broader political culture. He 29 Parsiana May 1983 ¦“'a ¦ > t ' ' Hi S-* "In Savaksa it is the constant yes-no-yes-no flicker throughout that plays havoc with the Ilves of people." cast. In her military-commander, yell. '¦w That, according to Patel, is the mir- possible. If the audience response to the initial performance is good, (The response ____________________ Patel is not sure if the play has com- has been very good — Editor), there around me while the play was being mercial possibilities. The difficulties in will be more shows and perhaps more - _ • / - • • ’ are considerable. If the audience for it piece of meaningful theatre. ,‘'F tit a Reprinted with permission from the Express Magavne, Indian Express, November 14, 1982. Photographs courtesy Debonair and Madhu Oadakari. Production budgets range from Rs. j-BUSINESS ATale of TUes ¦ “Soon after, he left for Italy to find k fe;-. -ft A striking full-page advertisement ap ­ peared in The Times of India on December 30 last year, entitled ‘The Bharat Tiles and Marble Story Book ’ which recorded the history of the pioneers of the cement tile industry in India. The ‘Story Book ’ designed by ............ ...................... ........ Trikaya Advertising, chronologized Old Bharat TUes factory in Uran, (inset)Pheroaeshirand Rnrtom'sidhwaTri gli O the 60-year-old saga of the Bharat Tile Company, one-of the leading quality “Soon after, he left for Italy to find The hazard of transportation was tile manufacturers in the country: out what he was doing wrong. As it one reason why Bharat Tiles moved its “When the Bhyat Tile Company turned out, all that the black and white factory from Uran to the city in 1956, started (in Uran) in 1922, there was no tiles needed was better polishing! ’’ the other was that the main market for electricity, water or telephone service. In the 60 years since then, Bharat tiles was in Bombay. The shorta ge of And the only link with the mainland Tiles has paved a number of well- cement that began in the 1940s was a was the fishing boats which plied known structures including the major handicap which r oarhpd its when the weather was fair. Why, then, Sachivalaya, the Reserve Bank, Aarey depths in 1972 when the situation was the choice of Uran? There lies another Colony, the Stock Exchange, Bombay so bad that the company aU but closed Central Station, the High Court, Air down. Many employees had to be “The family of promoters of Bharat India building. Max Mueller Bhavan, retrenched and production was low Tiles had already built large factory Taj Mahal Intercontinental, Chur- Now with the free sale of cement, the sheds at Uran, to manufacture liquor chgate Station, several Tata Electric situation has improved. from Mogra flowers. Suddenly in buildings, new LIC building and If the advertisements of Bharat Tiles 1918, the British Government decided others. to augment its revenues by taking over Now with an annual turnover of all liquor production...and the Uran 25-30 lakh rupees, Bharat Tiles con- factories were left idle. tinues to remain a family concern, with “Fishing boats provided the only the members of the Sidhwa family on freight services between Bombay and the board of directors of Bharat Tiles Uran. Finished tiles were loaded onto and the associated companies, the ‘machwas ’ at Uran and carried to Grindwell Norton, Vitro-Brite, Daka Brick Bunder, Bombay. No one Company and Lightcrete Products, remembers whether the ‘machwas ’ car- “The technology of tile-making is ried tiles and fish at the same time. In very simple, ’’ says Ms Tehemina any case, there is no recorded com- Sidhwa, wife of the late Pherozesha plaint about the tiles smelling of fish... Sidhwa. It is the “integrity of the in- “To the founders of Bharat Tiles, gredients ’’ that determines the quality Pherozesha Sidhwa and (nephew) of the tile. And determining quality is Rustom Sidhwa, the quality of tiles not so easy, one cannot judge a tile just produced was critical. The reasons by looking at it. A superior tile can be went beyond aesthetics, into hard distinguis hed over a period of time , business sense —if the tiles were not as since, “a tile gets more beautiful with good as imported ones, nobody would age. ’’ buy them. The fragile nature of tiles makes “In 1923, Pherozesha was them an expensive item to transport, dissatisfied with a batch of black and hence Bharat Tiles makes tiles mainly white tiles made for New Readymoney for consumption in Bombay. On Building (Flora Fountain). So he stop- out-of-town orders, the comp an y ped delivery and took the dramatic step simply sets up a temporary factory at of having the entire batch thrown into the site, to be dismantled when the job the sea. is complete. 30 Psrsiana May 19834^7 3 have ^n^ fw . Md far between, tion, Hindustan Thompson Associates, Content to be a small concern for the r^arks Ms DilBavaz .Variava, Inter Publicity and Frank Simoes moment, Acidwalla remarks, “We Ph»ozesteSidhwa ’s daughter,itcanbe Advertising. don ’t want to departmentalize, other- attnbuted to the fact that “we let the “1_____________ __ ___ _______ „ iiti.viiaiitvai unc qu^ty of tlw tiles speak for itself. ” visualizer or a copywriter, ” says Acid- department does not know what the And even if the stability of the building walla. The job entails “striking a mean other is doing. ” Being of the opinion comments Ms between the client and the creative per- that anybody in the agency should be &dhwa lightly, “Bharat tiles will last sons...to understand the brief given by able to take the brief from the client, the lifetime of the building in which the client, realign it and bring it out in 'he affirms, “we will discuss all cam- they arelaid. ” advertising form. ” paigns together. ” tion, Hindustan Thompson Associates, Inter Pubheity and Frank Simoes moment, Acidwalla remarks, “We *-£don ’t want to departmentalize, other- ¦ “I am an account executive, not a wise the job becomes mechanical, one * ' " —- ------—Cl vwpjvYiiiti, oaya 2-kviu- ucpitluucni uoes riot Know wnai tne Ana even if the stability of the building walla. The job entails “striking a mean other is doing. ” Being of the opinion sons...to understand the brief given by able to take the brief from the client. Gouri Wagadarikar i ¦ xis % % advertising form. ” Some of the most fulfilling cam ­ paigns he has worked on have been the launching of ‘Lime ’n Lemoni ’ Limca, the “bizarre but memorable ” Gold Spot series, the unusual advertisements for Arvind Mills (“We had models coming Out of test tubes and beakers ”) and the introduction of Raymonds ’ ‘Legwear ’ trousers. Dissatisfied with the “non- dustrial Boilers Private Limited, Gouri Wagadarikar Best Woman Entrepreneur Ms Dhun B. Baidawala, director of In- - was involvement of executives ” in the awarded the 1983 Best Womhn En- F,'r *— *—““'“vco wiiiviviiv creative aspects of advertising, Acia- trepreneur award instituted by the In- r; people in different ways. But when walla left for Kuwait to join a company stitute of Marketing Management and Dara Acidwalla and Cyrus Guzder as their advertising manager. But Cinni Fans. The annual award -was P talked business on a full moon night, there, troubled by the sweltering heat, presented at a ceremony in New Delhi - they decided to form an advertising the subtle but ever-present discrimina- „ agency, appropriately named Raka, tion against Indians and his wife the Sanskrit word for full moon. Jehanara ’s ill-health, he decided to , The Bombay-based agency, with an authorised share capital of 10 lakh t** A Full Moon on the Rise g The moon it is said, affects different _ _ ______________________ ^ople jn ^different ways. But when walla left for Kuwait to join a company stitute of Marketing Management and 1 was talked business on a full moon night, J . «9 come back. Backed by Cyrus Guzder, managing director of ‘Airfreight ’ and the k includes amongst its clients Larsen and Guzder family, Acidwalla started Raka Toubro, the giant engineering con- in March this year. i, ‘ cern. “We are gearing ourselves to service , “Raka will offer a comprehensive clients efficiently and on a professional i package of marketing consultancy and basis, ” says Acidwalla, with the accent communication services, ” states the on “personalised service. ” 37-year-old bespectacled and “We are now interested in con- bewhiskered Acidwalla. A 16-year solidating our position, ” to face the veteran of the advertising profession, “tremendous ” competition, says Acid- Acidwalla has worked for some of the walla. As for the current cut in adver- ; leading agencies in the country in- tising expenditure due to budget eluding Advertising and Sales Promn- disallowances, he feels it will definitely affect new business coming in. The set- Baldawala: receiving award from back however, will be to small adver- “ tisers who cannot afford the disallowance, rather than the bigger in the presence of President Zail Singh o^®s- in January this year, notes a press Apart from Raka, Acidwalla helps release. his wife Jehanara in her business. The company, which installed its whenever she needs it. The sole first boiler unit in 1977 “has maintain- representative for a Kuwaiti group of ed a steady growth rate of 40 percent, ” publications, Dar-Al Seyessah, notes Baldawala,and since then hun- Jehanara has started ‘Medialink ’, dreds of energy-saving units through which she helps Indian adver- developed with indigenous technology tisers promote their products in Kuwait, have been installed all over the coun- providing information about competitive try. ,4n addition, the organization products, translations into Arabic and deputes its team of qualified engineers organizing foreign exchange clear- to various industries to offer guidance in ances. They keep their working lives energy conservation and the achieve- separate though, and Jehanara ment of maximum plant efficiency, operates from home; this probably also Baldawala ascribes the success of her ensures proximity to their 11-year-old organization to the “fine team spirit ” twin sons Shamak and Gieve. at every level of operation. Of the I rupees of which two lakhs are paid up, k includes amonest its clients Larsen and I* ??? i. 5 -1,? r t i states the on “personalised service. ” ---- 1 “We are now interested in eluding Advertising and Sales Promo- p Acidwalla.: offering a Cona ­ rd prehensive marketing package . ¦ ,fc ’ •*s. |L 31 Parsiana May 1983 Presideiit ZaU Singh The company, which installed its ¦St •3 I- 9- 4 i. * >3 - -s'* - ‘-i ¦<- JO ¦I * iew - woman entrepreneur Baldawala writes, “Women can work wonders with their instinct whenever the element of risk is malignant impression that Neriosang know is whether the rank and file of involved and with this quality of adventure, I am sure the eighties will have many more women entre ­ preneurs. ” Continued from page 17. cannot tell you what to do, nor created a very misleading and do we ask for much; all we want to has violated our Zoroastrian laws. ZAC is behind the Priests or not, and Mr. Khambatta in his characteristic will take all possible and positive steps and malignan t manner says “I will to stop the mistreatment of the Priests fight to get (him) out of ZAC.” Ervad by the self-appointedmessiahs like Mr. Karanjia who has served the ZAC so Khambatta. Until this is done in a faithfiilly does not deserve this kind of manner totally satisfactory to all the shabby, shameless and slanderous Priests, we very much regret to say that treatment by a self-appointed dispenser we find no meaning or mission in serv- of Zoroastrian laws. Mr. Khambatta ’s ing the ZAC as voluntary Priests any Out of nine gold medals awarded at the letter unfortunately also implies that more and we urge ZAC strongly to hire Leipzig Spring Fair with “9000 par- Neriosang was a party to Joseph their own Priest to serve its needs. ticipants from over 123 countries all Peterson ’s navjote, though that is not While we dwply appreciate the fact QY0]* rhg world ” India bagged two, of what h^r. Khambatta himself meant, that a significant number of ZAC which one went to Besta Cosmetics ’ en ­ try, ‘Prize ’ Aloe Vera Shampoo. In the March 13-19 West German fair, Besta had their entire range of impression to his relatives and friends, which will inspire the Pnests cosmetics on display, and in competi ­ tion with giant multinational cosmetic . companies claimed the gold for the way at all and it only shows but also for leading the commumty on “quality and medicinal value ” of their Mr.Khambatta ’s unpardonable very critical and often very controver- product. ignorance not only of the Zoroastrian sial issues facing us today. - - . - . .— -----r .t--rr 1...1— “Hopiiig that you wUl undcrstaud “How could we Priests then find it our wounded feelings and injustice necessary to volunteer our time and done to us by these few ZAC members, “remain, sincerely yours. Signed: Ervad Kersi Antia Ervad Neriosang Karanjia Ervad Pesi Vazifdar Ervad Keikhosrow Mobed Ervad Behram Shahzadi Ervad Jamshed Antia ” Prize’Gold but from the responses that Neriosang members are solidly behind the Priests, received from home, it is clear that ’s we urge not to let just a handful of what Mr. Khambatta ’s letter gave the members pollute or vitiate the milieu ~ ¦ ! to Moreover, Neriosang has not at all volunteer freely their time and energy violated any of the ZAC laws in any not only for performing religious rites Besta, a s mall -scale unit of the laws but also of the ZAC bylaws. Balsara group, has a factory at Vapi in “I„., ... 11- Gujarat, and produces cosmetics, i • toiletries and a range of ayurvedic energy to ZAC members who will not we cosmetics for export. hesitate at the slightest pretext to This gold medal comes in the wake malign and defame our Priests in of the recent Monde Selection Gold public? Mr. Khambatta and his sup- Medal with Palm Leaves that Besta porters ’ attitude is so unZoroastrian won for its ‘Prize ’ fluoride toothpaste that they should be ashamed to call last year. themselves Zoroastrians, much less ‘ ‘Besta and Balsara prove that small- have any validity to write letters about scale units are capable of manufactur ­ ing and marketing quality products of international standards, ” notes the release issued at an earlier press con ­ ference. The company ’s exports manager A K.D. lyenger expressed confidence authorize any ZAC member to make conununity... . .... .. .------ -1 -i-i —JI------------- “Indeed these rebel priests should be _____________ _______________ right-minded to excommunicate them. We Priests do Zoroastrians in Chicago and their ser- Priests in the name of Zoroastrianism. “We do not expect all ZAC do we expect'all Priests to agree with “the priests have a duty and obligation one another as our Prophet wants us to to work in conjunction with the wishes decide for ourselves. But that does not and aspirations of the majority of the “We do not expect all ZAC The Jame published the priests ’ let- members to agree with the Priests. Nor ter in its issue of May 10 and added one another as our Prophet wants us to to work in conjunction with the wishes that the award would “result in actual misleading statements about Priests in business in course of time. ” the Parsee newspapers in India or try boycotted ______________ ---------------- not have to serve the community unless vices should be dispensed with for all we want to. While we would very much future religious happenings. .. it would want to do so, we find ourselves be preferable for the signators of this alienated and m^igned by the actions letter to stop serving the community... of Mr. Khambatta and his supporters, if these priests wish to resign from their Unless the foul and filthy air created by religious obligations to the community them is cleared up forthwith and the they serve, they should be encouraged Priests are reassured that they won ’t be to do so. ” abused so readily and ZAC lays down Should the Chicago Zoroastnans rules to take action against those that decide at their ‘Open Forum to st^d take it upon themselves to judge and by the priests, than by the yardsticks Qvettuk andmalMthePriests. If they stated by the Jame editorial, the priests s till persist to do so, we will have no would be in the right. But by then new choice but to ask them to have their grounds would have been found to own Priests because they cannot expect denigrate all those directly or indirectly to have their cake and eat it too, they connected with the navjote of Joseph cannot mistreat the Priests and still ex- Peterson. pect them to serve them. Photographs courtesy Porus Cooper Old post cards etc./wanted Advertiser wishes to buy OLD picture postcards, photographs, cigarettesj . cards, playing cards, posters, prints, 1 illustrated books, albums and other related material. Willing to pay top prices for single items or entire collections. Please send detailed list with expected prices to; The Advertiser, (OLD) C/o. Parsiana, G.P.O. Box 892, Bombay 400 001. 33 Parsiana May 1983 ¦¦ 1 •'I, I I i I I 4 by E -t f ¦J t ¦'4 1 ..-I ' -4ART & MUSIC Mountboard Miniatures Hutokshi D. Doctor >1’ »¦ ¦ jSji A small, rickety and paint-stained I black table stands on the veranda out- I side the Gandevias ’ home in Navroz I Baug, Bombay. On its worn and chisel- I scarred surface lie a few stray pieces of ¦ mountboard. At any odd hour of the day, the neighbours can watch Jal A. Gandevia at work on this table, his heavy-featured face intent, bending | and carving the cardboard into varied forms and designs. His only tools are I two small chisels, glorified screw ­ drivers really, Fevicol and paint. j Currently working on the models of buses and trucks, Gandevia, who drives the Tata Institute of Fundamen ­ tal Research buses, says, “Once I start on trucks, I keep making trucks only; if I start on mandirs I keep on making those. ” He pulls out dog-eared copies of the Tata and Telco annual reports, and in- ‘ dicating the latest models of trucks, points out his own replicas, every detail complete, each variation in the body faithfully reproduced. The dashboards of these vehicles are neatly pencilled in, the gears have little red knobs atop, the seats are cushioned in sponge, the window-glasses slide up and down, the doors open, close and lock. While the tyres of his trucks are made of wood, his intricate black and white locomotive is entirely of card ­ board, the wheels and piston moving nJ j .•ill,*. J ijit- ¦ - R ! a » i ¦3!?i S f India. He is responsible for the designs works in hasn ’t changed in the last 14 of a lot of that airline ’s offices around years and this is the first time he has the world. allowed his homes to be photographed. Now Pila is at a stage where he can The elevator stops,at the floor below course, money is important but it is not the main criterion. The satisfaction of wood and there is a lovely play of lights is what counts. This is one reason 1 never Narayan, which comprises the window undertake more than four to six jobs a facing the door. year. ” The door opens and with it a sense of Each place Pila designs has its own continuity, for facing the door on a flat distinct individuality. He reckons that column is a painting by Jehangir Saba- 9^ Parsiana May 1983 I I fi13 & t 4' f«*i too^$,.^;hh»e' ' andhastiijional ffei^.tyhichcOfifil^- - - , - w-ww men^tht^atiern on the'dfmEj.BdoW,thfi --wiZ painting is a Chinese'vase of unknown' wW> iHr ‘ age.. This sense of continuity permeates ' ' . the whole flat. ihsyan^jvar Nadkarm 4 •I J * <• ¦’4 4^ al S' to** *1 In Pila ’s other home, after the front Shiavax Chaka ’s current exhibitlonat .-. I door opens you see a painting on a wood - the Taj apt gatiiwy is his 40th show: an. panel. Tuck your fingers into a niche >,—- _ . «j . »• under the frame and pull. A door opens hiS Icmg uuungs tn ouf art world. which conceals a passage which takes One has partii^ar ^eason tO^be i YOU right into the flat, bypassing the nostalgic. As an adolescent reviej^, 1 living-room. had mt:^Ss^<^tt'« w- " ’ „ 2,\ " ,* ti^tness of construc^)^^ overall _ . __ ... ... w« ¦'' Reprin«a permission from AtsiSie 0»O^. “list ’s qualities Iftbht: imT-wSge”^^ Seascape O Decemb^-iajiwry iws. Photogw^ courtly sm«h. of conatnictioti^ OVC 37 Parsiana May 0983 Cordo X- 4>- ,/z^^*4* a^ ‘’I •’ ‘* < S i f economy of treatment harnessed to spirit of his chosen raga and does it with unaff<^ed evocatiw; the rimpln but distinefiem. His music is basically sweet stylish projection of such natural and his teelodic depictions have an elements as sun and moon, sea and uncanny, tranquil grace of their own. ; sand or objects mi a beach. If the col- One can truly say in his case that his ours are bright, the simile textural music reflects his personality. methods and the divirion of the canvas Detailed Khayal space into subtly inter-linked small Not surprisingly, therefore, Dastur ’s areas offset the possibility of vocal recital at the Dadar Matunga Cul- garishness. tural Centre on March 12 —his first And so, our felicitations to the sex- public concert in four years — drew a agenarian artist whose exhibition packed audience, which included the career is 40 years young today. Courtesy The Times of India, March 9,1983 /?!• * i Dastur’s Elevating Recital Mohan Nadkarai great Mo^ubai Kurdikar, the 78-year- old doyen of Hindustani vocalists, and her worthy daughter, Kishori Amonkar. Dastur was in fine form. He is 63 ^nd what is more, the rigours of teaching have not told on his performing stam ­ ina. He began with a detailed khayal exposition in Shudh-Kalyan\Xi vilambit ii^ in 5iihaswozz. ah^ \n ytidmbit and drut. The post-interval fare included vilambit and fZrwt compositions in Mal- kauns and the Jhinjhoti thumri, “Piya , bin nanhin awat chain, ” immortalised by Abdul Karim Khan, his guru's guru. In each of the ragas, Dastur achieved a complete realisation of its classical and and drut, followed by a briefer birfqldr Firoz Dastur is one of the three emi ­ nent disciples of Sawai Gandharva — mystical implications. He sang with feel- the others are Gangubai Hangal and ing, understanding and a keen sense of Bhimsen Joshi. But unlike them, his what is sublime and beautiful. His Jhin- concert appearances are few and far jhoti thumri, “had its usual caressive, often between, because teaching has been lar- bittet>sweet touch. To this reviewer, gely his avocation. however, his came as the But whenever he performs, Dastur very epitome of all that is best in the reveals through his music many virtues Kirana ideology. that put him apart from his contempor- Mention must be made of the superb aries. First, he has no use for virtuosity vocal sangat that came from his disci- for its own sake, nor does one find those pies, Arvind Apte and Ashok Tulpule. vocal surprises we associate with Tulpule is a busy medical man and it Bhimsen and Gangubai. Secondly, he redounds to his credit that he finds time does not indulge in the kind of physical to keep his music so trim. Veteran Shej- gestures or facial contortions or the wadkar on the harmonium and young aggressiveness of manner which often Deepak Nerurkar on the tabla also lent besets most vocal recitals. Above all, he the right instrumental support. is content with concentrating on the Courtesy the Times of India, March 14, 1983 bittef-weet touch. To this reviewer, however, his Shudh-Kalyan came as the Gifts& The Friendly Gift Shop for handicrafts, festive gifts and Zoroastrian artefacts Bombay Swadeshi Stores Ltd Sir P.M. 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Bead, Bomtoy 400 001. ¦3 i-3 ¦e 4 f' j -¦3 J 5 k' J s 3- <4r-^ Patel: Baroda trustee '5 IN MEMORIAM L • S' s' p ¦ BJ"' S’ r •/ Nadirshah: Former BPP Khurody: Dedicated chairman dairyman Soon after the Aarey scheme, Khur- Committed Trustee Died: Erach Ardeshir NaiUrshah, 88, former chairman and trustee of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet, on February 14, 1983, at the Parsi General Hospi ­ tal, Bombay, following a heart attack. A trustee of the BPP for 20 years. Nadirshah was first elected in 1957, and after the death of the then chair ­ man Lady Hirabai Cowasjee Jehangir in 1976i he took over as chairman until the expiry of his term the followingyear. “As a qualified engineer backed by Soon after the Aarey scheme, Khur- as regional CcMordinator (Asia) for the long years of practical experience, odynegbtiatedacqntractwith UNICfiF Dairy Sd^ty International (USA) in Mr Brach Nadirshah was a great help to equip a second dairy plant for Bom- Lebanon, notes his biodata. He was ¦ to his colleagues on the Board of bay, notes the write-up, and in fact the Dairy Consultant to the Government of Trustees of the BPP in their attempts Worli Dairy has brought alargepercen- to solye the most bumjng problem of tage of Bombay ’s population under the Housing, ’’notes a Resolution passed milk sdheme. by the Punchayet. “Khhrody is also credited with initiat- After graduating in engineering ing ‘Agmarking ’ (Agricultural Market- from the U.K., Nadirsh^ worked wUi ing) in India, the first concerted attempt the Bombay Municipality as a to guarantee standard quality agricultu- hydraulic engineer, and was later raiproducts, ’’accordingtotheMagsay- appointed chief engineer of the Con- say publication. . a^ete Association of India and Editor “His reputation abroad was enhanced of the ItUiian Concrete Journal, in by a film entitled ‘Milk for the Millions ’ which capacity ‘ ‘he was largely respon- depicting the story of the Bombay Milk Lebanon and for UNICEF in Egypt before returning to India and joining Larsen and Toubro Limited as Con ­ troller of Administration and later Gen ­ eral Manager<Exports). He also established Khurody Techni- ' cal Services Private Limited, Bombay, consulUnts in the daii^ antj food indus ­ tries. Khurody is survived by his wife Persis and sons Firdaus dhd Nawshir. t able for the propagation of modern Scheme, ” notes the write-up. He worked Tltcf iriOincbpH advances in co^rete design and for the development of dairying in OCl VlVC technolc^y mto Indian, practices. ” Lebanon, Egypt, Ceylon and lectured Died: Rnstomji Kharshedji Patel, 67, Nadirshah was a membo* of several on the subject in other countries as well, former deputy superintendent of police reUgk^, educational and engineering Khurody attended several international in Baroda and a trustee of the Baroda ,orgaitisaticms in ttedty. He is survived dairy conferences, notes his bio-data, P ' ~ his Wife Amy. and to further education in his field, 15182, m Broach, Gujarat, of a sudden established the Khurody-Dairy Educa- seizure. Milk for Millions tion Trust and started the Dai^ Tech* Patel ’s ptfiice service was marked by nology Institute at the Aarey Milk the award of three Distinguished Con- Died: Dara Nusserwanji Khurody, 77, Colony. He is the author of ‘Dairying in duct medals from the Central Govem- pioneer in the development of dairying India — a Review. ’ ment, notes his bio-data, and he was the in India, on March 30, 1983, at the The president awarded Khurody a first Indian police officer to win this Breach Candy Hospital in Bombay, fol- Shield of Honour in 1973 at the Golden award within the first lOyears of service, lowing a brief illness. Jubilee Celebrations of the National Khurody received, the Ramon Mag- Dairy Research Institute, Bangalore, the development of milk supply in Bom- diploma and a gold medal in the Jasti- tition, Patel earned 1 ¦ • - , awarded a Padma Bhushan by the according to his bio-data. Born in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, on Parsi Pandby^ tion Trust and started the Dai^ Tech* Noted for his successful handling of communal riots in Gujarat and the saysay award-(Phtlfijunes) in 1963 for from where Khurody received his dairy lefo^ee situation in Bombay after par- ~ ’/ ‘ J, ~ ' 1 “tremendous bay, and the following year was tute ’s first course conducted in 1925, popularity ’’during his tenure as D.S.P ~ „ of Baroda, according to his bio-data. Indian governmentih recognition of his Born in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, on T ;___ c outstanding services in the development January 2, 1906, Khurody decided to was appointed SecuHty Advisor to the of dah*ying in India. adopt dairying as a career after working Gujarat State Fertilizers Company and ¦ ' ¦ “ , _______ _ ______________________J butter to military establishments Compan y. On retirement from the I.P.S.,Patel *aS| “The first to give a complete cross- with his uncle who supplied cream and the Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers section of tfe Indian milk industry, ’’ butter to military establishments Company. according to the Ramon Magsaysay in Mhow, notes the write-up. Patel, a trustee of the Baroda Parsi Awards publication, Khurody orga- x«..v««yav, waa m^uumcuwii m me nised the Aarey Milk Colony during his intendent for the 2,000-acre dairy farm construction of a new Parsi Dharam- tenure as Milk Commissioner of Bom- of the Tata Iron and Steel Company at shala and rennva t in g the Tnww of bay, “which was to become the largest Jamshedpur, ” informs the write-up. Silence, ’’ notes the write-up. cattle colonisationfarm and milk supply After his retirement from government He is survived by his wife Freni and plan in Asia. ” , - ^P^araiana May tS83 He began his career as “Farm Super- Panchayat, “was instrumental in the of the Tata Iron and Steel Company at shala and renovating the Tower of fe- After his retirement from government service in 1963, Khurody spent six years son Dr. Minoo Patel. v •