Focus on poor Parsis

In every issue of Parsiana you write about the achievements of successful Parsis. But there is not a word about the failures. What about the old, the weak and the sick? What about those who have lost their jobs, their businesses, their money, their wives, their children, their minds — hopefully in that order? What about their life stories?

Please send out an army of journalists to search for and interview such derelicts in Bombay, Gujarat and other places. Let your readers know about their tragedies, their miseries, their hand-to-mouth existence, going from one charitable trust to another, begging for crumbs. How are they treated by the trustees? Who are the kind and compassionate trustees and which trustees look down upon them? I am sure the answers will surprise the entire community.

Please also provide suggestions on how the well-to-do Parsis can help the poorest ones, and what you are doing or are planning to do for them.

JAL S. DESAI

jaldesai@hotmail.com