“Pride and prejudice”

The first thing that struck me on reading "BPP Anjuman meeting: Pride and prejudice” (Parsiana, November 21, 2009) was that the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) resembled a sulking child. When you’re given one hour at the microphone, you focus on your speech; not on hurling invective at some alleged prankster who cut your time short. A confident committee would have briefly expressed its displeasure at the time constraint. The BPP’s excessive ranting only reminded me that they were helpless to remedy the situation.

Dinshaw Mehta is right in emphasizing the BPP’s tremendous social and financial responsibility. Now it’s time for the BPP to start behaving with the dignity and diplomacy expected of, arguably, the most powerful Parsi trust in India, and stop engaging their detractors in a pointless war of rhetoric.

TUSHNA MISTRY

Madras

tushna.mistry@gmail.com