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Nearly 230 class four employees of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) will be going on mass casual leave today. This

Founder of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, Serum Institute of India, Dr Cyrus Poonawalla has been nominated from India for the prestigious Nobel Prize, said Dr Parvez Grant, Managing Trustee of the Ruby Hall Clinic. He was speaking at a felicitation event of Dr Cyrus Poonawalla who was recently conferred an honorary ‘Doctor of Humane Letters’ degree by the Massachusetts Medical School at Boston for his unparalleled work in the field of immunisation at the global level.

It seems that Kersi Randeria has lost it after the double slap the community gave him first in 2016 when Arnavaz Mistry, his partner and mother of his Yasmin, and Trustee of his ZTFI, lost to Dinshaw Mehta supported Armaity Tirandaz and then in 2018 when his 2015 Alliance partner Yazdi Desai’s wife lost to again Dinshaw Mehta supported Xerxes Dastur.

Since Sunday there is enough heard about the newly furnished Bombay House and facilities for the stray dogs.

As reported earlier BPP Trustee Kersi Randeria had promised to teach Parvez Driver of Panthaky Baug a bitter lesson for opposing his partner Arnavaz Mistry and mother of Yasmin Maqsood Husain, Trustee of his ZTFI, and supporting Armaity Tirandaz instead.

The Parsi Zorastrian community, especially those in Mumbai and living in BPP baugs and colonies are going through a dark phase under the current BPP board mainly due to the highhanded attitude and nepotism of two trustees who have adopted a could-not-care attitude towards those very people before whom they came begging for votes only a few years back.

After reading in Metro Junction, news report about allotment of 2 BHK of Cusrow Baug to Ms, Khambata the freshly appointed Jt. Dy CEO of BPP, the community in general and myself in particular would like to know to the justification and basis of this favourable allotment to this Canadian citizen.

Bawa Burjorji put on his daglo and parsi paghri as he proceeded to partake the celebration of the 114TH birth anniversary of legendry industrialist JRD Tata and the inauguration of the renovated Bombay House.

Whether it comes to doles to the poor, scholarships to students, help to mobeds, incentives for second and third child,

This is the text of a talk given by Berjis Desai at the recently concluded 11th World Zoroastrian Congress in Perth Australia. Berjis is an eminent legal counsel, journalist and columnist residing in Mumbai India. The text of the article is published with his permission.