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THE BOMBAY PARSI PUNCHAYET

CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO THE RECEPTION IN HONOUR OF

DR.VILLOO MORAWALA - PATELL

IN RECOGNITION OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT HAVING RECENTLY

BESTOWED UPON HER THEIR HIGHEST AWARD OF

OFFICER DE L’ORDRE NATIONAL DU MERITE

(OFFICER OF THE NATIONAL ORDER OF MERIT)

FOR HER PATH-BREAKING ENTREPRENEUIAL SKILLS

AS CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF AVESTHAGEN LIMITED

TOPIC:THRILLS AND REWARDS OF BEING AN ENTREPRENEUR

VENUE:C.K.NAIDU HALL OF THE CRICKET  CLUB OF INDIA

DINSHAW VACHHA ROAD, MUMBAI 400 020.

DATE:FRIDAY,16TH MAY 2008.      TIME:5.30

MR. MINOO R. SHROFF

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOMBAY PARSI PUNCHAYET WILL PRESIDE.

R.S.V.P

PHONE: 2261 7421-22-23

Attached is Dr. Mehroo Bengalee’s pamphlet distributed  at the inauguration of  the Zoroastrian Information Centre at Udwada.

udwada-pamphlet_drmehroo-d-bengalee

Tales of Survival and Extinction

(c) Kaevan Umrigar, 2005

Member - National Commission for Minorities

responsibilites_dr-mehroo-d-bengalee.pdf

An Invitation to all Zoroastrians to join the Library in the following categories ……. More

dadar-library.pdf

Believe it or not but it’s a hard fact that a majority people of our vast country, leave aside do not know about the Parsi Community, but they even have not heard the name of the Parsi Community.

The Parsis are the tiniest ethnic race in the world. The percentage of their total population is utterly negligible in comparison with the huge population of India. However, the Parsis are well-known for their mighty contributions in maintaining cordial relationship with all sister communities of India and enriching the cultural heritage of our vast country. Also, their contributions in the all-round developments are significant and ever-lasting….. More

A very interesting insight into the Parsi Community - lots of Humour too !

WORLD ZARATHUSHTI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (WZCC)

announces

ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

An Opportunity to

Enhance your Entrepreneurial Talent

Interact with Successful Businessmen

Expand your Business Network

Reach your Full Potential

After the grand success of the Young Entrepreneurs Program (YEP) in June 2006, the World Zarathushti Chamber Of Commerce – India (WZCC– I), is organizing a similar training program – Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP).

If you are a Budding Entrepreneur and wish

• To take your Business to new Heights

• Expand and Diversify your Business
• Identify new Opportunities
• Establish linkages with Development and Support Institutions

• Get trained at a Recognized Institute

THIS PROGRAM IS FOR YOU!

About the Program :

This is a residential training program scheduled during 28^th April to 3^rd May 2008, and will be conducted by Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI), at its campus at Ahmedabad. EDI is a recognized Training Institute promoted by leading Financial Institutions. The training will be through lectures, case studies, business games, group exercises, interactions with successful entrepreneurs and industrial visits. The program will also help the trainees establish network and linkages with banks and financial institutions.

Fee : Rs. 12,500/- per participant. This includes cost of training, lodging and boarding for six days, course material and industry visits. It excludes travel expenses to and from Ahmedabad.

Contact Us: Prof. Faredoon Kapadia 98700 0011 or

Mrs. Dolly Dhamodiwala 93221 20007

email us wzccprograms@gmail.com

More information awaits you at our website www.wzcc.net

Get in touch ….. It’s always the first step to success!

Now, donating and receiving blood is just an SMS away. Need blood urgently? Just send an SMS and a willing donor will land at your doorstep.

Thanks to a newly-activated service run by Nagpur-based Khushroo Poacha, who also runs e-social service website indianblooddonors.com, getting a unit of blood is just an SMS away. “It doesn’t matter where you are, a donor will come to the hospital nearest to you to offer his blood. And there is no money involved,” said Poacha, who launched the SMS service on Sunday.

Recently, when Rajesh Jasani was asked to arrange five bottles of O- blood in preparation for his father’s bypass surgery, Poacha’s helpline (5676775) came to the rescue.

“I was really worried when the hospital authorities told me O- is a rare group, which is often out of stock. I sent an SMS, and received the donor’s contact info within a minute,” said Jasani, who managed to contact five donors in just a day.

It all started eight years ago, when Nagpur-based Khushroo Poacha set up indianblooddonors.com. Poacha says he found his “true calling” after seeing harried relatives of patients running around trying to arrange for blood.

The website now has contact information of over 45,000 blood donors from across the country.

But Poacha was still not happy with the results. At an IIM meet where he was invited to give a talk on social entrepreneurship, students raised two simple issues that set Poacha thinking. “One, the Internet is not accessible to everyone. Two, sustainability without funding,” said Poacha, who then came up with the idea of the SMS helpline.

Normally Surnames do not have any meanings. Our ancestors had no Surnames, they were known by their Father’s / Family name. e.g. Rustom bin Zal. (Rustom of Zal), later on they took on names of places/ family names as additional to their names. t was only when they came to India that they adopted their trade/service/vocation/family/or some traits -(Waghmaru, Batki etc.). A very interesting collection by Burjor Minocher Daboo of Ahmedabad. Click here for the full list and some interesting meanings.