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Dr. Roozan Parvez Bharucha of Ahmedabad is a young Parsi achiever with many feathers in his cap. He was awarded the prestigious NASA Technological Excellence Award (2005 - 2006) for Self-Path Finding Land Rover Technology.

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In the words of Adi Engineer, our Pune Chapter Chair, “The respect and recognition that a community enjoys is not only determined by its economic prosperity, but by the stature and ethics of its achievers.”

The World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce (WZCC) Annual Recognition Program was developed to recognize achievers who distinguish themselves in their respective fields, whether they are Professionals, Business People or Entrepreneurs.

WZCC recognizes leading stalwarts every year at their AGMs in the city where it is hosted. The 2008 program is open for nominations and the winners will be recognised at the WZCC AGM in Houston, USA in December 2008.

The WZCC website www.wzcc.net carries detailed guidelines on the Recognition Program and we encourage members of our community to use this platform to nominate their peers.  There are no losers in this program, to be nominated is in itself a form of recognition. The criteria for nominations for the year 2008 are available on the website. The last date for nominations is 31 July 2008. Please send in your nominations (the nominees need not be members of WZCC) and encourage your friends and relatives to do likewise before the due date.

This program is conducted and supervised by the Australian Chapter of the WZCC.  As its Chapter Chair, I look forward to receiving your nomination.

Phil Madon

Burjor Daboo has found this article interesting and would like to share it with us.

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Friends,

According to a news report in India Journal, May 9, 2008:

“Prof Karbhari to Head Alabama Varsity’s Academic Wing  SAN DIEGO, CA - An Indian-American professor has been chosen to head the Academic Affairs wing of prestigious University of Alabama in Huntsville.  Dr. Vistasp M. Karbhari, from University of California, San Diego, was chosen Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs in the university.

     Dr. Karbhari who has his roots in Pune, was named by Alabama University’s president David Williams, who called his performance “masterful”.  “I am extraordinarily impressed by his energy and his academic prowess,” Williams said.

     Karbhari, a professor of material science and structural engineering at University of Southern California, will join the Alabama University on September one.

    “The University of Alabama in Huntsville has already had a tremendous impact and each of the five colleges has, in a short span of time, risen to a high level of excellence,” the distinguished Indian-American professor said.

    Karbhari earned his doctorate at the University of Delaware in 1991, and his master’s and bachelor degrees at the University of Pune.”

Regards,

Maneck Bhujwala 

The Parsee Voice has arranged to have some protest letters so that the high rise building construction at Godrej Baug at the Dooongerwadi complex, be stopped.

To read more, click on protest-against-highrise-at-godrej-baugh

To read a letter from Mehlli N.Bhagalia, click here present-danger-to-dakhma-in-mumbai

For the Petition, click on tpv_letter-of-protest_05-05-081

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.

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Apr 17th 2008 | DELHI
From The Economist print edition

Adherents of an ancient faith worry about its disappearance

TWO of India’s biggest business clans—Tata and Godrej—are Parsees, descendants of Zoroastrians, who fled the Muslim invasion of Persia for India more than 1,000 years ago. But well though some of its members have done, the Parsee community is dwindling. At the time of the 2001 census India had fewer than 70,000 Parsees, a 40% drop since 1941. Since then, the decline has accelerated. A survey suggests that only 99 Parsees were born in the year to August 2007, compared with 223 in 2001….. more

Anahita Patel writes and shares pictures of:
the Patel agiary in Andheri which celebrated its centenary on Roz Adar, Mah Adar (April 24, 2008 )

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Courtesy : Feroze Kalwachwalla and Rusi Mistry

With the Bombay High Court allowing an amendment to the election scheme of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), every Parsi in the city, who is above the age of 18 years, would be able to vote in the election for the trustees of this 17th century institution.