Monthly Archives: March 2010

SynergyZ now Online !

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As part of our continuing efforts to use technology for the benefit of our members, we have now launched the E-edition of SynergyZ – our popular WZCC News Magazine. The latest issue is now available online at www.wzcc.net. For those of you who missed the issue (or even misplaced it), you can browse through it online any time, for your reading pleasure.

In due course, the archives will also be made available on our website. Keep watching this space.

Happy Reading and HAPPY NAVROZE !

Message from the Secretary General of the United Nations – First International Day of NowRuz

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Secretary-General Urges Harmony on First International Day of Nowruz

Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for the International Day of Nowruz, to be observed on 21 March:

The General Assembly’s decision this year to recognize the International Day of Nowruz is evidence of a growing global awareness of the holiday’s significance not only in the regions where it is celebrated but around the world.

For millennia, when the sun crosses the Equator and the Northern Hemisphere enters spring, peoples in the Balkans, the Black Sea Basin, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East and other regions have carried out their own special traditions in celebration of Nowruz.  These rituals, from repainting homes to visiting friends to preparing symbolic meals, are infused with a spirit of renewal and can inspire not only those conducting them but all people.

As we commemorate this first International Day of Nowruz, I hope countries and people around the world will draw on this festival’s history and customs to promote harmony with the natural world and foster global peace and goodwill.

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For information media • not an official record

Courtesy : Behram Pastakia

“The Parsee” – A Clipper Ship

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“The Parsee” – A Clipper Ship from a bygone era
  
“The Parsee, a fine clipper ship of 1281 tons, was built at Greenock in 1869, and was originally intended (as may be implied by her name) for an ‘India-man.’ Prior to coming to New Zealand she traded between the Clyde and India, and in the early days made some very fast runs…”

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Courtesy :

Dinyar Patel
Ph.D. Candidate, Modern South Asia
Department of History
Harvard University
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