Damavand Registered a National Heritage of Iran
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PRESS_TV – Iran’s Mount Damavand, the highest point in the Middle East has been designated as the country’s first National Natural Heritage Site. At an elevation of 5,628m (18,406ft), Mount Damavand is Iran’s highest peak. It is a dormant volcano, which was active in the Quaternary Period.
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The North American Mobeds Council was incorporated as a religious organization, under the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada on September 24th 1992 and was granted a tax exempt status by the Government of Canada, in 1993.
The newly launched web-site http://www.namcmobeds.org carries contact information of office holders, a list of mobeds in North America, summaries of past presentations at Seminars organized by the NAMC and more of interest to the priests and20laity of the Zarathushti community.
Thanks to our NAMC correspondent, Erv Soli Dastur of Sarasota, Florida, dastur@comcast.net,
for sharing this resource.
Dated: July 21st 2008
The Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial Trust Invites Nominations
The Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial Trust was set up in 2004 to perpetuate the memory of one of India’s finest jurists and human beings. Apart from instituting gold medals in eight universities in the country to be awarded to the top students in L.L.M . The Trust has also instituted the Nani Palkhivala Award for protection and preservation of civil liberties in India. This award is given annually to individuals and also to organisations.
The Fourth Awards in the series are to be given in January 2009. The Trust invites nominations for the Award. In the case of individuals. nominations are to be sent by others recommending the individual for the Award, while in case of organisations they can apply directly. The nominations should be sent before the end of October 2008 to:
Member-Secretary, Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial’Trust, C/o. Forum of Free Enterprise, Peninsula House, 2nd floor, 235 Dr. D. N. Road, Mumbai 400001.
– Ms. S. K. Bharucha Member-Secretary & Trustee Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial Trust
What a gentleman, what a parliamentarian, and what a human being! He was loved by so many. He mentored so many. He was a people’s person. Today as I write about him few hours after his death, I cannot help but think of what courage he demonstrated as a parliamentarian representing the minorities, by picking up the most controversial liberal progressive agenda. He ruffled so many religious sensitivities and yet he stood tall till the end, only to be taken away from us by his dream of seeing the famous Taklamakan desert in China.
Read more about this Parsi Brewer in Pakistan, who died recently…….
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=118856
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/aug/30/pakistan.declanwalsh
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,500347,00.html
MATHEMATICAL GENIUS MINOO JOKHI
Minoo Jokhi is Parsi Community’s well-known Memory Wizard and a Mathemagician. He trains people how to increase their Memory-Power and shatters the myth that Memory is neither good or bad and in reality is trained or untrained.
Till 1992, Minoo was so weak in Maths that he did not even know basic tables from 2 to 9, but with amazing determination and dedication he mastered Maths and today tables up to one crore, can also multiply huge figures mentally at amazing speeds, can remember 2500 telephone numbers, can tell you the day of any date from 1st January 1600 to date remembers roots up to ten lakhs and does many such mental feats.
Having appeared in all leading Newspapers and TV Channels and having done over 400 Mathemagic Shows, Minoo has performed abroad too at the 7th World Zoroastrian Congress, USA in the year 2000 and at the International Medical Congresses held in Sri Lanka in 2002, 2003,2004 2005 and 2007. He was invited to attend and participate in the Parliament of World Religions held in Spain, Barcelona in July 2004 and represented India as the only youth Speaker at the Quest for Global Healing Conference in Indonesia in May 2006. Recently he performed a series of shows at the 14th North American Zoroastrian Congress held in Toronto, Canada in July 2007.
Minoo specialty is his Memory-Development Classes where he has taught over 900 students in India as well as abroad. The class is COMPLETE FUN CUM LEARN COURSE where children are taught diverse Memory Skills like Association Techniques, Concentration Skills, Fast Calculations and Easy Maths Techniques, Yoga and Meditation Relaxation Exercises, Fast Reading and Fast Writing Skills and the course also has various Number Sheets and Games for the children. You can see his website: www.minoojokhi.com and also call him on 9821407519 and email him at minoojokhi@rediffmail.com
An Article from The Times of India
13 Jul 2008, 0623 hrs IST, Ketan Tanna,TNN
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It appeared in the Los Angeles Times….. Click here to read the article
I’ve often read Ardeshir Cowasjee’s columns in Asian Age.
But now I read them here:
http://www.dawn.com/weekly/cowas/cowas.htm
Click on the above link for his latest article on SAM Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw and more in archives.
Courtesy : Dara Acidwalla
Courtesy : Dara Acidwalla
