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Monday, November 21, 2011

PARSIS ....... and Sardars

Very Interesting information about the Parsi & Sikh community of India !!
Both very gernerous.
(With no malice to any religion)
 
 
 
 SALUTE TO ALL PARSIS ....... 
 No Indian community internalized the civilizing mission of the British as did the Parsis.
 Only 50,000 remain in Bombay(Now" MUMBAI) today, mainly in South Mumbai,
 the most disciplined and cultured part of India .

 In South Mumbai, the cutting of lanes by drivers is punished,
 jumping a red light is impossible, parking is possible only in allotted areas,roads are clean,
 service is efficient, the restaurants are unmatched -  
 civilization seems within reach. South Mumbai has some of the finest buildings in India,
 many of them built by Parsis. 
The Parsis came to Mumbai after Surat 's port silted over in the 17th century.
 Gerald Aungier settled Mumbai and gave Parsis land for their
Tower of Silence on Malabar Hill in 1672.
The Parsis made millions through the early
And mid-1800s and they spent much of it on public good.

The Ambanis built Dhirubhai Ambani International School ,
 where fees are Rs. 348,000 (US $8,000 a  year in a country
Where per capita income is $ 600 per year)
 and where the head girl is Mukesh Ambani's daughter.!!!

 The Kingfisher Mallyas gilded the insides of the Tirupati temple with gold
.
 Lakshmi Mittal, the fourth richest richest man in the world
says he's too young to think of  charity!! ... He's 57 and worth $45 billion. 
 The Birla Family built 3 temples in Hyderabad , Jaipur and Delhi .

 Hindu philanthropy means building temples.
They do not understand social philanthropy.

 The Hindus' lack of enthusiasm for philanthropy is cultural.
The Hindu cosmos is Hobbesian and the devotee's
relationship with God is transactional.
 God must be petitioned and placated to swing the universe's blessings
 towards you and away from someone else.
 They believe that society has no role in your advancement
and there is no reason to give back to it
 because it hasn't given you anything in the first place. 
 Two  centuries of  British education was unable to alter this.
 
 The Parsis, on the other hand, understood that philanthropy
 - love of mankind - recognizes that we cannot progress alone. 
 That there is such a thing as the common good.
They spent as no Indian community had ever before,
On building  institutions, making them stand out in a culture
whose talent lies in renaming things other people built. 

The Parsis built libraries all over India , they built theNational Gallery of Art.
The Indian Institute of Science was built in 1911 by Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata,
 the Tata Institute of  Fundamental Research was built by Dr Homi Bhabha,
The Tata Institute of Social Science was built in 1936 by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust.
 The Wadias built hospitals, women's colleges
And the five great low-income Parsi colonies of Bombay . JJ Hospital
and Grant Medical College were founded by Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy

 By 1924, two out of five Indians - whether Hindu, Muslim
or Parsi - joining the Indian Civil Services were on TATA scholarships.

 They gave Mumbai the Jehangir Art GallerySir JJ School of Art ,
 the Taraporevala Aquarium. The National Center for Performing Arts,
 the only place in India where world-class classical concerts are held is a gift of the Tatas.
There are 161 Friends of the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI) -
 www.soimumbai.in <http://www.soimumbai.in/> .92  of them are Parsis.
For an annual fee of Rs 10,000, Friends of the SOI get
two tickets to any one recital in the season,
They get to shake hands with artistes after the concert
and they get to attend music appreciation talks through the year.

 The  Parsi dominates high culture in Mumbai.
 This means that a concert experience in the city is unlike that in any other part of India .
Classical concerts seat as many as two thousand.
Zubin Mehta, the most famous Parsi in the world,
Is Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra  since 1969.
He conducts the tenor Placido Domingo, the pianist Daniel Barenboim
And the soprano Barbara Frittoli. Four concerts are held at the
Jamshed Bhabha Opera House
 and then one at Brabourne Stadium with a capacity of 25,000.

 No other city in India has this appetite for classical music
And in Mumbai this comes from the Parsis. Despite their tiny population,
The Parsi presence in a concert hall is above 50 per cent.
 And they all come. Gorgeous Parsi girls in formal clothes - saris, gowns - children,
 men and the old. Many have to be helped to their seats. Most of them know the music.
The people who clap between movements,
Thinking that the 'song' is over, are non-Parsis.
Symphony Orchestra of India concerts begin at 7 PM.
 Once the musicians start, latecomers must wait outside till the movement ends.
 The end of each movement also signals a fusillade of coughs and groans,
 held back by doddering Parsis too polite to make a sound while Mendelssohn is being played.
No mobile phone ever goes off as is common in cinema halls:
 his neighbors are aware of the Parsi's insistence of form and his temper. 
 The Parsis were also pioneers of Mumbai's Gujarati theatre,
Which remains the most popular form of live entertainment in Mumbai.
 Any week of the year will see at least a half dozen bedroom comedies,
 murder mysteries, love stories and plays on assorted themes on stage.

 The Parsis were the pioneers of this, writing and acting in the first plays of Mumbai.
 They also built the institutions that supported this. 
Mumbai's first theatre was opened by Parsis in 1846, the Grant Road Theatre,
donations from Jamshetjee Jejeebhoy and Framjee Cowasjee making it possible.
Want to add about the generosity about Ratan Tata who did so much
About the staff of Taj Hotel during the terrorist attack in Mumbai.
Not only that but he also set up camps for all the other victims
 and their families who suffered during the attack at Bori Bunder.

 The  Parsi in Bollywood caricature is a comic figure, but always honest,
 and innocent as Indians believe Parsis generally to be, rightly or wrongly.
In the days before modern cars came to India the words
 'Parsi-owned' were guaranteed to ensure that a second-hand car
 listed for sale would get picked up ahead of any others.
This is because people are aware of how carefully the Parsi keeps his things.
 His understanding and enthusiasm of the mechanical separates him from the rest.
 Most of  the automobile magazines in India are owned and edited by  Parsis.

 The Parsis are a dying community and this means that more Parsis die
Each year than are born (Symphony concert-goers can also  discern the
disappearing Parsi from the rising numbers of those who clap between movements).

 As the Parsis leave, South Mumbai will become
 like the rest of Mumbai - brutish, undisciplined and filthy.

 Preserve this race...You are privileged if you have a Parsi Bawa
 as your friend...He/She is indeed a "Heritage" to be treasured for ever.

  
CREDIT TO SARDARS

 We all love Sardar jokes.
 But do you know that Sikhs are one of the hardest working,
prosperous and diversified communities in the world! 
 My friend told me about the following incident which I wish to share with  you.
 It has had a deep impact on my thinking.

 During the last vacation, a few friends came to Delhi .
 They rented a taxi for local sight-seeing.
The driver was an old Sardar and boys being boys,
These pals began cracking Sardarji jokes, just to tease the old man.
 But to their surprise, the fellow remained unperturbed..

 At the end of the sight-seeing, they paid the cab hire charges.
The Sardar returned the change, but he gave each one of them
One rupee extra and said,''Sons, since morning you have been telling Sardarji jokes.
I listened to them all and let me tell you, some of them were in bad taste.
Still, I don't mind coz I know that you are young blood
And are yet to see the world. But I have one request.
I am giving you one rupee each. Give it to the first Sardar
 beggar that you come across in this or any other city !!!"

 My friend continued, "That one rupee coin is still with me.
I couldn't find a single Sardar begging anywhere."

 MORAL:
 The secret behind their universal
Success is their willingness
To do any job with utmost dedication and pride.
A Sardar will drive a truck or set up
 a roadside garage or a dhaba,
Run a fruit juice stall,
take up small time carpentry, ...
 but he will never beg on the streets
Because Sikhs contribute: 

* 33% of total income tax
* 67% of total charities
* 45% of Indian Army 

* 59,000++ Gurudwaras serve LANGAR
 to 5,900,000+ people everyday! 
  

& All this when THEY make only 1.4%
of the total INDIAN POPULATION. 
 

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