Friday, September 21, 2007

Fwd: Appeal for Jamshed Zaiya-Wadia Daremeher at Nanpura, Surat



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From: TZML Admins <tzmladmn@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 21, 2007 7:30 AM
Subject: Appeal for Jamshed Zaiya-Wadia Daremeher at Nanpura, Surat
To: TZML Admn <tzmladmn@gmail.com>
Dear Zarathushti humdins,
 
we have received an appeal on behalf of the Jamshed Zaiya-Wadia Daremeher located at Nanpura, Surat. This was sent to us by our conscientious community member Mrs Khursheed Behram Irani of Mumbai.
 
We also enclose the appeal by the Palia Mohalla Local Agiary Committee which is connected to the Surat Parsi Charity Funds & Properties Trust.
 
Fellow humdins, please help this deserving cause.
 
Sincerely
 
TZML Admins
 
(Please see enclosed appeals in text format below. Also check the attachment files for more details)

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From: khursheed irani <khushbeh4251@yahoo.com >
 
Sep 14, 2007

 
We  had been on a "Pilgrimage tour" to Surat Navsari and Udwada to pray  to all our Atash padshahs and for a mission completed....

There was a small Agiyari in Surat, by the name of Jamshed Zaiya-Wadia Daremeher, which though located in a Parsi mohalla with 3 priest families residing, the ever greedy trustees had planned to put it out for sale about 3 years back. It was at this time that I had taken yet another trip to Surat, Navsari and Udwada and when I went to pay my respect to that agiyari amongst others I was shocked and dismayed by its total neglected condition.

I had then actualy felt as if a voice was asking me to be instrumental in reviving it.

Well, having never ever visited Surat in my life before  and not knowing anybody there I was shocked myself when I told behram while coming out of the agiyari that "I dont know how or why but somehow i have promised and asked Padshah Saheb to help me to do this deed".... I went about talking to practically all the Zoroastrians living in the mohalla and around.... even the priest who was attending to the agiyari as also others to know the main reason for neglect and they all maintained in unison that the trustees are no more interested in funding this agiyari and are keen to shift the padshah saheb to another agiyari and sell of this peice of land....PADSHAH SAHEB NE KA THEKANE LAAV VANA TENU DECIDE KARI RAHIYACH…. THESE WERE THE ACTUAL WORDS….

When i asked them if they would join me in my mission, all of them were behind me.... some elderly ones virtually in tears beseeching me to help them visit the agiyari again....

With Ahura Mazda's divine hand, out of the blue I met a very traditional college friend who hailed from surat and told her about the condition of THAT AGIYARI WHERE HER NAVJOTE HAD BEEN PERFORMED.... as was expected she was furious.... after gathering more "Surti traditional protestors" and her munificient donation of a handsome Rs.8 lacs today we stand VINDICATED AND VICTORIOUS.
 
Mr Darius Master, a trustee of  the Surat Parsi Anjuman has graciously taken up the onus of looking after the agiyari and has started building up a respectable corpus so that we would NEVER EVER HAVE TO HOLD OUT OUR HANDS ABEGGING TO THE TRUST TO CONTINUE REVERENCE TO ATHRO AHURA MAZDAO PUTHRA.
 
We have aimed at collecting about Rs.15 lacs as corpus and am proud to say that with the help of many a donor we have come up to about Rs.6 lacs.
 
TODAY I AM STANDING IN FRONT OF YOU FELLOW ZOROASTRIANS TO PLEASE COME FORWARD AND HELP US TO GIVE OUR PADSHAH SAHEB ITS DIGNITY AND IN RETURN BE BLESSED FOR SUCH A DEED.

I thus beseech all of you to donate and donate IN PROPORTION TO YOUR EARNINGS.
 
If I may add the Anjuman has started a totally separate trust to fund this agiyari alone. They have promised to give an annual account of the income and expenditiure and the donors will get the tax benefit for the same.

 
Please feel free to write to me, meet me personally, or call me up on the following numbers/address.
 
PS.  I am forwarding the actual appeal Palia Mohalla agiary Local Committee and a photo of the Jamshed Zaiya-Wadia Daremeher  as attachments to you all.
 
My Contact Details:
 
Mrs. Khursheed Behram Irani
7, Cyrus,  1 Gaothan Lane,  S V Road,  Andheri West, Mumbai 400 058…
Tel. no.  022 262-81232,
Mobile: 981-993-5346
 
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