Letters To The Editor
Re: Bhabha Sanatorium Suggestion – ‘INCREDIBLY IMPERATIVE’
I read a lot about your crucial issues dated 7/7/2018 in Parsi-Times, my sincere support for solving your legal and complicated issues is that just believe in Almighty God as the ‘Biggest Issues Of Properties’ is a transitory phase of life gifted by our God/s… this is aptly said when Governor’s rule is no alternative to democracy.
In that case mainly the ‘Gunda Giri’ by refusing to give up for one’s honest resignation by Dinshaw Mehta will always have a worst rule, where there will be no alternative, to one’s inner conscious mind at time of one’s helpless old age. Furthermore, I will be highly obliged to be solicited.
Adv. Rustom Firoz Anklesaria, Pune
Unity And Solidarity Is The Need Of The Hour
The election is over now, but the heat and the dust is not abated. Mr. Desai was no doubt very disappointed, as he had put his heart and soul to get his wife Anahita elected as a trustee. Though the margin of defeat was very low, one has to accept the verdict with grace and dignity and welcome the new trustee. Mr. Dastur, on the other hand, was advocating for the much needed changes in the working of BPP. He needs to be applauded for thinking in the right direction. We are aware that the seven elected trustees have offered their services to the community, to redress their sufferings, and to attend to their needs. But sometimes trustees themselves are responsible for creating conflicts in the community. The unlimited powers have made some of the ‘I know it all’ trustees arrogant, dictating their terms to the community. Earlier we had advisors to housing committee, legal committee, healthcare committee etc. who would give proper guidance to the trustees who heeded to their advice and things were moving smoothly.
After the first democratic election of 2008, the trustees kept all the powers to themselves. Mr. Mehta and Mr. Desai are both in question – while the former was getting amassing personal gains from housing allotments, the other was frittering public money donated for fulfilling the needs of the weaker sections of the community, on meaningless litigations, on renegade priests cases, which brought no benefits, but emptied the coffers of our funds and tarnished the image of the community. We definitely need to bring a change in the working system of the BPP. The least we expect from the trustees is to maintain the grace and dignity of the prestigious position they hold and act as peacemakers.
We all share a fundamental wish to live a happy life with peace and harmony. That can happen only if the trustees work in unity, settling their differences through debate and discussions. The nasty e-mail exchanges between the trustees, (published in Parsiana), the ugly scuffles in the boardroom, abuses, the shameful display of visuals on Whatsapp and above all the acts of physical violence by the trustees outside the courtroom, have brought no honor to the community.
Will the next four years bring a welcome change, or will the same sordid saga continue? If all the trustees have a common goal to serve the community without expectations of personal benefits, it will be possible for them to come together to achieve the goal. Wishing good luck to all the trustees and specially the new entrant four more years of unity and solidarity to fulfil our dreams of establishing the much needed peace and harmony in the community!
Piroja Jokhi
