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Name: Rustom Vazifdar on Nov 7, 2012Comments: Its not a time to experiment, Rather a time to implement whats practical in this day and age.Flag
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Name: Pesi B Engineer on Nov 7, 2012Comments: Each culture has to devise the best and most efficient method for the disposal of their dead which means using such resources as are available and in harmony with the ecology. The ancient Zoroastrians in Iran put their dead on mountain tops to be devoured by wild animals ( including vultures ). The continuation of this mode in the cities was only possible with dokhmas. Now the vultures are gone but electrc crematoriums are available. To hanker after dokhmas and vultures in the name of religion is somewhat archaic if not entirely risible. Let a good religion serve the living and the process of life. Crores on vultures ?Flag
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Name: Rashid Irani on Nov 8, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Vispy N. Wadia on Nov 8, 2012Comments: "Aviary at Doongerwadi" is a political stunt by our own Parsi politicians for political gains. It seems that they are trying to cover their total non-performance on all fronts, till date, by bringing up the issue of setting up of Aviary and trying to divert the attention of the masses. Setting up of Aviary is supposed to be a 15 year project. None of the present lot of Trustees would be around at that time. A typical case of vote bank politics.Flag
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Name: Zarir Nowroz Panthaky on Nov 8, 2012Comments: Bombay Parsee Panchayat spend crores for Parsees dead, while many living Parsees beg their bread.Flag
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Name: Jal Patell on Nov 8, 2012Comments: Present lot BPP trustees do not seem to understand that they are playing with mother nature. Vultures are meant to soar high in the skies as natures scavengers not cooped into aviaries. Project seems to be a non starter.Flag
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Name: Adi on Nov 8, 2012Comments: stop misusing trust funds to breed vultures. Please use the trust funds to feed parsi community and housing in MumbaiFlag
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Name: Rumy Kanga on Nov 9, 2012Comments: Fully agree and we should not waste our community's resources on this project. Feed hungry parsis instead, fund education, incentivise child birth.....too many pressing issues in the near future to take up a 15 year project which has very low accountability or probability of success.Flag
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Name: Homiyar Vasania on Nov 9, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Homiyar Vasania on Nov 9, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Hormaz Pithawala on Nov 9, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Aspi Marker on Nov 9, 2012Comments: I strongly agreeFlag
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Name: Rustom P S Cooper on Nov 9, 2012Comments: Agree with the petition and hope good sense shall prevail to the Trustees as the cost of living is being increased day by day and the said Trusts should help the Community Members to live a dignified Life as the Solars are the best way for the disposal of the Dead.Flag
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Name: Farida Bamji on Nov 9, 2012Comments: Bravo. What about the apartments being denied the poor Parsis?Flag
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Name: Najoo Varkey on Nov 10, 2012Comments: I AGREEFlag
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Name: Aban Patel on Nov 10, 2012Comments: such a huge sum of money be better put to use for the living Zoroastrians, who live in abject poverty than for those who are no more,specially, where the results of the project are doubtful.Flag
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Name: Jasmine Patel on Nov 10, 2012Comments: I am appalled that the BPP plans to waste and squander money in this manner. There are much better ways to use this amount of money - there are poor Zarthustis as well as those who need housing. To encourage marriage within the community, housing separate from parents and in-laws is needed. Why not use the money in this manner! Seriously, the BPP needs a reality check!Flag
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Name: Bharucha Feroze on Nov 10, 2012Comments: It was said bt the Aviary zealot Trustee in March this year that the system was working fine. This remark is documented. Now he says that the system has failed. Such inconsistency can be the result of either expediency or senility.No Aviary, no crematorium. Let a person of integrity like Farrokh Doctor run the place for some time. He is sincere and desreves an opportunity.Flag
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Name: Behram Jamaspi on Nov 11, 2012Comments: I support!Flag
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Name: Fali Roowalla on Nov 11, 2012Comments: Dear Ladies & Gentlemen, I am a retired Parsi/Irani (born of mix parents) living in Southern Switzerland since more than 3 decades. I do visit Bombay every few years as I have family there. You might say this might not concern me as I am not a resident. But as a Parsi and a person who has lived in 7 countries on 3 continents, speaking several foregin languages, I say this bickering and small issue things should not be even thought of. Say if I die here in Switzerland, what will happen to my remains. Which birds of prey you are going to bring here or you want my family to bring my remains to India for the last rights. I have decided my body to be donated to the hospital for any parts that could be recycled into a living body and the rest to be cremated (which services are available here). The origin of our religion viz. Iran, no such dakhma exist in Tehran. The bodies are burried there. I see not a great importance how the remains are disposed off then how we live when we are alive. Therefore I would see it is very important that we use this millions of rupees spent on something of no use than on the living parsis who are living in very poor conditions. Why not feed our own people then feeding the birds. The birds can very well live in the wild but not our old and feeble people. So I beg you people in the BPP, the trustees of this old faith to not spend money on whims but to some real use. Please view the issue in an objective way. How many of the under 50 or 60 age group care about how the remains are disposed off (no offense to anybody intended - I am just thinking this in a positive way and if anybody wishes to discuss the matter by email with me I am free to answer them) than to take care of their brothers and sisters when they are living. Thank you for giving time to read my comments. Fali Roowalla, Lugano, SwitzerlandFlag
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Name: Banoo Irani on Nov 11, 2012Comments: I support this logical petition/cause.Flag
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Name: Gool Irani on Nov 11, 2012Comments: My full support to this genuine cause.Flag
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Name: Er. Cawas Kotval. on Nov 11, 2012Comments: WILL THIS BE POSSIBLE WITH A NET COVERING SUN RAYS? ------------------------------------------------------------ "THE SUN IS THE MOST POWERFUL PURIFIER, holy Zarathushtra! Indeed, when an Aryan dies, his lifeless body may be put down in a place large enough. It may be placed there either two nights or three nights or a month long, uptil the time of spring when the snow melts and the plants grow. Then the Mazdayasni Aryan MUST EXPOSE THAT BODY TO THE SUN. If the body is not exposed to the sun in a period of one year, then the Mazdayasni is guilty of an action similar to tormenting a righteous person. "I then make THE SUN SHINE TO PURIFY THE DEAD, I make the water fall from the clouds to wash away the bones to the sea which purifies. Heated by the action of the sun, the water then rises from the sea; rising in the sky till it forms these thunderous clouds! They rain down on My command to give rise to crops and food for mankind, to nourish the thirsty earth. Thus is the cycle complete. ________________________________________ Source TZML page onThe Zoroastrian Dakhma-nashini mode of disposal of the deadFlag
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Name: Jamshed Irani on Nov 11, 2012Comments: Fully agree, do not waste money to satisfy individual egos.Flag
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Name: Behram D.Dabu. on Nov 11, 2012Comments: Those advocating aviaries have not disclosed the best and the worst possible probabilities of success of the scheme, and hence it appears that the whole expenditure is likely to be scattered away.Flag
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Name: Armaity Rupa on Nov 11, 2012Comments: Misuse of funds over such things must be strictly prohibited. We believe in disposing the dead body at the earliest and the books of religion dont mention that this should be done using vultures only. In today's times there are better options and more effective ones like the electronic cremation. I strongly support new effective means rather than spending huge amounts on old ineffective methods. The money may better be used for the sick and needy instead of breeding vultures to eat the dead (not sure how many vultures would live there amongst high rise skyscrapers of Mumbai). Better to spend on a person when alive for a better life rather than spend to plan his disposal after death.Flag
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Name: Mickie Sorabjee on Nov 11, 2012Comments: A V ery I mpractically irrational A genda for R eviving Y ielding-less VULTURES Someone with time and resources to spare should move BHC for a stay on this utopian Aviary Project that is a downright scam by hairbrained self-serving BPP Trustees. There are sufficient grounds for legal relief as it goes against the original Trust Deed and is nothing short of a fraud against rightful beneficiaries intended by philanthropic settlors, apart from being fraught with many angled dangers for our community, at a future date.Flag
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Name: Mrs. Dhun Madon on Nov 12, 2012Comments: I supportFlag
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Name: Keki Wadia on Nov 12, 2012Comments: The very fact that BPP is trying to waste community money proves the point that system has totally failedFlag
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Name: Zarin J Marfatia on Nov 12, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Jamshed B Marfatia on Nov 12, 2012Comments: Hope this petition is successful and brings the BPP Trustees to their senses.Flag
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Name: Perviz on Nov 12, 2012Comments: it's time our community do away with this archaic form of disposal of the deadFlag
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Name: Rusi Sachinwala on Nov 12, 2012Comments: First they said not a nail can be bolted on the doongarwadi land yet solar panels were erected now this new waste of trust funds.Flag
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Name: SANAYA TAFTI on Nov 12, 2012Comments: Trustees should first learn to out their hands in their own pockets to finance such senseless schemes. Trust money is not their own family silver that they can indulge in reckless spending without guarantee of result.Flag
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Name: A. Rustomji. on Nov 12, 2012Comments: Abstain from how many drugs. It is not just Diclofenac that FPJ misdleads the community to believe.As per report appearing in Indian Express in August this year, many other drugs have similar outcome as diclofenac. I quote what appeared in Indian Express. The new study shows that another veterinary painkiller, aceclofenac, is as dangerous because it breaks down in animals into diclofenac.’ Asad Rehmani of BNHS. ‘Ketoprofen, another drug, has been proved to be unsafe and aceclofenac need not be tested as the study proves it’s deadly for vultures, experts should focus on other molecules that are still a grey area. Source: Indian Express Vulture-killer drug returns in new avatar, reveals study’Flag
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Name: Khushroo Mehta on Nov 12, 2012Comments: I support this petitionFlag
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Name: Jimmy Mehta on Nov 13, 2012Comments: I absolutely support this Petition. BPP, Registration General - No: J 10375. Supported By Pervin, Wife Bpp. General - No: I 27256. Schezereen, Daughter BPP.General - No: I 27257.Flag
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Name: Firuzeh Gilder on Nov 13, 2012Comments: About time the funds are used for the reason it was set up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Flag
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Name: Anahita on Nov 13, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Nizwar Karanjawala on Nov 13, 2012Comments: I also believe that cremation should be allowed at doongerwadi. I also belive that parsee women who marry outside the community - their children should be allowed to adopt the zoarastrian faith without cause or hinderence. I also believe that the leaders of our community namely the BPP, are living in a time warp and are neandethral in their outlook, namely bigoted, xenophobic, intolerant, and power hungry and veering on the corrupt.Flag
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Name: Jehangir Bejanji Chaina on Nov 13, 2012Comments: I am at present outside the country and hence do not have my registered number. i reside in Mumbai.Flag
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Name: KURUSH BHARUCHA on Nov 14, 2012Comments: NO BLOCKING OF KHURSHED NIGARSHINI IS PERMITTED. THE WHOLE SUGGESTION OF AVIARY WITH NET COVER IS DOWNRIRGHT IRRELIGIOUS. THE TRUST DEED CLEARLY PROVIDES FOR USE OF THE PLACE FOR DISPOSAL OF DEAD BY KHURSHED NIGARSHINI AND VULTURES WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE SUPPLEMENTAL. BLOCKING OF SUN RAYS IS NOT PERMISSIBLE. SO STARTING EVEN A SATELLITE AVIARY AT KEMP’S CORNER IS AGAINST THE PROVISIONS OF TRUST DEED AND THIS IS THE OPINION OF A VERY EMINENT LAWYER WHOSE OPINION HAS BEEN OBTAINED.Flag
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Name: SAM BHARUCHA on Nov 14, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Sorab E Irani on Nov 14, 2012Comments: Skewed priorities of BPP Trustees need to be condemned. We have becoming laughing stock among other sister communities publishing such sill stuff in a national daily. Our image has been sullied and justifies our members being ridiculed in Bollywood movies as screw looseFlag
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Name: Behroze on Nov 14, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Kurush Dadachanji on Nov 15, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Kurush Dadachanji on Nov 15, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Dorab Unwalla on Nov 16, 2012Comments: My full support to the Petition..Flag
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Name: HOSI PATEL on Nov 17, 2012Comments: Instead of wasting this money on Aviary experiment it should be use for housing as many people are still without a proper house. Or it can also be use for free medicine to poorFlag
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Name: Piloo Manekshah on Nov 19, 2012Comments: Hypocrites (BPP Trustee) and Mr.Homikushroo Khan do not waste the precious community on untenable and wasteful objects. Spend money on living than on dead. Majority of the Parsis are just middle class only think about it carefully. They are not rich like you.Flag