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PRINT … SOCIAL … what next … HOLOGRAPHIC???

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 October 6, 2020   Hotels [rooms] marketing used to be so much easier- you put an advert in the newspaper or magazine to promote your product or facility or promotion.   That’s IT!   TV was around but one of the most expensive mediums to market a hotel- and only the large Hiltons, Hyatts and Sheratons of the world used it.   Then came the ‘90s email usage on a commercial basis, so we started emailing clients and guests.   Close on its heels came the WWW … followed by our “friend”, SOCIAL MEDIA in the last decade!   Very very confusing … not only to customers – with the JUNK being posted daily - but also to hotels.   Where & who do we market to?   When will our customer be “online”? Who will see our advert in the clutter & junk of the information available on the Web & Social?   Newspapers officially have a shelf life of 24 hours … in practice, it’s a few hours – the moment the paper is put back...
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MY FINAL TESTAMENT (“A Parsi’s Will”)

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(Author Unknown)   September 23, 2020     I am a Parsi (“bawa”) – and I love the eccentricities & quirks, we, as a community, display…and I love poking fun at ourselves (as do most of us bawas )!  Those Parsis who disagree, my humble apologies in advance.   I received this by email and it was too funny not to post.  Read on for a ‘deep-belly’ laugh and if you know us Parsis, you too will tend to agree with our idiosyncrasies, accept them and take them in stride 😊 .   (I don’t claim credit for this masterpiece- and I give full marks to the unknown author!  “Mumbai” based and minimal gujrati language knowledge may be required 😊 )   QUOTE   This is hilarious stuff, especially for people who have exposure to it's Parsi culture.   Whoever wrote it, thanks bawa....   I, Tehmuras Tehmpton Tarkariwalla (alias T3), being of sound mind [one and only time] and solid body [Dara singh no baap], do not wish to be ke...
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We Are Who We Are Because Of Our Forefathers- 9

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  Sept 16, 2020   (9 of 12)   REPLY ADDRESS BY MR. DINSHAW B AVARI ON THE OCCASION TO COMMEMORATE HIS 85 th  BIRTHDAY on NOV 5, 1987-     “ God has been kind to me.   I made money from Beach Luxury Hotel and eventually bought a Hotel in Lahore (Nedous Hotel) on Public auction which I converted from Nedous Hotel to Park Luxury - and I was about to convert it to build the Lahore Hilton.   By this time, my son Byram & I had discussed whether we were content in running the Beach Luxury or wanted to grow (and naturally we chose the latter).     This then propelled me to say that success does not come without pains or losses...    The Beach Luxury in the 50s and early 60s (when we spoke), made its money through cash sales which were not recorded because of the high taxation- and actually became our capital.  We agreed that firstly we have to bring all our businesses on the books because without a strong bal...
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WISHFUL THINKING !

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  August 25, 2020     More than ever, ( https://dinshawavari.com/2019/06/14/what-does-a-government-do-for-us-%f0%9f%a4%94/ & https://dinshawavari.com/2020/03/26/where-are-we-heading/ ) , I despair as to where the world is heading … … Self destruction – whether economic, nuclear, physical !   … Conflict & strife being at one of the highest points that I can remember in my conscious life.   It basically comes down to “governments” and national policies -   Why are nations encouraging conflict with other nations?             Shouldn’t they be looking at the welfare of their own citizens FIRST!?   Why are nations increasing arms spend?             Shouldn’t they be spending on education & health of their own citizens instead?   What is a “government’s” purpose to come to power?             Is it not to enhance the poor and dow...
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We Are Who We Are Because Of Our Forefathers- 8

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  August 18, 2020   (8 of 12)   REPLY ADDRESS BY MR. DINSHAW B AVARI ON THE OCCASION TO COMMEMORATE HIS 85 th  BIRTHDAY on NOV 5, 1987-   “ Beach Luxury Hotel started construction, Partition took place, and the Sind Government once again requisitioned my Hotel. They said that as a Minority Member I will run away and they needed the building for Government Offices. This was somewhere around December 1947, and I gave them a written assurance that I will open the Hotel by our Zoroastrian New Year, 21st of March 1948. One week before the Opening, I had no furniture, cutlery, crockery or glassware.   Always, in my times of problems, God has come to my rescue. I believe in intuition and like the time when I left Quetta the night before the fatal earthquake - because of my intuition - I was once again intuitively led to read every inch of the newspaper that day.   I saw this advertisement of the British United Services Club, which was called the Bus...
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A Passenger’s Guide to Air Travel

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  August 12, 2020   ….Hey!   Hold on!   I’m now a COVID expert!?   No but here are some practical tips for travelers to consider-   1.                          Wear the COVID N-95 or K-95 face mask on board; If you are really paranoid 😊 , add a cloth or surgical mask over that;   2.                          Carry on board- a.           Wear mask continuously b.           Disposable surgical mask- (tie-on type- not behind-ear type) c.           Hand sanitizer & hand wipes d.           Hand moisturizer e.  ...
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"Reason should frame a good politician’s goal to persuade"

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July 9, 2020 (Photo credit- shutterstock.com) On a recent online course, I was made to read one of the most POWERFUL essays (by Amy Gutmann) “The Lure & Dangers of Extremist Rhetoric”, a topic so so prevalent worldwide.   The speech is so profound that it actually made me sit up and take notice of my very own actions and reactions in arguements; and while these principals apply in politics, they are prevalent in family, work and society in general!   Excerpts - “ Going as far back as Aristotle, he maintained that –   The proper task of rhetoric is to drive home the logic, the truth and the evidence of an argument.   Reason should frame a good politician’s goal to persuade.   The opposite of a sound democratic argument is demagogy: manipulation and deception in order to divide, demean, deceive and conquer [citizens].   Extremist rhetoric blatantly disregards and devalues truth-seeking understandings upon which citizens [ … ] may ...
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