Dinshaw Avari- Trying my Hand at Blogging!

January 30, 2020 www.google.com This must be one of the most hilarious sitcoms I’ve ever seen!  After an hectic day, my wife and I watch episodes from Big Bang and your laugh comes from deep within you … but you ‘gotta’ have that sense of humour 😊 ! Each of these genius NERDS have their own idiosyncrasies, moods, humour, gall and idiocy... and, oh yes, let’s not forget their FASHION sense… … but they are the fastest of friends…yet would kill each other [ figuratively ] when given a chance! … they enjoy each other’s company. … they enjoy their own mind games and their idiosyncratic humor. … they live in their own little world. … and, yeah, they enjoy their comic bookstore, collector-edition comics and Comicons! So, what does this gut-spilling, hilarious comedy tell me - One can be a nerd and yet have friends from within that social group.  They don’t hide that they dislike confrontation. They are not trying to fit in.  As far as they ...

January 23, 2020 Courtesy-  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmVLcj-XKnM&feature=emb_title Several posts this week made me sit up and think critically … “ what are we doing to our mother Earth! ” Firstly, Conservation International’s “Nature is Speaking”, on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmVLcj-XKnM&feature=emb_title , impacted me the most – I implore you to see this short video but it’s MOST STRIKING excerpts are given below- QUOTE “              … I don’t really need people.   But people need me.   Yes, your future depends on me. When I thrive, you thrive.   When I falter, you falter.   Or worse. How you choose to live each day, whether you regard or disregard me, doesn’t really matter to me. Your actions will determine your fate.   Not mine.   I am nature.   I will go on …” UNQUOTE            ...

January 17, 2020 On several occasions I have written extracts about my late grandfather, Dinshaw B. Avari, who was the patriarch of our Group. I recently came across a “ REPLY ADDRESS BY MR. DINSHAW B. AVARI GIVEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE FUNCTION HELD BY THE PARSI COMMUNITY OF KARACHI TO COMMEMORATE HIS 85 th BIRTHDAY on NOVEMBER 5, 1987 AND FELICITATE HIM ”. I also sincerely believe that “we are who we are because of our grandfather and my father’s” sincere, hard and untiring efforts and work ethics. I thought the best way to share the hardships and tribulations that my grandfather went through to establish his family is to reproduce his speech – in short blogs over the course of this year. There are some life’s lessons to be learnt from his words and I hope my family can emulate even a fraction of what he has done, for our children and future generations. Dinshaw =============================================================== (1 of 12) REPLY ADD...

January 2, 2020   https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwjvk4Lqq-TmAhW9QUEAHbl6AzQQMwhZKAYwBg&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdefence.pk%2Fpdf%2Fthreads%2Fthe-karachi-tramway-of-yesteryear.428552%2F&psig=AOvVaw1X9tU1wvWsCxe7Pji-SRZJ&ust=1578034790143080&ictx=3&uact=3 On a recent trip to Sydney, I saw their new Sydney Light Rail project under testing and it reminded me of the tram system we commuted in Prague and Zagreb. Sydney Light Rail (Sydney Morning Herald) Karachi is a city of almost 30 Million residents ( forget what the “census” says! ).  The City is held “hostage” to the traditional bus mafia- unsafe, rash & decrepit.  While the Sind Government is trying to get it’s overdue Bus Metro project started (Lahore is way ahead of us with their Metro!), in a metropolis of this size, our mass transit has to be revolutionized and modernized … and the only way is Metro or a solar powered, Light Rail/Tram system. ...