Dinshaw Avari- Trying my Hand at Blogging!

March 5, 2020 (Photo credit-  https://images.app.goo.gl/mA2M8UzXegxhzH266 ) We Zoroastrians love to swear … I know, I love it – especially when I’m behind the steering wheel! For many of us, swearing is part of our life, our idiosyncrasy, what makes us ‘whole’ and ‘completes’ us! There’s hardly a Parsi I have met to date who doesn’t swear. You feel good after letting off a stream of expletives … however dirty, vulgar or crude (especially the ones in our local dialect 🤣 ). When I’m behind the wheel, my creative instincts take over when I’m blind sided, cut across, signal run or whenever.  It’s just feels so good to ‘have it out at the world’! However, one thing about our expletives – there’s no vile in it; there’s no malice or intent to hurt; while guttural there’s no mean intent behind it…and that’s a fact.  We do it because we love it and can’t live without it but never with an evil intention nor from the heart! So, when you are w...

February 11, 2020   ( http://t2online.com/lifestyle/comedian-cyrus-broacha-gets-real-about-his-bestie-kunal-vijaykar/cid/14024 ) Our family are Parsi Zoroastrians, a minority so minuscule that we are almost an “endangered” species in our own right 🤣 ! Recently I came across an hilarious post purportedly by Cyrus Broacha, a famous TV Personality, Comedian and … Parsi. So, for a little mid-week humour, let me quote verbatim what I read – QUOTE “While most surnames in India reflect caste and lineage, the Parsis had a delightfully modern streak — having landed from Persia without caste, history or context, they created name identities through professions and names of places (cities and streets). Our family moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) from Rawalpindi during the partition in 1947. We came as refugees, but the family soon settled down and by 1953 my father had started playing golf at the Willingdon Club. I was eight years old and would walk 18 holes with him ...

February 11, 2020   ( http://t2online.com/lifestyle/comedian-cyrus-broacha-gets-real-about-his-bestie-kunal-vijaykar/cid/14024 ) Our family are Parsi Zoroastrians, a minority so minuscule that we are almost an “endangered” species in our own right 🤣 ! Recently I came across an hilarious post purportedly by Cyrus Broacha, a famous TV Personality, Comedian and … Parsi. So, for a little mid-week humour, let me quote verbatim what I read – QUOTE “While most surnames in India reflect caste and lineage, the Parsis had a delightfully modern streak — having landed from Persia without caste, history or context, they created name identities through professions and names of places (cities and streets). Our family moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) from Rawalpindi during the partition in 1947. We came as refugees, but the family soon settled down and by 1953 my father had started playing golf at the Willingdon Club. I was eight years old and would walk 18 holes with him ...