Dinshaw Avari- Trying my Hand at Blogging!

May 14, 2019 The attached Quote by the late President of USA aptly describes the resolve & determination my grandfather & family have shown over the last seven decades. Over these decades, we have faced – and continue to do so - political problems, pressures & interferences; hotel politics; community politics; family crisis; business pressures; sports politics; monetary problems.   Is it because we are minorities? My late grandfather, Dinshaw B Avari, was an orphan in Mumbai.   Himself learning under a lantern, my grandfather gave tuitions to pay his way through college, obtaining a B.Com from Bombay University.   He started his career in the Sun Life Assurance Co of Canada and in 1929 was sent to Karachi to open the Company's office.   From this eventually led to the purchase of the Bristol Hotel in Karachi and the start of our family’s hospitality career.   When Beach Luxury Hotel opened in 1948, the property was requisitioned. ...

March 15, 2019 (Image courtesy "https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwin9JW8qYPhAhWIzaQKHcY_CEAQjhx6BAgBEAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Fboldomatic.com%2Fview%2Fwriter-feed%2Fswag-fiir3&psig=AOvVaw22OoZgoM_sG5bt0ZPQKbzy&ust=1552711021351225")   March 15, 2019  Does one really need to have “common sense” not to throw trash on the road from the car?  What about a car tail-gaiting a motorcycle?  How about when I take my mother in law to the Gym at the hospital and every single time , I open and close the physiotherapy door on my own with no one helping an attendant pushing a wheel chair – not the nurses walking by nor the people sitting inside!?  Hey, how about spitting beetle nut on the side of the stairs? OR, the worst, urinating on the side of the road? Do we really need to be taught common courtesies - isn’t it ingrained in humans since we are born?   NO .   Thinking back, I...