Our community is slowly sinking like the famous ship, the Titanic. There were two ships in the vicinity when the Titanic sank.
One was the Californian which was 14 miles from the Titanic, but was surrounded by ice fields. The captain saw the white flares, but because the conditions weren’t favorable and it was dark, he decided to go back to bed and wait until morning. The crew tried
to convince themselves that nothing untoward was happening. This ship represents those of us who say "I can’t do anything now as the conditions aren’t right” and will wait until conditions are ideal.
The second ship was the Carpathia, (pictured) which was actually headed in a southern direction 58 miles away from the Titanic when they heard the distress cries over the radio. The captain, Arthur Henry Rostron (pictured) turned the ship and went full steam ahead through the ice fields. The Carpathia saved the 705 survivors of the Titanic. (Carpathia herself met her fate in the Atlantic on July 17, 1918 during the First World War after being torpedoed by the German submarine U-55 off the Irish coast. Five of her crew lost their lives in the sinking — Wikipedia)
Wouldn’t you like to come forward and be a Carpathian to rescue the community from becoming extinct? We need to know whether Parsis themselves are interested in their revival.
Obstacles and reasons to avoid responsibility will always exist, but those who overcome these will always be remembered for the good they do.
KERSEE KABRAJI
Poona
kerseekabraji@gmail.com