About a year ago the trustees of the Calcutta Zoroastrian Community’s Religious and Charity Fund decided on three schemes to utilize the handsome bequest received from the late Baji Mirza. One of these was to fund the cost of annual medical check-ups for Parsi senior citizens over 60 years of age. There was an encouraging response to this, with 75 seniors in favor of the proposal, reports Calcutta Gavashni (April-September 2006 issue).
To help implement this proposal the trustees turned to Shirin Dastur, a voluntary social worker of long standing, but not too well known in the community as she has......