THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JEHANGIR CHINIWALLA, THE VALIANT FOR TRUTH. ONE WHO EXERTED CEASELESSLY TO KINDLE THE FIRE OF FAITH IN MANY. By K. N. Dastoor
The day was the 6th of July 1947. The humans on the earth had, just 23 months before that date, completely delivered themselves to the devil by ushering the mass killing era; one of their gangs had dropped two atomic bombs on another gang killing thousands and thousands of their own species. The turning point towards the end of the so called scientific and progressive - but in reality destructive - civilisation had been reached. A handful group calling themselves 'Parsis' and bickering and brawling about the meaning and definition of that word, had also arrived at the turning point of their existence, onwards to extinction. Their thousands of years old culture, which was founded on the holy word and the teachings, tenets and traditions of the Din-e-Zarathushtra, was fast crumbling. On that memorable day, 6th of July 1947, a Behdin Parsi, who was by vocation a down-to-earth practical lawyer, but by contemplation, a mystic, came out with the first issue of a newspaper looking wee...