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President’s Message

Enterprise Dubai is an extravaganza which is very well conceived. I have no doubt it
will be meticulously managed by the organizers in Dubai.

For our community with a very rich legacy and enviable achievements, it is a unique
occasion for the widely dispersed diaspora to get together and revive old relationships. Our
numbers may have declined but our pristine sense of values have remained in tact. We
must now build our future and mould our business and professional endeavours on this
heritage. I would like to read out a limerick which so well encapsulates our past:

Minoo Shroff, “Once upon a time in a far away land;
WZCC, President Lived a thriving community on the Persian sand,
Charity flowed in their blood;
Honour was their middle name,
The world looked up in awe and respect,
Vast spread their glory and their fame.”

We are meeting in This will be a rare opportunity to fraternize with a sense of bonhomie which is our
Dubai which within Zoroastrian trademark. What we have achieved so far with our miniscule numbers is
a generation has beyond compare and envy of most other communities.
metamorphosed
itself into a globally It is now for us seniors to pass on the baton to the younger generation which will inherit
thriving, trading what our forefathers had built with enormous hard work, courage, faith in the future and
and financial immense self-confidence, always upholding the noble teachings of our great Prophet.
centre.”
We are living and operating in a world which is constantly evolving and churning. In the
last decade alone there have been mind boggling changes which could not have been
imagined earlier. We must keep pace with these changes, in fact stay ahead of with this
transformation to be relevant and be counted. This can only happen if we keep our minds
open and adapt to the changing environment with alacrity through exchange of ideas and
experiences.

We are meeting in Dubai which within a generation has metamorphosed itself into a
globally thriving, trading and financial centre. This is so evident from what we see around,
a desert converted into an ultramodern, elegant, vibrant city state.

Let us look forward to assemble in Dubai at this Gala Event and regale in the company
of many of our ebullient Zoroastrian brethren and the Indian Diaspora from so many
different regions.

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