After Parsis, Anavils ( Anavil Brahmins , અનાવિલ બ્રાહ્મણ ) are the fastest decreasing community. The total population of Anavils around the world does not exceed two lakhs figure and that is also fast reducing day by day. Days are not far, beyond a century or so, when they will have to be seen/found in records, photos, and videos. Why? Because, - they get married too late, - many are dying unmarried, - they wait for the career to be settled before the first (and maybe the only) childbirth. So, The number of children per couple is either one or zero. It is certain that nothing can save this community from extinction - vanishing! Let me try to introduce this community. Mr. Klass W VanDer Veen - a Dutch scholar and Professor at Amsterdam University prepared a thesis on "Anavils" and wrote a book "I Give Thee My Daughter ". He concluded, "Anavils are smart, efficient, and clever but heavily disunited....
How true. I've tried something in the similar line; do check my article: http://www.rahuldesai.com/blog/tabid/3310/bid/5122/Home-is-everything.aspx
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DeleteI have read the article, Home is everything.
I agree all you have written, acceptance & patience are important. All we know may be true ,but I thought to accept & to be patient may not be as simple. And the distance phobia came. Anyway, it is a simple mental catharsis.
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