The hearing of the case seeking confirmation of rights to the Parsi woman, who was prevented from worshipping at the Agiyari after she married a non-Parsi, came up before a larger bench of High Court on Thursday. While hearing the case the three judge bench asked the counsels in the case to apprise about the… Continue reading Who can stop woman from entering agiyari ?
Category: Issues
Is Karachi step a Game Changer for Indian Parsis?
It has recently been reported that two years ago, Pakistan’s top Zoroastrian trust explicitly declared that children with at least one Parsi parent can enter the faith. This means that even children of Parsi women who have married outside the community are eligible. By Pronoti Datta | TNN The Karachi Parsi Anjuman Trust Fund (KPATF)… Continue reading Is Karachi step a Game Changer for Indian Parsis?
Will Bombay Parsi Panchayat Go The Karachi Way
A recent decision by the Karachi’s apex Parsi trust to give children of women married to non-Zoroastrians the right to adopt their mother’s religion has generated interest in Mumbai where the community is still divided over the issue. By Manoj Nair | DNA The Karachi Parsi Anjuman Trust Fund, the counterpart of the Bombay Parsi… Continue reading Will Bombay Parsi Panchayat Go The Karachi Way
Dokhmenashini Controversey
Noshir H. Dadrawala’s take on the Dokhmenashini controversey. Thanks for provoking me to respond on the latest controversy surrounding ?Dokhmenashini. I believe this controversy has a time cycle of its own for the past century or more. Nearly a hundred years ago when there were enough vultures to dispose a dozen corpses in a day,… Continue reading Dokhmenashini Controversey
Bachi Karkaria: Blindly into the abyss
The Parsis have been in the news for the wrong reasons. The fractious case which arose from the Bombay Parsi Punchayet’s 2009 ban on two priests continues to make headlines. Earlier this month, a Harvard researcher reminded his Mumbai audience that there are only 69,601 Parsis left in India. Actually, this alarming figure belongs to… Continue reading Bachi Karkaria: Blindly into the abyss
Understanding Parsi Population Decline: Video and text now available
Below is an email received from Dinyar Patel. Dinyar writes As many of you know, I recently gave at talk at the Nehru Centre in Mumbai on the topic of "Understanding Parsi Population Decline: A Historical Perspective." This talk, similar to the talk that I gave in Houston in December 2010, consults the scholarship of… Continue reading Understanding Parsi Population Decline: Video and text now available
Parsis: A diminishing race
A Houston-based research student has written a paper discussing the causes for, and a solution to, the dwindling numbers of the Parsi community around the world By Priyal Dave | Afternoon DC “To all those who feel that the community is growing, especially the older generation, my answer would be a massive ‘No’!” says research… Continue reading Parsis: A diminishing race
Intermarriage row must be resolved soon
It’s not so much the elephant in the room, no one wants to acknowledge, but rather the unicorn they all imagine-that the global Parsi population isn’t so desperately in decline, but that it has somehow miraculously ballooned to four million. By Joeanna Rebello Fernandes | TNN Rubbish, was the emphatic denial of Dinyar Patel, a… Continue reading Intermarriage row must be resolved soon
Dwindling numbers a big concern for Parsis
Dwindling numbers is a big concern among Parsis, but you would not have felt it at Udvada on Sunday as the community came out to take part in the 1290th anniversary celebration of the most important fire time of the community Shreeji Pak Iranshah in Udvada. Some 2,000 Parsis gathered from around the world for… Continue reading Dwindling numbers a big concern for Parsis
