One of the biggest worries of the Parsi community has now been spelt out in numbers. In 2010, 38% of Parsi marriages registered in the city were interfaith marriages, a figure that has shot up by seven percentage points in just one year. By Aarefa Johari, Hindustan Times According to a report by community magazine… Continue reading 38% Parsi marriages in city were interfaith in 2010
Category: Issues
Actress debarred from agiary revives gender bias debate
An incident last week at an agiary (Parsi fire temple) in Andheri has restarted a debate in the community about bias against women who marry non-Zoroastrians. By Manoj Nair | DNA India While there is a deep divide among orthodox and liberal Parsis over whether a distinction should be made between men and women whose… Continue reading Actress debarred from agiary revives gender bias debate
No more an option to stay quiet: An Interview with Dastur Khurshed of Udvada
No more an option to stay quiet says Dastur Khurshed Kaikobad Dastoor. High Priest of Iranshah The below is an interview by Teenaz Javat who interviewed Dastur Khurshed, the Vada Dasturji of Udvada. This appeared in the FEZANA Journal December 2010. With a warm hug in a ranch-style house in the leafy neighbourhood of… Continue reading No more an option to stay quiet: An Interview with Dastur Khurshed of Udvada
Update on the Udvada Land Issue: Dinyar Patel
Below is an update on the Udvada Land Issue by Dinyar Patel. Dinyar is a doctoral student at Harvard University. He is currently in India doing research for his thesis Dear all, I know that there has been some confusion over what has been happening in Udvada with regard to planned development near the Atash… Continue reading Update on the Udvada Land Issue: Dinyar Patel
India’s Zoroastrians dying out for lack of Parsi clergy
In the cramped heart of the suburb called Andheri, the MF Cama Athornan Institute was strangely quiet. The institute, founded in 1923 to train Zoroastrian priests, is a large, M-shaped edifice with excellent infrastructure and teachers dedicated to the welfare of their students. By Samanth Subramanian At present, those students number precisely four. Classroom after… Continue reading India’s Zoroastrians dying out for lack of Parsi clergy
ZYNG Parsi Calendar Makes A Date With Controversey
By giving more than just the important dates concerning the Zoroastrian religion, a Parsi calendar released by the Zoroastrian Youth for the Next Generation (ZYNG), youth wing of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), seems to have run into rough weather with community’s orthodox members. By Ashutosh Shukla / DNA India A 65-year-old member of the… Continue reading ZYNG Parsi Calendar Makes A Date With Controversey
10 Predictions for Parsis for 2011
Taking a leaf out of Bejan Daruwalla, the renowned astrologer, Bombay Samachar takes a shot at predictions for Parsis in 2011 A BPP trustee will resign and elections will be held. Efforts to find a ‘Consensus’ candidate will fail. Mehta-WAPIZ will put up Pheroze Amroliwalla as their candidate. He will lose. 104 flat allotment matter… Continue reading 10 Predictions for Parsis for 2011
Planning Commission says No to boosting Parsi numbers
The government’s plan to boost the dwindling population of Parsi community received a severe jolt with the Planning Commission rejecting a scheme proposed by the minority affairs ministry to improve the fertility rate and address health issues of the minority group. By Subodh Ghildiyal, TNN The commission has objected to the scheme, telling the government… Continue reading Planning Commission says No to boosting Parsi numbers
Have they been barred from entering the temple?
A notice at a fire temple prohibiting inter-married Parsi-Zoroastrian women from bringing their children has them wondering whether their religious rights are at stake All fire temples in the city have a board outside announcing that only Parsis can enter them. But a fire temple at Marine Lines has added another notice prohibiting Parsi women… Continue reading Have they been barred from entering the temple?
