A gang of Mexican drug smugglers, a sect of Brazilian nudists, a group of paedophiles__they have all professed to be Zoroastrians. Shocked and to stop such "infiltrations", about 35 Parsi-Irani Anjumans, representing different cities, towns and villages in India, passed a resolution against conversion into the community after the UK-based World Zoroastrian Organisation (WZO) recently… Continue reading Parsis say no to conversion
Category: Issues
Parsis debate race vs religion
In February, Russian Zoroastrian Michael Chistyakov rubbed several orthodox Indian Parsi leaders the wrong way when he came to Gujarat to become a religious priest. He returned to Russia almost immediately, but left behind a community divided more vehemently on questions of conversion and ethnicity than ever before. By Aarefa Johari / Hindustan Times One… Continue reading Parsis debate race vs religion
Ervad Khushru Madon Sends Mail For Support
Below is a news article about an email that Ervad Khushru Madon sent a few days ago to various news organizations and community websites. The actual contents of the email are below the article. After being barred from entering the Tower of Silence for conducting the Navjotes of children born of mixed parentage, ‘renegade’ Zoroastrian… Continue reading Ervad Khushru Madon Sends Mail For Support
New Rules for Doongerwadi Funeral for Women
It will no longer be enough for Parsi-Zoroastrian women who are married to non-Parsis and want to be interred at the Towers of Silence to write an affidavit in their lifetime that they were practicing Zoroastrians. By Manoj R Nair / DNA In a resolution passed last month, the community’s apex body Bombay Parsi Punchayet… Continue reading New Rules for Doongerwadi Funeral for Women
Parsi special kids to have residential facility in Mumbai
Here’s good news for all Parsi parents with special kids. The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP), the biggest Parsi trust in the city, plans to setup a special residential facility for the kids. By Ashutosh Shukla / DNA India The facility will primarily be a shelter for those kids who outlive their parents and it will… Continue reading Parsi special kids to have residential facility in Mumbai
On new year, Delhi Parsis talk change
NEW DELHI: There are 734 Parsis in the NCR Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida. And about half of them turned up to celebrate Navroze, the Parsi New Year, at Delhi Parsi Anjuman on Thursday evening. One piece of statistics must be haunting them in the past 18 months, the community had one birth, 21 deaths and… Continue reading On new year, Delhi Parsis talk change
Eminent Parsis fight for liberal priests
Anu Aga and Dr Hector Grant, among others, to support priests who were barred from praying at the Towers of Silence by the Bombay Parsi Panchayat after they conducted Navjots of children from mixed marriages By Manoj R Nair / Pune Mirror Fault lines in the 50,000-strong Parsi community were thrown into sharp focus once… Continue reading Eminent Parsis fight for liberal priests
