With the acute shortage of priests and the willingness to let lay people become paramobeds or behdin pasbaans, it was perhaps only natural that Parsiana’s favorite traditional columnists Alamai Maramari, Aflatoon Ghanchakkar and Letap Sipla would take up the challenge. They trooped into the office on Khordad Sal and after wishing everyone a happy Prophet’s birthday and partaking of some dar ni pori which the office staff managed to salvage from a gahanbar held a week earlier and squirreled away at the back of an office icebox (the refrigerator conked out years ago), they started their usual harangue: "Parsiana......