We write in response to objections raised by some Parsis regarding the navjote ceremony of Dadi Mistry’s grandson Chaitanya Kersi Jaikaria (pictured) in Delhi ("A navjote in Delhi,” Events and Personalities, Parsiana, November 21, 2016). These objections arose because Mistry’s daughter is married to a non-Parsi. Parsis accept children born of Parsi fathers married to non-Parsi women but not those of Parsi women married to non-Parsis. This is discrimination.
Our intention is not to disparage individual religious beliefs which are mostly based on early conditioning by parents, teachers and priests. We merely wish to emphasize that in the English translations of the sacred Gathas by......