The historic Navsari Samast Parsi Zarthoshti General Fund (NSPZGF) vote on January 8 this year to create an aramgah on land adjacent to the south Gujarat city’s Doongerwadi was a momentous victory for the laity. But for the five high priests it was an ignominious defeat, a rebuff of epic proportions. Had the vote been taken by some other anjuman, the clergy could have dismissed the decision as the work of heretic city dwellers swayed by decadent urban and western ideas, ignorant of their religious traditions and customs. But the balloting took place in Navsari, the dharam ni tékri......