"This was the first year when there had been so many deaths and such few births, bringing our count to only 1,006 in our anjuman,” community member Rushad Cama noted at the September 24, 2017 annual general meeting (AGM) of the Shree Parsi Panchayat, Vadodara (SPPV), notes their November 2017 newsletter Zend. Pointing out that only 25 persons had turned up at the Khordad Sal jashan in August 2017, president Baman Cama stressed the need for community members to "mingle and know one another better.” Of their 1,000 plus members, 43 attended the AGM, states Zend.
"There were hardly a dozen......