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Sixteen-year-old Rohan Vakil states he conceptualized this survey as his "culminating middle years high school project. With one Hindu and three Parsi grandparents, and living in Poona while spending vacations in Valsad,” he has long been "fascinated with the varieties of Parsi identity, urban and rural.” A student of the Mercedes-Benz School in Poona, Vakil intends to join UWC Mahindra’s IB (International Baccalaureate) Diploma program next year.  He thanks his father Dr Cyrus Vakil for guidance in designing the survey and analyzing the results. Cyrus is a Yale-trained cultural historian, a pioneer of international education in India since 1998, and recently......