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Two years ago the Calcutta Parsis debated on who may be permitted to enter their fire temple

  The issue of whether to admit children born to a Parsi mother and non-Parsi father into Calcutta’s Late Ervad Dhunjeebhoy Byramjee Mehta’s Zoroastrian Anjuman Atash Adaran  was keenly debated at the fire temple’s annual general meeting (AGM) on August 23, 2015. Of those attending, the minutes show over 15 members spoke for and against admission at the two-and-a-half-hour meet which agiary trustee Noshir Tankariwala termed "a record” since the 12 or 13 years he has been a trustee. He thanked the gathering for "carrying out this debate or issue in a dignified manner with much decorum...It is very difficult for......



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