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Cama’s crusades

For the past 15 years Dr Shernaz Cama has headed the Parzor Foundation which works to actively create awareness about the community internationally
Feroza C. Jassawala

"I needed to stand up and be counted as one of those who would work to preserve India’s multiculturalism, hold back ethnic backlash and preserve our Indian and Parsi heritage and identity.” Dr Shernaz Cama, founder director of Parzor Foundation, a research scholar and professor at the Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi, recalls how the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 and its aftermath propelled her to salvage "the close-knit Indian fabric which was threatened by this wave of destruction.” During the last 15 years when she has earned the confidence of the United Nations Educational Scientific and......



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