Of all the community institutions that have faced ignominy, the plight of the once respected Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India (FPZAI) must rank amongst the saddest. An all-India body that was formed almost 50 years ago through the offices of various civic minded individuals and anjumans in the face of opposition and indifference from the then mighty Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) is today reduced to a south Gujarat association representing less than 3,000 Parsis. Most of the major anjumans such as Delhi, Calcutta, Madras, Hyderabad-Secunderabad, Bangalore, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Surat and Poona have either been sidelined or......