"There may be hundreds of converts though converts who are navjoted may number only in dozens,” stated author-philosopher Alexander Bard of Sweden when visiting Bombay earlier this year. While Bard who has been invited to speak at the Stockholm School of Economics and universities around the world had professed his commitment to Zoroastrianism since his initiation in 1990, his companion on his recent trip, Joachim Lummer’s sedreh pooshi was performed last year by Mobed Kamran Jamshidi.
To describe themselves they prefer to use the term "Ashavan – follower of the truth,” to reiterate their commitment to Asha or truth and to......