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Every fortnight I eagerly look forward to receiving Parsiana and reading the excellent news coverage of our community in India and all over the world. Soldier on, Parsiana! ARMAITY H. BHABHA
Contains too much material on infighting between various Parsi organizations both within India and abroad, which is tiresome and boring. A short synopsis would suffice. Ditto for events held by organizations (e.g. Federation of teh Zoroastrian Associations of North America functions). Parsiana contains insufficient material on Parsi history and religion. Articles such as shipbuilding by the Wadias, Parsi mercantile empires, portraits of prominent Parsis are few and far in between. Also, you have an over-emphasis on dilution of racial purity, forsaking our Aryan heritage.
KOOVERJI N. GAMADIA
In the 1918 Spanish flu many Parsis had died. My father’s mother and sister perished within a week of each other. Your readers would be interested to read reports from the archives of Gujarati and English publications on that pandemic in which it is reported that one-third of the world’s population died. KAIKOBAD S. ITALIA
Calcutta