It is heart wrenching to accept that Parsi Navsari has permanently dissolved into the great Indian melting pot. A 1,000-year-old cultural heritage has been wiped out in the last 70 years. Cosmopolitanism has gnawed the innards of its unique identity. Its disappearance is as catastrophic as the destruction of a grand museum housing priceless anthropological artefacts. If, like Pompeii at noon, had it been suddenly submerged, at least centuries later it could have been excavated intact. Instead, in a reverse Cinderella act, adorable Navsari has been progressively turned into a nondescript town, bristling with the ugly warts of overdevelopment.
Navsari......