This column publishes milestones within the Zoroastrian community primarily for the former half of the last month of 2014.
Births cut a sorry figure for the first 15 days of December. Intimation of only two births was received by Parsiana from one south Bombay hospital that sends in data. Deaths at Bombay’s Doongerwadi numbered 24.
The age of Zoroastrian brides (as listed in this issue) ranged between 21 and 37 years, the arithmetic mean — the total number of individual ages divided by the total number of brides — being 28 years. The corresponding figures for the grooms were 24 and......