A question the Parsi Irani Zarathushtis (PIZs) in India have been asking for a long time is: "Who is a PIZ?” Differing opinions have been given by different persons.
A PIZ is one born of both PIZ parents and grandparents and whose navjote has been performed between the ages of seven and 10. Only Ahura Mazda decides who can be a PIZ. Nobody can become a member of this super-exclusive club by adoption, conversion or re-conversion, irrespective of what some vada dasturs may say!
Some claim that a child born of a PIZ father and a non-PIZ mother who has had his/her......