Milestones

Parsiana sources information for the Milestones column from various anjumans, hospitals, individuals, newsletters and publications. While much of the material is sketchy, the Bombay marriages and death lists are quite exhaustive. Data on marriages within the community in Bombay is culled four times in a year from the office of the Registrar of Marriages at the Bombay High Court and on interfaith unions from the Registrar of Marriages offices at Fort and Khar. There may be an inadvertent repetition of names in the marriage list when a civil marriage precedes a religious ceremony. The list of the deceased and causes......



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Sad reading. Number of deaths the first 10 months of 2020 is 736 and births less than 36, which means there is a net decrease of around 700 in the overall population. Considering that the average age of the Zoroastrians/Parsis in India is above 50 years, increasing number of inter-faith marriages, couples having one children or not all, late marriage or no marriage at all, it will not be very long not many folks of the good religion will be left.Land sharks are on the look out and have fooled many a Parsi old and leaving alone without any relatives robbing them of land and property. Wonder if our good priests have a solution to the problem.
- Shapour B Badri
- 30-Nov-2020