"To the best of my knowledge, this is the first novel about the Parsis,” Perin Bharucha, who passed away on April 14, 2025 at the age of 87, told Parsiana in 1973 about her book, The Fire Worshippers. The novel had been written seven years earlier. "I can give you the exact dates, I started on April 1 and finished on December 15, 1966.” It "underwent a lot of re-writing, editing and changing but the main part was written at that time,” said the frequent contributor to various publications such as The Onlooker Annual, The Hindustan Standard, Eve’s Weekly and......