During the hastily imposed and drastic lockdown in March 2020, the Parsi print media was temporarily incapacitated. Instead, online versions took the place of print. While two major journals, Parsi Times (PT) and Parsiana resumed publication as soon as the restrictions were relaxed, the third, Jam-e-Jamshed (JJ) remained in electronic form till almost a year later.
Parsi Junction (PJ), published by former Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) chairman Dinshaw Mehta loyalist Kersi Sethna, was initially brought out as a sporadic print version. After the lockdown began, the print edition was discontinued while the periodicity of the online version increased from fortnightly......