We are very sad to hear that Parsiana is due to close down this October. We want to congratulate you and your team on your splendid work over the decades. You built up Parsiana into an international magazine which kept Zoroastrians all over the world well informed and connected. Your editorials were uniformly excellent and your articles too were informative and beautifully written.
Maintaining such a publication includes not just journalistic skills but also business acumen, fund-raising and the ability to stay in touch with a far-flung community with strong and often opposing points of view. Quite a balancing act! The fact that no one has stepped forward to continue Parsiana perhaps underlines what a difficult task this has been. ERACH and SILLOO TARAPORE
Lafayette, San Francisco, USA
siltarapore@gmail.com
Parsiana is the only magazine devoted to Parsi/Irani Zoroastrian matters with readership around the globe. It has a unique place in the collective consciousness of the community, whether or not one agrees with what the magazine stands for and projects through its editorials and articles. To the editor’s credit, he has given voice to the views of even those who have disagreed with him.
My own association with Parsiana, especially over the past few years, is evident in the pages of the magazine. I would indeed be the poorer if it actually closes down.
Please keep Parsiana going. I am sure there are people ready, willing and able to carry the magazine forward. It is too important to the community for its existence to be thus brought to an end.
I disagree that "now there is resignation and the community’s depleted energies are directed more to survival and holding on to what we have” and honestly feel that our community is still quite vibrant. In fact there is resurgence with so many lectures, talks and courses on Zoroastrian culture and heritage, Avesta-Pahlavi classes, etc.
ARMIN WANDREWALA
arminvey@gmail.com
I am sad to see Parsiana will soon shut down and wish everyone the very best. My memories will always be happy ones. It has been an honor to be featured multiple times in this wonderful magazine. NILOUFER MAVALVALA
Toronto, Canada
niloufer.mavalvala@gmail.com
The news that Parsiana will not continue beyond October is a thunderbolt that has devastated us! The editor and his team have been a dependable source of news, information and entertainment to the community in India and all over the world. We thank them for the sterling work they have done.
Parsiana is extremely important to those of us who do not live in India as we get to know what’s going on elsewhere and look forward to the copy which arrives regularly.
Please launch an appeal through newspapers, journals, magazines, over the internet and on social media in Bombay and in the rest of India as well in countries like USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand so that some leading Zoroastrian entrepreneurs and community members may take over the magazine, employ professional journalists and continue publication for many more years. There should be someone somewhere who will hear this appeal and come to the rescue!
The community will be extremely pleased and grateful if Parsiana continues. KEN MEHTA
New Zealand
kenmehta876@gmail.com
I just saw the news about Parsiana closing down. If print publications no longer work, people would still subscribe to online magazines. It is important to keep the publication going online.
I wonder whether the younger generation from overseas can help to source information from Bombay and elsewhere? These young Parsis can obtain information and create an online magazine. There are many Parsi WhatsApp groups through which information can be disseminated. We should do a workshop in colonies to get this going.
FARSHEED COOPER
Auckland, New Zealand
farsheed96@outlook.co.nz