With one of the three Parsi New Years dawning, one looks for inspiration for the coming year, some reasons for cheer. Fortunately positive developments do exist. The Global Working Group is slowly metamorphosing into a world body despite opposition from the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) chairman Yazdi Desai and his south Gujarat loyalist anjumans. The Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA) is a model for how a pan-Indian body could function: democratically, observing good governance practices, earning the goodwill of their constituents and benefiting from the largesse of community members.
The Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of......