I partially agree with you when you say that Parsi women have not launched any agitation, public protest, on-line signature drive, etc to oppose the discrimination against them ("Unwanted women," Editorial Viewpoint, Parsiana, August 21, 2018).
This is the 21st century! These proxy powers that men assume must go. To treat women as children of a Lesser God would be unthinkable anywhere else! The Sabarimala judgment should have far reaching consequences for religious places like our fire temples, and rites and rituals that bar Parsi women (and their children) if married outside the faith. Young women’s names are not recited in certain prayers by our mobeds lest we defile the religion. Shocking! Can any thinking person accept that?
DIANA PATELL
dianapatell@gmail.com
The editors reply
The four to one Supreme Court judgment in the Sabarimala case struck down the practice of barring admission to the Temple precincts to women between the ages of 10 and 50....