In Response

Dear Editor,

In PT’s May 28th issue, Kersee Kabrajee worries about the dwindling number of our community and suggests we call ourselves Indian Zoroastrians because we came to India as Zoroastrians and not as Parsis. I wonder in what way it is going to help us increase our population. I also wonder if anybody heard of “Indian Jews” or “Indian Christian” to identify his race. Some people identify Apro Zubin as an Israeli Jew but he proudly corrects them “I am a Parsi from India.” I will have to call him up and tell him Mota Bawa K. K.” thinks if we call ourselves as Indian Zorastrian our population will increase.

‘Mota Bawajee K. K.’ could you enlighten me from where Rev. Nairosang Dhaval brought sugar to put in milk? History says, the British brought sugar in India only 300 years back. Before that it was nonexistent. When some Priests write about religion a thousand “Scholars” will give their opinion but here is a matter of common sense and nobody bothers.

You say “Knock out the word Parjat from your mind. Actually we are Parjat in India”. Did you ever think that the words “Punjab” and “Sindh” are foreign to Indian languages. They both were part of our Iran during pre-Zoroastrian days. There was a large number of (almost all) Sun worshiper (Meher Yazad = sun was their God). Now you don’t see any trace of them. Why? At that time there were some elitists and reformists like in the present day, who took the center stage and convinced Aryans that all religions are the same and “religion does not preach discretion”. They believed them and the big fish swallowed the small fish. Could all other like-minded elitists stop interfering in community affairs? We have faith in God and He will help us in reviving our community.

Yatha Jamiyad, Yatha Afrinami

Adi Burjorjee Gandhi