Dear Readers, The topic of the hour – the reconsidered stand taken by the Valsad Parsi Anjuman, on the urging of the Supreme Court to allow intermarried Parsi women into places of religious worship – has, as expected, garnered conflicting reactions from our Community. The move, which is feared as the racial nemesis and religious…
In a path-breaking initiative by the Hon’ble Supreme Court, on 14th December, 2017, the Valsad Parsi Anjuman Trust, on the urging of the apex court, has reconsidered its earlier stand and taken a progressive step by allowing inter-married Parsi women, Goolrukh Gupta and her sister Shiraz Patodia, into the tower of silence to perform…
On Thursday, 7th December, 2017, the case of Goolrukh Gupta, came up for its first hearing in the Supreme Court. Goolrukh had married out of the Parsi Community and is currently fighting for her rights to continue practicing Zoroastrian and not be barred from entering fire temples and the Towers of Silence. A bench comprising…